Senior Engineer, Inverters
Public global power company that owns and operates electricity generation, regulated utilities, LNG infrastructure, renewable energy, and battery-storage assets.
About The AES Corporation
AES develops, constructs, and operates power-generation and distribution businesses, supplying affordable and sustainable power. Its portfolio includes solar, hydro, wind, natural gas, coal, battery storage, utilities, and LNG infrastructure.
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About the Role
You will provide engineering support for troubleshooting, testing, and maintaining inverter equipment and controls. You will lead performance and reliability improvement projects, conduct root-cause analysis, develop recovery and maintenance procedures, support operational due diligence, optimize assets, and provide technical guidance to operations personnel.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or an equivalent technical field
- 3–5 years of professional experience in a relevant technical area
- Knowledge of inverter and power electronics systems
- Process improvement knowledge
- Business performance knowledge
- Troubleshooting skills
- Planning and project management skills
- Microsoft Office, Project, and Visio proficiency
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 35%
Responsibilities
- Provide engineering support for troubleshooting, testing, and maintaining inverter equipment and controls
- Coordinate inverter improvement technologies with reliability and performance engineers
- Monitor inverter and safety-system innovations and recommend design improvements
- Perform technical and operational due diligence for inverter opportunities
- Develop O&M cost assumptions
- Lead projects to improve asset performance and operations
- Conduct root-cause analysis for asset incidents
- Develop recovery plans based on root-cause findings
- Implement Management of Change and Asset Management Standards
- Develop preventive-maintenance procedures
- Develop standard operating procedures and training for O&M teams
- Lead optimization efforts using APEX and Lean Six Sigma tools
- Evaluate inverter settings changes for grid interconnection, performance, and safety
- Recommend inverter equipment updates or replacements for PV-site repowering