Core Repairs Engineer

GE Vernova • Greenville, NC

5d

About The Position

The Core Repair team creates methods, processes, and tools for unplanned maintenance, including major component upgrades and uptower repairs on onshore and offshore wind turbines. The Core Repairs Engineer develops repair procedures and tooling to enable baseline and advanced repair capabilities for Service NPI, documenting lessons learned and updating standard work. The role works with cross-functional teams to develop capability and validate safety. The work is approximately 70% documentation and 30% testing and validation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Industrial, Civil, or equivalent), or relevant/proven equivalent experience.
• 0–2 years of design experience or similar.
• Familiarity with CAD design and FEA analysis.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including proficiency in English.
• Demonstrated technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability and willingness to travel globally 10–20% of the time.
• Ability and willingness to climb wind turbines and work at heights.
• Ability and willingness to perform physical shop or field work when required, including handling rigging and tooling.

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated interpersonal skills and ability to interact with senior management and hourly technicians.
• Wind turbine product or services knowledge.
• Familiarity with industrial tooling.
• Familiarity with empathic design.
• Technical project management experience.
• Ability to develop simple, creative solutions to technical problems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and validate repair procedures that meet customer and business requirements, proving their safety and functionality.
• Communicate unknowns, risks, and tradeoffs that affect safe and effective repair procedures.
• Lead initial validation and beta efforts for tooling and process products with Deployment, Platform Leaders, Field Engineering, and EHS.
• Create and maintain project plans.
• Develop, test, and validate repair and replacement procedures using model walkthroughs, prototyping, freestanding components, and complete wind turbine machine heads.
• Identify requirements for process-specific tooling and ensure tools can be installed, operated, and disassembled safely and effectively.
• Own the design of innovative repair solutions and ensure they adhere to engineering standards.
• Use the team's Design Review Process, quality standards, best practices, and systems to review and document repair procedures, including eDRB, PLM, FMEAs, WDIs, and handoff packages.
• Maintain awareness of efforts across the group to incorporate lessons learned and respond to customer and program needs.
• Work with cross-functional teams, including the Repair Technology team, Deployment Leaders, PMs, the SVC Unplanned Failures Team, ENG Segments, Regional FRO, and Control Title Holders.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• Access to a 24/7 nurse-based Health Coach resource.
• Employee Assistance Program with 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling, and referral services.
• GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, including a 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching and company retirement contributions.
• Access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants.
• Tuition assistance.
• Adoption assistance.
• Paid parental leave.
• Disability benefits.
• Life insurance.
• 12 paid holidays.
• Permissive time off.
• Discretionary annual bonus.
• Relocation assistance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level