Lead Engineer – Mechanical Component

The Lead engineer in COE is responsible for execution of complete project as a lead of Turbine mechanical design with support of team & would be responsible for key deliverables & timely execution of projects while maintaining first pass yield. The candidate shall have good experience in design of large hydro projects with expertise in hydro Turbine design domain. The candidate shall actively assess new ideas & technologies for enabling product cost-out, able to resolve any technical issue during execution of project with interfacing functions, COEs & site crew.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Primary skills Basic design & calculation of hydro Turbine component, piping & Aux for hydroelectric power station projects.
• Nature of Products/Projects Hydro Turbine
• Partnership Work closely with consulting engineer, detail design team, Customer & cross functional team (manufacturing, quality, site).
• Daily responsibility 1 Leading from front on Basic design, calculation (sizing of components with analytical calc & GE Vernova Tools) & detailed drawing release of respective packages. Also monitoring, controlling, planning, reviews etc of same.
• Daily Responsibility 2 Leverage experience and technical competency to solve business problem collaborating with customer, manufacturing, sourcing and field support teams with issue resolution and quick corrective actions for design related causes (NCR, SDR); Drive quick, complete technical root cause analysis of field failures and identify design related corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Major responsibility
  • Adopt to new emerging technology/ solutions & transfer know how to the COE team.
  • Lead & deliver on NPI, cost out programs & should cost approach in COE; actively assess new ideas & technologies for enabling product cost-out.
  • Implement lessons learnt from fleet issues, supplier quality issues into new designs focusing on design robustness.
  • Develop design practices; update & maintain technical guidelines.
• Organizational responsibility Compliance, EHS, Policies, quality, lean, kaizen, etc
• Personal responsibility collaboration with peers from other functions, participation in events, humility, transparency, focused, integrity, etc
• GE Vernova Way work and win as one team, drive innovation, serve customers, work in lean way and be accountable.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor / masters degree in mechanical engineering
• Minimum 8 years & Maximum 12 years of experience with relevant 5 Years field experience in Hydro /Heavy machinery in Basic design (sizing) & calculation
• Tools Expertise hands-on experience in analytical calculations & tools required for a job like Autocad, UGNX, , etc
• Preferred industry experience power, large EPC
• Good command over written and spoken English is mandatory for global stakeholder and customer management.

Desired Characteristics

• Additional tool knowledge of Ansys, Corella is not mandatory but good to have.
• Pro-activeness, sense of urgency, autonomy; ability to interact with functions.
• Manage activity in multicultural and multilocation environment with strong cost, safety and reliability culture.
• Ability to work in team around labor standards.
• Ability to define his/her priorities.
• Continuous improvement mindset
• Team-player positive & engaged contributor to the team, willingness to learn & adapt to business needs