Lead Engineer- Mechanical Engineering

GE Vernova, Inc.; Barcelona; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

GE Vernova, Inc. is seeking a Lead Engineer - Mechanical Engineering to drive design and development of wind turbine mechanical components within the Nacelle & Frames team.

You will collaborate across systems, sub-systems, and component engineers to ensure interfaces meet turbine requirements and life-cycle goals. The role requires 5+ years of product design experience, proficiency in CAD/CAE tools like Unigraphics NX and Ansys, and the ability to travel up to 20%.

Qualifications

• Bachelor/ Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related Engineering.
• Minimum 5 years product design and development experience with 2 years in the wind industry or relevant industry in product design.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and project management skills.
• Working knowledge of CAD (Unigraphics NX 3D-CAD), CAE (Ansys) and PLM tools.

Responsibilities

• Design engineering solutions for mechanical structural parts (Composites, Metallic Structures, Cranes, Seals & Louvers) of a wind turbine.
• Work closely with other engineering teams within Wind Organization to coordinate interfaces between mechanical systems and components.
• Develop engineering drawings and specification requirements for sourcing of wind turbine components.
• Perform technical risk assessment and execute validation test plans to mitigate risks.
• Assist in issue resolution of mechanical components for fielded turbines.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams for managing the product life cycle, contributing to component team strategy, MGPP and MGTP.
• Collaboration with System, Sub-System, and component Engineers to integrate components into overall turbine design while satisfying turbine and interface requirements.
• Maintain Systems Thinking mindset and higher-level turbine system requirements to understand needs and implications of component changes.
• Contribute to design tool maintenance to ensure fit for use including design practice, design tools and lessons learned documentation updates.
• Collaborate and Own risk identification and mitigation process including dFMEA and design verification.
• Ensure quality of new and revised drawings, BoMs and specifications applying all GE and industry processes, standards and best practices.

Skills

CAD

NX 3D-CAD

CAE

Ansys

PLM tools

Project management

Communication

Systems thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor/Master in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Unigraphics NX

Ansys

Job description

Job Description Summary

The Lead Engineer - Mechanical Engineering position is in Nacelle & Frames team within Wind Machine Head Engineering Subsection. The team provides full lifecycle ownership and support for mechanical hardware (Nacelle-Composite Cover, Main Frame, Small Structures, Cranes, Seals & Louvers…) including New Product/Technology Introduction, Validation & Testing, Field Support and Root Cause Analysis.

The Lead Engineer - Mechanical Engineering will be responsible for design and development of mechanical components with full exposure to product life cycle working with diverse, cross-functional teams to execute component trade studies and design deliverables.

Job Description

As a Lead Engineer - Mechanical Engineering you will:

• Design engineering solutions for mechanical structural parts (Composites, Metallic Structures, Cranes, Seals & Louvers...) of a wind turbine.

• Work closely with other engineering teams within Wind Organization to coordinate interfaces between mechanical systems and components.


• Develop engineering drawings and specification requirements for sourcing of wind turbine components.


• Perform technical risk assessment and execute validation test plans to mitigate risks.


• Assist in issue resolution of mechanical components for fielded turbines.


• Participate and support technical problem solving in the team.


• Collaborate with cross functional teams for managing the product life cycle, contributing to component team strategy, Multigeneration Product Plan (MGPP) and Multigeneration Technology Plan (MGTP).


• Collaboration with System, Sub-System, and component Engineers to integrate components into overall turbine design while satisfying turbine and interface requirements.


• Maintain "Systems Thinking" mindset and higher-level turbine system requirements to understand the needs and implications of potential component changes and impacts to the rest of the machine.


• Contribute to design tool maintenance to ensure "fit for use" including design practice, design tools and lessons learned documentation updates.


• Collaborate and Own risk identification and mitigation process including dFMEA and design verification.


• Ensure quality of new and revised drawings, BoMs and specifications applying all GE and industry processes, standards and best practices

• Bachelor/ Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related Engineering.


• Minimum 5 years product design and development experience with 2 years in the wind industry or relevant industry in product design.


• Excellent communication, interpersonal and project management skills


• Working knowledge of CAD (preferably Unigraphics NX 3D-CAD), CAE (preferably Ansys) and PLM tools


• Ability and willingness to travel up to 20% of time

• Wind turbine structural component expertise


• Technical problem solving experience including NPI design, NTI development, problem solving & RCA resolution, method/tool development, and related items


• Highly motivated, self-starter, energetic, positive, flexible in changing environments.


• Able to work in structured approach to problem solving, learning agility and system thinking


• Excellent communication skills and ability to articulate technical problems in clear and simple terms


• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to work in project teams in an international environment


• Systems thinker: ability to assess tradeoffs, effectively assess risk, and optimize results.


• Ability to drive process improvement, standard work, and utilize Lean design principles.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No