Job Description Summary

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• People Leadership & Development: Champion a culture of continuous learning and growth. Provide regular actionable coaching to team members supporting their career aspirations and ensuring they develop the technical and leadership skills needed for success within GE Vernova.

• Operational Excellence: Lead the team in executing combustion design and evaluation using rigorous engineering principles. Utilize lean operating rhythms bowler metrics and visualization tools to facilitate daily management and ensure projects meet safety quality delivery and cost (SQDC) targets.

• Technical Strategy & Alignment: Provide technical leadership in combustion design troubleshooting and testing. Facilitate cross-functional discussions between Systems Product Line Sciences and the Chief Engineers office to clear roadblocks and ensure alignment on product CTQs.

• Collaboration: Keep strong connections with global module teams to leverage best practices share insights and review key design decisions as one engineering community.

• Strategic Growth: Develop a continuous improvement roadmap for product people process and technology to drive combustion differentiation in the market. Champion adoption of lean practices.

• Execution & Rigor: Provide hands-on support during critical design phases or product testing. Ensure all technical data generated by the team is consistent with engineering QMS policies and internal standards.

• Communication: Provide timely transparent communication on significant technical issues or developments to the broader GTE leadership team.

• Customer-Centricity: Anticipate internal and external customer needs. Ensure performance and processes are measured through the customers eyes to deliver maximum value.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in an engineering discipline from an accredited university.

• Minimum 10 years of experience in gas turbine engineering power generation design services or testing.

• Proven experience as an engineering leader with a track record of successfully managing and scaling teams. Minimum 5 years of team project or resource management experience.

• Strong technical experience in gas turbine or turbomachinery combustion systems.

• Excellent leadership interpersonal and communication skills with a demonstrated ability to inspire motivate and build rapport at all levels of a global organization.

• BE/BTEch ME/MTech/MS or Ph.D. in Mechanical Thermal or Energy Engineering.

Desired Characteristics

• Demonstrated ability to plan execute market and document programs/projects within a complex multi-functional environment.

• Servant leadership mindsetdemonstrating empathy selflessness and humility while fostering an inclusive high-accountability team.

• Hands-on experience with combustion design/analysis tools and familiarity with the gas power tollgate review process.

• Experience with operational tools such as Tableau Excel PowerPoint and Smartsheet.

• Exhibits the GE Vernova Ways: Innovation customer-focus applying lean principles and boundaryless collaboration.

• Proactive self-starter with a proven track record of acting as a change agent and adapting to evolving industry trends.

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