Engineering Technical Lead

GE Vernova • Wilmington, NC

20h • $111,200 - $213,200 • Onsite

About The Position

Lead and mentor a team responsible for developing and maintaining analog and digital control systems to enable next generation SMR and existing BWR nuclear power plants to operate safely, efficiently, and sustainably. The role focuses on work planning, technical approach, design assurance, and execution excellence. Essential responsibilities include leading preparation of work planning, scheduling, and resource loading, supporting project engineering with execution metrics and risk identification, and driving compliance with scope, budget, and schedule. The lead will coordinate across engineering disciplines, collaborate with project management, and identify and resolve technical and emergent issues. This position also involves providing technical oversight and mentorship to ensure system designs and deliverables comply with requirements throughout the design lifecycle, supporting strategy and resource loading, and assisting with knowledge transfer initiatives. The role requires championing nuclear safety culture and ensuring compliance with GEH policies, quality management system, and corrective action program, delivering work with integrity, safety, security, quality, and on-time output.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, or Mathematics or equivalent 4-year technical degree
• Minimum of 10 years of application, field installation, and test engineering of systems, equipment, and components including selection and qualification to diverse industry standards
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in commercial nuclear industry working in plant instrumentation application, control and monitoring system hardware design, including implementation, test, installation, and commissioning
• Minimum of 5 years of experience performing independent, or preferably team based, system design or technical reviews including interfacing with requirements management, independent verification and validation
• Relocation to Wilmington, NC is required
• Ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government
• Legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening
• Successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable)

Nice To Haves

• Experience in nuclear analog and digital instrumentation, control, monitoring, electric power system and field engineering
• Competency in industry standards IEEE, IEC, IPC, and quality standards
• Competency in modeling and test data collection tools
• Clear thinker, detail oriented, insightful, quantitative, balanced, and a results-oriented analyst and leader
• Proven track record of delivering commitments on specification, on budget, and on schedule
• Strong verbal communication, as well as, facilitation and presentation skills for technical and business audiences – Able to communicate openly, calmly, and crisply in stressful situations
• Adaptive; able to quickly learn diverse and varying organizational interfaces with professional astuteness
• Continuous improvement mindset with an ability to identify, influence, and implement better ways to do an activity or process
• Solid technical writing skills with focus on requirements and design documents
• Knowledge and experience with PCB design, signal analysis and system verification tools (Altium, PSpice, SystemVerilog, UVM, etc.)
• Knowledge and experience with common HDL languages and PLD/FPGA development tools (Quartus, Vivado, ModelSim, Questa, etc.)
• General knowledge and experience of schematic design, PCB layout, and PCB manufacturing
• Experienced in product, instrument, system design, verification, validation, and qualification
• Solves technical challenges through application of common design patterns and identifying appropriate patterns for use in problem solving
• Experience in design verification and validation
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills and ability to articulate clearly
• Contributes to creative solutions and challenges status quo
• Proactively learns new tools and identifies opportunities for improvement and promotes their adoption

Responsibilities

• Lead preparation of high thru low work planning, scheduling, and resource loading across lifecycle phases of Engineer-Procure-Construct or new product introduction using the applicable practices, guides, and tools
• Support project engineering or manager with understanding execution metric and status, issues, risks, mitigation or recovering plans, and be extremely proactive to identify changes in scope
• Drive compliance utilizing scope, detailed work planning, budget, overall schedule, applicable design processes, and discipline specific practices and tools including design and technical reviews
• Lead “day-to-day” operations and follow-up to ensure deliverables are produced and commitments met on-spec., on-budget, and on-schedule
• Coordinate proactively and inclusively for overall team across other engineering disciplines to support integrated plant design objectives
• Collaborate with project management, project engineering, support functions, and others to drive project completion
• Identify, confirm, document, and lead resolution of technical, risk, other emergent issues
• Provide technical oversight and mentorship to ensure system designs and deliverables comply with requirements throughout design release to manufacturing or supplier including production, validation, installation, and commission tests
• Support strategy, plan, statement of work preparation, and implementation of resource loading
• Assist with hosting learning sessions, knowledge capture, and transfer initiatives
• Use variety of tools for requirements, design, change, configuration, and document management
• Champion nuclear safety culture; Ensure compliance with GEH policies, quality management system, and corrective action program
• Deliver work with integrity, safety, security, quality, and on-time output

Benefits

• Great work environment
• Professional development
• Challenging careers
• Competitive compensation
• Medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
• Access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource
• Access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services
• GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions 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 Provided

What This Job Offers

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