Thermal Systems Engineer
Greenville, NC - USA
Job Summary
Job Description Summary
The Systems Engineering team provides Wind Turbine system expertise while leading development of new products turbine RTS activities and strategic projects. The team owns system level trade-off decisions and continuous improvement in product development processes for the Wind product portfolio.As a Thermal Systems Engineer you will lead the thermal design of one or more New Product Introduction (NPI) programs from initiation through to validation. Sometimes this will be done in parallel with separate programs in separate phases. These will support the MWC Platform overall objectives to create world-class wind turbine products.
Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities
- Executes 1D thermal system modeling for a range of wind turbine configurations and operational conditions
- Informs system-level architecture trade studies with thermal analysis
- Evaluates thermal performance data to offer potential improvements to the wind turbine design
- Supports thermal system modeling for component design teams upon request or need
- Responsible for validation plans on test units
- Defines and delivers system capability requirements across a range of meteorological grid environmental and operational boundary conditions
- Influences strategy on constraint-based controls and monitoring for thermal protection
- Supports studies to maximize customer value through higher output efficiency and corresponding impact to wind turbine systems and components
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Engineering
- 2 years of experience in Engineering/Technology
- Willingness for travel up to 10% of the time
Desired Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
- Experience working on wind turbine system-related projects
- Ability to break-down complex issues determine possible courses of action and enable effective decision making
- System or product-level mindset
- Knowledge of heat transfer thermodynamics and fluid dynamics principles
- Field issues testing and/or validation experience data analysis skills
- Requirements definition decomposition and/or translation experience
- Effective communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
Note:
To comply with US immigration and other legal requirements it is necessary to specify the minimum number of years experience required for any role based within the USA. For roles outside of the USA to ensure compliance with applicable legislation the JDs should focus on the substantive level of experience required for the role and a minimum number of years should NOT be used.
GE Vernova offers a great work environment professional development challenging careers and competitive compensation. GE Vernova is anEqual Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race color religion national or ethnic origin sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age disability protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
GE Vernova will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes
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