Job Description Summary

Are you passionate about innovation? Are you excited at the opportunity to electrify and decarbonize the world?

We operate with a founder’s mindset. We deliver innovation with passion, speed, and courage. We continuously challenge our thinking and are empowered to dream big and take smart risks.

We’re seeking a hands-on highly experienced Thermal Spray Industrialization & Process Development Engineering Technician to lead the development, qualification, industrialization, and serial life production.



What impact you’ll make:


As a member of the Process Industrialization team, you will be an active contributor to create, maintain, and execute the standard in how to develop and industrialize manufacturing processes using a team-based approach. 

You will be responsible for the new coating process development and launch at the Greenville manufacturing plant. 


The focus will be on testing and developing new, or improving upon existing, manufacturing process by utilizing a standard framework. 

If you know how to turn a thermal spray coating into a rock-solid quality, repeatable production process, we want you. 

Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities:

• You will focus on High Velocity Oxy-Fuel (HVOF) and Atmospheric Plasma Spray (APS) coating processes for gas turbine high-performance components.
• This role blends practical coating cell work, metallographic preparation, microstructural analysis, machinery problem solving, and the design of fixtures/masking to enable repeatable, cost-effective production, all while operating within our SQDC (Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost) values.
• You will work in a multi-disciplinary, multi-group environment, aligning R&D, manufacturing, quality, and customer teams toward a common goal, requiring clear, concise communication and strong collaboration skills.

What you’ll bring (Basic Qualifications)

• Combination of technical education, certifications, and significant hands-on thermal spray process development experience.
• 10+ years of hands-on thermal spray process development experience in manufacturing or industrialization environments.
• Proven experience to develop new thermal spray coatings and have solid understanding in plasma and/or HVOF parameters.
• Significant hands-on experience with HVOF and/or APS coating process development, qualification, and production support.
• Strong skills in coating microstructure evaluation and metallographic analysis (optical, image analysis)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; proven track record working in multi-group environments toward shared goals
• Ability and desire to work on site in a manufacturing environment.
• Ability to work off-shift or flexible schedule at times as required by project timelines
• Thermal spray operator certifications, metallurgy coursework, or related technical certifications
• Execute process improvement based on the defined DOE
• Expertise working with Fanuc Robot.

What will make you stand out

• Minimum 10 years of hands-on thermal spray process development experience in a manufacturing and project environment (HVOF or APS)
• Proven experience designing fixtures/masking for production coating applications
• Experience with MCrAlY bond coats, TBC ceramic topcoats (e.g. YSZ), coatings.
• Gas turbine or aerospace coatings qualification experience or other high-performance industrial coating applications
• Knowledge of blasting, masking, heat treatment, and post-processing of coated parts
• Certified from ASM International Program
• Understanding in ASTM C-633

Eligibility Requirement

• Must be legally authorized to work in the USA without sponsorship now or in the future
• This position is 100% onsite at our GE Vernova Greenville, SC site
• This role is restricted to U.S. persons (i.e., U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and other protected individuals under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) due to access to export-controlled technology. GE will require proof of status prior to employment

Benefits Available to You

GE Vernova employees rise to the challenge of building a world that works. In order to meet this mission, we provide varied, competitive benefits to help support our workforce: Our Culture | GE Vernova (gecareers.com)

• Our compensation & benefits are designed to reward