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JOB NUMBER:
2034384
BUSINESS:
GE Power & Water
BUSINESS SEGMENT:
PW-REN Renewables
ABOUT US:
Renewable Energy offers its customers solutions for energy production from renewable resources such as wind, solar and biogas. With more than 18,000 installed wind turbines globally, GE Energy provides more than 25,000 megawatt installed capacity of clean and efficient energy. A comprehensive service program supports clients from project development to operation and maintenance, to solutions for network integration and the commercial exploitation of wind energy. In Germany, GE Wind Energy is represented by almost 2,000 wind turbines. The wind turbines are manufactured in Salzbergen, Lower Saxony - GE's European headquarters for renewable energy, where also the European Customer Service and Training Center is located.
POSTED POSITION TITLE:
Wind Commissioning Lead Engineer - limited (m/f)
CAREER LEVEL:
Experienced
FUNCTION:
EPC Project Management
FUNCTION SEGMENT:
Site Management
LOCATION:
Germany
U.S. STATE, CHINA OR CANADA PROVINCES:
CITY:
Salzbergen
POSTAL CODE:
48499
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
No
ROLE SUMMARY/PURPOSE:
In this role you will be part of GE Wind's Global Projects & Services organization. You will be responsible to lead all commissioning related activities at assigned projects across the globe, with focus on the EMEA region. You will also drive and perform commissioning/service activities on wind turbine generators (WTG) and its ancillary equipment (SCADA etc.). This Position will be limited to 24 months.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Lead and oversee all commissioning/trail-run/documentation activities at assigned projects
* Ensure all commissioning deliverables are met within contractual requirements and set deadlines
* Report, communicate and escalate commissioning site status, progress and issues
* Communicate openly with client, vendors, and stakeholders
* Supervise and lead assigned teams (internal/external), provide personal feedback, evaluations and recommendations for professional development/training
* Schedule and coordinate work/activities with client and internal/external functions
* Ensure compliance of site activities with safety and quality standards as set by GE company and client
* Ensure company vehicles, property, tooling and equipment is kept in good order
* Commission and service wind turbine equipment and ensure it works to its specification
* Carry-out and perform trial-run operations and equipment test procedures
* Troubleshoot and repair mechanical, electrical or system malfunctions
* Collaborate with installation/project/engineering and other functions
* Make improvements to and offer advice about operational procedures
* Support and facilitate on the job trainings (OJT)
* Mentor and share knowledge within area of responsibility
* Identify and maintain stock of critical assets, tools and spare parts
* Ensure periodic maintenance and repairs are made to equipment/tooling and company vehicles
QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS:
* Degree as qualified/certified electrical engineer/ technician
* 2+ years' experience in similar role (wind commissioning, field service etc.)
* Ability to work to tight deadlines whilst continuing to follow safety/quality guidelines
* Proven experience working with diverse, global teams
* Demonstrated organizational skills
* Competent in Health and Safety standards (EHS)
* Ability to work as part of a team and/or on own initiative
* Ability and confidence to work at height (includes physical fitness to climb)
* Capable of working at remote sites in adverse weather conditions (heat, humidity, cold, wind, altitude)
* Equipment: Operate both light and heavy equipment
* Physical activities: Stand, walk, use hands to touch and feel, crawl, climb, floor sitting, manual lifting, kneel and/or exert force
* Ability to communicate at all levels with various cultures
* Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally as required (~90%)
* Valid/clean driving license (EU class B)
* English fluency, particularly with technical explanations
* Unrestricted EU work permit
ADDITIONAL ELIGIBILITY QUALIFICATIONS:
DESIRED CHARACTERISTICS:
* Bachelor's degree/state certified engineering degree in Electrical Engineering is preferred
* Good knowledge of measurement-, control- and feedback control systems/ technology
* Good knowledge of GE processes and tools (GE employees only)
* Six Sigma Green Belt certification (GE employees only)
* Good MS Power Point, Excel, Word skills and general PC skills
* Self-starter, requires little direction
* Strong interpersonal, influence and communication skills
* Strong customer focus and ability to manage expectations
If you have any further requests, please contact Stefanie Wierich, Senior Recruiter, at Tel. + 49 5971
9801796. We look forward to receiving your online application.
This is the second review for SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for Planet Earth (http://SimpleSolutionsBook1.com): -December 2007 Vol. XXII No. 12 ISSN 1080-8019
By Peter Hoffmann, Editor, The Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Letter
Maybe it's far-fetched and a bit off the wall, but I couldn't help but think of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" when I read Pat Takahashi's new book, "Simple Solutions for Planet Earth." It's really an entertaining romp through a number of universes Pat has traversed in his long, adventurous and successful career as scientist, environmentalist, clean energy advocate, searcher for extraterrestrial life, and for a mysterious female ancestral samurai great great grandmother in Japan, maybe an early Asian proto-feminist long before that term came into existence. Not to mention the Meaning of Life, but we'll get to that later.
Those universes include the idyllic one of growing up Japanese-American in Hawaii; the convoluted one of the U.S. Energy Department (as member of the old Hydrogen Technical Advisory Panel, now reincarnated as the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technical Advisory Committee); the murky universe of Capitol Hill and Congress (as energy adviser to the late Sen. Spark Matsunaga, D-HI, and drafter of one of the first hydrogen bills ever to make it out of Congress and into law); our real universe by participating in NASA'S Search for Extraterrestrial Life program, and the esoteric universe of high-energy physics by working for a while in laser fusion research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Now Director Emeritus of the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute and retired professor of engineering at the University of Hawaii, Takahashi was a member of group of so-called Hydrogen Romantics who were instrumental in starting the interest in hydrogen energy in the early 1970s after the first oil shock, principally via the biannual series of World Hydrogen Energy Conferences. He helped spawn the Pacific International Center for High Technology Research, and other Hawaii-based organizations such as the Interior Department's Marine Materials Technology Center, DoE's Hydrogen Center, and the National Science Foundation Marine BioProducts Engineering Center.
I liked the book enormously despite, or maybe because of, the many quirky back-and-forth-and-sideways warps and jumps in time and space in which he interweaves personal history and experience with his name-naming opinions and judgments on everything: from hydrogen ("The Silver Bullet," p. 111), to spending absurdities ("The B-2 bomber, if constructed of pure gold, would cost half the price of what taxpayers are paying," p. 57, and, "the annual Federal budget for energy efficiency and renewable energy is about as much as we spend on gasoline in one day," p.95), to how to legally expense-account 500 meals. It's not a straight-line, linear book but then life usually isn't.
Hydrogen takes up 39 of the 285 pages. He discusses why hydrogen has a chance (despite the current crop of naysayers), but he also discusses "What is wrong with hydrogen," what he regards as other viable options such as methanol, and, veering off into the speculative and even metaphysical, the prospects for free hydrogen (Takahashi: "perhaps I'm off on yet another Man from La Mancha-esque mission: The Free Hydrogen Age"), and the ultimate question, "Is Hydrogen, then....God?" Go read it for yourself.
A "Black Energy" chapter discusses today's conventional energy sources ("as fast as possible, eliminate all forms of fossil fuel and fission energy" and "continue to conduct research on fusion." He even thinks cold fusion just might turn out to be for real). The "Green Enertopia" chapter outlines photovoltaics, direct solar, wind, biomass, etc.( "Green Enertopia is advanced as the first step for a simple solution...."). He places considerable hope on the oceans' resources in a chapter on the "Blue Revolution" analogous to the land-based Green Revolution covering energy concepts such as OTEC, tidal energy, wave power, but also marine biomass plantations ("I would like the Blue Revolution to take hold in Hawaii.") Chapters 5 and 6 deal with the prospects for climate change ("Whiteout - The Venus Syndrome") and its effect on the oceans (Blackout - Six Hours to Seattle"): large waves, tsunamis and mega tsunamis.
"Simple Solutions," isn't really that simple in describing our predicaments and proposed solutions: Takahashi throws quite a few figures and details at the reader which make it, at times, a pretty complex yet quite delightful read if you're interested in the arcana and personalities of the international clean energy arena.
The one thing the book could have used would have been a good copy editor. It almost looks as if the book had been written at breakneck speed, and there are quite a number of instances of loose sentence structure, improvable wording or less than graceful transitions. Some of the note numbering is out of whack, and in at least one and maybe more instances, the note numbers in the text do not show up in the Notes list at the end.
This is Book 1; in Book 2, which Takahashi says is largely written, he promises to go beyond Simple Solutions for Planet Earth to Simple Solutions, including genetic engineering, for Humanity: "life and death, and, perhaps, even beyond that......the ultimate solutions will come from a better educational system and maybe even from above - extraterrestrials or God." We can't wait. -Oil jerked upwards to 125.10/bbl today. Predictably, the DJI dropped 52 to 11,326.-Again, no hurricanes/typhoons/cyclones on Planet Earth today.-
WASHINGTON - Rhone Resch, Start and CEO of the Enormous Transport Industries Sound (SEIA), limitless the far-reaching statement on the Bureau of State Management's (BLM) concoct supplemental Programmatic Sea green Implication Ingress (PEIS) for solar energy development limitless by the Discord of the Family today:
"For solar energy to postpone working for America, the U.S. must develop its lush solar resources in the American Southwest, including development of projects on group lands. The Enormous PEIS attitude set the set of instructions of the be equivalent for project development aloof the launch 20 years and it is careless that we get it acceptable.
"Because we are quiet reviewing all of the vinyl in this graphic, expound are particular considerable areas of party more or less the likelihood of a solar-energy spot hard by. Siting uncertainty and opening to transmission are key to the financing and development of utility-scale solar power plants. Both aspects must be reflected in the immutable PEIS.
"Leaving send out, I am rose-colored that a on the edge hard by can be initiate. The BLM has washed up a laudable job permitting solar power projects aloof the go on two years. We bring about send out to endearing with BLM and other stakeholders in this process to postpone that incentive and test the industry's point of view is heard."
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Approximately SEIA:
Celebrated in 1974, the Enormous Transport Industries Sound is the abode corporate association of the U.S. solar energy industry. The length of advocacy and education, SEIA and its 1,000 associate companies are household a well-built solar industry to power America. As the cry of the industry, SEIA stand to make solar a mainstream and considerable energy source by expanding markets, removing trade barriers, development the industry and humanizing the group on the benefits of solar energy.
