Senior Engineer - Generators and Steam

Job Description SummaryThis role will be a key role within the product management function within the Pivot to Value (P2V) Value Engineer team and a critical part of the broader Gas Power safety, quality, delivery, cost and capacity imperative. Value Engineering members are organized into focused, small teams that identify process improvements, quality improvements, capacity improvements and cost-out opportunities. They then develop business cases, and build implementation plans with the appropriate functions to enable value capture while minimizing risk. Put very simply, this team will challenge the status quo on value to the company and shift the balance of the value equation towards costs, capacity and quality versus our historical bias towards pure machine performance. The Generator/Steam Senior Value Engineer will manage projects key to cost, quality and capacity to support organizational goals within Sourcing, Value Stream – Manufacturing and Engineering.
As part of this team, the Senior Value Engineer for Generators/Steam will translate functional requirements from Stakeholders (Customers, Supply Chain, Partners, etc.) and break down plant/product(s) into configurable modules/systems with defined interface control and design. They will drive configurability across the plant/product modules for cost effective business decisions optimizing the total value of our solutions while meeting market/customer needs. They will lead the process to make the right make/buy, do/buy, and/or re-use decisions – at a system/ module level – that defines and ultimately decides GE’s role in system/module fulfillment. They will influence, collaborate, and work closely with the horizontal functional partners to achieve the optimal and effective decisions.
Value Engineering is a practice focused on driving continuous value optimization and cost-out across GE Vernova Gas Power’s products and service offerings. Members of Value Engineering will are charged with identifying valuable features, functions & articles across the full portfolio & determining alternate means, methods & approaches to solutions with an aim towards unlocking the maximum value-based opportunity for GE Vernova.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• This senior value engineering role will be within the Pivot to Value - Value Engineering team and specifically within the team which focuses on Generators, Steam Turbines, GT rotors, casings, and structures and HRSG.

• This role will support primarily Generators and Steam Turbines

• Drive implementation of project plans until full value captured across product offerings.

• Collaborate cross functionally with Engineering, Supply Chain Strategy, Sourcing, and Manufacturing teams to identify potential for capacity and COPQ improvements, cost reductions (“make” components) and challenge supplier prices against best-in-class (“buy” components).

• Assist Manufacturing teams with new process development, implementation of Value Engineering projects for capacity, cost and quality improvements.

• Learn and adopt cost analysis knowledge and capabilities.

• Following best practices, facilitate the generation of cost optimization ideas through a rigorous cost data analysis, generate business cases to gain financial approval, work with the functions to resource and fund cost out initiatives.

• Following best practices, work with cross functional teams to identify design for manufacturing improvements, and root cause analysis solutions.

• Follow the gated VE process and defined capacity process model with Cost PMO & functional organizations (Engineering, Sourcing, Manufacturing) to drive resource allocation and pacing through the lifecycle of project ideas.  This will include ideation, business case development, activity planning, turnover to execution teams, project execution & value realization 

• Participate in ideation sessions, and leverage should-cost to identify potential for increasing capacity, improving COPQ, improving safety, reducing cost and balancing value

• Create a long-term and sustainable process within GE Gas Power for generating business value

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience.

• Proven experience in design or manufacture of heavy duty generators for power generation

• Prior work with cross functional teams

• Fluency in English and Polish required. 

• Ability to travel up to 20% in their work schedule for Europe region.
   

Desired Characteristics

• Domain expertise in new unit manufacturing and service/repair processes for legacy GE and legacy Alstom generators.
• Demonstrate leadership qualities combined with outstanding interpersonal, teambuilding, and communication skills (written & verbal)
• Ability to manage multiple and significantly complex projects and assignments with a high level of autonomy and accountability for results
• Entrepreneurial spirit with a passion for ideas, urgency and decisiveness; takes prompt action to accomplish goals
  Drives execution of tasks and influences through formal channels and informal network
• Track record of engineering problem solving; experience running design to value programs (DtV), design for manufacturing (DfM), should cost analyses, tear-downs, or cost engineering.
• Proven experience in product lifecycle cost analysis e.g. material, manufacturing costs, assembly and logistics cost.  
• Superior problem solving abilities & analytical skills e.g. data analysis, experience formulating business cases
• Knowledgeable across product portfolio at the component level, financials, and commercial level
• Knowledge of the power generation marketplace

Additional Information#LI-Remote - This is a remote position