Job Description Summary

The Senior Director Wind Engineering System Simulation Leader is an executive engineering leader responsible for a global organization that predicts, analyzes, and improves overall wind turbine behavior across the full product life cycle. This team plays a critical role in enabling commercial success, advancing new product development, supporting validation and certification, and resolving field performance issues across a global fleet of more than 50,000 wind turbines.

This leader is accountable for the engineering capability used to model turbine performance, structural loads, acoustics, operability, aeroelastics and system stability under real-world operating conditions. The role sits at the intersection of engineering, product strategy, commercial support, and customer outcomes, helping the business make better decisions about product design, site suitability, fleet reliability, and long-term technology investment.

In addition to leading a globally distributed team, the System Simulation Leader defines the long-term strategy for simulation methods, digital tools, and software platforms required to predict wind turbine behavior at scale. This role also builds organizational capability by attracting, developing, and mentoring top engineering talent and by fostering a culture of technical rigor, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.

This is a highly visible leadership role with direct impact on product competitiveness, sales effectiveness, fleet performance, and the future of wind engineering.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:

• Set the vision and strategic direction for the global System Simulation organization, ensuring alignment with business priorities, product strategy, and customer needs.
• Lead and develop a high-performing global engineering team responsible for predicting wind turbine system behavior, including performance, loads, acoustics, aeroelastics, stability, and operability.
• Establish simulation-driven insights that inform technology development, new product introduction, validation, certification, and fleet support decisions across the full product life cycle.
• Support commercial and sales activities by delivering robust wind resource assessments and product suitability analyses for customer sites and applications.
• Drive engineering excellence that improves turbine availability, reliability, performance, and overall product quality.
• Lead rapid and rigorous resolution of fleet performance and quality issues by using system-level analysis to identify root causes, define corrective actions, and feed lessons learned back into future designs.
• Define and execute a multi-year roadmap for simulation methods, model fidelity, software platforms, and digital engineering capabilities to improve predictive accuracy, speed, and scale.
• Own and evolve the company’s core system simulation software platform, ensuring its long-term development, scalability, and alignment with business needs.
• Partner across engineering, product management, manufacturing, sourcing, services, quality, and commercial teams to improve product performance, reduce cost, and enhance customer outcomes.
• Manage significant operating and investment budgets, prioritizing resources to maximize technical and business impact.
• Champion lean principles, standard work, and continuous improvement to strengthen engineering productivity, quality, and execution.
• Establish effective operating mechanisms, reviews, and decision forums to drive execution, accountability, and organizational alignment.
• Build a strong leadership pipeline by recruiting, developing, coaching, and mentoring world-class engineering talent.
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative culture grounded in technical excellence, customer focus, and continuous learning.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college in Engineering or a related technical discipline, or equivalent knowledge and experience.
• Extensive engineering experience in a complex technical or industrial environment.
• Significant leadership experience, including direct leadership of technical teams and/or system-level engineering leadership.
• Experience leading cross-functional programs and influencing outcomes across a matrixed global organization.
• Willingness to travel up to 30%.

Desired Characteristics:

• Demonstrated success leading global engineering teams and delivering results through others.
• Deep expertise in complex system modeling, simulation, and engineering analysis, ideally in wind, energy, aerospace, automotive, or other highly engineered industrial systems.
• Strong technical leadership experience across product development, technology maturation, root cause analysis, validation, and method/tool development.
• Systems thinker with the ability to evaluate tradeoffs, assess risk, and optimize technical and business outcomes.
• Proven ability to improve processes, implement standard work, and apply lean principles to increase quality and execution effectiveness.
• Strategic mindset with the ability to navigate complexity, set clear direction, and deliver impact over both short- and long-term horizons.
• Effective people leader, coach, and mentor with a track record of building strong teams and developing technical talent.
• Strong influencing skills with demonstrated ability to align stakeholders and drive cross-functional execution.
• Decisive leader who can manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment and take ownership of critical issues through resolution.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical topics for a range of audiences, including senior leaders, commercial teams, and customers.
• Strong business acumen and customer focus.
• Master’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field from an accredited college or university.

For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $228,000 and $342,000 USD. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set.

If contracted in Spain:

Non-national candidates are responsible to know the minimum documentation requirements to be able to be contracted in country: EU Work Permit, NIE- Social Security Affiliation Number in Spain (NAF) and Bank Account in Spain. They must be in possession of them at the time of start hiring. GE will not sponsor this requirement.

 

 

For candidates applying to a U.S. based position only:

 

 

Bonus eligibility: discretionary annual bonus.

 

 

This posting is expected to remain open for at least seven days after it was posted on August 12, 2026.

 

 

Available benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and 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 Executive Services. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability benefits, life insurance, 12 paid holidays, and permissive time off, and the Restoration Plan, a nonqualified plan with company credits on eligible pay above IRS limits.

 

 

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. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.