Tech Lead - Plant Simulation Assisted Engineering

About the role

Job Description Summary

The Simulation Assisted Engineering (SAE) Technical leader will be responsible for providing leadership, direction, development, and resource management of a technical team of engineers supporting GVH Nuclear. In addition, you will manage complex issues within the functional area of expertise, be involved in long-term planning and contribute to the overall engineering strategy.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

As the Technical Leader - Simulation Assisted Engineering

• • Coordinate alignment within the team and business through recurring team rhythms and scheduling cadences to ensure consistent project delivery and communication flow.
  • Maintain project management systems (including Confluence, Jira, GitLab and Primavera P6) and status repositories, ensuring all documentation remains current for all internal and external stakeholders.
  • Coordinate multiple complex projects’ schedules and workforce planning by actively participating in team and Project meetings to align activities with organizational priorities and available resources.
  • Create, maintain, and distribute team schedule reports that clearly communicate upcoming activities, key milestones, and resource needs.
  • Develop, communicate, and distribute workplans for the team’s scheduled activities including key milestones, resource needs, and expected deliverables.
  • Work with team leadership to prioritize activities based on project needs, organizational priorities, and available resources with a focus on short- and long-term visions.
  • Support project engineering or manager with understanding execution metric and status, issues, risks, mitigation or recovering plans, and be extremely proactive to identify changes in scope.
  • Drive compliance utilizing scope, level 5 work plan, budget, overall schedule, applicable design processes, and discipline specific practices and tools including design and technical reviews.
  • Collaborate in cross-functional environment of; Systems, Instrumentation & Controls, and Human Factors Engineering to successful deployment, implementation, and lifecycle stewardship of the multi-organization and multi-geographic SAE environment. Have accountability for delivering products and services on-time and on-budget.
  • Work collaboratively across the engineering matrix and with business leaders in Product Development, Project Delivery, Sourcing and Quality to ensure close coordination of technical inputs/outputs, project/product requirements, workforce planning/scheduling and risk management.
  • Have ownership to streamline, integrate and develop team technical and management processes to better support business needs across the organization through Lean and/or Six Sigma methodology.
  • Act as a technical liaise with customers, partner organizations and suppliers as necessary and in close partnership/coordination with Product Development and Project Delivery leaders.
  • Partner with business teams and presents product/program strategies, technical roadmaps, risks and recommendations to senior leads across GVH.

Required Qualifications  

• • Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Electrical, Mechanical, Nuclear, Systems, Software, Computer Science or Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, or equivalent 4-year technical degree.
  • 8+ years of relevant engineering experience, preferably in simulation using modern physics, mathematics, and software-based modeling tools for design, analysis, or training involving; nuclear reactor thermal hydraulics, plant process fluidic and mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, control, monitoring systems.

Eligibility Requirements

• • The preferred work location for this role is at the GVH Headquarters in Wilmington, NC.
  • This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.

Desired Qualifications

• • Experience in simulation software (e.g., 3KeyMaster).
  • Experience with:
    • ANSI/ANS-3.5-2009 Nuclear Power Plant simulators for use in operator training and examination
    • REG GUIDE 1.149 Nuclear Power Plant Simulation Facilities for use in operator training, License examination and applicant experience requirements.
  • Senior Reactor Operator (SRO) license or certification.
  • Primavera P6 knowledge.
  • Experience managing highly technical and diverse Engineering teams and functions.
  • PMI/PMP certified with proven project management experience.
  • Knowledge of working within a regulated environment (nuclear).
  • Strong organization skills.
  • Prior experience in project delivery and working within a matrix environment. 
  • Ability to work to tight deadlines and cope under pressure.
  • Excellent writing and verbal communications skills.

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.

Additional Information

GE Vernova offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Vernova is an Equal 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: Yes