Technical Leader - Gas Turbine Project Engineering

Job Description Summary

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.

What impact you'll make
As a member of the Project Engineering team, you will provide input and make decisions that influence major technical and financial outcomes for GEV and/or the customer and customer representatives.

What you'll do
The Technical Leader - Gas Turbine Project Engineering provides technical project management, technical direction, and drives coordination of engineering activities and critical issue resolution for OTR-related Gas Turbine issues for all assigned Gas Turbine projects. The Technical Leader - Gas Turbine Project Engineering functions as the technical liaison for the Customer and Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) representatives to ensure that the supplied design documentation and equipment fully complies with the contract requirements and drives continuous improvement in project execution. The Technical Leader - Gas Turbine Project Engineering makes decisions and inputs that influence major technical and financial outcomes for GE Vernova and/or customers. This role is also responsible for top issue resolution impacting project quality for our customers. This is a project engineering leadership position and reports to the Project Engineering Leader (Americas) - Manager of Gas Turbine and Generator.

• Providing continuous improvement and operational leadership as single point contact for all customer technical inquiries, change requests, and communications for all topics related to the generator and electrical (Gas Turbine Project Engineer scope)
• Driving lessons learned back into the design engineering organizations to avoid repeating issues
• Providing technical guidance to Project Management and Applications/Regional Customer Applications Engineering
• Conducting Customer Kick-Off Meetings (CKOMs) and/or Design Liaison Meetings (DLMs) with customers and/or their design representatives (EPCs), as applicable
• Reviewing contract documentation and communicating project requirements to all design functions, utilizing internal documentation systems and regular communication with internal engineering organizations
• Evaluating the financial/schedule impacts of customer-requested scope changes via Cost & Cycle Estimates (CCEs) and implementing changes agreed to by Change Orders via the Change Management Process
• Supporting resolution of cross-functional design complexities and working to resolve technical issues
• Mitigating engineering schedule issues and taking preventative action to avoid delivery delays or late customer deliverables
• Managing the Engineering Budget and providing quarterly Estimate at Completions (EACs) to Finance
• Providing technical support to engineering, manufacturing, sourcing, suppliers, and installation personnel to ensure equipment meets all customer requirements and business objectives
• Presenting project issue resolutions periodically to upper management, highlighting risks, and creating action plans to remedy the risks
• Leading efforts to create and implement improved business processes and procedures and/or cost reductions
• Providing technical guidance to other Project Engineers within the organization
• Focal point for driving gas turbine team metric excellence such as backlog resolution and high on- time delivery and first pass yield
• Supporting Engineering Risk Review Meeting (ERRM) series to identify top project risks prior to release
• Knowledgeable in electrical codes and standards, including NFPA 70 and grid code compliance standards
• Leading top issue resolution for highest quality impact at a project level