About the role
Job Description Summary
The Lead Engineer - Mechanical Engineering position is in Nacelle & Frames team within Wind Machine Head Engineering Subsection. The team provides full lifecycle ownership and support for mechanical hardware (Nacelle-Composite Cover, Main Frame, Small Structures, Cranes, Seals & Louvers…) including New Product/Technology Introduction, Validation & Testing, Field Support and Root Cause Analysis.
The Lead Engineer - Mechanical Engineering will be responsible for design and development of mechanical components with full exposure to product life cycle working with diverse, cross-functional teams to execute component trade studies and design deliverables.
Job Description
As a Lead Engineer - Mechanical Engineering you will:
* Design engineering solutions for mechanical structural parts (Composites, Metallic Structures, Cranes, Seals & Louvers...) of a wind turbine.
* Work closely with other engineering teams within Wind Organization 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: No