Senior Engineering Manager, Value Solutions (People Leader)
Greenville, NC - USA
Job Summary
The Value Solutions Team is part of the Solutioning & Execution Center of Excellence (S&E CoE) within the Heavy Duty Plant Engineering (HDPE) organization supporting the Heavy Duty New Unit business globally. The team is responsible for driving solution strategy standardization adoption and deviation governance across the Heavy Duty New Unit portfolio. Working at the intersection of Commercial Product Management Systems Engineering Regional Customer Application Engineering and Proposal Engineering teams the organization helps shape competitive bid strategies while promoting consistency risk-balanced decision making and scalable growth through standard solutions.
The team also serves as a critical bridge between market needs and standards evolution providing recommendations that help improve standard offerings and enable more competitive scalable solutions.
What Impact Youll Make
As the People Leader for Value Solutions you will lead a global team of approximately 12 senior engineering professionals located across the United States France and India. Your team plays a critical role during the Inquiry-to-Order phase by ensuring bid strategies align with approved product standards while balancing customer value competitiveness risk and execution readiness.
You will help drive the adoption of standardized solutions strengthen engagement with Regional Customer Application Engineering teams to influence customers earlier in the sales cycle and accelerate the transfer of market learnings into product and standards evolution. Through leadership of deviation governance processes and cross-functional collaboration you will help improve proposal quality consistency cycle time and long-term business competitiveness.
Success in this role requires a strong people leader capable of coaching experienced technical professionals building organizational capability and aligning diverse stakeholders around common business objectives.
What We Offer
Youll join a highly experienced global team of senior engineers and technical leaders dedicated to advancing the competitiveness of the Heavy Duty New Unit portfolio. This role offers significant visibility across Commercial Product Management Engineering and Executive Leadership providing the opportunity to influence business strategy standards evolution and organizational effectiveness on a global scale.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Lead engage and develop a global team of highly experienced engineering professionals creating an environment where senior experts are empowered to maximize their impact on the business.
- Foster a culture of ownership systems thinking collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Coach and develop senior engineers in technical leadership stakeholder influence and commercial acumen.
- Build organizational capability through mentoring succession planning and investment in both technical and leadership growth.
- Drive adoption of standard technical solutions across the Heavy Duty New Unit portfolio ensuring bid strategies align with product standards customer needs and business objectives.
- Partner with Commercial Regional Customer Application Engineering Product Management Systems Engineering and Proposal Engineering teams to develop competitive scalable solution strategies.
- Identify gaps between market requirements and standard offerings and recommend improvements to future standards solution strategies and product applicability.
- Promote standard work Lean principles and best practices that improve solution quality consistency productivity and cycle time.
- Lead the governance processes and cross-functional forums used to evaluate and disposition solution and configuration deviations balancing customer requirements technical feasibility risk and commercial competitiveness.
- Promote disciplined decision-making that maximizes the use of standard solutions while ensuring alignment and transparency across stakeholders involved in deviation review and approval processes.
- Drive continuous improvement in governance effectiveness decision quality and cycle time.
- Leverage market trends competitor intelligence customer value drivers and bid feedback to identify opportunities that improve competitiveness and shape future solution strategies.
- Partner with Regional Customer Application Engineering and Product Management teams to support early customer engagement develop competitive technical solutions and influence long-term product standards and application roadmaps.
- Develop and maintain tools processes and best practices that drive consistency and effectiveness across global solutioning activities.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree in Engineering from an accredited college or university.
- At least 8 years of engineering experience within the power generation energy or related industry.
- 5 years of demonstrated experience influencing cross-functional stakeholders in a complex technical environment.
Desired Characteristics
- Masters Degree in Engineering Systems Engineering Business or related technical discipline.
- Proven experience leading teams of senior engineering professionals in a global environment.
- Strong systems-thinking mindset with the ability to balance customer needs technical risk product strategy and business objectives.
- Experience leading governance processes involving complex technical and commercial decision-making.
- Experience working across Commercial Product Management and Engineering organizations to develop competitive product or solution strategies.
- Familiarity with Lean principles and continuous improvement methodologies.
- Experience with performance and lifecycle value analysis.
- Technical competency in gas turbine and combined-cycle performance modeling tools and methodologies.
- Knowledge of gas turbine steam turbine and broader plant systems.
GE Vernova offers a great work environment professional development challenging careers and competitive compensation. GE Vernova is anEqual Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race color religion national or ethnic origin sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age disability protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
GE Vernova will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
Required Experience:
Manager
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