Controls Projects - Process Development & Documentation Engineer
GE Vernova · Posted Oct 14
Power generation, wind turbine, grid solution, and electrification services
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About the role
GE Vernova's Gas Power Controls team designs and implements control solutions for carbon capture, decarbonization, fast power, and grid reconstruction and stabilization, working in a Scaled Agile Framework environment with over five hundred global engineers. The Controls Projects - Process Development & Documentation Engineer role is responsible for capturing, formalizing, and continuously improving the engineering execution processes used by the HDNU Controls Projects teams. The role partners with solutioning leaders, projects leaders, architects, and Controlled Title Holders to document current-state processes, apply Lean methodologies, and publish standardized job aids, checklists, and process guides that drive first-pass yield and reduce cycle time.
What you will do
- Partner with HDNU ITR Solutioning leader, Controls Projects Leaders, Alliance team members, architects, Controlled Title Holders (CTH), and Controls leadership to validate process documentation for accuracy and applicability.
- Coordinate with CLM administrators and Confluence page owners to maintain platform governance and documentation integrity.
- Present process improvement plans, documentation status, and Lean workout outcomes to team and business leaders.
- Support onboarding of new engineers by ensuring documented job aids and checklists serve as effective training tools, eliminating reliance on informally held process knowledge.
- Drives PI planning & Retrospective for sprint (agile execution methodologies) with Controls Project leaders & RTE on Project execution’s health as part of daily management.
- Capture and formalize current-state execution processes across all projects and applicable milestones from Project Release through COD, including: CKOM, Hardware & Software design, and delivery.
- Author, publish, and maintain Job Aids, Checklists, and Process Guides for all Project milestones.
- Establish and maintain proper linkage between Confluence and CLM milestone descriptions.
- Reorganize Confluence pages under New Units (Plant Fulfillment) to create a using ISO 9001-2025 standards, logical, navigable, and consistently maintained documentation architecture.
- Update Projects Milestone Checklists and Job Aids and support their pilot use on projects to validate accuracy and usability.
- Apply Lean tools and methodologies — including Problem Solving Reports (PSR), Gemba Walks, Kaizen Events, 3x5 Why (Root Cause Analysis), Value Stream Mapping (VSM), and daily management practices identifying waste, reducing cycle time, and improving execution quality across HDNU extended scope milestone processes.
- Lead or support VSM Current State and Future State exercises for Project milestone execution, building on the VSM review conducted during the Lean Workout.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical, or related discipline) from an accredited college or university.
- Minimum 6 to 10 years of experience in controls engineering, systems engineering, or a related technical execution role within the power generation industry.
- Strong technical writing skills with demonstrated ability to make the author clear, structured process documentation, job aids, checklists, and work instructions.
Preferred qualifications
- Demonstrated experience with Gas Turbine, Steam Turbine or DCS Controls environments, including familiarity with milestone-based software execution processes (Alpha, Integration, Comm SW, Charlie, First Fire).
- Demonstrated experience applying Lean methodologies in an engineering or manufacturing environment, including VSM, PSR, Gemba, Kaizen, and root cause analysis tools such as 3x5 Why.
- Familiarity with Confluence (or equivalent engineering knowledge management platforms) and CLM (or equivalent test management/checklist platforms).
- Experience with GE Vernova tools and platforms, including ControlST, AVEVA (IO tools), ACME, Mark Vie, PLM and CLM.
- Experience working in a globally matrixed environment with strong collaboration and cross-functional influence skills.
- Knowledge of agile execution methodologies and experience structuring engineering work as user stories or checklist-based tasks.
- Lean certification (Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or higher, or equivalent GE Vernova Lean training) is strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to independently drive projects to completion with minimal oversight, with a bias for action and continuous improvement.
Benefits and support
- Relocation Assistance Provided
About GE Vernova
GE Vernova Inc. is a global energy company that provides equipment, services, and software to generate, transfer, orchestrate, convert, and store electricity. Operating through its Power, Wind, and Electrification segments, the company supports a broad customer base across more than 100 countries in powering economies and driving the energy transition. Formed as part of the strategic spin-off of General Electric's energy portfolio, GE Vernova is dedicated to electrifying and decarbonizing the world.
- Industry
- Energy
- Company size
- 75000+ employees
- Founded
- 2024
- Location
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer and President
Stephen F. Angel
Chairman of the Board
Lola Lin
Chief Legal Officer and Secretary
Roger Martella
Chief Corporate Officer, Chief Sustainability Officer & Head of Global Government Affairs
Eric Gray
CEO, Power Segment
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