Repairs Engineering Manager
About The Position
The Repairs Engineering team is responsible for the creation of methods, processes and tools that are utilized for unplanned maintenance such as Major Component Exchanges and Uptower Repairs to Service Onshore and Offshore Wind Turbines. The Repairs Engineering Manager will lead the Emergent Repairs engineering team responsible for owning and developing repair procedures and tooling required to enable key repair capabilities for Service NPI. This includes baseline capability and advanced repairs. They will increase team capability by driving critical documentation of lessons learned and ensure closed-loo, updates to standard work. They will develop the capability and prove out safety by working closely with various cross functional teams - Repair Technology team, Deployment Leaders, PMs, SVC Unplanned Failures Team, ENG Segments, Regional FRO and Control Title Holders. In this role you will work across the Engineering Functions to identify strategic growth areas and issue resolutions to reduce overall Services activities and spend.
Requirements
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Structural Engineering, Civil Engineering, Physics or related degree from an accredited college or university
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in an engineering or technical position
- Minimum 2 years of experience in a technical leadership or people management
- Ability and willingness to travel 10-20% of the time, which may include international travel (must comply with all relevant company travel and tax policies)
- Ability and willingness to climb wind turbines and work at heights
- Proficiency with English both written and oral communication
- Demonstrated ability to accommodate for fast pace projects and changes in work scopes.
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
Nice To Haves
- At least 3 years of wind turbine repair development experience
- Ability and willingness to challenge status quo, without allegiance to past or current practices and technology, to get to the best GE products
- Demonstrated systems thinker: ability to assess tradeoffs, effectively assess risk, and optimize results.
- Proven ability to drive process improvement, implement standard work, and utilize Lean operating principles.
- Strategic thinker – able to navigate complexity, develop clear actions, and drive impact.
- Excellent leader, effective coach, and trusted mentor.
- Ability to influence others and drive cross-functional teams to success.
- Makes decisions and manages conflicting priorities in a fast-paced environment. Takes ownership of issues and drive solutions.
- Excellent communicator with demonstrated ability to connect positively with others.
- Strong business acumen & customer focus.
- Master’s degree in Engineering or Business Administration from an accredited college or university.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop and validate repair procedures meeting customer and business requirements. Prove out safety and functionality.
- Drive design decisions by clearly communicating the “unknowns”, associated risks and tradeoffs that are required to properly execute a safe and effective repair procedure.
- Lead engineering efforts in the initial validation and beta period of tooling/process products by working with Deployment, Platform Leaders, Field Engineering, and EHS to complete and validate robust engineering processes.
- Create and maintain project plans that are executed on time and with quality.
- Develop, test and validate repair/replacement procedures through: model walk throughs, prototyping, freestanding components and complete wind turbine machine heads.
- Identify and clearly communicate requirements for process specific tooling. Ensure the design allows for installation, operation, and disassembly of the tool in a safe and effective manner.
- Own the design of innovative repair solutions and ensure adherence to engineering standards.
- Follow and use the team’s Design Review Process, quality standards, best practices and systems to fully review and document repair procedures: eDRB, PLM, FMEAs, WDIs, Handoff Packages, etc.
- Maintain broad awareness of efforts within the group to assure lessons learned and responsiveness to customer/program needs.
- Mentor younger engineers in the use of CAD modelling, FE analysis, drawing reviews, repair process creation, free body diagrams, and/or rigging plans and serve as an overall repair and installation expert in at least one of those categories.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
