Job Description Summary

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.

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