Job Description Summary
The Leader of the Center of Excellence (CoE) for the inverter product line is a people leader responsible for building and leading a high-performing team that supports the full product lifecycle—from concept and new product introduction (NPI) through sustaining engineering, service support, controls/software integration, and end-of-life management. This role provides strategic and technical leadership for inverter product development and lifecycle execution, ensuring alignment across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, service, controls/software, and commercial functions.
This leader will establish and drive best practices, standards, and governance processes that improve product quality, accelerate execution, strengthen field and service support, and enable continuous improvement across the inverter portfolio. The ideal candidate combines strong technical depth with proven leadership capabilities in a matrixed, product-focused organization.
Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities:
Team Leadership and Development
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineers and technical professionals supporting inverter product lifecycle activities.
- Build a high-performing Center of Excellence focused on technical rigor, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Define team structure, roles, responsibilities, and development plans aligned to business and product needs.
- Foster an inclusive, high-trust culture that encourages ownership, innovation, and cross-functional partnership.
- Manage performance, talent development, succession planning, and capability building within the team.
New Product Introduction (NPI)
- Lead CoE support for NPI programs from concept through launch, including requirements definition, design reviews, validation planning, and release readiness.
- Ensure new products are designed for manufacturability, serviceability, reliability, controls/software integration, and lifecycle supportability.
- Partner with product management, engineering, operations, quality, supply chain, manufacturing, and controls/software teams to remove barriers to successful launch.
- Establish and enforce NPI standards, checklists, and governance practices to improve consistency and execution quality.
- Support technical risk identification and mitigation throughout development and launch phases.
- Leverage AI and data-driven methods to optimize product performance, accelerate decision-making, and improve customer outcomes across the product lifecycle.
Sustaining Engineering
- Provide leadership for sustaining engineering activities across the inverter product line, including product enhancements, cost reduction, obsolescence management, corrective actions, and product improvements.
- Prioritize and coordinate resolution of engineering issues affecting product performance, manufacturability, supply continuity, software compatibility, and customer satisfaction.
- Ensure strong change management, configuration control, and documentation practices for in-market products.
- Partner with quality, service, operations, supply chain, and controls/software teams to address field issues and implement corrective and preventive actions.
- Drive lifecycle improvements that extend product value and reduce total cost of ownership.
Service Engineering Support
- Lead the team’s support to service engineering, ensuring effective technical response to field issues, serviceability concerns, and product support needs.
- Provide engineering expertise for troubleshooting, root cause analysis, service bulletins, repair guidance, technical documentation, and software/controls-related service actions.
- Partner with service and customer support teams to improve turnaround time, clarity of technical guidance, and field issue resolution.
- Identify recurring field failures and drive engineering actions to improve reliability, maintainability, and software robustness.
- Ensure service feedback is captured and incorporated into product and lifecycle improvements.
Controls/Software Leadership
- Lead CoE support for controls and software aspects of the inverter product line, ensuring integration of embedded controls, software functionality, diagnostics, and interface requirements across the lifecycle.
- Partner with controls/software engineering teams to ensure alignment on architecture, requirements, verification/validation, release readiness, and sustainment.
- Support software change management, version control, release governance, and backward compatibility considerations for in-market products.
- Ensure controls/software deliverables meet product performance, cybersecurity, reliability, and serviceability expectations.
- Promote close coordination between hardware, controls, software, test, service, and product teams to resolve integration and field issues effectively.
- Drive lessons learned from software and controls issues back into future product development and sustaining processes.
Product Lifecycle Governance and Excellence
- Define and institutionalize best practices across the full inverter product lifecycle, including NPI, sustaining, service support, controls/software, and end-of-life planning.
- Establish common tools, templates, standards, and review processes that improve execution quality and knowledge reuse.
- Lead cross-functional forums to review lifecycle status, risks, technical issues, and improvement opportunities.
- Promote reuse of proven solutions and standardization where appropriate to reduce complexity and development time.
- Track and communicate lifecycle metrics, team performance, and business impact to leadership.
Cross-Functional Influence
- Serve as the central point of leadership for inverter lifecycle excellence across engineering and supporting functions.
- Partner closely with product management, operations, quality, manufacturing, supply chain, service, and controls/software teams to ensure aligned priorities and execution.
- Influence decision-making across the organization through technical credibility, clear communication, and strong collaboration.
- Escalate systemic issues and drive resolution across functional boundaries.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field.
- 10+ years of experience in engineering, product development, product lifecycle management, or related technical leadership roles.
- 5+ years of experience leading technical teams in alignment with the GE Vernova Way, with a focus on accountability, collaboration, talent development, and continuous improvement.
- Strong experience in complex product development environments, preferably with power electronics, inverter systems, electrical equipment, or similar technologies.
- Demonstrated success leading NPI, sustaining engineering, service engineering support, and/or controls/software integration functions.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in a matrixed organization.
- Strong communication, influence, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on technical leadership.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Travel as needed 15% domestically or internally.
Desired Characteristics:
- Advanced degree in Engineering.
- Experience with inverter products, power conversion systems, or adjacent technologies.
- Familiarity with product lifecycle management, stage-gate processes, configuration management, software release management, and change control.
- Experience supporting service operations, field issue resolution, and reliability improvement.
- Background in manufacturing readiness, quality systems, embedded controls, software validation, and product support engineering.
- Experience building or leading a Center of Excellence, technical council, or similar capability center.
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: No
#LI-Remote - This is a remote position
Application Deadline:
For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $152,400.00 and $254,000.00. 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 May 28, 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 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.
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.
