Engineering Technical Lead - I&C Embedded Software

GE Vernova is a leader in energy solutions, and they are seeking an Engineering Technical Lead for I&C Embedded Software. The role involves leading a team in the development and maintenance of embedded software for nuclear power plants, focusing on technical oversight, project management, and ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards.

Responsibilities:

• Lead preparation of high thru low work planning, scheduling, and resource loading across lifecycle phases of Engineer-Procure-Construct or new product introduction using the applicable practices, guides, and tools
• Support project engineering or manager with understanding execution metric and status, issues, risks, mitigation or recovering plans, and be extremely proactive to identify changes in scope
• Drive compliance utilizing scope, detailed work planning, budget, overall schedule, applicable design processes, and discipline specific practices and tools including design and technical reviews
• Lead “day-to-day” operations and follow-up to ensure deliverables are produced and commitments met on-spec., on-budget, and on-schedule
• Coordinate proactively and inclusively for overall team across other engineering disciplines to support integrated plant design objectives
• Collaborate with project management, project engineering, support functions, and others to drive project completion
• Identify, confirm, document, and lead resolution of technical, risk, other emergent issues
• Provide technical oversight and mentorship to ensure system designs and deliverables comply with requirements throughout design release to manufacturing or supplier including production, validation, installation, and commission tests
• Support strategy, plan, statement of work preparation, and implementation of resource loading
• Assist with hosting learning sessions, knowledge capture, and transfer initiatives
• Use variety of tools for requirements, design, change, configuration, and document management
• Champion nuclear safety culture; Ensure compliance with GVH policies, quality management system, and corrective action program
• Deliver work with integrity, safety, security, quality, and on-time output

Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent 4-year technical degree from an accredited college or university
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in embedded software development, including a deep working knowledge of C Programming language and software development tools (GitLab version control, IDE's, Debuggers, etc.)
• Minimum of 10 years of experience with C Coding conventions, unit testing, and integration testing of software
• Minimum of 5 years of experience performing independent, or preferably team based, system design or technical reviews including interfacing with requirements management, independent verification and validation
• The preferred work location for this role is at the GVH Headquarters in Wilmington, NC; but highly qualified (US based) remote candidates will be considered
• Does require the ability to come onsite as needed for testing operations (about once a month)
• 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
• Experience in nuclear analog and digital instrumentation, control, monitoring, electric power system and field engineering
• Competency in industry standards IEEE, IEC, and quality standards
• 10 years of experience in commercial nuclear industry working in plant instrumentation application software, control and monitoring software system design, including implementation, test, installation, and commissioning
• 10 years of application, field installation, and testing of systems, equipment
• Competency in modeling and test data collection tools
• Clear thinker, detail oriented, insightful, quantitative, balanced, and a results-oriented analyst and leader
• Solves technical challenges through application of common design patterns and identifying appropriate patterns for use in problem solving
• Proven track record of delivering commitments on specification, on budget, and on schedule
• Strong verbal communication, as well as, facilitation and presentation skills for technical and business audiences – Able to communicate openly, calmly, and crisply in stressful situations
• Adaptive; able to quickly learn diverse and varying organizational interfaces with professional astuteness
• Continuous improvement mindset with an ability to identify, influence, and implement better ways to do an activity or process
• Solid technical writing skills with focus on requirements and design documents
• Effective use of data structures and algorithms
• Experience understanding C Coding standards that meets and delivers desired functionality using technology selected for the project. Familiarity of MISRA-C is desirable
• Experienced in product, instrument, system design, verification, validation, and qualification
• Experience in design verification and validation
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills and ability to articulate clearly
• Contributes to creative solutions and challenges status quo
• Proactively learns new tools and identifies opportunities for improvement and promotes their adoption