People Leader, Product Safety Engineering
About The Position
Provide leadership and strategic direction for the Product Safety Engineering team. This critical role assures product safety hazards are identified and appropriately and consistently mitigated for Gas Power product lines and functions across the product lifecycle. This leadership position provides controllership of the product safety process, leads mitigation and lessons learning of reactive field safety issues, drives process improvements and ensures consistent process rigor across all Gas Power business units. This role will require you to foster a culture of safety-first engineering, where critical risk identification is valued as a foundational element of our design excellence.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from an accredited university or college.
- Minimum of 8 years of leadership experience with strong technical skills and demonstrated technical execution, with at least 2 years of leadership experience in product safety discipline.
- 2+ years of demonstrated experience in driving strategic process change.
- 2+ years of demonstrated coaching expertise and success in working across the business functions, other GE Vernova businesses, and the global teams.
Nice To Haves
- Demonstrated team building, leadership and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to communicate complex technical risk assessments to non-technical stakeholders or executive leadership.
- Experience in analyzing and prioritizing information to the critical issues and drawing accurate conclusions.
- Ability to perform well, under pressure, as a problem solver.
- Able to interface effectively with all levels of the organization.
- Experience in driving technical solutions to reduce product safety risk of installed base equipment.
- Knowledge of global industry safety codes, standards, and regulations.
Responsibilities
- Manage the Product Safety Engineering team by identifying and addressing: development needs and resource planning; career growth for team members; strategic planning for organization development.
- Own product safety risk management of field safety issues; ensure timely mitigation of product safety concerns and elimination of issue recurrence across the affected fleet.
- Provide leadership and process expertise that assures continuous process improvement and consistent, rigorous execution across the GE Vernova Gas Power business.
- Drive collaboration with Commercial, Systems, Services, Legal, EHS, and Design Engineering teams to drive pinpoint focus on reducing unsafe events and driving lessons learned into new product designs.
- Lead, coach, and mentor direct reports.
- Provide leadership and technical direction for assigned organizational responsibilities, programs, and personnel.
Benefits
- Relocation Assistance Provided
- 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
Manager
