Remote Technical Field Advisor - Entry Level

General Electric (GE) Qatar; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Retirement benefits

Paid holidays

Job summary

GE Vernova is seeking a Technical Field Advisor to lead on-site Steam Power activities across customer sites in the U.S. and Canada, with up to 80% travel.

The role emphasizes installation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and technical reporting, ensuring safe, efficient operation while coordinating third-party tasks and delivering formal technical documentation. The candidate should have a Mechanical Engineering degree (or equivalent experience) and be willing to travel extensively.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline with GPA ≥ 3.0 or 4+ years field experience.
• Willingness to travel up to 80% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Manage, perform, coordinate, and/or monitor Steam Power site activities.
• Perform on-site installation of systems and equipment and ongoing preventive maintenance, repair, and calibration after installation.
• Respond to requests for emergency repairs and services to troublesome equipment.
• Provide technical instruction and assistance to customer representatives regarding installation, operation, calibration, repair, and maintenance at customer's sites.
• Perform administrative functions such as: writing technical reports, ordering materials, securing quotations, preparing job status reports, reports to customers, time sheet and expense sheets on a complete timely, and thorough basis.
• Signs off on all changes implemented.
• Knowledge to troubleshoot and provide routine maintenance checkout for wide range of equipment vintage.
• Prepare timely and accurate technical reports for customer records and a reference for future outages.
• Ensure all parts needed for the job are shipped to the site.
• Perform aftermarket upgrades that need to be performed at the site level.
• Supervise critical tasks when these activities are performed by third parties (as measuring, dimensional checks, other considered by the management).

Skills

Travel 80%

On-site install

Troubleshooting

Technical reporting

Steam turbines

Diagrams reading

Education

BSc Mechanical Engineering or related

HS Diploma / GED +4 years experience

Job description

GE Vernova is seeking a Technical Field Advisor to lead on-site Steam Power activities across customer sites in the U.S. and Canada, with up to 80% travel.

The role emphasizes installation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and technical reporting, ensuring safe, efficient operation while coordinating third-party tasks and delivering formal technical documentation. The candidate should have a Mechanical Engineering degree (or equivalent experience) and be willing to travel extensively.