Product Definition Engineer

Job Description Summary

Vernova Purpose

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 excited at the opportunity to electrify and decarbonize the world?

Looking to make a global impact and solve problems? Through relentless innovation and continuous collaboration with our customers, GE Vernova-Hitachi, (GEH) part of GE Vernova, is providing more advanced, cleaner, and efficient power that people depend on today and building the energy technologies of the future.

Impact you'll make:

Contribute to the design and development of products, solutions and systems for the Small Modular Reactor technology space. Includes activities linked to technical improvement of existing products and components. Impacts quality of own work and the work of others on the team. Executes standard operational/technical tasks typically subject to instructions and work routines. There is latitude to rearrange the sequence to complete task/duties based on changing work situations.

A key element of this role is building and sustaining partnerships with the adjacent design engineering teams and the supply chain while innovating new solutions for advancing the technology related to gas turbines and accompanying systems.

• Utilize applicable tools and standard work processes for checking and productivity. Provide feedback for improvements.
• Define and support nuclear industry configuration management (CM) practices, document management, and change control processes for new commercial nuclear power plant projects
• Utilize applicable PLM system (Enovia / Teamcenter) to manage and issue product definition data.
• Assist with engineering configuration management implementation activities inside GEH, in partnership with Information Technology (IT) and support CM interface activities at suppliers
• Ensure design integrity and no high-risk escaping defects and drive improvements in First Pass Yield (error reduction).
• Ensure that interface characteristics between components are established and agreed upon by owners of mating parts/systems.
• Effectively communicate progress, status, risk, needed inputs and target release dates to stakeholders through daily management routines.
• Manage concurrent Engineering processes, understand input from the different engineering disciplines, monitor progress and quality, and ensure schedule requirements are met.
• Effectively communicate and provide recommendations to internal and external GE Vernova customers through the analysis, preparation, and presentation of technical PDE data.
• Support GEH quality requirements, including participation in design reviews, and initiating and responding to Corrective Actions
• Provide design support to cross-functional teams to improve or resolve design, performance, manufacturing, supplier, or field issues.
• Assure that proper documentation of technical data, generated to substantiate the assigned components, assembly processes, and/or systems is consistent with design policies and procedures.
• Work within the guidelines of applicable GE Policies and Procedures, Engineering Standards, Design Customer Operating Procedures, Specifications, Government and Commercial Standards, and special security requirements.
• Utilize Lean and Six Sigma tools to improve current business products and processes. Communicate & Document the success of Lean or Six Sigma projects.
• Contribution to Engineering initiatives to improve productivity and quality.

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering, Business Administration or a or equal, Technical Associates degree with 5 years of relevant product definition experience.
• Experience in Nuclear engineering design and/or product or process experience

• Must be authorized to work in the USA without sponsorship now or in the future

• Effective written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to assertively communicate with Senior Leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to delegate and follow-up.
• Demonstrated ability in managing several projects across functions (New Product Introduction, New Units, Services, Cost Out, etc.), ensuring On-time Delivery, with high quality and on-budget.
• Demonstrated interpersonal and leadership experience.
• Demonstrated ability in establishing common goals and objectives.
• Strong team player with the ability to effectively work under pressure.
• Focus on ownership, accountability and sense of urgency
• PLM expertise with ENOVIA or Team Center
• Leadership to pursue correct engineering process in adverse conditions
• Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.