Technical Leader - Simulation Assisted Engineering and Design Process and Tools (Remote Eligible, U.S.)

GE Vernova is a leader in energy solutions, and they are seeking a Technical Leader to guide and mentor a team focused on engineering excellence in simulation and design processes. The role involves leading integrated approaches across various engineering disciplines, ensuring compliance with regulations, and supporting project completion through effective collaboration and technical oversight.

Responsibilities:

• Lead integrated approaches and solutions across the diverse plant disciplines or specialties of Instrumentation, Control, DCS, HFE, Simulation, Smart Plant Digital Tools and Electrical
• Coordinate across matrixed Engineering teams to assess RFIs/RFPs, analyze plant system requirements, operations and maintenance goals, possible I&C and DCS architectures, equipment selection, phased implementations, develop list of clarifications and exceptions, prepare proposals with scope, conformance matrix and risk scorecard, work plans, cost estimates, and schedules
• Support business and product line leaders in ITO commercial risk review process, marketing initiatives, bid proposals, RFQ evaluation, and technical recommendations
• Lead preparation of high through low work planning, scheduling, and resource loading across lifecycle phases of Engineer-Procure-Construct or new product introduction using the applicable practices, guides, and tools
• Support project engineering or manager with understanding execution metric and status, issues, risks, mitigation or recovering plans, and be extremely proactive to identify changes in scope
• Drive compliance utilizing scope, level 5 work plan, budget, overall schedule, applicable design processes, and discipline specific practices and tools including design and technical reviews
• Lead “day-to-day” operations and follow-up to ensure deliverables are produced and commitments met on-spec., on-budget, and on-schedule
• Collaborate proactively and inclusively for overall team across other engineering disciplines to support integrated plant design objectives
• Collaborate with project management, project engineering, support functions, and others to drive project completion
• Identify, confirm, document, and lead resolution of technical, risk, other emergent issues
• Provide technical oversight and mentorship to ensure system designs and deliverables comply with requirements throughout design release to manufacturing or supplier including production, validation, installation, and commission tests
• Support strategy, plan, statement of work preparation, and implementation of resource loading and mobilization involving employees, staff augmentation contractors, suppliers and partners including other GE entities
• Assist with hosting learning sessions, knowledge capture, and transfer initiatives
• Champion conformance with regulations and guides, standard review plans, branch technical positions, interim staff guidance, information notices and summaries, bulletins, orders, applicable nuclear guidance, and industry standards
• Remain current on nuclear regulatory issues and system, component, and equipment product knowledge
• Use variety of tools for requirements, design, change, configuration, and document management
• Support simplification, continuous process improvement, and cost-out
• Champion nuclear safety culture; Ensure compliance with GEH policies, quality management system, and corrective action program
• Deliver work with integrity, safety, security, quality, and on-time output
• As an Instrumentation and Control (I&C) Simulation Assisted Engineering (SAE) engineering lead, work with the physical plant model SAE team, Human Factors Engineering (HFE) team and Electrical team to enable LEAN integrated plant design (IPD) using modern digital engineering tools and techniques

Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, or Mathematics or equivalent 4-year technical degree
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in heavy industrial, thermal power, or nuclear industry working in plant instrumentation application, control and monitoring system design, digital control system (DCS), networking, and data communications architecture definition including requisition engineering, implementation, test, installation, and commissioning
• Minimum of 10 years of application, field installation, and test engineering of systems, equipment, and components including selection, sizing and analysis calculations, modeling and simulation, and qualification to diverse industry standards
• Minimum of 7 years of experience through a combination of: requirements management, system and software design, application engineering or requisition fulfillment, analysis-modelling-simulation, technical reviews, and configuration related to instrumentation, data acquisition, monitoring, control, HFE, electrical distribution systems and equipment
• The preferred work location for this role is at the GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy Headquarters in Wilmington, NC; but highly qualified (US based) remote candidates will be considered
• This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 25%
• Master of Science in Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, or Mathematics or equivalent 4-year technical degree
• Professional Engineer
• PMI/PMP certified with proven project management experience
• Minimum 5 years of experience in simulation, development of control logics, using modern physics, mathematics, and software based modeling tools for design, analysis, or training involving; nuclear reactor thermal hydraulics, PID tuning, plant process fluidic and mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, control, monitoring systems
• Experience working in or with an architect engineering firm
• Experience in nuclear analog and digital instrumentation, control, monitoring, electric power system and field engineering with working knowledge in safety-related, significant to safety, and non-safety-related systems, hardware, software, theory of operation, instrument set point and calibration methodologies, environmental and seismic testing and qualification
• Experience in US and international nuclear regulatory affairs, licensing, laws, rules, regulations, guidance, etc. applicable to power and test reactors
• Competency in industry standards IEEE, IEC, and quality standards
• Competency in industrial controls networking, data communications architectures, and protocols
• Competency in modeling, simulation (3Key Master) and test data collection tools
• Competency in Smart Plant Digital Tools (Hexagon)
• Clear thinker, detail oriented, insightful, quantitative, balanced, and a results-oriented analyst and leader
• Self-starter with energy, positive “Can-Do” attitude and inclusive style – Proven track record of delivering commitments on specification, on budget, and on schedule
• Strong verbal communication, as well as, facilitation and presentation skills for technical and business audiences – Able to communicate openly, calmly, and crisply in stressful situations
• Adaptive; able to quickly learn diverse and varying organizational interfaces with professional astuteness
• Continuous improvement “mindset” with an ability to identify, influence, and implement better ways to do an activity or process
• Solid PC, as well as, personal and team productivity software
• Solid technical writing skills with focus on requirements and design documents
• Working knowledge, expertise, and experience using LEAN/Agile, six sigma design for reliability, failure modes and effects analysis, and design to cost techniques and tools
• Green Belt or Black Belt certified (GE Employees Only)