R&D Lead Engineer

Job Description Summary

The Lead Engineer, R&D role in Plant Mechanical Engineering focuses on designing next-generation sustainable gas turbine power plant products and accessories, from engineering launch through field validation, with strong emphasis on safety, quality, delivery, and cost. The position requires collaboration across engineering, program management, manufacturing, suppliers, and leadership teams to develop design tools, support bid packages, resolve reliability or performance issues, and drive continuous improvement and standardization. The ideal candidate has a background in mechanical or related engineering, experience with fluids or mechanical analysis, and a strong lean, quality, and sustainability mindset, along with excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

Job Description

Are you passionate about innovation? Are you excited at the opportunity to electrify and decarbonize the world?

• Design next generation sustainable products of the gas turbine power plant and accessories from the engineering launch to the field validation, with focus on highest safety, quality, delivery and cost
• Comply with R&D process and manage milestones, design in autonomy, get validation from Technical Leaders and Controlled Title Holders. Present design in front of the board of reviewers and close action items.
• Realize thorough design analysis in mechanical, thermal and fluids domain. Propose, develop and implement controlled design/analysis tools and methods, to improve Standard Work and decrease cost of poor quality (CoPQ).
• Collaborate with internal engineering and program management teams, Chief Engineering Office, manufacturing engineering, and external suppliers to create cohesive design
• Support tendering bid packages that carry specific development requirements, with equipment recommendations in order to win competitive orders and have a direct impact on GE Vernova's bottom line.
• Support root cause analysis leader to improve products and execute corrective action for reliability, quality, and/or performance issues in existing designs. Resolve such issues with high sense of urgency.
• Work cross-functionally with partner organizations to improve variable cost and drive usage and creation of standard product for enhanced quality and delivery.

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical, Process, Chemical, Aeronautical, or like engineering principle
• 3+ years' experience in Mechanical & Fluids engineering and/or quality in Power, Aeronautics, Chemical or Automotive industry

• Master of Science in Mechanical, Process, Chemical, Aeronautical or like engineering principle
• Experience with Lean methodologies and quality-oriented process improvement
• You have a passion for innovation and sustainability, including a good understanding of product design and challenges/opportunities in the gas turbine accessories space
• You have experience with FEA, processes, thermal and flow analysis tools. Experience with 3D models, Schematics/Diagrams, and their use for representing accessories systems.
• You are data-driven engineer with analytical skills able to design products with a focus on Safety and Quality, and able to lead Lean process continuous improvement
• You enjoy working in interface with several teams, in an R&D environment that carry some level of technical uncertainty. You bring a clear-thinker mindset, you are able to break large, complex technical problems into an achievable timeline with individual deliverables and stakeholders/approvers driving to prompt resolution.
• You have excellent communications skills, good attitude, self-starter, well-balanced, team player able to work in a multi-cultural environment