Lead Engineer, Fleet Engineering, Blades

Job Description Summary

The Lead Engineer, Blades Fleet engineering will lead/support fleet performance management actions for Blade RCAs. This team provides wing to wing major product technical ownership on Blade related issues. They will own, execute and resolve RCAs related to Blades for ongoing and emerging issues within the core fleet.
They are responsible for driving sustained product improvement throughout our contracted fleet striving to build the worlds best running fleet. They will develop, own, implement, and support product quality initiatives across the global product. They will drive process improvement, closed loop lessons learned with our design segment partners across product life cycle.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Wing to Wing product issue ownership for Blade RCA
• Technical expertise in customer communications of product issues in Blades
• Own, lead, execute, and resolve Critical and Minor RCAs in Blades
• Facilitate fast track containment
• Work with relevant Product Engineering teams (Blades, Systems engineering, Controls, System simulation) to dedicate the right resources to help execute and resolve RCAs in this segment.
• Work with fleet performance teams to identify emerging issues and lead the efforts to pro actively address them.
• Drive actions from RCA Kaizen to drive better and faster RCA completions
• Interface with the fleet performance team for RCA Support, Top Issues execution, etc
• Leverage engagement with Quality, Supply Chain, Engineering, Services and Projects teams to better prioritize RCA workstreams & share best practices
• Represent FPM for key design tollgates for applicable RCA
• Provide immediate learnings & feedback to our partner functions from RCA
• Identify, daily manage, action plan, and problem solve product fleet quality and RCA KPIs in the Segment
• Implement cross-segment RCA communication and approval process to ensure corrective actions taken in all appropriate spots
• Support driving actions from Quality PSR countermeasures for assigned RCA
• Drive problem solving tools and methods implementation throughout the RCA process.
• Developing in-depth knowledge of a technical discipline. Uses prior experience and acquired technical expertise to execute policy/strategy.
• In-depth understanding of key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work. In-depth understanding of how work of own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the area.
• Uses some level of judgment and has ability to propose different solutions outside of set parameters but with guidance. Uses prior experience and on-the-job training to solve straightforward tasks. Has access to technical skills and analytic thinking required to solve problems. May use multiple internal sources outside of own team to arrive at decisions.
• A job at this level is likely to be an individual contributor with proven interpersonal skills or an early people leader who can hire and develop talent. Provides informal guidance to new team members

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering
• Minimum 5 or more years experience in Wind turbine blade Engineering and/or Product Management
• Ability to travel globally up to 10% of the time

• Ability to work effectively in globally focused, culturally diverse and highly matrixed environments
• Experience leading and executing RCAs including problem solving tools
• Experience with Quality systems, procedure development, training, and execution
• Experience with customer communications around both Quality and RCAs
• Experience with Lean... tools, coaching, running Kaizens, etc
• Advanced degree in Engineering