Senior Customer Project Engineer - Gas Turbine
GE Vernova · Posted Oct 26
Power generation, wind turbine, grid solution, and electrification services
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About the role
The Project Engineering team within GE Vernova's Gas Turbine business provides technical project management and engineering coordination for gas turbine projects from order intake through to remittance and handover to services. The role serves as the technical point of contact and liaison between external customers and EPC representatives and internal engineering, procurement, supply chain and field installation organizations. The Senior GT Project Engineer owns technical direction, contract compliance, scope change evaluation, engineering budget and schedule risk mitigation for assigned gas turbine projects across Asia.
What you will do
- Actively own, support and analyze Pre-COD ER case trends to identify systemic design or installation risks. Translate site-learned insights into concrete engineering process improvements, transforming reactive site troubleshooting into proactive, long-term design excellence
- Participating in constructability reviews, driving systematic lessons learnt back to engineering teams.
- Driving lessons learned back into the design engineering organizations to avoid repeating issues via ERS, NCR, etc.
- Providing technical guidance to Project Management and Applications/Regional Customer Applications Engineering
- Conducting Customer Kick-Off Meetings (CKOMs), Site Kick-Off Meetings, and/or Design Liaison Meetings (DLMs) with customers and/or their design representatives (EPCs)
- Reviewing contract documentation and communicating project requirements to all design functions, utilizing internal documentation systems and regular communication with internal engineering organizations
- Evaluating the financial/schedule impacts of customer-requested scope changes via Cost & Cycle Estimates (CCEs) and implementing changes agreed to by Change Orders via the Change Management Process
- Supporting resolution of cross-functional design complexities and working to resolve technical issues
- Mitigating engineering schedule issues and taking preventative action to avoid delivery delays or late customer deliverables
- Managing the Engineering Budget and providing quarterly Estimate at Completions (EACs) to Finance with monthly risk and opportunities visibility in Live Cost Visibility (LCV).
- Providing technical support to engineering, manufacturing, sourcing, suppliers, and installation personnel to ensure equipment meets all customer requirements and business objectives until handover to services / COD.
- Help establish and execute new project engineering process for handing pre-COD site queries / issues via ER case in ServiceNow tool.
- Presenting project issue resolutions periodically to upper management, highlighting risks, and creating action plans to remedy the risks
- Taking robust handover from application teams (ITO), performing comprehensive handoff to design team in OTR and ensuring project closure with clean handoff to services team
- Executing assigned projects with an ITR mindset.
- Demonstrate AI adaptation for simplification, speed and accuracy of day to day PE tasks.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor's degree in engineering from an accredited college or university.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in engineering and /or project management, preferably within the Power Plant Industry in an international project environment, out of which 5 years of working with direct customer interface.
- Ability and willingness to travel, as required ~10%
- Ability and willingness to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
- Leadership-quality communication skills, both verbal and written
Preferred qualifications
- Customer-facing experience
- Experience in managing installation and commissioning technical support and Engineering Response (ER) workflows.
- Proven ability to translate field-based technical feedback into scalable design solutions.
- Demonstrated commitment to Zero-Defect Framework principles, with experience in managing complex technical change control in high-pressure project environments
- Demonstration and adherence to Vernova Way Behavior
Benefits and support
- Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes
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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