GE Vernova - The Energy to Change the World
With over 130 years of experience and proven innovation, GE Vernova is leading a new era of energy. We are electrifying the world while working to decarbonize it. Our name reflects our mission. “GE” carries a legacy of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” signals Earth’s lush ecosystems, while “Nova” nods to a new era of lower-carbon energy we are helping to deliver.
Focused on the future, GE Vernova is accelerating the shift to reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy. We help customers power economies and deliver electricity vital to health, safety, and quality of life.
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Wind energy is essential to a low-carbon future. We design and build advanced Offshore and Onshore Wind technologies, as well as high-performing Wind Turbine Blades, to capture the power of nature and turn it into progress.
Let’s Talk about the Role
As a Lead Documentation Engineer, you will lead the development, control, and continuous improvement of technical documentation supporting Commissioning and Services activities for Haliade-X and Haliade-150 projects. You will ensure documentation is accurate, compliant, and ready for field execution while collaborating with Engineering, EHS, Field Operations, Technical Support, Factory, and Project teams. This role requires strong leadership, ownership, and the ability to manage documentation priorities to support the safe and successful delivery of projects.
Key Responsibilities
Lead and coordinate the documentation engineers assign to the project, aligning priorities, resources, and workflows to ensure high-quality and on-time delivery while serving as the primary point of contact for documentation activities.
Define and drive the documentation strategy for key deliverables, including MFI (Maintenance Field Instructions), RAMS (Risk Assessment Method Statements), lifting plans, technical procedures, work instructions, and digital checklists, ensuring readiness for field execution across assigned projects.
Lead the creation, review, release, and control of technical documentation for commissioning and service activities, ensuring accuracy, quality, compliance, and alignment with applicable standards, customer requirements, and internal processes.
Monitor project documentation status, business-critical issues, operational changes, priorities, and risks, ensuring timely communication, escalation, and resolution with relevant stakeholders.
Key contact across Engineering, EHS, Field Operations, Technical Support, Factory, and Project Leadership to drive alignment, prioritize deliverables, and ensure effective communication across projects.
Manage documentation planning, reviews, approvals, revisions, distribution, configuration control, and traceability for both customer and internal documentation.
Ensure EHS policies and requirements are integrated within documentation activities, identifying and communicating risks, promoting safe work practices, and supporting improvements to prevent incidents and accidents.
Follow and support the Commissioning and Services Strategy to enable safe, efficient, and on-time project execution.
Provide technical documentation support to field operations, both remotely and on-site, ensuring documentation reflects operational needs and supports safe and efficient execution.
Promote process standardization, operational consistency, and best practices across projects, regions, and operational teams.
Drive continuous improvement initiatives related to documentation processes, digital tools, workflow automation, and data quality, including support for EDMS (Electronic Document Manager System), TrueContext, ProntoForms, and other documentation platforms.
Support training and knowledge transfer for field technicians and stakeholders by explaining documentation requirements, procedures, and work instructions.
Strong culture of quality, compliance, safety, accountability, and continuous improvement within the documentation organization.
Ability to work on Monday-to-Friday, with occasional weekend and public holiday on-call duties as required.
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Electrical, Electromechanical, Industrial or Mechanical) with proven experience in technical documentation, commissioning, service, or engineering support within wind, offshore, power generation or similar industries.
Strong ability to work independently in a structured and proactive way, managing multiple priorities in dynamic environments while ensuring quality, compliance, and continuous improvement.
Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) with the ability to produce clear, high-quality and structured technical documentation.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience translating operational and field requirements into practical documentation and presenting clear status updates, risks, and priorities.
Fluency in English and French, with willingness to work in multinational environments and travel up to 20% to support field operations.
Knowledge of wind turbine systems and service/commissioning activities, including key components such as hydraulic systems, yaw systems, cooling circuits and generators.
Experience with engineering and digital tools (e.g., NX, SolidWorks, JT2GO, ServiceMax or similar) and familiarity with EHS standards, RAMS and field execution processes.
Continuous improvement mindset, strong teamwork in multicultural environments; Portuguese and Spanish are a plus.
Where and how you'll work
This is a permanent term position based in our Barcelona, Spain office.
We have a hybrid working model which gives you flexibility to work from our offices and from home.
Our Culture
Every action shapes our future. That’s why our north star is a culture of impact, where everyone is empowered to thrive and achieve.
Addressing the urgent need to build a more sustainable electric power system while improving the trajectory of climate change emissions are global priorities, and we take our responsibility seriously. That is our mission at GE Vernova: continuing to electrify to thrive and decarbonize the world We play a significant role in leading a new era of energy.
Our technology helps generate approximately twenty-five percent of the world’s electricity today, and we are working to power the rest. If we want the future of energy to be different, then join us and be the difference. Together, we are the Energy of Change!
We're determined to be the best place to grow
We believe that strong careers are built on a variety of experiences, strong connections, and continuous development. We’re committed to providing you the tools to navigate and shape a strong career journey that aligns with a healthy work-life balance. No two careers are the same, and yours should reflect your personal and professional goals. Your people leader and trusted mentors will support you through navigating your journey.
We also prioritize fair pay, performance-based rewards, and wellbeing programs for you and your family. With opportunities to move across teams and functions, your career can keep evolving while sustainability stays at the core of everything we do.
Inclusion & Diversity
We are passionate about creating an inclusive work environment. By valuing the ideas and contributions of a diverse workforce we help inspire others to grow, succeed, and raise the bar for everyone.
As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, GE Vernova is committed to support disadvantaged groups whilst providing equal opportunities for both GE Vernova associates and applicants alike.
Join us at GE Vernova where results can be achieved by embracing a community of belonging.
Additional InformationRelocation Assistance Provided: No
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Electrical, Electromechanical, Industrial, Mechanical or equivalent technical experience.
- Significant experience in technical documentation, commissioning, service, or engineering support, preferably within wind, offshore, power generation, or other industrial environments.
- Experience developing and managing technical documentation such as procedures, work instructions, risk assessments, and field documentation.
- Excellent Microsoft Office skills (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Outlook).
- Knowledge of wind turbine systems and operations, including synchronous generators, yaw systems, cooling circuits, hydraulic systems, and variable frequency drives.
- Strong communication skills; ability to present documentation status, priorities, risks, and progress to stakeholders and manage multiple projects.
- Experience supporting field operations and translating operational needs into practical documentation; able to support field operations remotely and on site.
- Ability to implement EHS policy and requirements within documentation; identify and communicate risks and promote safe work practices.
- Ability to work Monday-to-Friday with occasional weekend and public holiday on-call duties as required.
- Ability to use 3D software such as NX, SolidWorks, and JT2GO.
- Familiarity with digital documentation and workflow tools such as TrueContext, ProntoForms, ServiceMax, Smartsheet, or similar platforms.
- English proficiency required; Spanish, French and Portuguese are a plus.
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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