Essential Responsibilities
Design & Structural Strategy:
- Structural Strategy & Design: Lead the design development of tower shell sections, including plate thickness optimization, weld specifications, and flange design. Oversee the creation of detailed structural models to ensure performance under extreme gust, seismic, and fatigue loading conditions.
- Design Review & Approval: Serve as the final technical signatory for tower structural design packages. Conduct and preside over formal design reviews, ensuring all calculations, drawings, and specifications meet internal safety standards and project requirements prior to release.
- Loads Interface & Integration: Partner with Loads and Control departments to optimize the structural frequency response (eigenvalue analysis) and load-path transmission. Ensure tower structural designs are optimized against the dynamic behavior of the entire wind turbine system.
Safety & Governance:
- Safer Case Reviews: Lead and facilitate "Safer" (or equivalent safety-critical) case reviews for structural designs. Critically assess potential failure modes, evaluate the robustness of safety margins, and ensure that mitigations are embedded within the design.
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA): Act as the technical lead in RCA investigations for field failures or structural anomalies. Utilize forensic engineering skills and data analysis to identify the root cause of structural issues and oversee the implementation of corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).
- Technical Governance: Maintain deep subject matter expertise in international standards (IEC 61400-series, DNV-ST-0126, Eurocodes). Own the technical relationship with external certification bodies to facilitate Type Certification and ensure project-specific compliance.
- Mentorship: Mentor high-potential engineering talent, perform peer reviews of critical design documents, and provide leadership in maintaining the company’s engineering design rules and best practices.
Required Qualifications
- Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from an accredited university or college.
- Minimum 15 years of professional experience in structural engineering, with a minimum of 7 years specifically focused on wind turbine towers or large-scale tubular steel structures.
Desired Qualifications
- Proficiency in non-linear FEA tools (e.g., Ansys, Abaqus) and analytical code validation.
- Deep understanding of buckling criteria (EN 1993-1-6), and fatigue damage accumulation.
- Demonstrated experience in the design of critical joints, including bolted L-flange and T-flange connections.
- Demonstrated history of leading complex RCA efforts and managing structural risk through formal safety review processes.
- Ability to distill highly complex structural data into actionable engineering decisions for leadership and cross-functional teams.
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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: No
For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $131,700.00 and $219,300.00. 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 August 20, 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
- Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from an accredited university or college
- Minimum 15 years of professional experience in structural engineering
- Minimum 7 years of experience focused on wind turbine towers or large-scale tubular steel structures
- Proficiency in nonlinear FEA tools such as Ansys or Abaqus
- Experience with analytical code validation
- Deep understanding of buckling criteria, including EN 1993-1-6
- Experience with fatigue damage accumulation
- Experience designing critical bolted L-flange and T-flange connections
- History of leading complex root-cause analysis efforts
- Experience managing structural risk through formal safety review processes
- Ability to translate complex structural data into actionable engineering decisions
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.
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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