Aero Instrumentation & Controls Technician

About GE Vernova

GE Vernova is a planned, purpose-built global energy company that includes Power, Wind, and Electrification businesses and is supported by its accelerator businesses of Advanced Research, Consulting Services, and Financial Services. Building on over 130 years of experience tackling the world’s challenges, GE Vernova is uniquely positioned to help lead the energy transition by continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to decarbonize it.

GE Vernova helps customers power economies and deliver electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. GE Vernova is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., with more than 80,000 employees across 100+ countries around the world.

GE Vernova’s Gas Power business engineers advanced, efficient natural gas-powered technologies and services, along with decarbonization solutions that aim to help electrify a lower carbon future. As part of the Gas Power One Field Services team,
Field Core installs, maintains and upgrades power generation equipment, enabling operators of the world’s energy infrastructure to provide more reliable and affordable energy.

The Aero Instrumentation & Controls Technician I disassembles, inspects, cleans, repairs, calibrates, tests, and performs periodic maintenance of field instruments, equipment systems and controls. The role, evaluates and determines necessary modification, performs complex repairs or removal of instruments or devices needing overhaul during scheduled maintenance, troubleshooting while performing unscheduled work.

• Support in providing customers with technical direction and support on the calibration, repair and operation of instrumentation and controls equipment.
• Assist with writing accurate professional reports acting as single point of contact between Customers and GE concerning technical issues and interfacing with all involved functions
• Implement conversions, modifications and upgrades to gas turbine controls systems including software upgrades and major retrofits
• Troubleshoots, reinstalls, tests, evaluates, calibrates, and maintains instruments or devices upon completion of repairs.
• Records and reports abnormal function or out of tolerance conditions of equipment and initiates corrective action and documentation
• Read and interpret electrical/mechanical flow and instrument diagrams
• Use hand tools to conduct general maintenance of customer equipment
• Provide documents of daily record of inspection, maintenance activity, repair and other work performed within approved guidelines and procedures.
• Ensure all in-field activities are carried out safely complying with company environmental, health, and safety (EHS) guidelines and procedures
• Ability and willingness to work holidays, weekends and overtime as required by field assignments
• Travel extensively (internationally and domestically)
• May be assigned other duties to help proactively drive our Field Core vision and align with our organization’s core values.

• Two-year degree, scientific field of study preferred or equivalent related work experience
• Basic skills training to ensure knowledge of fundamental concepts, practices and procedures of a particular field of specialization.
• Required to be able to read and work from blueprints, schematic diagrams and specification manuals.
• Must be a team player committed to working in a quality environment
• Must have appropriate license or certification where required by federal, state or local laws
• Ability to understand and implement controls software upgrades
• May be required to work on offshore platforms
• English proficiency required

• Experience in instrumentation, controls, installing, calibrating, maintaining and repairing equipment or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated use and understanding of physical standards of mass, temperature flow and pressure.
• Working knowledge of computers/PLC's
• Excellent customer, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to complete multiple projects within time constraints
• Strong organizational skills
• Familiar…