Job Description Summary The HQ Global Process Engineering Authority (GPEA) for Assembly, Functional Testing & Facility is the enterprise-wide architect for GE Vernova’s product integration and validation framework, supporting Power, Wind, and Electrification across +130 manufacturing facilities. While business-level teams focus on the implementation of specific assembly lines or test stands (point solutions), this HQ GPEA owns the foundational standards that govern how products are mechanically built, functionally verified, and physically integrated into a unified "Operational Excellence Framework."
This GPEA has the responsibility to identify the "Gold Standards" and create and communicate the "Locked Configurations" for Assembly, Testing, and Facility-level technologies that allow local innovations to be scaled globally. Their mission is to ensure that every capital investment in assembly cells, test bays, and facility infrastructure is designed for maximum flow, reliability, automation, and rapid global scaling. Serving as the final technical authority for integration and performance-verification technology, they ensure all shop-floor assets are "1P1P Standard Ready" and optimized for design-compliant production. You will influence a global network of Business GPELs and Factory LPEAs to drive SQDC improvements by orchestrating how electro-mechanical assembly, functional testing, and facility-level logistics interact across the entire GE Vernova value stream.
The GPEA will coach and influence a dotted-line organization, comprised of factory technical leads across the organization. Critical to the role is leveraging analytical skills, the lean methodology and the guiding principle of creating process standards for equipment (“One Product One Process”) to drive SQDC in line with business and functional objectives. The candidate chosen for this position will acquire strong technical knowledge and extensive exposure to manufacturing, engineering, quality, and safe process development. The selected candidate plays a key role in the value stream, and in building a culture of inclusion and respect for people as well as continuous improvement.
Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities
- Standards Governance: Synthesize, author, and govern the 1P1P standards using existing templates (e.g., Global Technical Equipment Specifications (TES), Manufacturing Process Standards (MPS), Automation Process Standards (APS), Request for Quote (RFQ), etc.) for all Assembly, Test, and Facility subclasses.
- Integration & Flow Optimization: Define the technical standards for electro-mechanical assembly (e.g. Torque, Tension, Fit), balancing, and the physical flow of parts (e.g. part handling, part movement) to ensure a high-velocity and ergonomic manufacturing environment.
- Locked Configuration Management: Evaluate successful business-level innovations in technologies such as precision torquing, leak testing, automated kitting and codify them into locked configurations to enable rapid enterprise-wide deployment and capital efficiency.
- Performance Validation Standards: Establish and enforce equipment capability standards for functional testing (Electrical, Mechanical, Fluid, Functional) to ensure that every product shipped meets strict design-compliance and field-reliability requirements.
- Facility & Infrastructure Integration: Architect the enterprise strategy for standardized facility requirements - including industrial utilities, HVAC, lifting/rigging standards, specialized test bay enclosures, and facility-level environmental controls - to ensure a safe, optimized, and repeatable integration process.
- SQDC Orchestration: Collaborate with Business GPELs and Factory LPEAs to translate assembly and test data into measurable improvements in Safety (Ergonomics/Lifting), Quality (First Pass Yield/Leak Reduction), Delivery (Takt Time), and Cost (Capacity Optimization) across the Business/Segment/Enterprise.
- P&E Strategic Authority: Act as the final technical authority for enterprise-wide assembly, test, and facility infrastructure investments, ensuring alignment with the 1P1P global taxonomy.
Required Qualifications
- Education & Experience: Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Manufacturing Engineering OR a minimum of 15 years of extensive industrial experience in complex mechanical assembly and functional testing, with demonstrated success in developing and engineering assembly and test solutions in complex, multi-site technical manufacturing environments.
- Core Industrial Experience: Minimum of 10 years of industrial experience in high-precision assembly or functional testing (e.g., Power Generation, Aerospace, or Automotive integration), including a Global Technical Lead or Enterprise Scaling capacity across multiple manufacturing sites.
- Technical Proficiency: Deep expertise in precision electro-mechanical assembly (e.g., advanced torquing/bolting), balancing, and functional performance testing (e.g., High Voltage, Fluid Power, or Dynamic Run tests).
- Systemic Knowledge: Proficiency in interpreting complex design requirements and the ability to bridge the gap between engineering specifications and the physical integration/test environment.
- Standardization Expertise: Proven history of developing and enforcing technical standards for integration equipment and facility-level health that have successfully scaled globally.
- Experience using CAD/CAM software like NX, SolidWorks, MasterCAM, Predator, and Vericut
- The ability to create manufacturing, electro-mechanical, and automation standards (hardware, process, and qualification).
- Ability to interpret blueprints, specifications, drawings, and schematics
- Project Management skills and experience
- Direct leadership experience of both professional and production employees.
Additional Requirements
Desired Characteristics
- Flow & Integration Visionary: Ability to identify opportunities to enhance throughput and reliability through the integration of real-time assembly monitoring and automated functional testing.
- Strategic Influencer: Strong leadership skills to align Business Leaders and Factory Teams around a single "Gold Standard," even when it requires moving away from localized legacy assembly, testing, or facility practices.
- Reliability Advocate: Passion for how "Source Point Quality" - achieved through standardized assembly and testing - can be leveraged to drive step-change improvements in field asset performance.
- Lean-Facility Integration: Expertise in applying Lean principles (3P, Kaizen, Standard Work) to the architecture of an assembly cell and test bay, ensuring that technology serves the safety, quality, and flow of the operator. Read, create and update electro-mechanical schematics
- Experience in manual and CNC technology in a production and processing environment
- Experience with machine learning and AI applications to support adaptive manufacturing processes
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
For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $144,000.00 and $240,000.00. The Company pays a geographic differential of 110%, 120% or 130% of salary in certain areas. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set.
Bonus eligibility: discretionary annual bonus.
This posting is expected to remain open for at least seven days after it was posted on November 10, 2026.
Available benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability benefits, life insurance, 12 paid holidays, and permissive time off.
GE Vernova Inc. or its affiliates (collectively or individually, “GE Vernova”) sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs GE Vernova reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace, or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a GE Vernova welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.
