The Senior Engineer Product Safety will be responsible for evaluating design safety and ensuring potential personnel and environmental hazards are mitigated. This involvement is throughout the entire product life cycle, including conducting reviews as part of the design process and tracking resolution of field issues.
About us:
GE’s Onshore Wind business has a total installed base of more than 50,000 wind turbines in more than 35 counties, with 100+ GW of global installed capacity. We harness increased onshore wind energy potential through a broad family of turbines that are uniquely suited for a variety of wind environments, including Cypress, GE’s most powerful onshore wind turbine, and GE’s 2MW platform, which has more than 20GW installed and in operation today. We are committed to our customers’ success in wind, offering a broad portfolio of products and services that make renewables the energy of choice for a cleaner future.
Why we come to work:
At GE Renewable Energy, our engineers are always up for the challenge -and we’re always driven to find the best solution. Our projects are unique and interesting, and you’ll need to bring a solution-focused, positive approach to each one to do your best. Surrounded by committed, loyal colleagues, if you can dare to bring your ingenuity and desire to make an impact, you’ll be exposed to game-changing, diverse projects that truly allow you to play your part in the green energy transition.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Facilitate and support product safety risk assessments for existing (installed base equipment) units.
- Product Safety Engineering's primary mission is to ensure that product safety hazards are mitigated to a safe level throughout the entire product life cycle.
- Drive resolution of safety critical items by documenting investigation details and working together with the management and turbine design teams to ensure completion of actions items.
- Facilitate Containment, Root cause, Corrective / Preventative Action identification and Corrective / Preventative Action Implementation for product safety concerns by working together with cross-functional teams representing Fleet Support Engineering, Design Engineering, Regional Fleet Reliability Operations, EHS, Legal, Supplier Quality, Sourcing, and Chief Engineers Office
- Facilitate cross-functional Safety Program Management Teams to actively drive the execution of the GE Renewable Energy Product Safety process.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of Product Safety methods and processes.
- Mentor less experienced product safety engineers to grow organizational capabilities and drive technical pipeline development.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, Safety, or Industrial Engineering from an accredited university / college
- Minimum of 5 years of advanced experience in Product Safety or Wind turbine design and/or servicing
- Minimum of 2 year experience in leading safety hazard analysis and driving implementation of mitigation actions that impacted installed base products.
Desired Characteristics:
- Excellent team and communications skills.
- Ability to perform well, under pressure, as a problem solver.
- Successfully achieves positive result, concrete result through hared work and perseverance.
- Easily analyzes and prioritizes information, distilling it to the critical issues and drawing accurate conclusions.
- Ability to facilitate and lead cross-functional teams.
- Thorough knowledge of global industry safety codes, standards/regulations.
- Experience in performing probabilistic analysis of mechanical systems.
- Advanced degree.
- Result-oriented mindset.
- Ability to multi-task.
- Communication and influencing skills.
The salary range for this position is $108,600.00 – $181,000.00 USD Annual. The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidate’s experience, their education, and the work location. In addition, this position is eligible for a 15% variable incentive bonus. Available health and welfare benefits include healthcare, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage; savings account options (such as a Health Care Flexible Savings Account, Health Reimbursement Account, Limited Purpose Flexible Spending Account, and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account); and an employee assistance program. Additional benefits include a defined contribution 401(k) plan, employee life insurance, optional dependent life insurance, employee accidental death or dismemberment insurance coverage, short-term disability, optional long-term disability, pre-tax transportation/commuter program, paid holidays, paid time off, parental leave, a layoff plan for salaried employees, tuition refund program, use of CariLoop, adoption assistance, optional identity theft prevention insurance, optional personal legal assistance, and optional personal excess liability insurance.
GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE 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 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