Lead Engineer- Mechanical Engineering

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

Required 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 (preferably Unigraphics NX 3D-CAD), CAE (preferably Ansys) and PLM tools

Ability and willingness to travel up to 20% of time

Desired Characteristics

• •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