Lead Engineer - Mechanical Engineering
Lead Engineer - Mechanical Engineering
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07-05-2025
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Job Description Summary
The Lead Engineer Mechanical Engineering position is in Nacelle & Frames team within Wind Machine Head Engineering Subsection. The team provides full lifecycle ownership and support for mechanical hardware (NacelleComposite Cover Main Frame Small Structures Cranes Seals & Louvers) including New Product/Technology Introduction Validation & Testing Field Support and Root Cause Analysis.The Lead Engineer Mechanical Engineering will be responsible for design and development of mechanical components with full exposure to product life cycle working with diverse crossfunctional teams to execute component trade studies and design deliverables.
Job Description
As a Lead Engineer Mechanical Engineering you will:
- Design engineering solutions for mechanical structural parts (Composites Metallic Structures Cranes Seals & Louvers) of a wind turbine.
- Work closely with other engineering teams within GE Onshore Wind to coordinate interfaces between mechanical systems and components.
- Develop engineering drawings and specification requirements for sourcing of wind turbine components.
- Perform technical risk assessment and execute validation test plans to mitigate risks.
- Assist in issue resolution of mechanical components for fielded turbines.
- Participate and support technical problem solving in the team.
- Collaborate with cross functional teams for managing the product life cycle contributing to component team strategy Multigeneration Product Plan (MGPP) and Multigeneration Technology Plan (MGTP).
- Collaboration with System SubSystem and component Engineers to integrate components into overall turbine design while satisfying turbine and interface requirements.
- Maintain Systems Thinking mindset and higherlevel turbine system requirements to understand the needs and implications of potential component changes and impacts to the rest of the machine.
- Contribute to design tool maintenance to ensure fit for use including design practice design tools and lessons learned documentation updates.
- Collaborate and Own risk identification and mitigation process including dFMEA and design verification.
- Ensure quality of new and revised drawings BoMs and specifications applying all GE and industry processes standards and best practices
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor/ Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related Engineering.
- Minimum 5 years product design and development experience with 2 years in the wind industry or relevant industry in product design.
- Excellent communication interpersonal and project management skills
- Working knowledge of CAD (preferably Unigraphics NX 3DCAD) CAE (preferably Ansys) and PLM tools
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 20% of time
Desired Characteristics
- Wind turbine structural component expertise
- Technical problem solving experience including NPI design NTI development problem solving & RCA resolution method/tool development and related items
- Highly motivated selfstarter energetic positive flexible in changing environments.
- Able to work in structured approach to problem solving learning agility and system thinking
- Excellent communication skills and ability to articulate technical problems in clear and simple terms
- Strong interpersonal skills ability to work in project teams in an international environment
- Systems thinker: ability to assess tradeoffs effectively assess risk and optimize results.
- Ability to drive process improvement standard work and utilize Lean design principles.
Employment Type
Full-Time
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