Operator Training Simulator Release Train Engineer

Job Description SummaryWant to be part of the Energy Transformation, have a meaningful career, work on complex solutions like carbon capture, decarbonization, fast power and grid reconstruction stabilization that will change the way power is delivered to the world Come join one of the most formidable design teams in the Power Industry, GE's Gas Power Controls team. At GE Gas Power Controls, we design and implement control solutions that have meaningful impact on people's lives and enable the transformation of the energy sector. You will be empowered, work in a Scaled Agile Framework environment (SAFe) driving meaningful change and continuous improvement using Lean principles. You will have a complete life cycle experience from initial concept development through detailed design, implementation, and upgrades, working with over five hundred global engineers with a single purpose; deliver the cleanest, most efficient power to our customers with the Operability needed in today's dynamic power grid.

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Roles and Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible to:

• Lead the team that builds and sells Operator Training Simulators (OTS) for sale to our Gas Power customers.
• Drive strategy and process that enhances project execution that meets and exceeds customers' expectations.
• Guide the development of hardware/software platforms for simulator delivery.
• Identify and prioritize new features for the OTS product.
• Partner with Product Management and Requisition leadership to develop new features for OTS.
• Drive Lean thinking to provide high fidelity, easy to use OTS capability for a broad range of Gas Power customers.
• Guide the development of standard work to enable delivery of high-quality OTS.
• Identify and drive OTS improvements and new features back into simulation and modeling standards.
• Develop inquiry to order and marketing strategies to improve product sales.
• Develop an OTS service business model to capture more revenue from existing customers.
• Develop metrics to track OTD of projects.
• Support/Lead customer training simulator site acceptance testing at customer facility.
• Support Resolution of OTS PAC cases.
• Site travel to support sales, installation and upgrades. Less than 10% of year.

Required Qualifications

• Master of Science (MS) in Engineering, Electrical, Chemical, Mechanical, or related engineering.
• Working knowledge of ITO and OTR processes associated with Operator Training Simulators.
• Minimum 15 years of experience in: Power Plant Operations, System Design, Operability, Performance Engineering, Simulation/Modeling or Controls Engineering of any the following Combined Cycle Power Plant or Carbon Capture Plant Components, in any combination.
• Familiarity with gas turbine, steam turbine, and power plant systems.
• Good understanding of power plant operations and controls.
• Experience with transient simulation and simulation software packages such as Easy5, Simulink, Modelon
• FORTRAN, C/C++, Python Scripting and/or Java scripting programming languages.
• Strong thermodynamics engineering background
  

Desired Characteristics

• Strong leadership skills, keeping team focused and innovating through dynamic business cycle.
• System Integration mindset for meeting customer demands
• Excellent communication skills with ability to sell technology through simple and clear messaging.
• Lean mindset, acting on feedback, driving productivity initiatives for business results and personal engineering satisfaction.
  
  Note:
  To comply with US immigration and other legal requirements, it is necessary to specify the minimum number of years' experience required for any role based within the USA. For roles outside of the USA, to ensure compliance with applicable legislation, the JDs should focus on the substantive level of experience required for the role and a minimum number of years should NOT be used.

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