Controls QMS Leader

Job Description Summary GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable affordable and sustainable energy while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health safety security and improved quality of life. Are you excited at the opportunity to electrify and decarbonize the world
What impact youll make

As a Quality Lead Engineer in Controls Engineering you will be an active contributor to the Gas Power business and play a pivotal role in ensuring the efficient and effective operation of the global Controls Engineering organization.
The quality of the work that we do every day matters tremendously to our customers and our business. To support engineerings commitment to quality you will act as the Controls Engineering Quality Lead Engineer. You will work closely with a diverse set of functional groups and controlled titleholders to achieve operational excellence and apply quality principles and techniques to Controls Engineering processes. The role has moderate autonomy requiring high levels of operational judgment. Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Work with Controls Quality Leader as Quality Lead Engineer for Controls Engineering organization supporting CSS HDS HDNU Aero and SPS business lines in support of the four Quality Workstreams: Zero Defect Culture New Product Introduction Supply Base Quality and Management of Change. Engineering plays strongly in all four of these workstreams and across the entire lifecycle of our products.
• Support response to front-line customers who feel the pain when we deliver poor quality.
• Drive improvement upstream into our processes across all of Engineering.
• Improve our engineering quality execution but also the broader Gas Power Quality workstreams.
• Drive Quality Excellence into Engineering.
• Support day-to-day Quality Operations for an organization of 600 engineers located worldwide.
• Coordinate all quality issue resolution with Controls Engineering Quality Leader.
• Coordinate necessary QMS auditing activities across Controls Engineering to support ISO accreditation including desk-side audits quality framework audits and LRQA.
• Run quality management reviews with Controls leadership.
• Support Controls quality MOR (Monthly Operating Review).
• Partner with broader Corporate Gas Power Gas Power Engineering and Controls quality community to drive a culture of zero-defect culture among the Controls Engineering organization.
• Broaden the application of problem-solving (root cause analysis) and continuous improvement tools in a way that will improve quality efficiency capacity and process reliability.
• Drive the necessary continuous improvement processes including NCR RCA PSR.
• Maintain and improve daily management of quality through use of CLM and Power Now dashboards and queries.
• Enable and empower the Controls Engineering resources to identify opportunities and locally act upon to drive quality improvements.
• Celebrate and share Controls Engineering quality lessons learned and recognize success.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree or diploma in engineering/science from an accredited university or college
• Minimum of 3 years engineering or relevant technical experience in turbine controls operability or systems
• Fluency in English

Desired Characteristics

• Demonstrates the Vernova Way principles: innovation customers lean one team and accountable.
• Experience in the power generation industry.
• Demonstrated ability to coach and teach others.
• Practical knowledge of root cause analysis techniques and tools.
• Appropriate experience driving quality improvement preferably within an engineering organization.
• Demonstrated ability to challenge the status quo and drive continuous improvement.
• Proven to be effective at driving outcomes in a large globally matrixed organization.
• Comfortable with conflict but leads as a collaborator facilitator and strong partner.
• Critical systems thinker with the ability to bring others along even those with conflicting priorities.
• Strong analytical skills; data-driven but decisive despite ambiguity.
• Customer-focused with clear concise written and oral communications to the appropriate level.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1