Lead Systems Engineer (m/f/d)

Job Description Summary

Shape the systems engineering approach for large infrastructure projects that matter. In this role, you will lead systems engineering across complex projects delivered through a consortium of two companies, helping teams work together to deliver safe, high-quality outcomes for customers and communities. If you want to be part of a major adventure at the heart of the energy transition in Europe and have a passion to drive large & complex projects with multi-cultural international teams, we want to hear from you!

What You Will Do

• Lead systems engineering activities across large infrastructure projects, ensuring technical work stays aligned to project goals, timelines, and delivery needs.
• Plan, supervise, and coordinate systems engineering tasks completed by internal teams as well as suppliers and subcontractors.
• Manage the systems engineering technical budget and help ensure resources are used effectively across the project lifecycle.
• Apply the Technical Quality Plan and Requirements Quality Plan to support consistent, high-quality engineering delivery.
• Work closely with suppliers and subcontractors to address technical questions and resolve issues within scope.
• Support the deployment of ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288:2015 system life cycle processes across the project.
• Promote strong health, safety, and environmental practices by identifying hazards and engineering risks, supporting product integrity, and ensuring compliance with safety and regulatory requirements.

QualificationsRequired

• Significant experience in systems engineering or a related technical field.
• Experience leading technical teams in complex project environments.
• Experience using requirements management tools such as IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, or a related field is nice to have, but we are most interested in your total experience and professional achievements.
• Clear communication, steady problem-solving, and strong technical leadership, with the ability to explain complex information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and work effectively across multidisciplinary, multicultural teams.
• Willingness to travel as required.

Preferred

• Experience in the High-Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) power transmission industry or a similar field.
• Experience working in a consortium project environment.
• Understanding of dependability management, relevant industry standards, and how to identify and reduce technical risk in changing environments.

Why Join GE Vernova At GE Vernova

At GE Vernova, you help build a world that works. You will contribute to projects with real infrastructure impact while working with teams that value safety, quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement. We also offer competitive benefits and ongoing opportunities for learning and career growth, depending on your employment status and local requirements.

About GE Grid Solutions

At GE Grid Solutions, we are electrifying the world with advanced grid technologies. As leaders in the energy space, our goal is to accelerate the transition to a more energy efficient grid to full fill the needs of tomorrow. With a focus on growth and sustainability, GE Grid Solutions plays a pivotable role in integrating Renewables onto the grid to drive to carbon-neutral. In Grid Solutions we help enable the transition to a greener more reliable Grid. GE Grid Solutions has the most advanced and comprehensive product and solutions portfolio within the energy sector.

Why we come to work

At GE Renewable Energy, our engineers are always up for the challenge - and we’re always driven to find the best solution. Our projects are unique and interesting, and you’ll need to bring a solution-focused, positive approach to each one to do your best. Surrounded by committed, loyal colleagues, if you can dare to bring your ingenuity and desire to make an impact, you’ll be exposed to game-changing, diverse projects that truly allow you to play your part in the energy transition.

What we offer

Working in an international team which is part of global Engineering HVDC Centre of Excellence within Grid Integration based in Stafford and Berlin. A key role in a dynamic, international working environment with a large degree of flexibility of work agreements. Competitive benefits, and great development opportunities.

Additional Information Relocation Assistance Provided

No Addressing the climate crisis is an urgent global priority and we take our responsibility seriously. That is our singular mission at GE 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.