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GE

Date: May 4, 2013

Location: Schenectady, NY, United States

Job Number: 1555027
Business: GE Transportation
Business Segment: Transportation
About Us: GE works on things that matter. The best people and the best technologies taking on the toughest challenges. Finding solutions in energy, health and home, transportation and finance. Building, powering, moving and curing the world. Not just imagining. Doing. GE works. Looking for a challenge where your experience is valued? Come see what you can achieve as a leader with GE Transportation!
Posted Position Title: Lead Systems Engineer
Career Level: Experienced
Function: Engineering/Technology
Function Segment: Product Design and Development
Location: United States
U.S. State, China or Canada Provinces: New York
City: Schenectady
Postal Code: 12345-6000
Relocation Assistance: Yes
Role Summary/Purpose: GE is an equal opportunity employer, offering a great work environment, challenging career opportunities, professional training and competitive compensation.The Lead System Engineer (LSE) is responsible for the GE ES strategic system direction and product introductions for various battery applications. In this role, you will:
Essential Responsibilities:
  • Work together with Product Management to understand the market landscape (i.e. segmentation, customer value drivers, competitor capabilities, technology trends, etc.) and to identify the unmet customer needs on which the product development process will be focused
  • Assess current in house technologies against competing technologies and find optimum application solutions for GE ES technology portfolio
  • Lead the ideation process by leveraging the GE ES Technology, Beta R&D, GE Global Research Center, external think tanks and thought leaders to generate new product concepts that address previously identified unmet customer needs
  • Lead overall system definition and integration for the application space
  • Translate new product description into product system specification
  • Work with the subsystem teams to assure all subsystem designs integrated to deliver expected overall system performance
  • Understand and drive trade-offs between design and performance characteristics at the customer, system and subsystem level
  • Run and drive internal processes to implement functional requirements, validation plan and requirement traceability
  • Attend design reviews and provide inputs from system integration perspective
    • Qualifications/Requirements:
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Science
  • Minimum of 10 years of experience in energy storage technologies or related system
    • Additional Eligibility Qualifications: 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 background investigation and drug screen.
    Desired Characteristics:
  • Master’s Degree in Engineering or Science
  • Experience in battery system integration
  • Leadership experience in technology groups with high level expertise
  • Fluent in at least one other European languages
  • Experience in Grid applications (Utility, Wind, Solar etc)
  • Strong demonstrated strategic planning ability
  • Intellectual curiosity and technical aptitude to learn new technologies and properly evaluate their potentials
  • Strong influential leadership skills
  • Ability to work multicultural, multifunctional environment
  • Strong oral and written communication skills

    Why join one great company when you can join many? We are more than 280,000 people with jobs that range from biochemist to finance specialist to wind energy engineer. We’re passionate about making life better with new ideas and technologies. We’re diverse, supporting our communities in more than 140 countries. Experience personal growth and competency development as part of the GE team. Around the world, we are helping build the healthcare, transportation and aviation of the new century.

    GE Transportation is a global technology leader and supplier to the railroad, marine, drilling, wind and mining industries. We provide freight & passenger locomotives, railway signaling and communications systems, information technology solutions, marine engines, motorized drive systems for mining trucks and drills, high-quality replacement parts and value added services. With sales in excess of $
    4.5 billion, GE Transportation is headquartered in Erie, PA, and employs approximately 10,000 employees worldwide. Learn more about GE Transportation today!     For more than 100 years, GE Transportation has been passionately committed to innovations that make the world a better place. Durathon battery technology, the latest chapter in our proud history, emerged from our focus on energy storage. Sodium battery technology has been in existence for nearly 30 years, but GE’s acquisition of Beta R&D in 2007 jump-started its application for mobile and stationary energy storage. This technology represents an important milestone: we truly believe that energy storage will never be the same. Learn more about this exciting new technology!

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