Job Description Summary
The Controls Quality team is seeking an experienced Controls Quality Engineer - Operability to improve the testing and operational effectiveness, reliability, and quality of wind turbine controls algorithms. This role focuses on validating controls features that mitigate load conditions, detect turbine anomalies through operational feedback, and optimize turbine performance through advanced controls strategies.

The successful candidate will partner closely with Controls Development teams to ensure operational behavior observed in the field is continuously incorporated into validation strategies, defect prevention activities, and future product development. This position plays a critical role in improving fleet operability, customer experience, and overall turbine performance.

Job Description
Essential Responsibilities:
• Lead and support RCA and PAC investigations involving turbine operability and controls behavior.
• Analyze fleet operational data to identify emerging risks, performance opportunities, and defect trends.




• Evaluate control algorithms related to load mitigation, anomaly detection, and performance optimization.
• Drive improvements to validation strategies that verify operational behavior under representative field conditions.
• Identify defect escape pathways and implement preventive quality improvements.
• Support development of testing methodologies that improve detection of operability-related defects.
• Partner with Controls Development teams to strengthen requirements and validation coverage.
• Collaborate with Fleet Performance Management to understand field performance trends and customer impacts.
• Evaluate availability, downtime, forced outages, nuisance trips, alarm frequency, restart performance, and customer escalations to identify quality improvement opportunities.
• Translate field learnings into engineering recommendations and validation improvements.
• Support release readiness reviews through independent qua

📌 Controls Quality Engineer (Barcelona)
🏢 GE Vernova
📍 Barcelona