Lead Engineer - Mechanical Engineering

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• Work closely with other engineering teams within GE Onshore Wind to coordinate interfaces between mechanical systems and components.

• Develop engineering drawings and specification requirements for sourcing of wind turbine components.

• Perform technical risk assessment and execute validation test plans to mitigate risks.

• Assist in issue resolution of mechanical components for fielded turbines.

• Participate and support technical problem solving in the team.

• Collaborate with cross functional teams for managing the product life cycle, contributing to component team strategy, Multigeneration Product Plan (MGPP) and Multigeneration Technology Plan (MGTP).

• Collaboration with System, Sub-System, and component Engineers to integrate components into overall turbine design while satisfying turbine and interface requirements.

• Maintain "Systems Thinking" mindset and higher-level turbine system requirements to understand the needs and implications of potential component changes and impacts to the rest of the machine.

• Contribute to design tool maintenance to ensure "fit for use" including design practice, design tools and lessons learned documentation updates.

• Collaborate and Own risk identification and mitigation process including dFMEA and design verification.

• Ensure quality of new and revised drawings, BoMs and specifications applying all GE and industry processes, standards and best practices

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor/ Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related Engineering.

• Minimum 5 years product design and development experience with 2 years in the wind industry or relevant industry in product design.

• Excellent communication, interpersonal and project management skills

• Working knowledge of CAD (preferably Unigraphics NX 3D-CAD), CAE (preferably Ansys) and PLM tools

• Ability and willingness to travel up to 20% of time

Desired Characteristics

• Wind turbine structural component expertise

• Technical problem solving experience including NPI design, NTI development, problem solving & RCA resolution, method/tool development, and related items

• Highly motivated, self-starter, energetic, positive, flexible in changing environments.

• Able to work in structured approach to problem solving, learning agility and system thinking

• Excellent communication skills and ability to articulate technical problems in clear and simple terms

• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to work in project teams in an international environment

• Systems thinker: ability to assess tradeoffs, effectively assess risk, and optimize results.

• Ability to drive process improvement, standard work, and utilize Lean design principles.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes