Sr Manager - Reliability & Root Cause Analysis

IF1860 GE Power Conversion India Private Limited; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance provided

Job summary

GE Vernova seeks an experienced Manager - Reliability & Root Cause Analysis to lead a multidisciplinary engineering team within the Fleet Intelligence & Reliability organization. The role focuses on identifying systemic fleet risks, determining root causes of failures, and delivering measurable reliability improvements across global Solar and Storage fleets.

The leader will manage RCA governance, drive containment and permanent corrective actions, and collaborate across engineering disciplines

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Control Systems Engineering, Power Electronics, or related field.
• Demonstrated experience in reliability, failure analysis, or related technical function.
• Experience leading complex technical investigations or RCAs involving multidisciplinary systems.
• Experience leading engineers or cross-functional engineering programs.
• Experience with power generation, renewable energy, or industrial equipment.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multidisciplinary engineering team for fleet reliability and RCA.
• Own RCA governance including priority setting, reviews, milestones, and closure criteria.
• Lead investigations of complex, high-impact failures in solar inverters, energy storage, and plant controls.
• Ensure investigations are evidence-based using data, logs, analyses, and structured problem-solving methods.
• Provide technical leadership during fleet events and customer escalations.
• Translate field learnings into product requirements, design changes, and documentation.
• Develop reusable engineering knowledge and templates for RCAs and investigations.

Skills

Leadership

Root Cause Analysis

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Technical governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Mechanical/Systems Engineering or related field

Tools

Fault Tree Analysis

8D

Kepner-Tregoe

Ishikawa

5 Whys

Job description

Job Description Summary

We are seeking an experienced Manager - Reliability & Root Cause Analysis to lead a multidisciplinary engineering team within the Fleet Intelligence & Reliability organization. The team is responsible for identifying systemic fleet risks, determining the physical and systemic causes of complex failures, and ensuring that corrective and preventive actions deliver measurable and sustainable reliability improvement across the global Solar and Storage installed fleet. This role owns the technical governance of Root Cause Analyses for complex, high-impact, recurring, and fleet-wide issues. The manager will ensure that investigations are evidence-based, technically rigorous, and completed with clear accountability from initial containment through corrective-action validation and fleet-risk closure. The leader will manage engineers across relevant disciplines, which may include power electronics, electrical systems, mechanical systems, embedded software, plant controls, and systems engineering.

Roles and Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary engineering team responsible for fleet reliability, failure investigation, and Root Cause Analysis.

Own and continuously improve the RCA governance process, including issue prioritization, ownership assignment, technical reviews, milestones, escalation, corrective-action tracking, validation, and closure criteria.

Lead investigations of complex, high-impact, systemic, and recurring failures affecting solar inverters, battery energy storage systems, plant controls, power conversion equipment, and associated interfaces.

Ensure investigations are grounded in verified evidence, operating data, event logs, inspection results, failure reproduction, laboratory analysis, engineering calculations, and appropriate structured problem-solving methods.

Differentiate failure symptoms, direct physical causes, contributing factors, systemic causes, and organizational causes, ensuring that conclusions are supported by evidence.

Drive immediate containment, short-term mitigation, and permanent corrective and preventive actions with the relevant engineering and operational owners.

Prioritize investigations using safety exposure, customer impact, availability loss, recurrence, fleet population, warranty exposure, and financial consequence.

Maintain a fleet-level view of failure modes and systemic risk across products, projects, regions, configurations, software versions, suppliers, and operating environments.

Partner with Fleet Performance & Analytics to use fleet data, trends, event signatures, and risk models to detect emerging issues, quantify exposure, and verify corrective-action effectiveness.

Translate field and fleet learning into recommendations for product requirements, design changes, validation plans, software releases, manufacturing processes, supplier controls, maintenance strategies, and technical documentation.

Provide technical leadership during critical fleet events, customer escalations, and executive-level issue reviews.

Ensure customer-facing and internal RCA reports are accurate, evidence-based, clear, and delivered in accordance with committed milestones.

Develop and maintain reusable engineering knowledge, including RCA standards, failure libraries, lessons learned, troubleshooting guides, technical advisories, and investigation templates.

Support the definition and deployment of Change, Modification, and Upgrade actions resulting from fleet reliability findings.

Establish and monitor meaningful metrics such as RCA cycle time, milestone adherence, recurrence rate, corrective-action closure, investigation backlog, and quantified fleet-risk reduction.

Promote a culture of safety, technical rigor, accountability, collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Control Systems Engineering, Power Electronics, or a related technical field.

Demonstratable experience in engineering, reliability, failure analysis, product engineering, installed-base engineering, or a related technical function.

Demonstrated experience leading complex technical investigations or RCAs involving multidisciplinary systems.

Demonstrated experience leading engineers, technical teams, or significant cross-functional engineering programs.

Experience with power generation, renewable energy, battery energy storage, power conversion, industrial automation, or comparable complex industrial equipment.

Ability and willingness to travel internationally as required.

Desired Characteristics

Advanced degree in engineering, reliability, systems engineering, or a related discipline.

Previous people-leadership experience within a global engineering or technical organization.

Strong knowledge of solar inverters, battery energy storage systems, power electronics, plant controls, electrical protection, thermal management, and industrial communication networks.

Experience applying structured investigation methodologies such as Fault Tree Analysis, 5 Whys, Ishikawa analysis, 8D, Kepner-Tregoe, or Failure Mode and Effects Analysis.

Knowledge of reliability engineering, failure mechanisms, accelerated testing, design validation, reliability growth, and corrective-action effectiveness assessment.

Experience analyzing operational data, waveforms, alarms, event logs, failed components, inspection evidence, and intervention history.

Strong systems thinking, technical judgment, and ability to make risk-based decisions with incomplete or evolving information.

Proven ability to influence Product Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Sourcing, Operations, and commercial teams in a matrixed environment.

Strong customer-facing skills and the ability to communicate sensitive technical findings with clarity, credibility, and appropriate transparency.

Ability to manage multiple high-priority investigations across a global fleet.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Self-starting attitude with the ability to establish structure, set priorities, develop people, and drive issues through sustainable closure.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes

Addressing the climate crisis is an urgent global priority and we take our responsibility seriously. That is our singular mission at GE Vernova: continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to help decarbonize it. If we want our energy future to be different we must be different. Our mission is embedded in our name. We retain our treasured legacy, “GE,” in our name as an enduring and hard‑earned badge of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” / “verde” signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. “Nova,” from the Latin “novus,” nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver. Together, we have The Energy to Change the World. www.gevernova.com