Lead Global Manufacturing Process Engineer

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

Risk Mitigation & Operational Compliance

• Safety by Design: Integrate ergonomic, environmental, and safety requirements into the initial stages of PFMEA and equipment design to ensure all global manufacturing processes meet or exceed site safety standards.
• Safety Incident Root Cause Analysis (RCA): Lead the technical investigation for all manufacturing-related safety incidents, providing long-term engineering solutions to eliminate systemic hazards across all global plants.
• Hazardous Process Standardization: Develop and audit standardized global safety protocols for high-risk processes (e.g., automated painting, LE protection), ensuring consistent safety performance regardless of plant location.

Technical Ownership & Process Integrity

• Global Technical Authority: Serve as the final approval authority for all blade manufacturing process specifications, Work Instructions (WI), and Control Plans (CP), ensuring 100% adherence to global quality standards.
• Process Variation Reduction: Drive the reduction of process variation across all global plants by acting as the owner of documentation; use data-driven insights to update procedures and eliminate non-conformances.
• Technical Issue Resolution: Provide high-level, rapid resolution for complex manufacturing defects and Quality Correction Reports (QCR), coordinating with cross-functional global teams to prevent recurring quality issues.

Project Execution & NPI/NTI Milestones

• NPI/NTI Lifecycle Management: Drive the successful execution of process development for NPI/NTI projects, ensuring all technical deliverables (WI, CP, PFMEA, PS, PVPL) are completed on-time and aligned with Gate 5 & 6 project milestones.
• Manufacturability Advocacy: Lead early-stage manufacturability assessments for new product designs, providing professional, data-backed suggestions to R&D to ensure seamless integration into existing equipment and capacity plans.
• Global Production Support: Maintain a high-availability technical support structure for plants, ensuring rapid response times to production disruptions to minimize downtime and maintain global delivery schedules.

Process Optimization & Asset Utilization

• Process Optimization & Value Engineering: Execute continuous improvement initiatives focused on reducing cycle times and waste; track "Cost-Out" metrics on existing processes to improve bottom-line financial performance.
• Automation & Capital Efficiency: Lead the development and implementation of automated solutions (e.g., painting, root grinding, assembly), ensuring that investments increase throughput and labor efficiency while maintaining product quality.
• Equipment Adaptation Strategy: Oversee the lifecycle of manufacturing equipment, ensuring that existing and new machinery is optimized for high-volume production and low-cost maintenance, aligning with global long-term manufacturing strategy.

Continuous Improvement

• Manage and coordinate process related Continuous Improvement activities
• Works with cross functional teams to develop and implement the next generation of operational processes
• Provides direct problem-solving support to the production and quality functions
• Must also have the capacity to conceptualize new processes/ways of working and the project management skills to lead in the detailed development of them
• Ensure close link between all stakeholders global & local factories
• Continuous improvement of key manufacturing processes and deliverables in cooperation with process owners.

Who You Are

You are an engineer who enjoys solving practical manufacturing problems. You work well with teams in many locations and want to shape how blades are made worldwide.

Required

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial or Materials Engineering
• Experience in manufacturing process engineering, process design or process development, ideally for composite or large-scale products (minimum years to be confirmed by recruiter)
• Experience with PFMEA, Control Plans and Work Instructions
• Proficient in AutoCAD for 2D drafting and CATIA/ SolidWorks for 3D part modeling
• Experience using data to find root causes and reduce process variation
• Skill in managing projects and working with cross-functional teams

Preferred

• Experience with wind turbine blades or similar composite manufacturing
• Experience with automation projects in painting, grinding or assembly
• Experience with NPI or NTI programs and stage-gate reviews

Additional Information

About Us

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