Lead Controls Engineer

Job Description Summary As the inaugural Systems Technical Engineering Leader for our Nuclear Controls Services business, you will serve as the technical architect and orchestrator for our most critical integrated solutions. You will sit at the intersection of our hardware and software portfolios—bridging MKVIe platform, hydraulic steam turbine controls, generator electrical systems, HMI/Cybersecurity, and plant instrumentation systems. Your mandate is to ensure that disparate controls disciplines coalesce into a singular, high-quality, and reliable Nuclear integrated system. Job Description Key Focus Areas: Architectural Governance: Enforce integrated technical standards and design patterns, ensuring consistency across all project-level controls strategies. Systemic Integrity Oversight: Provide an overarching technical safety lens. While Project Engineers (PEs) manage individual delivery, you ensure that technical safety and reliability margins remain uncompromised throughout the lifecycle of complex, multi-discipline integrations. Complexity Management: Act as a technical authority for "high-risk/high-complexity" integration scenarios that require navigation beyond standard procedures. Strategic Interface & Requirements: Own the "glue" between requirements. Define how overlapping value streams interact to ensure that technical dependencies are transparent, traceable, and validated for quality. Technical Enablement: Audit verification / validation (V&V) frameworks and mentor technical leads to foster a culture of rigorous, unified systems engineering. Roles and Responsibilities: Define System Standards: Establish an integration framework for control system requirements, architecture, and V&V methodologies for the Nuclear fleet. Strategic Technical Advisory: Provide high-level guidance during critical project phases (ITO, EKO, Factory Customer Witness, and Site Commissioning), specifically targeting the resolution of cross-functional design gaps. Drive Design Cohesion: Partner with Value Stream owners to dissolve silos between Turbine, Mechanical, Generator, Electrical, HMI/Cyber and distributed plant controls domains. Align with Engineering Design Packaging team to deliver integrated solutions that interface well to customer systems Regulatory & Safety Advocacy: Represent the business as an expert regarding nuclear safety-critical design standards; influence product roadmaps to ensure compliance with the evolving global regulatory landscape. Influence-Based Leadership: Mentor and develop the engineering pipeline. Champion a "System-Level Mindset," ensuring every engineer understands their contribution to the broader nuclear plant operational profile. Required Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Nuclear, or Computer Engineering. 10+ years of technical leadership experience within the nuclear power generation industry. Expert-level command of Instrumentation & Control (I&C) systems within highly regulated, safety-critical environments. Demonstrated experience defining technical requirements, design patterns, and safety frameworks within a complex, matrixed engineering organization. Desired Characteristics: Influence without Authority: Exceptional ability to align cross-functional technical teams toward a common objective without direct line authority over project execution. Systems Integration Fluency: Deep understanding of the interplay between I&C platforms, electrical power systems, and Nuclear Balance-of-Plant (BOP) operations. Architectural Defense: Proven ability to lead high-stakes technical reviews and successfully defend complex system architectures to internal stakeholders and external regulators. Strategic Clarity: A gift for distilling multi-layered, system-level technical challenges into actionable, executable strategies. Modern Methodology: Practical experience with Agile methodologies as applied to complex, large-scale control system development. This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government. Additional Information GE Vernova offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Vernova is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. GE Vernova will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable). Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes Application Deadline: August 14, 2026 For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $113,200.00 and $188,800.00. 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 August 06, 2026. medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource 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 This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual. 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr