Job Description Summary
Join a team dedicated to making the world safer and more sustainable! At GE Vernova Solar & Storage Solutions, our Product Safety Engineers are the guardians of our cutting-edge innovations in power and battery systems. We need your expertise to lead the way in crafting a safer future for energy generation and storage.
Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Champion Safety Innovation: Drive continuous improvement in product safety engineering methodologies and techniques for our advanced equipment and devices.
• Mitigate Risk, Maximize Impact: Identify and reduce safety risks throughout the product design lifecycle. Conduct cutting-edge safety risk assessments, hazard evaluations, and human factors analyses to enhance the safety of power generation environments.
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• Collaborate for Excellence: Partner with cross-functional teams to implement safety, EHS, regulatory, compliance, and customer requirements into every design.
• Become a Safety Authority: Master the intricacies of Battery Energy Storage Systems and other related technologies. Shape the future of product safety in this dynamic field.
• Train and Mentor: Share your knowledge of product safety principles and best practices to elevate the entire team's safety expertise.
• Solve Real-World Safety Challenges: Contribute to Root Cause Analyses (RCA) to solve complex safety concerns, working closely with engineering, legal, and management teams.
• Document Safety Success: Meticulously document risk assessments, investigations, and mitigation strategies to ensure a flawless safety record.
• Lead product safety risk assessments: Product Hazard Assessments (PHA), Hazardous Operations Studies (HAZOP), quantitative risk modeling, and Job Hazard Analyses.
• Provide thorough documentation of risk assessments (assumptions, team meetings, and program status in the SAFER database
Desired Characteristics:
- Battery Energy Storage design or operations experience.
- Experience with product safety methods, processes, and tools such as Reliasoft Weibull and RENO.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.
- Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs. Established project management skills.
- Familiarity with safety related Regulatory Compliance and Occupational Health standards of Power Systems.
- Willingness to challenge previous designs or ongoing processes to ensure adherence to safety compliance.
- Diligent record keeping and acute attention to detail for proof-reading and creation / maintenance of permanent safety records.
- Excellent technical aptitude, including applicable engineering tools and systems.
- Strong oral and written communication skills. Demonstrated team building, leadership, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to perform well, under pressure, as a problem solver.
- Organizational and documentation skills to keep track of multiple issues and action items to drive to closure.
- Knowledge of reliability requirements and processes.
- Cross-functional integration skills.
- Demonstrated team / project leadership skills to include project planning, and team building.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, Safety, Environmental, or Industrial Engineering or similar field from an accredited college or university.
- Minimum of 3 years relevant engineering experience in Power or Battery Storage Systems in a design, systems, field operations, or product safety capacity
Desired Characteristics:
• Experience with Battery Energy Storage Systems
• Mastery of Product Safety Tools: (e.g., Reliasoft Weibull and RENO, SAFER database).
• Proven Problem-Solving Skills
• Project Management Expertise
• Compliance Knowledge: Familiarity with safety-related regulations and oc cupational health standards of Power Systems.
• Unwavering Commitment to Safety
• Attention to Detail
• Technical Excellence and Communication Skills
• Teamwork and Leadership Capabilities
Additional Information
GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE is an Equal 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 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: No