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.