Job Description Summary

Are you a professional with information technology or automation background - and eager to work for greener future? Join our dynamic and skilled SCADA engineering team based in Tampere, Finland. Systems designed by GE Grid Solutions are utilized at electrical substations globally. We offer possibility to work in GE Center of Excellence, in a cross-cultural and multifunctional environment, striving to build green technology by maximizing the efficiency of connecting renewable energy to transmission grids. Via our projects, you truly have a chance to make the world a better place by helping our global customers in saving vital energy and securing stable electricity transmission.

In this position, you have the opportunity to contribute both as member of SCADA team and project team by preparing specifications and configurations for our products and solutions and integrating communicating systems to our products. As a substation automation focused project engineer, you will be responsible for designing substation communication networks, including SCADA & HMI systems

Job Description

We offer:

• Working in Centre of Excellence (CoE), with opportunities for learning and professional career development
• Strong support from the team and co-operation with other CoEs globally
• Inspiring environment among young people
• Flexible working hours
• Benefits of big company
• Opportunity to work in Tampere, the most attractive city in Finland, with various culture and hobby possibilities

Key Individual Accountabilities:

• Design, configure and develop HMI & SCADA applications and ethernet networks
• Plan, Specify, Organize and participate testing
• Participate in technical negotiations with end customers and other stakeholders
• Support equipment sourcing (technical inputs, equipment evaluation)
• Produce high quality documents and specifications
• Contribute sales and R&D activities
• Participate in FACTS equipment commissioning

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Technology/ Electrical Engineering
• Knowledge in Ethernet network configurations
• Knowledge of substation communication protocols (eg. IEC61850, DNP3, IEC60870-5-104) is a benefit
• Knowledge of HMI, UI design or cyber security is a benefit
• Analytic thinking required to solve problems with ability to use multiple sources to arrive at decisions
• Fluent written and oral skills in English; Finnish and other languages are benefit
• Willingness to travel

Desired Characteristics :

• Team player with hands-on attitude
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to work in groups as well as autonomously on tasks
• Curious, open-minded and willingness to learn
• Analytical and innovative approach in problem solving
• “Make things happen” -mentality
• Desire to work in international environment

About us:

GE is the world’s Digital Industrial Company, transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions that are connected, responsive and predictive. Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, GE delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.

Grid Solutions, part of GE Renewable Energy, is serving customers globally with over 20,000 employees in approximately 80 countries. Grid Solutions helps enable utilities and industry to effectively manage electricity from the point of generation to the point of consumption, helping to maximize the reliability, efficiency and resiliency of the grid. www.gegridsolutions.com

In Finland Grid Solutions is engineering and manufacturing systems for electrical substations. Our GE Center of Excellence in Tampere delivers reactive power compensators such as Static Synchronous Compensators (STATCOM) and Static Var Compensators (SVC). These are used to control power system voltage and reactive power flow as well as to improve the power system stability and transmission system efficiency. STATCOMs and SVCs are also typically used to improve the integration of renewables to the power system making the future power system more sustainable. Our business is growing rapidly and 95% of the systems manufactured in Tampere are exported globally.

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