Heavy Duty New Unit Controls - Quality Leader

GE Vernova•Schenectady, NY

About The Position

As a leader in Heavy Duty New Unit Controls Engineering, the Quality Leader contributes to GE Vernova’s Gas Power business and helps ensure the efficient and effective operation of the global Controls Engineering organization. The role supports engineering’s commitment to quality by applying quality principles and techniques to HDNU Controls Engineering processes and working with functional groups and controlled titleholders to achieve operational excellence. It has moderate autonomy and requires a high level of operational judgment. The position serves as the primary HDNU Controls liaison to Controls, CSS, and Gas Power Engineering Quality Leaders. It supports quality workstreams across the product lifecycle, improves quality execution and operational processes, supports quality operations for a worldwide organization of more than 240 engineers, and helps foster a zero-defect culture. For US-based candidates, the role may be based in Schenectady, NY, Greenville, SC, or remotely; for India-based employees, the location is Hyderabad, Telangana. Relocation assistance is provided.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college.
Minimum of 12 years of engineering experience.

Nice To Haves

Demonstrates the Vernova Way principles: innovation, customers, lean, one team, and accountable.
Experience in the power generation industry.
Ability to coach and teach others.
Practical knowledge of root cause analysis techniques and tools.
Experience driving quality improvement, preferably within an engineering organization.
Ability to challenge the status quo and drive continuous improvement.
Effectiveness in driving outcomes in a large, globally matrixed organization.
Comfort with conflict and ability to lead as a collaborator, facilitator, and strong partner.
Critical, systems-oriented thinking and ability to bring others along despite conflicting priorities.
Strong analytical skills; data-driven and decisive despite ambiguity.
Customer focus and clear, concise written and oral communication appropriate to the audience.

Responsibilities

Act as the primary HDNU Controls liaison to Controls, CSS, and Gas Power Engineering Quality Leaders in support of the Zero Defect Culture, New Product Introduction, Supply Base Quality, and Management of Change workstreams.
Support responses to frontline customers affected by poor quality.
Drive upstream improvements to processes across Engineering.
Improve engineering quality execution and broader Gas Power Quality workstreams.
Drive Quality Excellence into Engineering.
Support day-to-day quality operations for an organization of more than 240 engineers located worldwide.
Coordinate HDNU quality issue resolution with the Controls Engineering Quality Leader.
Establish operational infrastructure, cadence, and actionable KPIs/TTIs to communicate and track quality performance and accountability.
Coordinate QMS audits across HDNU Controls Engineering to support ISO accreditation, including desk-side audits, quality framework audits, and LRQA.
Run quality management reviews with HDNU Controls leadership.
Support the Controls quality MOR (Monthly Operating Review).
Partner with Corporate, Gas Power, Gas Power Engineering, and Controls quality communities to promote a zero-defect culture in HDNU Controls Engineering.
Expand the use of root cause analysis and continuous improvement tools to improve quality, efficiency, capacity, and process reliability.
Drive continuous improvement processes, including NCR, RCA, and PSR.
Maintain and improve daily quality management using CLM and Power Now dashboards and queries.
Enable and empower Controls Engineering resources to identify and act on local quality improvement opportunities.
Share Controls Engineering quality lessons learned and recognize successes.