Senior Engineering Manager, Value Solutions (People Leader)

GE Vernova • Greenville, NC

4d • Onsite

About The Position

The Value Solutions Team is part of the Solutioning & Execution Center of Excellence (S&E CoE) within the Heavy Duty Plant Engineering (HDPE) organization, supporting the Heavy Duty New Unit business globally. The team is responsible for driving solution strategy, standardization adoption, and deviation governance across the Heavy Duty New Unit portfolio. Working at the intersection of Commercial, Product Management, Systems Engineering, Regional Customer Application Engineering, and Proposal Engineering teams, the organization helps shape competitive bid strategies while promoting consistency, risk-balanced decision making, and scalable growth through standard solutions. The team also serves as a critical bridge between market needs and standards evolution, providing recommendations that help improve standard offerings and enable more competitive, scalable solutions.

As the People Leader for Value Solutions, you will lead a global team of approximately 12 senior engineering professionals located across the United States, France, and India. Your team plays a critical role during the Inquiry-to-Order phase by ensuring bid strategies align with approved product standards while balancing customer value, competitiveness, risk, and execution readiness. You will help drive the adoption of standardized solutions, strengthen engagement with Regional Customer Application Engineering teams to influence customers earlier in the sales cycle, and accelerate the transfer of market learnings into product and standards evolution. Through leadership of deviation governance processes and cross-functional collaboration, you will help improve proposal quality, consistency, cycle time, and long-term business competitiveness. Success in this role requires a strong people leader capable of coaching experienced technical professionals, building organizational capability, and aligning diverse stakeholders around common business objectives.

You'll join a highly experienced global team of senior engineers and technical leaders dedicated to advancing the competitiveness of the Heavy Duty New Unit portfolio. This role offers significant visibility across Commercial, Product Management, Engineering, and Executive Leadership, providing the opportunity to influence business strategy, standards evolution, and organizational effectiveness on a global scale.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from an accredited college or university.
• At least 8 years of engineering experience within the power generation, energy, or related industry.
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience influencing cross-functional stakeholders in a complex technical environment.

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Business, or related technical discipline.
• Proven experience leading teams of senior engineering professionals in a global environment.
• Strong systems-thinking mindset with the ability to balance customer needs, technical risk, product strategy, and business objectives.
• Experience leading governance processes involving complex technical and commercial decision-making.
• Experience working across Commercial, Product Management, and Engineering organizations to develop competitive product or solution strategies.
• Familiarity with Lean principles and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Experience with performance and lifecycle value analysis.
• Technical competency in gas turbine and combined-cycle performance modeling tools and methodologies.
• Knowledge of gas turbine, steam turbine, and broader plant systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead, engage, and develop a global team of highly experienced engineering professionals, creating an environment where senior experts are empowered to maximize their impact on the business.
• Foster a culture of ownership, systems thinking, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Coach and develop senior engineers in technical leadership, stakeholder influence, and commercial acumen.
• Build organizational capability through mentoring, succession planning, and investment in both technical and leadership growth.
• Drive adoption of standard technical solutions across the Heavy Duty New Unit portfolio, ensuring bid strategies align with product standards, customer needs, and business objectives.
• Partner with Commercial, Regional Customer Application Engineering, Product Management, Systems Engineering, and Proposal Engineering teams to develop competitive, scalable solution strategies.
• Identify gaps between market requirements and standard offerings and recommend improvements to future standards, solution strategies, and product applicability.
• Promote standard work, Lean principles, and best practices that improve solution quality, consistency, productivity, and cycle time.
• Lead the governance processes and cross-functional forums used to evaluate and disposition solution and configuration deviations, balancing customer requirements, technical feasibility, risk, and commercial competitiveness.
• Promote disciplined decision-making that maximizes the use of standard solutions while ensuring alignment and transparency across stakeholders involved in deviation review and approval processes.
• Drive continuous improvement in governance effectiveness, decision quality, and cycle time.
• Leverage market trends, competitor intelligence, customer value drivers, and bid feedback to identify opportunities that improve competitiveness and shape future solution strategies.
• Partner with Regional Customer Application Engineering and Product Management teams to support early customer engagement, develop competitive technical solutions, and influence long-term product, standards, and application roadmaps.
• Develop and maintain tools, processes, and best practices that drive consistency and effectiveness across global solutioning activities.

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

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