Lead Fleet Management Engineer - Generator & Electrical Systems

GE Vernova • Schenectady, NY

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About The Position

Join GE Vernova’s Product Service Engineering team and play a pivotal role in the energy sector, where every day presents new challenges and opportunities to make a global impact. The Lead Fleet Management Engineer - Generator & Electrical Systems will lead projects and initiatives with broad scope and high impact to Gas Power Engineering. This lead engineer will serve as a recognized expert in the services field, both internally and externally, partnering with customers and industry leaders. In this role you will be responsible for major and complex assignments with long-term business implications, manage complex issues within functional area(s) of expertise, and contribute to the overall business strategy for customer success.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering or related field
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in Generator Engineering and technology
• Must be willing to travel 10 to 15% domestically and internationally on short notice
• Must be willing to work off hours and weekends to support emergency issue resolution based on business need

Nice To Haves

• Masters degree in Engineering, preferably electrical, mechanical, materials, or systems engineering, or MBA.
• Six Sigma / Lean training experience
• Ability to coordinate several projects simultaneously
• Effective problem identification and solution skills
• Prior experience in a customer support/facing role; strong commercial mindset.
• Anticipates customer needs and ensures that they are met
• Self-starter with initiative and interpersonal skills to direct projects and work, of cross- functional nature, with demonstrated ability to drive projects to completion
• Ability to work well with teams and communicate requests and requirements clearly
• Strong team building skills. Ability to develop relationships across the organization to build loyalty and commitment.
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated project management skills
• Ability to drive change across the organization, and with clients, using data and positive relationship building.
• Able to interface effectively with all levels of an organization and demonstrated leadership to pursue correct engineering actions in adverse conditions or situations

Responsibilities

• Support of installed base including activities such as customer issue resolution, fleet issues, service bulletin implementation, Monitoring & Diagnostics, fleet configuration.
• Maintenance of fleet data, outage management
• Provide technical expertise globally for generator technology and Electrical systems
• Support root cause investigations for issues with significant fleet impact from initial investigation through the CAPA phase
• Assure all component designs meet requirements for customers
• Support and coordinate with interfacing organizations such as manufacturing, sourcing, services operations, quality, and design engineering to fulfill customer needs
• Travel to customer locations to: Support customer technical review meetings and present recommendations to champion GE's commitment to technical solutions, support unplanned/forced outages to meet availability goals
• Provide commercial teams with technical support for sales and services proposal activities
• Author knowledge articles as well as customer communications, including: TILs (Technical Information Letter), PSSB (Product Service Safety Bulletin), PSIB (Product Service Information Bulletin), and Safety communications
• Support communications progress across all levels of the organization, including plant operators and executive leaders
• Provide support at conferences, user groups, and customer events
• Mentor junior team members

Benefits

• GE Vernova offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation.
• Available benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services.
• Retirement benefits include the 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.
• Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability benefits, life insurance, 12 paid holidays, and permissive time off.
• GE Vernova Inc. or its affiliates (collectively or individually, “GE Vernova”) sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs
• GE Vernova reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace, or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion.
• No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a GE Vernova welfare benefit plan or program.
• This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.

What This Job Offers

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