Lead New Unit Controls Application Engineer

Job Description Summary

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? Looking to make a global impact and solve problems? Through relentless innovation and continuous collaboration with our customers, GE Gas Power, part of GE Vernova, is providing more advanced, cleaner, and efficient power that people depend on today and building the energy technologies of the future.

Impact you'll make:
Develop proposal content providing value to our customers and GE Vernova while minimizing risks and offering standardized products where possible to avoid unnecessary customization. Adhere to GE Vernova Gas Power Engineering standard work policies and procedures, and drive consistent functional specifications and common global processes for projects implementation.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Be responsible for the technical content of proposals for GEV Combined Cycle power plant configuration, working with the Commercial Operations, Product Engineering and Product Management teams to win profitable projects for GEV Gas Power
• Be responsible for coordinating the timely evaluation of customer requirements, typically via review of the customer or Equipment Prime Contractor (EPC) provided request for proposal (RFP) to ensure proper selection of GEV product controls and DCS scope of supply items.
• Be responsible for evaluating and developing comments and exceptions to the Request for Proposal (RFP) identifying how the GEV equipment is compliant or where GEV equipment does not fully meet the customer specification
• Develop in depth knowledge in all MarkVIe/EX2100e equipment control systems. Collaborate with Plant control DCS team for proposal execution. Uses prior experience and acquired technical expertise to execute policy/strategy.
• Identify customer requested special requirements and develop strategies with engineering/sourcing teams that provide competitive solutions to these requirements with 100% timeliness to business need.
• Develop expertise in requirements management and costing processes, documenting customer specific product configurations and assisting in developing costing to be used in the proposal process. Must be able to clearly communicate the strategy that led to both the configuration and costing details contained within the proposal.
• Attend internal project meetings to establish strategies for winning, and customer meetings to clarify technical aspects during negotiations with the customer.
• Interpret customer requirements to determine proper application of General Electric equipment to ensure GE's competitive position and ultimate customer satisfaction
• Ensure the on-time completion of all assigned and proposal activities including business initiatives for Quality, Cost, Reliability, Performances, etc.
• Recognize and communicate issues with project schedules or requirements sufficiently early so actions can be taken to resolve those items.
• Be Application Engineering liaison for all Controls engineering related activities.

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or high school diploma/ GED with 9 years of relevant experience
• This role requires a min of 5 years of experience in Engineering/Technology, Customer Bid & Proposal expertise, or related Controls and/or Gas Power equipment
• Demonstrate GE Vernova Way principles: Drive Innovation, Serve Our Customers, Demonstrate Lean Mindset, Work as One Team and Demonstrate Accountability.

• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.
• Demonstrated ability to lead programs / projects.
• Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs. Established project management skills.