Job Description Summary
The Chief Engineer is a member of the Wind Engineering Vice President’s Leadership Team. The role leads a global team of technical experts supporting New Technology Introduction, New Product Introduction, Fleet Support, and related areas for the Wind Engineering organization. In this capacity, you will drive the organizational strategy for the technical community, ensure the most complex technical challenges and opportunities have the right technical resources & approach, and directly influence the Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and Technology of our products.
Job Description
Essential Functions:
- Overall leadership for Product Safety. Drive standards to improve Product Safety including safety by design, human factors, and functional safety. Drive rigor in resolving safety concerns and connecting lessons learned back into design practices/methods. Ensure proper operating rhythms and rigor in SPMTs and PSRB.
- Responsible for governance, rigor, and approval of Engineering Design Practices and Design Methods to ensure quality, high-performing products. Determine most critical, impactful updates and partner with leadership team to prioritize
- Drive design review rigor to ensure that technical risks are identified, clearly communicated, and appropriately mitigated with focus on safety & product quality
- Own the controlled title holder policy for Wind, the competency matrix for Controlled Title Holders and the Controlled Title Holder pipeline.
- Drive the engineering Design Boards – ensure that teams are focused on the most critical areas and have the right operating rigor. Develop a plan on how Design Boards should work, leveraging lessons learned from other GE businesses, including how to lead and resource them with both Controlled Title Holders and other engineers in the team
- Ensure Chief Engineering Office is engaged with the Subsystem Engineering teams on RCA’s providing technical expertise and urgency for our most complex technical challenges
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders including Quality, Supplier Quality, and Lean teams to drive step-change improvement in product quality
- Role model identifying, quantifying, and mitigating technical risk. Mentor and coach the broader technical community in this area
- Assist with strategic thought-leadership on how to improve customer outcomes including Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and Technology while balancing design cycles, processes, and technical rigor
- Provide direct leadership to a global team of technical experts including setting priorities, collaborating on challenges, providing feedback, and supporting individual development
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university or college in Engineering or related discipline, or equivalent knowledge and experience
- Extensive relevant engineering experience
- Significant relevant leadership experience
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 25% of the time
Desired Characteristics:
- Attracts, develops, and grows technical talent. Excellent coach and mentor
- Effectively influences across a wide range of stakeholders. Credible voice on key issues and effectively engages with individuals at all levels of the organization
- Understands the actions that drive the most impact and prioritizes appropriately. Drives the right operating rigor to drive alignment to most critical priorities
- Able to navigate complexity & ambiguity, developing clear actions, and driving impact
- Systems thinker that takes full lifecycle view and sees the downstream/upstream impact of design decisions, RCA mitigations, etc.
- Expert in understanding and evaluating how subsystems interface and interact. Optimizes the overall system and/or process
- Global leadership experience with proven track record of delivering on business priorities
- Demonstrated ability to effectively guide detailed and conceptual design work. Continuous learner that learns quickly and appropriately applies prior learnings in new areas
- Lean mindset – able to drive process improvement, standard work, etc.
- Excellent communicator with demonstrated ability to connect positively with others
- Deep and broad wind turbine expertise. Strong experience with successful NPI development, NTI development, and positively impacting the business with technical outcomes
- Advanced degree from an accredited university or college in an Engineering or related discipline
For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $204,000 and $306,000 USD. 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 July 13, 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.
If contracted in Spain:
Non-national candidates are responsible to know the minimum documentation requirements to be able to be contracted in country: EU Work Permit, NIE- Social Security Affiliation Number in Spain (NAF) and Bank Account in Spain. They must be in possession of them at the time of start hiring. GE will not sponsor this requirement.
Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes