Gas Turbine Engineering Lean Leader
About The Position
This role is responsible for leading the transformation of the New Product Introduction (NPI) process within Gas Turbine Engineering, with a primary focus on reducing lead time and improving built-in quality to accelerate speed to market for future products. The Senior Engineer will partner closely with Gas Power Engineering Value Stream Leaders, Systems Engineering, and Gas Turbine Engineering staff to redesign and operationalize a high-performing NPI operating model. This includes driving end-to-end flow across the design lifecycle, embedding proactive risk management, and standardizing execution to eliminate rework, delays, and variability. This is not a support role. This role owns the NPI improvement roadmap and drives measurable outcomes in cycle time, first pass yield, and delivery performance.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from an accredited university or college.
- Minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in successfully managing programs or projects, or driving continuous improvement initiatives.
Nice To Haves
- Process focused. Ability to challenge the status quo and influence others.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, influencing and organizational integration skills.
- Ability to create real and positive change in a team environment.
- Demonstrates the GE Vernova Way, exhibiting clarity of thought, consistency of messages, and uncompromising integrity.
- Experience in operations, NPI, or product development environments, with strong business acumen and ability to connect improvements to business outcomes
- Proven ability to lead change, challenge the status quo, and drive adoption in complex, matrixed organizations
- Demonstrated strength in coaching, teaching, and influencing, including simplifying complex concepts and aligning diverse stakeholders
- Highly self-directed with the ability to prioritize and execute multiple initiatives in parallel, delivering measurable results
- Strong leadership presence with ability to engage across all levels, navigate conflict, and drive alignment toward outcomes
Responsibilities
- Act as Engineering GM staff partner and Lean coach to Gas Turbine Engineering process owners to define NPI strategy, future-state process design, and prioritized improvement roadmap
- Lead the end-to-end transformation of the Gas Turbine Engineering NPI process to reduce lead time, improve first pass yield, and accelerate speed to market
- Define and lead the portfolio of NPI-focused kaizens and Lean projects (6–12 per year) aligned with Gas Power Engineering priorities, ensuring all improvements deliver measurable impact.
- Identify and eliminate bottlenecks, rework, and non-value-added work to enable flow, predictability, and throughput across the NPI lifecycle
- Partner with Quality and Systems Engineering to ensure alignment to the Zero-Defect framework, driving adoption of built-in quality principles within NPI execution
- Drive structured problem solving, including PSRs (1–3 per quarter), based on KPI trends and critical NPI performance gaps
- Integrate NPI performance into Daily Management and Monthly Operating Reviews, providing clear visibility to Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost outcomes
- Ensure disciplined execution and sustainment of improvements through standard work, operating cadence, and Lean governance
- Coach and influence teams to adopt Lean principles, while driving standardization and harmonization across Gas Turbine Engineering to enable a unified NPI model
Benefits
- 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, as well as 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
