Principal Engineer – Serviceability & Maintenance Innovation

The Field Service Automation Team within the Services Product Management & Systems Engineering organization is seeking a Principal Engineer - Wind Turbine Serviceability and Maintenance Innovation. As the Principal Engineer you are responsible for the overall technical underwriting and acceptance of design development and implementation associated with serviceability inspection/maintenance innovation and climb reductions in wind turbines. This role is responsible for leading the organizational design effectiveness for new products and service programs. This involves ensuring designs protect service methods with technical soundness and field practicality including simple tooling designs and access solutions and evaluating off-the-shelf technologies to improve safety quality delivery cost and maintainability. A key focus of this role is driving service climb reduction through improved turbine design access optimization and the deployment of maintenance technologies.

As the Principal Engineer in serviceability and maintenance your curiosity problem-solving skills and ability to lead design teams will be crucial in ensuring we can technically underwrite that our products and services are of high quality and meet customer needs. Your passion for innovation your capacity to solve technical challenges head-on and your ownership to develop technical talent will drive your success in OneWind Engineering.

The ideal candidate combines strong engineering fundamentals with hands-on wind turbine service experience and a practical mindset for developing robust easy-to-execute solutions that improve field efficiency and reduce technician exposure.

Essential Responsibilities

• Own and author design practice for implementing an executable Design For Serviceability (DFS) process including; coaching & mentoring cross-functional teams by driving simplification standardization and best-practice sharing across serviceability repair and inspection development teams.
• Identify opportunities to reduce service climb requirements through design changes access improvements remote handling and task simplification.
• Technically assess commercially available and off-the-shelf tools and technologies to modify or replace current solutions ensuring the proper SQDC considerations when preparing for field deployment.
• Influence technical rigor for acceptance of design decisions DFMEA root cause analysis design methods and tools.
• Maintain broad awareness of efforts while going to Gemba/Kaizen within the Serviceability and Field Engineering teams and work closely with other PEs and TLs to maintain synergies lessons learned and best practices.
• Create standard work templates and trainings to refine and standardize service methods inspection workflows work instructions and technical requirements.
• Chair technical reviews of serviceability maintenance and inspection concepts to ensure they meet design requirements and deliver a safe high quality effective repeatable cost effective and meet practical field practices.
• Serve as a mentor and reviewer to New Unit NPI teams as they incorporate serviceability access and inspection-enabling features into turbine designs.
• Actively work with controlled title holder community to ensure communication best practices and lessons learned are leveraged across the Onshore business.
• Work with people leaders to mentor and develop technical talent.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering Manufacturing Engineering Industrial Engineering or related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of engineering experience with at least 5 years in serviceability repair development tooling or field support engineering.
  

Eligibility Requirements

• Ability and willingness to climb wind turbines and work at heights.
• Ability and willingness to travel globally up to 10% of the time when required.

Desired Characteristics

• Strong technical expertise in wind turbine serviceability field execution needs inspection methods and maintainability requirements with demonstrated ability to design and own engineering outcomes regarding safety quality and fulfillment of customer needs.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary engineering teams including remote teams through design assessments and root cause assessments.
• Experience in complex issue resolution by coordinating cross-functional teams and demonstrating analytical problem-solving skills utilizing tools such as failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) reliability engineering RCA 8D process etc.
• Knowledge of wind turbine industry standards and regulations as it pertains to serviceability maintenance and inspections.
• Experience in project management by creating a clear executable path from high level objectives and demonstrating operational execution rigor by ensuring the objectives are realized.
• Demonstrated communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and concisely to individuals at all levels of the organization while ensuring transparency and gaining alignment with internal/external stakeholders.
• Track record of curiosity and a strong passion for identifying and turning new ideas technologies and methodologies into product differentiated outcomes while not being afraid to challenge the status quo.
• Experience with coaching mentoring and developing technical engineering talent to guide their professional growth and career advancement.
• Demonstrated experience reviewing and developing field service processes.
• Experience designing simple tooling fixtures and access solutions to support wind field services or maintenance operations.
• Experience evaluating and implementing off-the-shelf/commercial tooling drone or remote inspection solutions.
• Proven experience mentoring and guiding others on serviceability inspection and tooling creation.

For candidates applying to a U.S. based position the pay range for this position is between $131700.00 and $219300.00. The Company pays a geographic differential of 110% 120% or 130% of salary in certain areas. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidates experience education and skill set.

Bonus eligibility: discretionary annual bonus.

This posting is expected to remain open for at least seven days after it was posted on September 18 2026.

Available benefits include medical dental vision and prescription drug coverage; access to Health Coach from GE Vernova a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program providing 24/7 confidential assessment counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions as well as access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance adoption assistance paid parental leave disability benefits life insurance 12 paid holidays and permissive time off.

GE Vernova Inc. or its affiliates (collectively or individually GE Vernova) sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs GE Vernova reserves the right to terminate amend suspend replace or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a GE Vernova welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.