Roles and Responsibilities
People Leadership & Development: Champion a culture of continuous learning and growth. Provide regular, actionable coaching to team members, supporting their career aspirations and ensuring they develop the technical and leadership skills needed for success within GE Vernova.
Operational Excellence: Lead the team in executing combustion design and evaluation using rigorous engineering principles. Utilize lean operating rhythms, bowler metrics, and visualization tools to facilitate daily management and ensure projects meet safety, quality, delivery, and cost (SQDC) targets.
Technical Strategy & Alignment: Provide technical leadership in combustion design, troubleshooting, and testing. Facilitate cross-functional discussions between Systems, Product Line, Sciences, and the Chief Engineer’s office to clear roadblocks and ensure alignment on product CTQs.
Collaboration: Keep strong connections with global module teams to leverage best practices, share insights, and review key design decisions as "one engineering community."
Strategic Growth: Develop a continuous improvement roadmap for product, people, process, and technology to drive combustion differentiation in the market. Champion adoption of lean practices.
Execution & Rigor: Provide hands-on support during critical design phases or product testing. Ensure all technical data generated by the team is consistent with engineering QMS policies and internal standards.
Communication: Provide timely, transparent communication on significant technical issues or developments to the broader GTE leadership team.
Customer-Centricity: Anticipate internal and external customer needs. Ensure performance and processes are measured through the customer's eyes to deliver maximum value.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline from an accredited university.
Minimum 10+ years of experience in gas turbine engineering, power generation design, services, or testing.
Proven experience as an engineering leader with a track record of successfully managing and scaling teams. Minimum 5+ years of team, project, or resource management experience.
Strong technical experience in gas turbine or turbomachinery combustion systems.
Excellent leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to inspire, motivate, and build rapport at all levels of a global organization.
BE/BTEch, ME/MTech/MS or Ph.D. in Mechanical, Thermal, or Energy Engineering.
Desired Characteristics
Demonstrated ability to plan, execute, market, and document programs/projects within a complex, multi-functional environment.
Servant leadership mindset—demonstrating empathy, selflessness, and humility while fostering an inclusive, high-accountability team.
Hands-on experience with combustion design/analysis tools and familiarity with the gas power tollgate review process.
Experience with operational tools such as Tableau, Excel, PowerPoint, and Smartsheet.
Exhibits the GE Vernova Ways: Innovation, customer-focus, applying lean principles, and boundaryless collaboration.
Proactive, self-starter with a proven track record of acting as a change agent and adapting to evolving industry trends.
Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline (BE/BTech)
- ME/MTech/MS or Ph.D. in Mechanical, Thermal, or Energy Engineering
- Minimum 10+ years of experience in gas turbine engineering, power generation design, services, or testing
- Minimum 5+ years of team, project, or resource management experience
- Strong technical experience in gas turbine or turbomachinery combustion systems
- Excellent leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills
- Hands-on experience with combustion design/analysis tools and familiarity with gas power tollgate review process
- Experience with operational tools such as Tableau, Excel, PowerPoint, and Smartsheet
- Servant leadership mindset and experience driving continuous improvement/lean practices
GE Vernova Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about GE Vernova and has not been reviewed or approved by GE Vernova.
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) plan includes company matching contributions and additional company retirement contributions, with access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants. Feedback suggests this structure supports long-term savings beyond a basic match.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is available with flexible, continuous or non-continuous usage, and is complemented by adoption resources and Work/Life Connections guidance. Maternity leave is described as extended relative to typical workplace norms.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off programs include 12 paid holidays, permissive time off for many salaried roles, and dedicated personal, illness, and caregiving time for U.S. new hires. Some hourly roles start with a defined PTO bank, while other roles may offer unlimited time off.
GE Vernova Insights
What We Do
GE Vernova is a planned purpose-built company on a mission to electrify the planet while simultaneously working to decarbonize it. If we want our energy future to be different…we must be different. Our mission is embedded in our name. We retain our treasured legacy, “GE,” in our name as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” / “verde” signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. “Nova,” from the Latin “novus,” nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver. GE Vernova brings together GE’s portfolio of energy businesses including Power, Wind, Electrification and Digital businesses. With focus, 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. Together, we have The Energy to Change the World.
Why Work With Us
Join our team, to evolve and grow, surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the industry who help you get better every day. You’ll get the chance to rewrite the rules, work on cutting-edge technology, and be part of a global team for positive change.
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