This role will report to the Technical Sales DirectorJob Description
Are you ready to shape the future of clean energy? As a Senior Application Engineer at GE Vernova, you will be the bridge between our cutting-edge BWRX-300 nuclear technology and the communities ready to embrace it. In this pivotal role, you will be our technical face for new nuclear power plant projects in Poland and across Europe, guiding customers through the critical pre-contract phase. You will not just be designing solutions; you will be laying the groundwork for a sustainable energy legacy.
Key Responsibilities
- Technical Leadership: Lead the evaluation of customer, country, and site-specific requirements for potential projects, ensuring our BWRX-300 standard design is effectively adapted to meet unique project needs.
- Strategic Collaboration: Coordinate site layouts, external hazard screenings, and preliminary heat balances by bridging efforts between GE Vernova engineering teams, external partners, and our customers.
- Project Delivery Planning: Own the development of delivery schedules, cost estimates, and project responsibility frameworks, ensuring technical alignment from design through commercial operation.
- Customer Advocacy: Represent our engineering, fuel, and services expertise in high-level customer meetings, using your commercial acumen to translate complex technical requirements into compelling value propositions.
- Market Intelligence: Synthesize customer development strategies and competitive data to inform our product offerings, working closely with Sales and Product Line Management to maximize our competitiveness.
- Technical Education: Act as a subject matter expert, presenting our technology and solutions to customers to build trust and understanding of our capabilities.
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) major.
- Significant experience in Application or Sales Engineering, Construction Project Management, or similar large-scale project management with a strong customer-facing focus.
- Excellent proficiency in English and Polish (both written and spoken, including technical terminology).
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 50% of the time, primarily within Poland.
Preferred
- Field experience working on new nuclear power plant projects.
- Knowledge of nuclear power systems, controls, equipment, and international nuclear regulatory frameworks.
- Proven ability to influence stakeholders and build effective networks to drive project efficiency.
A formal education and subsequent Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a STEM field is nice to have, but we are most interested in your total experience and professional achievements.
Essential Eligibility
- You are a resident of Poland with unrestricted legal authorization to work in the country.
- This position requires access to information subject to U.S. Export Control Laws. As such, all applicants must be citizens of a country on the U.S. Department of Energy’s List of Generally Authorized Countries (10 CFR Part 810 Appendix A), unless a specific authorization is obtained.
Benefits
GE Vernova employees rise to the challenge of building a world that works. We offer a robust, competitive benefits package designed to support your personal and family needs:
- Medical & Dental: Comprehensive coverage via Medicover, with packages available based on employment band.
- Well-being: Employee Assistance Program providing 24/7 psychological, legal, and financial advisory support.
- Vision: Medical support via Medicover, plus employer reimbursement for glasses prescribed by an occupational health doctor (once every 2 years).
- Financial Future: Participation in the Employee Capital Plans (PPK) with a 1.5% employer contribution.
- Protection: Life and accident insurance via Generali, with employer-paid premiums (0.45% of gross salary) and optional additional packages.
- Travel: Global travel insurance covering life and accident.
- Social Support: Access to the Company Social Fund for additional benefits per internal regulations.
- Recognition: Eligibility for discretionary, occasional, and incentive bonuses based on performance.
- Flexibility: Potential for on-call allowance for duty performed at home, subject to organizational requirements.
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM major
- Significant experience in application engineering, sales engineering, construction project management, or similar large-scale project management with strong customer-facing responsibilities
- Excellent written and spoken English proficiency, including technical terminology
- Excellent written and spoken Polish proficiency, including technical terminology
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 50% of the time, primarily within Poland
- Field experience working on new nuclear power plant projects
- Knowledge of nuclear power systems, controls, equipment, and international nuclear regulatory frameworks
- Ability to influence stakeholders and build effective networks to drive project efficiency
- Resident of Poland with unrestricted legal authorization to work in Poland
- Citizenship of a country listed as generally authorized under U.S. Department of Energy 10 CFR Part 810 Appendix A, or ability to obtain specific authorization
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
Gallery
