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GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy.
The Role
Leads the Services Systems Engineering organization across fleet, MYA, and reliability teams. Owns fleet technology roadmaps, NPI and catalog-update integration, reliability estimates, productivity initiatives, operating-model governance, and platform engineering alignment. Partners with operational intelligence and product service engineering teams to improve lifecycle performance, service execution, and upgrade-business growth. Manages complex technical portfolios, budgets, operating plans, and cross-functional engineering programs while developing systems engineering talent.
Summary Generated by Built In
Job Description SummaryThe Services Systems Engineering Leader is a pivotal, SPB1 role within the Heavy Duty Service Engineering (HDSE) organization. Accountable for the Services Systems Engineering pillar, this leader owns the Fleet Systems Engineering, MYA Systems Engineering, and MYA Systems Reliability Engineering Teams.
The defining opportunity of this role is to integrate systems thinking across our fleet lifecycle. This leader is responsible for ensuring that our design and reliability programs—from NPI to catalog updates—are optimized for landed value and scalable service execution. A key strategic mandate of this role is to lead the development of high-impact New Product Introductions (NPIs) that directly fuel our ambition to achieve a $4B upgrade business by 2030. This leader acts as the architect of our fleet roadmap, balancing current performance with long-term technological evolution, ensuring our engineering capacity is focused on the most critical fleet reliability and commercial drivers. Owns/influences budgets and operating plans. The role is guided by operating policy. Works with cross functional teams. The role has autonomy within the operational area or a segment within a larger business unit. The role may have a major impact on a small business unit or Family within a Function or P&L. High levels of evaluative judgment and operational acumen are required to achieve outcomes.Job Description
The defining opportunity of this role is to integrate systems thinking across our fleet lifecycle. This leader is responsible for ensuring that our design and reliability programs—from NPI to catalog updates—are optimized for landed value and scalable service execution. A key strategic mandate of this role is to lead the development of high-impact New Product Introductions (NPIs) that directly fuel our ambition to achieve a $4B upgrade business by 2030. This leader acts as the architect of our fleet roadmap, balancing current performance with long-term technological evolution, ensuring our engineering capacity is focused on the most critical fleet reliability and commercial drivers. Owns/influences budgets and operating plans. The role is guided by operating policy. Works with cross functional teams. The role has autonomy within the operational area or a segment within a larger business unit. The role may have a major impact on a small business unit or Family within a Function or P&L. High levels of evaluative judgment and operational acumen are required to achieve outcomes.Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities
- Architect the Fleet Roadmap: Define the vision and strategy for the systems engineering organization, ensuring technology roadmaps are tightly aligned with the aggressive growth targets for the $4B global upgrade business.
- Systems Thinking & Integration: Lead the integration of engineering outputs—ensuring seamless transitions between NPI programs, catalog updates, and field implementation. Drive "Systems Thinking" across RCAs and NPIs to ensure engineering decisions consider the entire plant life-cycle.
- Reliability & Productivity Ownership: Drive the execution of MYA productivity initiatives. Own the reliability estimates used for quotes and guarantees, ensuring that NPI programs and catalog updates are grounded in high-confidence, data-driven reliability projections.
- Cross-Functional Strategic Partnership: Partner closely with the Fleet Operational Intelligence pillar to turn proactive insights into design-level changes, and with Product Service Engineering (PSE) to ensure deep domain technical expertise informs our long-term fleet strategies.
- Operating Model Governance: Establish a world-class global operating rhythm. Implement Lean daily management and standard work to eliminate duplicated efforts, clarify accountability, and increase execution speed.
- Platform & Portfolio Excellence: Lead the GT, ST, GEN, Plant, and Platform engineering teams to maintain high technical standards, ensure platform-level alignment, and prioritize critical-to-quality requirements for the installed base.
Required Qualifications
- For roles outside of the USA- This role requires significant experience in the Engineering/Technology & Systems Engineering. Knowledge level is comparable to a Master's degree from an accredited university or college ( or a high school diploma with relevant experience).
- For roles in USA - Master's degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma / GED with at least 10 years of experience in Job Family Group(s)/Function(s)).
- Demonstrated experience managing complex technical portfolios, including NPI programs, fleet strategy, or service upgrades.
- Proven ability to translate high-level business strategy into executable engineering programs within a matrixed environment.
Desired Characteristics
- Strategic Architect: Demonstrated ability to view the fleet as an integrated system and prioritize long-term performance and reliability over short-term reactive fixes.
- Systems Thinker: Deep experience in RCA/CAPA, NPI lifecycle, and the "wing-to-wing" engineering process.
- One Team Mentality: Leads horizontally, collaborates across functions, and focuses on reducing organizational fragmentation.
- Lean Practitioner: Demonstrable track record of using Lean to drive standardization and improve engineering throughput.
- Executive Influence: Ability to represent complex technical roadmaps and platform risks to senior leadership, commercial teams, and external customers.
- Servant Leader: Focused on building team cohesion, clearing roadblocks, and developing the next generation of systems engineering talent.
Note:
To comply with US immigration and other legal requirements, it is necessary to specify the minimum number of years' experience required for any role based within the USA. For roles outside of the USA, to ensure compliance with applicable legislation, the JDs should focus on the substantive level of experience required for the role and a minimum number of years should NOT be used.
Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes
Skills Required
- Master's degree from an accredited university or college, or a high school diploma/GED with at least 10 years of experience in relevant job family or function groups for USA-based roles.
- For roles outside the USA, significant experience in Engineering/Technology and Systems Engineering, with knowledge comparable to a master's degree or a high school diploma with relevant experience.
- Experience managing complex technical portfolios, including NPI programs, fleet strategy, or service upgrades.
- Ability to translate high-level business strategy into executable engineering programs within a matrixed environment.
- Experience with RCA/CAPA, NPI lifecycle, and end-to-end engineering processes.
- Experience using Lean to drive standardization and improve engineering throughput.
- Ability to communicate complex technical roadmaps and platform risks to senior leadership, commercial teams, and external customers.
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.
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The Company
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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