Senior Customer Project Engineer - Gas Turbine

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Job Description Summary As a member of the Project Engineering team, you will provide input and make decisions that influence major technical and financial outcomes for GEV and/or the customer and customer representatives. Serve as the technical point of contact for the project’s External customer. Represent voice of customer to internal teams and voice of engineering to external teams. Communicate the requirements of the project contract to GEV Internal Engineering Teams. Reduce or eliminate risk on projects by resolving conflicts of interest between internal and external stakeholders. Manage changes to hardware, software and contractual scope by quantifying technical impact to cost and cycle. Accountable for project schedule, engineering response to customer and site during installation for engineering defects, comments or ambiguities etc., support other PEs as needed. Job Description Roles and Responsibilities The Senior GT Project Engineer provides technical project management, technical direction, and drives coordination of engineering activities and critical issue resolution for OTR-related issues for all assigned GT projects. The Senior GT Project Engineer functions as the technical liaison for the Customer and Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) representatives to ensure that the supplied design documentation and equipment fully complies with the contract requirements and drives continuous improvement in project execution. This position reports to the Project Engineering Leader (Asia) Essential Responsibilities: This position will require coordination with customers, Engineering, Procurement, and Construction firms (EPCs), Project Management, multiple engineering organizations, Centers of Excellence (COEs), Commercial Operations, Business Associates (BAs), Global Supply Chain (GSC), Power Service Engineering (PSE) and installation/field personnel by: • Actively own, support and analyze Pre-COD ER case trends to identify systemic design or installation risks. Translate site-learned insights into concrete engineering process improvements, transforming reactive site troubleshooting into proactive, long-term design excellence • Participating in constructability reviews, driving systematic lessons learnt back to engineering teams. • Driving lessons learned back into the design engineering organizations to avoid repeating issues via ERS, NCR, etc. • Providing technical guidance to Project Management and Applications/Regional Customer Applications Engineering • Conducting Customer Kick-Off Meetings (CKOMs), Site Kick-Off Meetings, and/or Design Liaison Meetings (DLMs) with customers and/or their design representatives (EPCs) • Reviewing contract documentation and communicating project requirements to all design functions, utilizing internal documentation systems and regular communication with internal engineering organizations • Evaluating the financial/schedule impacts of customer-requested scope changes via Cost & Cycle Estimates (CCEs) and implementing changes agreed to by Change Orders via the Change Management Process • Supporting resolution of cross-functional design complexities and working to resolve technical issues • Mitigating engineering schedule issues and taking preventative action to avoid delivery delays or late customer deliverables • Managing the Engineering Budget and providing quarterly Estimate at Completions (EACs) to Finance with monthly risk and opportunities visibility in Live Cost Visibility (LCV). • Providing technical support to engineering, manufacturing, sourcing, suppliers, and installation personnel to ensure equipment meets all customer requirements and business objectives until handover to services / COD. • Help establish and execute new project engineering process for handing pre-COD site queries / issues via ER case in ServiceNow tool. • Presenting project issue resolutions periodically to upper management, highlighting risks, and creating action plans to remedy the risks • Taking robust handover from application teams (ITO), performing comprehensive handoff to design team in OTR and ensuring project closure with clean handoff to services team • Executing assigned projects with an ITR mindset. • Demonstrate AI adaptation for simplification, speed and accuracy of day to day PE tasks. What you’ll bring (Basic Qualifications) • Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited college or university. • Minimum 10 years of experience in engineering and /or project management, preferably within the Power Plant Industry in an international project environment, out of which 5 years of working with direct customer interface. Eligibility Requirement: • Ability and willingness to travel, as required ~10% • Ability and willingness to manage multiple priorities simultaneously • Leadership-quality communication skills, both verbal and written What will make you stand out • Customer-facing experience • Experience in managing installation and commissioning technical support and Engineering Response (ER) workflows. • Proven ability to translate field-based technical feedback into scalable design solutions. • Demonstrated commitment to Zero-Defect Framework principles, with experience in managing complex technical change control in high-pressure project environments • Demonstration and adherence to Vernova Way Behavior Additional Information Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes