Job Description Summary

We are seeking a Senior Value Engineer (m/f/d) to play a critical leadership role within the Pivot to Value (P2V) Value Engineering team, with primary focus on Steam Turbines, Generators, and Value Engineering portfolio. This role is central to advancing our safety, quality, delivery, cost, and capacity objectives by identifying, prioritizing, and enabling high-impact value creation opportunities across product and service value streams.
The successful candidate will combine deep Steam and Generator domain expertise with strong financial acumen, budget governance, should-cost capability, cross-functional leadership, and operational excellence experience. This leader will shape and drive value engineering initiatives that improve cost competitiveness, service margins, quality, productivity, and cycle time while ensuring disciplined portfolio execution and risk-controlled delivery.
This position is ideal for a senior professional who has led global transformation programs across Steam and Generator product/service value streams, managed CAPEX/OPEX and cross-functional business budgets, developed business cases and ROI-driven investment plans, and influenced execution across engineering, sourcing, manufacturing, product management, and service organizations.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead value engineering strategy and execution for Steam Turbines and Generators, with emphasis on cost, quality, capacity, productivity, and cycle-time improvement across product and service portfolios.
• Identify, prioritize, and mature value opportunities through structured ideation, should-cost analysis, simplification, standardization, make/buy evaluation, and design-for-manufacturing approaches.
• Build robust business cases, funding proposals, implementation roadmaps, and value capture plans to secure stakeholder alignment and financial approval.
• Own and support Value Engineering budgets, including planning and governance of portfolio spend, operating expenditure, capital expenditure, and resource prioritization across initiatives.
• Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Supply Chain, Sourcing, Manufacturing, Product Management, Commercial, and Service teams to turn opportunities into executable initiatives and sustain realized value.
• Drive implementation of project plans through the full gated value engineering lifecycle, from ideation and business case development through execution, governance, and realized financial impact.
• Establish and maintain KPI governance, executive reporting, milestone reviews, and risk mitigation frameworks to ensure transparent portfolio management and leadership visibility.
• Facilitate Kaizen, Lean, and continuous improvement workshops to accelerate value stream optimization and embed sustainable operating rhythms.
• Translate stakeholder and market requirements into practical, value-based decisions at system/module level, including configurability, reuse, make/buy, and fulfillment strategy.
• Support organizational goals by balancing performance, quality, capacity, safety, and cost to deliver the highest total value for the business and customers.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field.
• Significant experience in Steam Turbine and/or Generator engineering, operations, product support, service, manufacturing, or value engineering within the power generation industry.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional cost-out, productivity, or value stream transformation initiatives across complex global organizations.
• Proven experience with should-cost analysis, cost modeling, design-for-manufacturing, make/buy decisions, simplification, and standardization.
• Strong business and financial acumen, including experience with business case development, ROI analysis, and budget planning/governance.
• Fluency in English and willingness to travel up to 20%.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree such as Master’s or PhD in engineering or related discipline.
• Direct experience supporting Steam Turbine and Generator product/service value streams, including new units, outages, repairs, upgrades, and lifecycle services.
• Experience managing portfolio budgets, CAPEX/OPEX initiatives, and strategic productivity roadmaps.
• Track record of delivering measurable impact in cost optimization, cycle-time reduction, service margin expansion, and quality improvement.
• Experience building executive KPI dashboards and portfolio reporting using tools such as Tableau, Smartsheet, Minitab, or similar platforms.
• Lean Six Sigma, FMEA, Kaizen, or operational excellence certification/experience.
• Experience operating effectively in a global matrix environment and influencing senior stakeholders across regions and functions.
• German language capability is a plus.

Desired Characteristics:

• Strategic thinker with the ability to connect technical decisions to financial and operational outcomes.
• Strong change leader who can align diverse stakeholders and drive adoption across global teams.
• Excellent communicator with executive presence and the ability to influence across formal and informal networks.
• Hands-on, data-driven problem solver with a passion for continuous improvement and sustainable value creation.
• Comfortable leading multiple complex initiatives simultaneously with high autonomy, accountability, and pace.

What Success Looks Like:

In this role, you will:

• Deliver high-impact value engineering initiatives across Steam and Generator portfolios
• Improve cost, capacity, quality, and lead time through structured cross-functional execution
• Provide disciplined oversight of Value Engineering budgets and investment prioritization
• Build sustainable governance mechanisms for value capture, risk management, and executive reporting
• Influence the business to challenge traditional approaches and unlock greater total value across products and services

Why Join This Team

This is an opportunity to help shape how value is created across one of the most critical parts of the power generation business. You will work at the intersection of product strategy, engineering, operations, supply chain, and financial governance, driving initiatives that have visible business impact and long-term strategic importance.

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