Senior Engineer - Advanced Plant Systems Design

GE Vernova • Union City, CA

20d

About The Position

GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. Are you passionate about innovation? Are you excited about the opportunity to electrify and decarbonize the world? This is an exciting role within the System Technologies and Adaptive Intelligence (STAI) team in Gas Power Engineering (GPE), and we are looking for innovative systems design engineers to bring Gas Power products from conceptual design to new product introduction. The person in the Senior Engineer - Advanced Plant Systems Design role will lead the creation, design, and analysis for the next generation of Gas Power products working closely with Product Management to define competitive product requirements, design product concepts and transition the results into New Product Introduction (NPI) programs. The Advanced Plant Systems Design team is responsible for the pre-NPI conceptual design of advanced gas turbine systems, which includes gas turbines and plant systems such as accessories, steam turbines, HRSGs, and generators. The team works closely with subject matter experts across the engineering organization to develop and deploy advanced system modeling to relentlessly build new product cost and performance modeling capabilities to deliver high quality product concept assessments.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, or Computer Science.
• This role requires significant and demonstrated experience in gas turbine technical product design and development or plant systems.
• Knowledge is comparable to a Master’s degree from an accredited university or college.

Nice To Haves

• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Self-starting and personal drive and creative ability to make decisions and produce results with imperfectly defined requirements.
• Demonstrated hands-on expertise using complex engineering design tools and processes.
• Excellent verbal and written skills and ability to take complex technical proposals and translate them into simple, easily understood messages.
• Demonstrated ability to document, plan, market and manage programs that further the knowledge, understanding and capability of the business. Specifically, experience working cross-functionally to define product requirements, creating, executing and managing programs.
• Problem analysis and resolution skills. Specifically, demonstrated creativity and background in systems modeling methods and complex design space optimization analysis plus hands-on expertise using today’s engineering design tools for gas turbines or plant systems.
• Demonstrated leadership in defining the state of the art in at least one technical specialty, along with the ability to teach and set standard practices within this field. Specifically, a strong background in one or more relevant fundamental sciences such as fluid mechanics, structural mechanics, aerodynamics, combustion, thermodynamics, heat transfer.
• Exhibits the GE Vernova Way behaviors: Innovation, Customers, Lean, One Team, Accountable.

Responsibilities

• Identify, develop, evaluate, and introduce engineering solutions to meet near term and long-range product line and engineering productivity needs.
• Partner with Product Management, Engineering, Manufacturing and stakeholders to define and create competitive advanced gas turbine and plant product solutions for future investment.
• Demonstrate accountability for functional, business, and broad company objectives in the field of Gas Turbine Systems including gas turbine, steam turbine, generator and balance-of-plant systems as required.
• Integrate and develop pre-NPI conceptual design processes that meet business needs across the organization.
• Involved in long-term planning.
• This role contributes to the overall strategy and manages complex issues within functional areas of Gas Turbine and Plant Systems design.
• Demonstrate a high “say-do” ratio and perform on-time and technically excellent product concept trade studies and competitor assessments.
• Review personal work with peers and Controlled Title Holder community and proactively address concerns and retire risks.
• Drive consistent “apples-to-apples” assumptions and technical comparisons across advanced product options to clearly show technology impact and investment opportunity.
• Identify, analyze, and model performance of competitive product offerings to understand market position and propose new Gas Power programs and countermeasures to address risk and improve product customer value.
• Lead and provide the key technical direction to large projects with critical business impact.
• Develop gas turbine conceptual design product cost, performance and operability design tools and methods with emphasis to deploy Adaptive Intelligence methods for robust solutions and design productivity.
• Deploy Nx or other tools to create compelling visual concept layouts and product system design, including plant systems.
• Exercise Curiosity by striving for improved products & processes to support customers.
• On occasion, ideate, design, develop, and integrate non-traditional product offerings aligned with long range business interests.
• Effectively communicate and provide recommendations through the analysis, preparation and presentation of technical data to internal and external GE Vernova customers using reports, records, and letters.
• Foster effective communication and simplify complex problems into understandable messages.
• Use knowledge and expertise to market winning proposals in anticipation of business product needs.
• Create and champion product innovation through the identification and adoption of the latest technology.
• Create high value Gas Power external program concept papers and technology proposals for third-party funding.
• Prepare invention disclosures to protect technology that gives the business a competitive advantage, as well as protecting the intellectual property rights of the company.
• Demonstrate and activate the GE Vernova Way: Innovation, Customers, Lean, One Team, Accountable.
• Ensure timely communication of technical and business information among organizations and within the team.
• As needed, assess the costs of new programs and oversee project financials, ensuring accountability for providing regular updates on estimated expenditures.
• Champion “systems thinking”, such as anticipating and articulating risks, understanding the full lifecycle implications of design decisions, and accounting for scalability implications of technology solutions.
• Be a Helpful resource to all levels of engineering team and encourage dialogue between all groups.

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.

What This Job Offers

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