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Diagnostic Engineer – Condition Monitoring Systems

Kim Fuger | MOBIUS CONNECT Manager, Mobius Institute

Location: Schenectady, NY

Digital team within Renewables. You will contribute to the development, roll-out, and operations of the Bently Nevada Condition Monitoring System and our Asset Performance Management (APM) advanced monitoring and diagnostic system. You will work with cross-functional teams to ensure successful operation of the systems, ensuring that all APM remote monitoring and diagnostics are fulfilled across the customer base.

Essential Responsibilities:As the Sr Application Operations Engineer, you will:

  • Monitor and analyze data from the CMS system and make corrective action recommendation to site teams and customers
  • Work with diagnostic engineers to evaluate new signals and recommend changes and improvements to CMS algorithms
  • Assist Fleet Availability and Reliability Engineering teams in determining additional diagnostic detection capabilities to reduce turbine downtime, prevent component failures, and increase turbine performance
  • Propose and develop new instrumentation and diagnostic technologies which will differentiate the GE Monitoring and Diagnostic capabilities from other offerings, providing higher customer satisfaction and value
  • Support the business in driving field metrics, providing training and technical support of PulsePOINT and APM (Asset Performance Management)
  • Identify opportunities and create new detection algorithms based on SCADA and vibration data to reduce turbine downtime, and prevent component failures
  • Drive on-time delivery of all PulsePOINT remote monitoring contract obligations
  • Support Field Service Directors, Customer Relationship Managers, and Reliability Engineers with advanced diagnostic support to help increase performance
  • Effectively manage timelines to drive completion of programs supporting new diagnostic capabilities
  • Develop new instrumentation and diagnostic technologies, continually advancing the state-of-the-art in wind turbine monitoring and diagnostics

Qualifications/Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in engineering, or other technical degree from an accredited university or college
  • Minimum of 4 years of professional technical experience
  • Minimum of 2 years of technical experience in a wind turbine or equivalent power generation engineering function

Desired Characteristics

  • Master’s Degree in mechanical or electrical engineering from an accredited College or University
  • Excellent communication and leadership skills
  • Ability to manage work independently and complete difficult assignments
  • Prior experience with vibration measurement and analysis systems
  • Strong technical analysis skills (ability to understand physics based models and perform data analysis)
  • Basic understanding of SQL, Python and Matlab languages
  • Ability to make data driven decisions and to adopt responsibility
  • Strong organizational skills
  • Ability to work within structured work methods
  • High flexibility and motivation to improve our products and capabilities
  • Previous experience in digital signal processing or vibration analysis

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About Us:GE Renewable Energy harnesses the earth’s most abundant resources – the strength of the wind, the heat of the sun and the force of water – to power the world’s biggest economies and the most remote communities.

With an innovative spirit and an entrepreneurial mindset, we engineer energy products and digital services that create industry-leading value for our customers around the world.

We see the promise of renewable energy everywhere we look. Our team has the courage, scale, passion, diversity and resourcefulness needed to deliver that promise wherever and however the world needs it.

Together with our customers, we’re proving that no one ever has to choose between affordable, reliable, or sustainable energy.

We are unleashing limitless energy.

GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE is an Equal Opportunity Employer . Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other characteristics protected by law.
Additional Eligibility Qualifications:GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).Additional Locations:United States;New York;Schenectady;