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Technical Leader - Instrumentation & Controls Technology
GE VernovaWilmington, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 1 Jul 2025
💰 $160,000/yr($112,000/yr – $160,000/yr)
About the role
Job Description Summary
Lead and mentor team responsible for developing and maintaining analog and digital control systems to enable next generation SMR and existing BWR nuclear power plants to operate safely, efficiently, and sustainably. Focus on work planning, technical approach, design assurance, and execution excellence.Relocation to Wilmington, NC is required.
Job Description
Essential Responsibilities
- Lead preparation of high thru 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, detailed work planning, 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.
- Coordinate 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.
- Assist with hosting learning sessions, knowledge capture, and transfer initiatives.
- Use variety of tools for requirements, design, change, configuration, and document management.
- 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.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, or Mathematics or equivalent 4-year technical degree.
- Minimum of 10 years experience in heavy industrial, thermal power, or nuclear industry working in the design, analysis, implementation, test, installation, and commissioning of instrumentation and control systems.
- Minimum of 7 years experience in combination of; requirements management, system design, application or requisition engineering, analysis, change, configuration, collaboration, and document management.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience performing independent, or preferably team based, system design or technical reviews including interfacing with requirements management, independent verification and validation.
Eligibility Requirements
- Relocation to Wilmington, NC is required.
- 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.
Desired Characteristics
- Experience in nuclear analog and digital instrumentation, control, monitoring, electric power system and field engineering.
- Competency in industry standards IEEE, IEC, and quality standards.
- Competency in modeling and test data collection tools.
- Clear thinker, detail oriented, insightful, quantitative, balanced, and a results-oriented analyst and leader.
- 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 technical writing skills with focus on requirements and design documents.
- Knowledge and experience with PCB design, signal analysis and system verification tools (Altium, PSpice, System Verilog, UVM, etc.).
- Knowledge and experience with common HDL languages and PLD/FPGA development tools (Quartus, Vivado, Model
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