Job Description Summary

Leads overall Behind the Meter (BTM) Portfolio level engineering strategy and activities, providing technical leadership on Electrification Systems businesses, and driving integration across Power Transmission (PT) business line, Grid Automation (GA) Business Line, Power Conversion System (PCS), and Consulting Services (CS). Ensures system studies, equipment specifications, substation protection/control designs support portfolio execution, reliability, and customer requirements, while interfacing with GE Vernova (GEV) Power Teams and owner engineers. Enforces design freeze milestones, standardization, and cross-project design efficiency. This position has a high degree of accountability including GEV level stakeholder visibility.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities:

· Serves as the project technical leader/director to develop scope of work, plan schedule, budgets and monitor engineering activities and deliverables for customer projects.

· Proactively identifies technical risk and its impact on project schedule, cost and actively mitigates in collaboration with stakeholders, supplying units

· Provide technical leadership and interface with Tendering, Cost Estimating, Partners, Customers, GE Vernova Product Engineering, EHS, Quality, Project Management Sourcing, Engineering sub-contractors.

· Proven experience leading HV substation/high-voltage engineering for large & complex projects, including system studies, equipment sizing, and substation protection/control interfaces, including interface with plant control Energy Management System (EMS).

· Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership on Electrification Systems, pulling through PT, GA, PCS, and Consulting Services to support portfolio and project objectives.

· Strong experience collaborating with GEV technical teams and owner/customer engineers to ensure system reliability and alignment with execution requirements.

· Proven track record in design freeze enforcement

· Experience related design standardization across projects and factories, maximizing interchangeability, schedule flexibility, and inventory efficiency.

· Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills, capable of influencing cross-functional teams in a matrix organization without direct authority.

· This position is accountable to design all activities in compliance with all applicable codes and standards, including all GE Grid Solutions policies and procedures

· Knowledge of equipment such as FACTS, GIS, Transformers, P&C, Telecom and SCADA and HV Electrical system engineering including HVDC applications

· Proposing and implementing an efficient reporting process to measure progress of engineering activities, on-time delivery of documents and answers to Customer comments

· Propose and implement design strategy, design, GATE, safety reviews

· Has awareness of latest technical developments in own area and specialized knowledge in their discipline.

· Has in-depth knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others; has working knowledge of competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market

· Use critical judgment to make decisions or solve complex tasks or problems in areas of technology or engineering.

· Take an unique perspective on existing solutions. Uses technical experience and LEAN/Root cause expertise for data analysis to support recommendations.

· Uses multiple internal and limited external sources outside of own function to arrive at decisions.

· Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience. Explains difficult or sensitive information to stakeholders; works to build consensus.

· Uses persuasion skills required to influence project team, customer and stakeholders.

· Identifying, alerting, and proposing corrective action plans to Project Director in case of any major deviation of scope

Required Qualifications:

· Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

· Minimum 12 years of related high voltage substation experience

· Minimum of 5 years of Leadership experience

Eligibility Requirements:

- Strong preference for a candidate willing to relocate to Oakbrook, IL region where headquarters are.

- 25 - 30% travels

Desired Characteristics:

· Experience execution worldwide projects and initiatives

· Strong oral and written communication ski