Lead Mechanical Engineer - DLE Annular Hot Gas Path (m/f/d)

Job Description Summary

Vernova Purpose

GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. Are you excited at the opportunity to electrify and decarbonize the world?

What impact you'll make

As a member of the Design Liaison Engineering (DLE) team, you will be an active contributor to the Gas Turbine Engineering (GTE) organization, providing design engineering support to our global supply chain partners. Our team is essential for maintaining high technical rigor to ensure quality of the product is not compromised while working with a sense of urgency to drive customer fulfillment.

As a lead engineer (m/f/d) on the GTE DLE Annular Hot Gas Path team, you will provide technical ownership of various types of annular fleet turbine components such as blades, nozzles, heat shields, etc. You will be responsible for applying mechanical engineering fundamentals through analyzing and dispositioning hardware deviations, overseeing second source supplier qualifications, participating in lean initiatives to reduce costs, scrap, and non-conformances, and owning specific redesign efforts through engineering drawing revisions. This is a hands-on role requiring collaboration with engineering teams, suppliers, and factories to ensure hardware quality and fulfillment, while leading solutions for some of the biggest challenges we face in manufacturing these complex gas turbine components and assemblies.

Job Description

What you'll do

• Provide mechanical design expertise and leverage analytical tools to analyze and deliver solutions for deviant hardware and to prevent repeat incidents.
• Propose and evaluate hardware redesign opportunities to enhance manufacturability and execute changes via drawing revisions.
• Act as technical focal for supplier qualifications of special processes such as precision investment castings, milling, hole drilling, coatings, inspection, etc.
• Conduct technical reviews of design tasks and quantify risk assessments at the component, assembly, and system levels to guide business decisions.
• Follow standard work and design templates for common issues, and lead the continuous improvement of design and manufacturing processes or methods.
• Ensure adherence to technical standards in design activities, maintaining quality and accuracy.
• Apply strong leadership, teamwork, and communication skills to drive quality and continuous improvement both within internal GEV factories as well as external suppliers.
• Apply expertise of gas turbine design and mechanical engineering fundamentals to support improvements in manufacturing capacity throughput and cost reduction.

• Bachelor's of Science in Engineering from an accredited university or college or relevant experience that would be equal to that degree.

• Experience designing gas turbine hardware or similar rotating machinery, specifically hot gas path components for GE Vernova Gas Power products and annular fleet.
• Advanced experience working with manufacturing shops and processes, and well versed in lean manufacturing methods.
• Ability to manage and execute projects on-time with team members in global locations, and rapidly shift day to day priorities based on emerging business needs.
• Strong organizational, communication, presentation, and negotiation skills.
• Ability to collaborate and build trust with team members and across global organization.
• Humble, open-minded, self-motivated, with ability and willingness to challenge the status quo and deliver the best GE products.
• Proficient with Ansys, NX, and other analytical tools, and strong understanding of GD&T with ability to interpret engineering drawings and bills of materials.

• Our compensation & benefits are designed to reward high performers and help you manage your personal and family needs. We offer a robust benefits package depending on your employment status and your national requirements.
• A healthy, balanced lifestyle can mean different things to different people. We've created programs that support the way you live and work today.
• GE Vernova invests to provide opportunities to grow your career by providing a path for continued on-the-job learning and development.