Responsable technique, conception mécanique – Méthodes et outillage / Technical Leader, Mechanical Design – Methods and Tooling

GE Vernova; Brossard; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

GE Vernova in Canada seeks a Methods and Tooling Technical Leader to guide and mentor a local engineering team focused on synopsis, drawing and tooling design for hydro projects in North America. You will lead, define methods, and coordinate tooling design to optimize installation sequences, time and costs on site.

The role requires a mechanical engineering degree, OIQ eligibility, and fluency in French or English.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering.
• OIQ membership or eligibility for Canadian licenses (Ontario, Manitoba, NL, BC).
• Proficiency in French and/or English (spoken and written).
• Willingness to travel ~10% for customer meetings.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the tooling engineering team in Brossard to ensure safe transportation and installation of turbine and generator components.
• Perform tooling engineering scope including methods definition and tooling design.
• Support Sub-COE leader to ensure on-time, on-budget execution of tooling scope.
• Mentor engineers to become efficient Main Project Engineers and drive technical follow-up and capacity planning.

Skills

Team leadership

Mentoring

Project coordination

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering

Tools

3D/2D modeling tools

Structural calculation tools

Job description

Job Description Summary

The Methods and Tooling Technical Leader for turbine and generator tooling in North America will focus on leading, guiding, mentoring and developing the local engineering team to perform synopsis, lifting and lashing drawings and associated tooling design (3D, fabrication drawing, calculation note, user manual) for hydro projects in North America.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Lead, guide, mentor and support the team mainly based in Brossard, performing tooling engineering scope to ensure safe transportation and installation of turbine and generator components and enable optimization of the sequence, time and costs associated to perform installation at site.
• Perform himself tooling engineering scope (methods definition & tooling design), including managing urgent topics to support the projects whenever needed
• Support the Sub-COE leader to secure the execution of engineering tooling scope, to start and close topics on time and on budget.
• Mentor and support Engineers and lead engineers to become efficient Main Project Engineers for the organization
• Ensure the proper technical follow up of the team. Help define and follow on the load of the team, develop capacity to assign tasks requested by projects and COEs, and help define the priorities balancing people and business needs with the support of the Sub-COE leader.
• Take ownership of technical issues, and lead technical actions with project management and experts, participate in decisions making, particularly in case of technical issues.
• Share technical expertise inside and outside of the COE Tooling. Help develop a technical sharing community within the team to help the team to grow (in technical exchange forums, encourage people to prepare some topics to share)
• Support Sub-COE leader to meet or exceed business performance plans, attract and retain talented personnel, create a high performing team.
• Lead execution reviews with the team on subjects in progress, provide updates in Storms accordingly, follow-up on budgets and elevate when slippages are foreseen, take the lead managing delivery on time with project management (system integrators and project engineering managers).
• Establish and cultivate key relationships throughout the technical community to maintain insight into design, installation, operations issues ensuring prompt incorporation of resultant solutions, lessons learned and best practices into methods content

Qualifications / Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering
• Member of the OIQ and possibility to get other Canadian Engineering Licenses (Ontario, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, British Columbia) as business needs evolve
• Proficiency in French and/or English (spoken and written); The employee will be required to interact fluidly with colleagues in our other facilities across and/or outside of Canada, and who are generally unable to communicate in French and whose language at work is predominantly English.
• Ability to travel 10 % of the time to provide support to the team in front of the customer during meetings as required

Desired Qualifications

• Pro-activeness, sense of urgency, autonomy - define his/her priorities-; ability to interact with functions
• Strong analytical & critical thinking skills; strong communicator … ability to translate insights into clear strategic recommendations; experience in customer relationship management
• Able to manage a multitasking activity in multicultural environment, among different technologies
• Open to change with continuous improvement mindset
• +10 years’ experience in mechanical engineering with strong experience in design activities of heavy industry components
• Experience in leading teams is a plus
• Good knowledge of 3D/2D modeling tools, structural calculations tools and capacity to perform complex analytical calculations of mechanical and structural systems
• Good knowledge of ASME BTH-1 and ASME B30 standards
• Good knowledge of regional EHS regulations (Canada & US)
• Good knowledge of Hydro Generators and Turbines products
• Significant experience in working within a global matrix environment
• Team-player … positive & engaged contributor to the team, willingness to learn & adapt to business needs

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No