This individual will also own application engineering for the Hot Selective Catalytic Reduction (Hot SCR) system, ensuring seamless integration with overall plant performance requirements. In this capacity, the engineer is responsible for thoroughly understanding all Hot SCR project requirements to ensure conformance and satisfaction of customer and plant performance expectations. This role directly impacts the project team's ability to meet service, quality, and timeliness objectives, and operates within defined policy guidelines while exercising a high degree of operational judgment and moderate autonomy to drive outcomes.Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities
HRSG Functional Specifications
- Serve as the primary technical owner for outsourced HRSG scope, developing comprehensive functional specifications that define thermal performance, mechanical requirements, materials, and interfaces necessary for vendors to bid and execute HRSG fabrication and supply
- Demonstrate deep understanding of the water-steam cycle in combined cycle and gas power plant applications
- Develop and maintain standardized functional specification templates for outsourced HRSGs to ensure consistency across global projects, reducing variation and enabling competitive multi-vendor bidding
- Interface with HRSG vendors during the bid process to evaluate technical proposals, clarify requirements, and assess compliance with functional specifications
- Review performance calculations including plant heat balance modeling, HRSG thermal design validation, and plant efficiency estimation
- Collaborate with the commercial team during the ITO phase, providing technical scoping, performance estimation, and cost inputs that support winning bid strategies
- Execute ITO responsibilities including technical analysis of client needs, product/system optimization, scope definition, schedule inputs, and documentation of technical specifications and costing elements
- Support OTR (Order to Remittance) execution, working with engineering and project teams to ensure vendor-supplied HRSGs are customized and implemented for specific customer and site requirement
Hot SCR Application Engineering
- Own the technical application engineering of the Hot Selective Catalytic Reduction (Hot SCR) system, including system configuration
- Define functional specifications and interface requirements for the Hot SCR system, ensuring proper integration within the exhaust gas path
- Assess the impact of Hot SCR placement on thermal performance, pressure drop, and plant efficiency, providing recommendations to optimize system integration
- Collaborate with environmental permitting teams and customers to ensure Hot SCR solution meet regulatory NOx reduction targets and applicable emissions standards
- Provide application engineering support through project execution phases
Strategy, Process & Technical Leadership
- Requires specialized technical knowledge within HRSG and exhaust emissions systems
- Interpret internal and external business challenges related to HRSG and emissions system technology, recommending best practices to improve products, processes, and services
- Use high levels of judgment to make decisions and handle complex technical problems spanning thermodynamics, mechanical design, emissions control, and vendor management
- Assess quality of technical information provided by vendors and stakeholders
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly and influence stakeholders toward sound engineering decisions
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or a related technical discipline from an accredited university
- Minimum 6 years of experience in thermal power plant engineering, HRSG systems, or related engineering functions.
Desired Characteristics
- Deep technical knowledge of combined cycle plant thermodynamics and the water-steam cycle, with hands-on experience in HRSG thermal design, performance modeling, or vendor specification development
- Familiarity with Hot SCR systems, catalyst technology, NOx control strategies, and their integration within the exhaust gas path
- Experience developing functional specifications for outsourced or vendor-supplied major equipment in a power generation context
- Proficiency with heat balance tools and thermal modeling software
- Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to translate complex thermodynamic and mechanical concepts into clear vendor specifications and customer-facing documentation
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills; demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams including commercial, project management, and vendor partners
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve complex technical problems across system interfaces
- Ability to document, plan, and execute programs with established project management discipline
- Experience with multi-vendor bid processes, technical proposal evaluation, and contract technical alignment is highly desirable
This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.
Additional InformationGE Vernova offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Vernova is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
GE Vernova will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes
For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $98,400.00 and $164,000.00. The Company pays a geographic differential of 110%, 120% or 130% of salary in certain areas. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set.
Bonus eligibility: discretionary annual bonus.
This posting is expected to remain open for at least seven days after it was posted on May 28, 2026.
Available benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability benefits, life insurance, 12 paid holidays, and permissive time off.
GE Vernova Inc. or its affiliates (collectively or individually, “GE Vernova”) sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs GE Vernova reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace, or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a GE Vernova welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or related discipline
- Minimum 6 years of experience in thermal power plant engineering, HRSG systems, or related functions
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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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.
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