GE Vernova Product Definition Engineer Electrical & Instrumentation

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 Gas Power, 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.
YOUR IMPACT:
The Electrical & Instrumentation Product Definition Engineering (PDE) team is responsible for the assembly and system integration of the latest Gas Turbine Accessory Electrical and Instrumentation CAD models into Gas Turbine projects. The primary goal of these projects is to improve the power output, running efficiency, and reliability of the existing Gas Turbine fleet. Gas Turbine Accessory Systems include Piping, Instrumentation, Structural, and Mechanical subsystems working in a One Team environment with expected Accountability to deliver Quality for our Customers.
As a PDE team, we create and own electrical wiring and instrumentation housing models and assemblies for new and existing Gas Turbines and integrate them into the proposed CAD environment. We validate new hardware designs within the existing turbine and collaborate with other Engineering functions for final design updates and the timely execution of all hardware requiring CAD definition. The E&I PDE Team then provides final installation CAD and Bill of Materials (BOM) packages for customers installation packages.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
You will join the world-class Product Definition team to develop new technical solutions, processes, and automation software for the Digital Thread. Collaborating closely with design engineering and manufacturing, the role focuses on solving challenging enterprise problems and effectively communicating solutions. Specializing in Gas Turbine Accessory components and knowledge of how Electrical and Instrumentation subassemblies fit into the entire powerplant. The Product Definition Engineer will impact the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of their team, providing input into team priorities with moderate autonomy.
The role offers significant opportunities for technical growth, being mentored by team leaders and using existing and authoring new standard work to ensure both operational and technical excellence. As a component owner, this role will follow and champion strategies for continuous improvements and problem-solving, adhering to business KPIs. They will utilize established technical training plans to align individual work to team priorities and overall business goals. Utilizing judgement to solve task based issues, this role will have a voice to add new perspectives on existing solutions, leveraging their education and experience to support recommendations. The role requires on site learning and adherence to Lean methodologies, emphasis on Standard Work, to contribute towards strategy and policy development.
EXPECTATIONS
• Create definitions of parts, modules, and assemblies in the form of 2D cross sections, 3D models, tolerance stack-ups, and various electronic data formats to support analysis, manufacturing, assembly, tooling, and inspection
• Developing conceptual knowledge of professional discipline. May include support roles with specialized expertise or technical knowledge in broad area.
• Applies general knowledge of business developed through education or past experience. Understands how work of own team contributes to the area.
• Resolves issues using established procedures. Consults supervisor or more senior team members for issues outside of defined instructions/parameters.
• Collaborates with others to solve issues. For customer facing roles, develops strong customer relationships and serves as the interface between customer and GE. Exchanges technical information, asks questions and checks for understanding.
• Establishes and maintains consistency of a product's performance, functional and physical attributes with its requirements, design, operational information, and manages changes throughout the system life cycle. Provides visibility and control of the system performance, functional and physical attributes. Verifies that a system performs as intended, and is identified and documented in sufficient detail to support its projected life cycle. Facilitates orderly management of system information and system changes for such beneficial purposes as to revise capability; improve performance, reliability, or maintainability; extend life; reduce cost; reduce risk and liability; or correct defects.