Lead Engineer 2 - Controls Engineering

Job Description Summary

Role Summary/Purpose:

We are looking for Lead New Product Introduction (NPI) Engineer to join our global FACTS (NPI) team. The position will be based in Tampere, Finland.

Grid Solutions delivers mainly high power (>100MVAr) Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) as Static Synchronous Compensators (STATCOM) and Static Var Compensators (SVC), Fixed Series Capacitors (FSC) and Synchronous Condensers (SC). 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. FACTS devices are also typically used to improve the integration of renewables to the power system making the future power system more sustainable. The Center of Excellence of power electronics-based products STATCOM and SVC is in Tampere, Finland, while the Center of Excellence of FSC and SC is in Saratoga Springs, United States.

In this position, you will mainly be doing research and development around SVC and STATCOM solutions and you will be reporting to global FACTS NPI Manager.

Key tasks:

Your main task is to research and develop optimized reactive power compensator systems. Target is to create innovative compensator configurations and control algorithms which allows the compensator to meet more demanding customer requirements. These requirements may for example be related to losses and harmonic emissions, reactive power range, reliability, noise or magnetic field emissions and integration of energy storage to be a part of the compensator solution.

In this very versatile role, you have possibility to become recognized expert in the field of overall system design of the reactive power compensator. Your areas of expertise will include:

calculation of optimal configuration for reactive power compensator

analysis of losses and harmonic emissions

analysis of reliability

analysis and design of compensator control algorithms

integration of different components, e.g. e