Controls Quality Engineer - RCA Leader
GE VernovaGreenville, United States
Full Time
Posted October 5, 2026
$98k - $98k
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- Open in the current public read path; this is not an employer guarantee.Last observed October 7, 2026
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Job Description
The Controls Quality team is seeking an experienced Controls Quality Engineer - RCA Leader to drive structured problem-solving activities for turbine controls issues across the product lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead turbine controls Root Cause Analyses utilizing the 8D problem-solving methodology.
- Facilitate cross-functional investigation teams including Controls Engineering, Fleet Performance Management, Service Engineering, and Product Management.
- Establish investigation charters, timelines, deliverables, and communication plans.
- Coordinate Major Event Investigations and support issue response activities.
- Ensure root cause investigations are evidence-based and supported by appropriate technical analysis.
- Track containment actions, corrective actions, and preventive actions through closure.
- Escalate investigation roadblocks, resource conflicts, and execution risks to leadership.
- Identify defect escape pathways and drive improvements to engineering and validation processes.
- Analyze fleet data, event trends, reliability metrics, and historical failure information to support investigations.
- Apply structured quality tools including FMEA, Fault Tree Analysis, and reliability techniques to improve investigation effectiveness.
- Drive incorporation of lessons learned into validation strategies, engineering standards, and product lifecycle processes.
- Communicate investigation status, risk assessments, and recommendations to stakeholders and senior leadership.
- Support Lean continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen investigation quality and reduce recurrence of field issues.
- Leverage AI-enabled and data-driven techniques to improve investigation efficiency and insight generation.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Science
- Minimum 5 years of experience in controls engineering
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 20%
- The required work location is Greenville, SC, Schenectady, NY, or Barcelona. Relocation assistance provided if needed
- 8+ years of engineering experience.
- Experience supporting wind turbine controls systems or complex industrial control systems.
- Knowledge of 8D, RCA, FMEA, Fault Tree Analysis, and structured problem-solving methodologies.
- Experience analyzing fleet performance and reliability data.
- Familiarity with Weibull analysis, reliability engineering methods, and statistical techniques.
- Experience supporting Major Event Investigations or similar high-impact issue response activities.
- Demonstrated ability to influence teams without direct authority.
- Experience presenting technical recommendations to senior leadership.
- GE Vernova will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
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