Your Role
As a Lead Application Engineer, you serve as the technical engine of our service business. You take the lead on modifications and upgrades for existing power systems, turning complex requirements into robust, sustainable solutions for industries like wind, mining, and oil & gas. You are the expert who guides our customers and internal teams through the entire lifecycle of a project—from the initial technical proposal to the final delivery.
What You Will Accomplish
• Design the Future: You lead the technical definition of service solutions, ensuring our upgrades meet the highest standards while supporting our customers' decarbonization goals.
• Win Through Expertise: You act as a primary technical authority, leading client engagements, technical negotiations, and presentations that secure business.
• Shape Commercial Strategy: You collaborate with sales and commercial teams to build competitive proposals, accurately assess risks, and define work scopes that make our projects successful.
• Drive Collaboration: You connect with global engineering, project management, and commissioning teams to ensure our solutions are technically sound and commercially viable.
• Mentor & Standardize: You champion continuous improvement by developing reusable solutions and sharing your expertise to help junior engineers grow their capabilities.
What You Bring
• Proven Engineering Expertise: You have substantial experience in application, systems, or hands-on industrial engineering. You possess a strong understanding of power systems, control systems, electrical drives, or rotating machines.
• Technical Proficiency: You are comfortable working with automation systems and logic controllers, and you are ready to lead technical discussions regarding system upgrades.
• Commercial Insight: You have experience owning or leading technical tenders and proposals, with a natural ability to balance technical specifications with business value.
• Leadership Mindset: You are a confident communicator who excels at managing stakeholders and influencing cross-functional teams to achieve a common goal.
• Qualifications: You hold an engineering degree or demonstrate equivalent significant experience in a relevant technical environment. You also possess an unrestricted Right to Work in the UK.
Note: As this role supports critical infrastructure, you will be required to undergo security vetting (such as UK BPSS or SC clearance) as part of the hiring process.
What You Can Expect From Us
• Meaningful Impact: You work on critical projects that help global organizations achieve their energy efficiency and sustainability goals.
• Flexibility That Works for You: We understand that everyone’s needs are different. We support a hybrid working environment and are happy to discuss how we can accommodate your work-life balance requirements.
• Attractive Compensation: You receive a competitive salary and a comprehensive, flexible benefits package that you can tailor to your personal needs.
• Our Core Benefits: We provide a generous employer-funded pension (non-contributory), private health insurance, income protection, and life assurance.
• Time Off: You enjoy 26 days of vacation plus bank holidays.
Ready to lead the way in power conversion? Apply today!
Additional InformationRelocation Assistance Provided: No
Skills Required
- Proven engineering expertise in industrial engineering
- Strong understanding of power systems, control systems, electrical drives, or rotating machines
- Experience with technical tenders and proposals
- Engineering degree or equivalent experience in a relevant technical environment
- Right to work in the UK
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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