Engineering Technical Lead
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IF1184 GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC
Wilmington, NC (In Person)
$162,200 Salary, Full-Time
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Job Description
Job Description Summary Lead and mentor team responsible for developing and maintaining analog and digital control systems to enable next generation SMR and existing BWR nuclear power plants to operate safely, efficiently, and sustainably. Focus on work planning, technical approach, design assurance, and execution excellence. Job Description Essential Responsibilities
- Lead preparation of high thru low work planning, scheduling, and resource loading across lifecycle phases of Engineer-Procure-Construct or new product introduction using the applicable practices, guides, and tools
- 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, detailed work planning, budget, overall schedule, applicable design processes, and discipline specific practices and tools including design and technical reviews
- Lead "day-to-day" operations and follow-up to ensure deliverables are produced and commitments met on-spec., on-budget, and on-schedule
- Coordinate proactively and inclusively for overall team across other engineering disciplines to support integrated plant design objectives
- Collaborate with project management, project engineering, support functions, and others to drive project completion
- Identify, confirm, document, and lead resolution of technical, risk, other emergent issues
- Provide technical oversight and mentorship to ensure system designs and deliverables comply with requirements throughout design release to manufacturing or supplier including production, validation, installation, and commission tests
- Support strategy, plan, statement of work preparation, and implementation of resource loading
- Assist with hosting learning sessions, knowledge capture, and transfer initiatives
- Use variety of tools for requirements, design, change, configuration, and document management
- Champion nuclear safety culture; Ensure compliance with GEH policies, quality management system, and corrective action program
- Deliver work with integrity, safety, security, quality, and on-time output Required Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, or Mathematics or equivalent 4-year technical degree
- Minimum of 10 years of application, field installation, and test engineering of systems, equipment, and components including selection and qualification to diverse industry standards
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in commercial nuclear industry working in plant instrumentation application, control and monitoring system hardware design, including implementation, test, installation, and commissioning
- Minimum of 5 years of experience performing independent, or preferably team based, system design or technical reviews including interfacing with requirements management, independent verification and validation
- Relocation to Wilmington, NC is required Desired Characteristics
- Experience in nuclear analog and digital instrumentation, control, monitoring, electric power system and field engineering
- Competency in industry standards IEEE, IEC, IPC, and quality standards
- Competency in modeling and test data collection tools
- Clear thinker, detail oriented, insightful, quantitative, balanced, and a results-oriented analyst and leader
- Proven track record of delivering commitments on specification, on budget, and on schedule
- Strong verbal communication, as well as, facilitation and presentation skills for technical and business audiences - Able to communicate openly, calmly, and crisply in stressful situations
- Adaptive; able to quickly learn diverse and varying organizational interfaces with professional astuteness
- Continuous improvement mindset with an ability to identify, influence, and implement better ways to do an activity or process
- Solid technical writing skills with focus on requirements and design documents
- Knowledge and experience with PCB design, signal analysis and system verification tools (Altium, PSpice, SystemVerilog, UVM, etc.)
- Knowledge and experience with common HDL languages and
PLD/FPGA
development tools (Quartus, Vivado, ModelSim, Questa, etc.).- General knowledge and experience of schematic design, PCB layout, and PCB manufacturing.
- Experienced in product, instrument, system design, verification, validation, and qualification
- Solves technical challenges through application of common design patterns and identifying appropriate patterns for use in problem solving
- Experience in design verification and validation
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills and ability to articulate clearly
- Contributes to creative solutions and challenges status quo
- Proactively learns new tools and identifies opportunities for improvement and promotes their adoption This role requires access to U.
Relocation Assistance Provided:
Yes For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $111,200.00 and $213,200.00. 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 April 23, 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. Addressing the climate crisis is an urgent global priority and we take our responsibility seriously. That is our singular mission atGE Vernova:
continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to help decarbonize it. If we want our energy future to be different…we must be different. Our mission is embedded in our name. We retain our treasured legacy, "GE," in our name as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity. "Ver" / "verde" signal Earth's verdant and lush ecosystems. "Nova," from the Latin "novus," nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver. Together, we have The Energy to Change the World. www.gevernova.comSimilar remote jobs
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