1. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Involves working across various departments to integrate technical and business requirements, ensuring a comprehensive approach to product safety.
2. System Design and Optimization: Focuses on identifying and quantifying system requirements, exploring different design concepts, conducting studies, and selecting optimal designs. This ensures the product is both safe and efficient.
3. Process Execution: Encompasses the entire lifecycle from concept through production to operation. It impacts projects, programs, and organizational practices, ensuring safety considerations are integrated throughout.
4. Professional Practices and Policies: Guided by established standards and policies, the role requires operational judgment to maintain safety and quality while allowing for innovation and improvement.
5. Moderate Autonomy: While guided by professional standards, the role involves significant decision-making authority, requiring a balance between adherence to protocol and independent judgment.Job Description
The Lead Product Safety Engineer is responsible for evaluating design safety and ensuring potential personnel and environmental hazards are mitigated. This involvement is throughout the entire product life cycle, including conducting reviews as part of the design process and tracking resolution of field issues.
Essential Responsibilities
- Facilitate and support product safety risk assessments for new and existing (installed base equipment) units.
- Facilitate the Product Safety Process cross-functionally.
- Drive resolution of safety critical items.
- Quantify risk by performing quantitative risk modeling on complex systems to assess design safety risk
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s of Engineering degree in Industrial, Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, Environmental, or similar field from an accredited college or university
- Experience in a design, systems, field operations, or product safety role.
- Excellent team and communication skills.
- Ability to perform well, under pressure, as a problem solver.
- Successfully achieves concrete results through hard work and perseverance.
- Easily analyzes and prioritizes information, distilling it to the critical issues and drawing accurate conclusions.
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams.
- Willingness and availability to work from the Barcelona office.
- Fluent English
- Permanent Spanish Work Permit
Desired Qualifications
- Knowledgeable of global industry safety codes, standards/regulations
- Experience in performing probabilistic analysis.
- Wind turbine design or operations experience.
Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Industrial, Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, Environmental, or similar engineering field
- Experience in a design, systems, field operations, or product safety role
- Excellent team and communication skills
- Ability to perform well under pressure and act as a problem solver
- Proven track record of achieving concrete results through perseverance
- Ability to analyze and prioritize information, distill critical issues, and draw accurate conclusions
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams
- Willingness and availability to work from the Barcelona office
- Fluent English
- Permanent Spanish Work Permit
- Knowledge of global industry safety codes, standards/regulations
- Experience performing probabilistic analysis
- Wind turbine design or operations experience
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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