Senior Director - 9HA.03 Systems Leader

Job Description SummaryThe Systems Engineering team acts as a central integrator, sitting at the intersection of product management, engineering, and the global supply chain. The team collaborates with product management leadership to define and develop requirements, works alongside engineering teams to develop, validate and maintain products throughout the entire lifecycle, and partners with the global supply chain to facilitate efficient product development and testing - all while maintaining a relentless focus on safety, quality, delivery, and cost.
As the Senior Director of the 9HA.03 Systems Engineering team, you'll be responsible for leading a team of experienced systems engineers and managers to translate market needs of the product into engineering requirements; define, develop, and drive a multi-year NPI plan to take the product from a conceptual stage to testing, validation, and successful deployment in the field. You will own the delivery of the primary CTQs of the product – performance, availability, and reliability – while ensuring program schedule and budget are met.

Job Description

Key Reponsibilities:

Strategic Leadership & People Development

• Lead and Empower: Manage, mentor, and inspire a high-performing global team. Foster a culture of psychological safety, cross-collaboration, and continuous improvement, while owning all personnel activities, including talent acquisition, performance feedback, and professional development.
• Drive Transformation: Perform and Transform by partnering with Product Management, Engineering, Global Supply Chain to deliver on key program requirements while meeting schedule and budget.
• Stakeholder Advocacy: Act as the primary interface between the execution team and senior leadership, providing executive-level visibility into project progress, risks, and ROI. Champion organizational readiness for new technologies, including AI and automation integration.

Operational Excellence & Lean Manufacturing

• Champion Lean Culture: Lead and facilitate Kaizen events and Lean Action Workouts. Embed Lean flow and design-for-producibility principles into the team’s standard work, ensuring a wing-to-wing approach to process documentation and operational maturity.
• Program Requirements: Challenges functional teams to push the boundaries of product performance while maintaining rigorous oversight of program milestones. Ensures technical excellence by balancing demanding product requirements against schedule commitments and resource budgets to ensure optimal project delivery.
• Integration: Oversees total product development integration through superior interface management, ensuring organizational transparency, mitigating technical risks, and fostering cross-functional alignment.

Technical Rigor & Business Impact

• Apply Technical Expertise: Leverage deep knowledge of engineering design and manufacturing to evaluate and guide product design strategy, cycle, and risks. Apply consistent and rigorous framework for managing risks.
• Deliver Business Value: Apply strong business acumen to assess complex tradeoffs and make decisive, data-driven decisions. Implement new methodologies and technical solutions that enhance part function, reduce cycle time, and drive tangible cost-out: thus, unlocking significant business benefit through improved quality, part standardization, increased yield and lower costs.  
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product Management, Global Supply Chain (GSC) and the broader engineering community to share best practices, align on business strategy, ensure cohesive delivery across functions.

Key Attributes

• Leadership Presence: Proven ability to lead programs through planning, execution, and sustainment with a focus on business outcomes.
• Strategic Thinking: Demonstrated ability to anticipate operational constraints, facilitate breakthroughs, and drive activities that transform the business.
• Communication & Influence: Excellent facilitation and communication skills, with a proven ability to influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Mentorship: A passion for coaching others and building individual and team capabilities to sustain high throughput and quality.
• Business Acumen: Experience translating strategy into Lean operational plans that deliver measurable ROI and KPIs.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Science, or Supply Chain
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in a related discipline
• Experience leading global teams
• Exceptional communication and influencing skills, with the ability to bridge the gap between technical teams and senior leadership.
• Prior EB experience

Preferred Characteristics:

• Experience with gas turbine design, manufacturing, or related power-generation hardware, preferably GE Vernova Gas Power and HA product lines.
• Experience leading engineering teams and programs through planning, execution, and sustainment.
• Experience with advanced manufacturing and Lean methods, including applying Lean tools and building a Lean culture.
• Experience applying AI and automation tools and championing an AI culture.
• Ability to anticipate constraints, assess tradeoffs, challenge existing approaches, and drive improvement.
• Strong cross-functional leadership, communication, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Proven ability to coach, motivate, and inspire others, with a strong focus on customer satisfaction and quality.

For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $228,000 and $342,000 USD. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set.

For candidates applying to a U.S. based position only:

Bonus eligibility: discretionary annual bonus.

This posting is expected to remain open for at least seven days after it was posted on November 04, 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 Executive Services. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability benefits, life insurance, 12 paid holidays, and permissive time off, and the Restoration Plan, a nonqualified plan with company credits on eligible pay above IRS limits.

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.