Power Plant Performance Optimization Expert

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Your Profile

• University/Bachelor or superior Degree in Control & Automation Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Mechanical and electronics Engineering.
• Experienced professional (5+ years on Power Plants and power generation systems is preferable); recent graduates with experience on the field of power generation and/or system dynamic, process modelling and controls design.
• Technical Knowledge
• Experience with power generation projects. Is highly appreciated knowledge on grid services for power generation (Knowledge in primary/secondary frequency control for electrical grids), efficiency improvement analysis, operational flexibility, emission reduction, alongside other performance indicators.
• Data analysis skills are highly appreciated.
• Process Dynamic analysis and modelling.
• Thermodynamic, electrical, and mechanical processes modeling for controls design and commissioning.
• Overall I&C Knowledge.
• Closed Loop Control.
• Open Loop Control is helpful.
• Boiler, auxiliaries, protections, and balance of plant knowledge, specifically in control related topics. In general, is the Energy transfer process inside thermal Power Plants.
• Heat Recovery Setam Generators and Balance of Plant knowledge.
• Combine Heat and Power facilities knowledge or similar industries as cogeneration plants.
• Unit control/Master Controls for power blocks and generation units.
• Plant investigation for assessing improvement and optimization potential in terms of control behavior.
• Steam Turbine basic to intermediate knowledge.
• Combustion Turbine basic to intermediate knowledge.
• I&C System Technology.
• Controls conceptualization, schematic design, and translation into detail engineering under control system languages.
• Basic Project Management skills, structured, analytical thinking, and ability to work target oriented in an autonomous and systematic way.
• Evaluation of technical documents (e.g., P&IDs, Heat Flow Diagrams, I&C Overviews), process data / knowledge about data analysis methods and contractual specifications (e.g., contracts, customer specifications, technical standards).
• English at a professional working proficiency level
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 50% of time (if don´t you could delete it).

Soft Skills

• • Effective communication
  • Service culture
  • Responsibility
  • Teamwork

Your Responsibilities

• Optimization of Power Plant processes in terms of economic, flexibility, efficiency, and performance concerns through elaboration of I&C task descriptions and solution packages.
• Technical project execution for optimization projects, including technical clarification conduct site assessments to identify technical and economic potentials for process control improvements.
• Development of control and optimization concepts, specification of acceptance criteria and performance guarantees as well as basic and detail engineering in SPPA-T3000 function diagrams.
• Creation of specifications for analyses and guarantee performance values.
• Realization of SW engineering as control algorithms as well red line analyses for third parties control systems.
• Commissioning, tunning, and test design on customer’s Power Plant facility systems of the control strategies and algorithms/strategies to be delivered.
• Communication and collaboration with customer’s personnel as operative staff, I&C specialists, management level for executive summaries and added value presentations about control strategies.
• Planning of work packages, estimate efforts and calculate costs (not as full responsibility, but in coordination with project management).
• Review of work results (internal/ external) and determine corrective measures if necessary.
• Monitoring and reporting of budget and work progress, Commissioning on site and Site Acceptance Test.
• Responsibility to comply and / or enforce the protocols, policies, guidelines, and competencies of the current integral management system (EHS, Quality).

Your Opportunities for personal growth

• Multicultural environment.
• Safety space for gender diversity.
• Development plan.
• Aiming to an expert position level, in a specialized discipline of Technology Specialist and Process Optimization, trough self-learning practice and by active collaboration with key experts inside the organization.

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DEPARTMENT INFORMATION

In the department controls and digitalization, we are responsible for execution and successful implementation of complex projects across all Siemens Energy business units with a strong focus on controls and digitalization, while driving standards for Project Excellence, Best Practices and Lessons Learned across the organization. The field service is responsible for leading, managing, and/or performing work of projects and services. Activities include but are not limited to, analyzing technology trends, designing new products/processes, modifying, and improving existing products/processes, developing test procedures.

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