Heavy Duty New Unit Controls - Quality Leader

Job Description Summary

Vernova Purpose

GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. Are you excited at the opportunity to electrify and decarbonize the world?

What impact you’ll make

As a leader in Heavy Duty New Unit Controls Engineering, you will be an active contributor to the Gas Power business and play a pivotal role in ensuring the efficient and effective operation of the global Controls Engineering organization.
The quality of the work that we do every day matters tremendously to our customers and our business. To support engineering’s commitment to quality, you will act as the HDNU Controls Engineering Quality Leader. You will work closely with a diverse set of functional groups and controlled titleholders to achieve operational excellence and apply quality principles and techniques to HDNU Controls Engineering processes. The role has moderate autonomy, requiring high levels of operational judgment.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Act as the primary HDNU Controls Liaison to the Controls, CSS, and Gas Power Engineering Quality Leaders in support of the four Quality Workstreams: Zero Defect Culture, New Product Introduction, Supply Base Quality, and Management of Change. Engineering plays strongly in all four of these workstreams and across the entire lifecycle of our products.
• Support response to front-line customers who feel the pain when we deliver poor quality.
• Drive improvement upstream into our processes across all of Engineering.
• Improve our engineering quality execution but also the broader Gas Power Quality workstreams.
• Drive Quality Excellence into Engineering.
• Support day-to-day Quality Operations for an organization of 240+ engineers located worldwide.
• Coordinate all HDNU quality issue resolution with Controls Engineering Quality Leader.
• Establish necessary operational infrastructure, cadence, and actionable KPIs/TTIs to communicate and track Quality performance to drive proper accountability within the functional teams.
• Coordinate necessary QMS auditing activities across HDNU Controls Engineering to support ISO accreditation, including desk-side audits, quality framework audits, and LRQA.
• Run quality management reviews with HDNU Controls leadership.
• Support Controls quality MOR (Monthly Operating Review).
• Partner with broader Corporate, Gas Power, Gas Power Engineering, and Controls quality community to drive a culture of zero-defect culture among the HDNU Controls Engineering organization.
• Broaden the application of problem-solving (root cause analysis) and continuous improvement tools in a way that will improve quality, efficiency, capacity, and process reliability.
• Drive the necessary continuous improvement processes including NCR, RCA, PSR.
• Maintain and improve daily management of quality through use of CLM and Power Now dashboards and queries.
• Enable and empower the Controls Engineering resources to identify opportunities and locally act upon to drive quality improvements.
• Celebrate and share Controls Engineering quality lessons learned and recognize success.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college.
• Minimum of 12 years of engineering experience.

Desired Characteristics

• Demonstrates the Vernova Way principles: innovation, customers, lean, one team, and accountable.
• Experience in the power generation industry.
• Demonstrated ability to coach and teach others.
• Practical knowledge of root cause analysis techniques and tools.
• Appropriate experience driving quality improvement, preferably within an engineering organization.
• Demonstrated ability to challenge the status quo and drive continuous improvement.
• Proven to be effective at driving outcomes in a large, globally matrixed organization.
• Comfortable with conflict but leads as a collaborator, facilitator, and strong partner.
• Critical, systems thinker with the ability to bring others along, even those with conflicting priorities.
• Strong analytical skills; data-driven but decisive despite ambiguity.
• Customer-focused with clear, concise written and oral communications to the appropriate level.

Eligibility Requirements:

• For US-based candidates, this role may be based in Schenectady, NY, or Greenville, SC. Candidates must be willing to work from either location or Remote. For India based employee location is Hyderabad, Telangana.

• Note:
  To comply with US immigration and other legal requirements, it is necessary to specify the minimum number of years' experience required for any role based within the USA. For roles outside of the USA, to ensure compliance with applicable legislation, the JDs should focus on the substantive level of experience required for the role, and a minimum number of years should NOT be used.

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