Senior Engineer Product Safety

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**Job Description Summary**
The Senior Engineer Product Safety will be responsible for evaluating design safety and ensuring potential personnel and environmental hazards are mitigated. This involvement is throughout the entire product life cycle, including conducting reviews as part of the design process and tracking resolution of field issues.
**Job Description**
**About us:**
GEs Onshore Wind business has a total installed base of more than 50,000 wind turbines in more than 35 counties, with 100 GW of global installed capacity. We harness increased onshore wind energy potential through a broad family of turbines that are uniquely suited for a variety of wind environments, including Cypress, GEs most powerful onshore wind turbine, and GEs 2MW platform, which has more than 20GW installed and in operation today. We are committed to our customers success in wind, offering a broad portfolio of products and services that make renewables the energy of choice for a cleaner future.
**Why we come to work:**
At GE Renewable Energy, our engineers are always up for the challenge -and were always driven to find the best solution. Our projects are unique and interesting, and youll 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, youll be exposed to game-changing, diverse projects that truly allow you to play your part in the green energy transition.
**Essential Responsibilities:**
Facilitate and support product safety risk assessments for new and existing (installed base equipment) units.
Drive resolution of safety critical items by documenting investigation details and working together with the management and turbine design teams to ensure completion of actions items.
Act as a focal point for product safety issues for a product segment, manage communication to executive segment management, and compile and track safety metrics.
Facilitate Containment, Root cause, Corrective / Preventative Action identification and Corrective / Preventative Action Implementation for product safety concerns by working together with cross-functional teams representing Fleet Support Engineering, Design Engineering, Regional Fleet Reliability Operations, EHS, Legal, Supplier Quality, Sourcing, and Chief Engineers Office
Facilitate cross-functional Safety Program Management Teams to actively drive the execution of the GE Renewable Energy Product Safety process.
Contribute to the continuous improvement of Product Safety methods and processes.
Act as a mentor and coach to junior colleagues.
**Required Qualifications:**
Bachelor's degree from an accredited university / college
Minimum of 5 years of advanced experience in Product Safety or Wind turbine design in one of the following 4 areas:
electrical wind turbine components
nacelle / drive train
structural stability / tower
blade / composites
**Desired Characteristics:**
Safety-oriented mindset
Proven cross-functional project management skills
Result-oriented mindset
Ability to multi-task
Previous experience with and in-depth understanding of how to resolve Safety issues
Communication and influencing skills
Ability to facilitate large, cross-functional meetings
GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE 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 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).
As a federal government contractor, GE may in the future be required to have U.S. employees fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Some GE customers currently have vaccination mandates that may apply to GE employees.
**Relocation Assistance Provided:** Yes
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Posted:
2022-02-23
Expires:
2022-03-25
General Electric

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