Blade Fleet Monitoring Lead Engineer

Job Description SummaryRole Summary/Purpose

The Blade Fleet Engineer owns supplier-side quality assurance for external drone inspections of wind turbine blades and components, ensuring vendor imagery and defect detection. This role partners with daily fleet monitoring engineer to drive corrective action when vendors miss defects or quality standards, manages vendor performance, supports onboarding of new drone inspection vendors, and leads the transition towards in-house visual image processing capability as part of the Blade Asset Lifecycle roadmap.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:

• Monitor the GE fleet of blades covered under full service agreements, primarily through planned drone inspections.
• Audit drone vendor inspection deliverables against quality specifications, and maintain and update those specifications.
• Verify that vendors meet defect detection targets and data delivery timelines.
• Drive Problem Solving Reports (PSRs) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) with vendors after inspection misses, late critical findings, or quality failures. Ensure timely containment and corrective action plans.
• Support onboarding and technical integration of new drone inspection vendors. This includes training on GE Vernova's specification, orientation and coverage conventions, and portal and data delivery requirements.
• Partner with sourcing and fleet planning teams to inform future vendor allocation decisions using quality performance data.
• Partner with Blade Fleet Monitoring, Field Services, and Analytics teams so vendor-identified defects and data flow into disposition and case management processes.
• Document vendor quality trends, specification updates, and process changes.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Data/Image Analytics, or related technical field from an accredited college or university.
• Minimum of 8+ years of experience in wind, gas industry, supplier management, and/or drone industry.
• Must be able to travel up to 5%.

Eligibility Requirements:

• This is an on-site based role in Greenville, SC.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with drone-based or remote visual inspection programs, ideally in wind energy or similar asset-heavy industries.
• Understanding of image quality fundamentals (resolution/GSD, exposure, focus, viewing angle) and defect severity classification frameworks.
• Experience building or managing vendor/supplier scorecards and leading performance review cadences.
• Experience conducting or supporting root cause analysis and corrective action processes with external suppliers.
• Familiarity with AI/computer-vision-based visual detection concepts, or interest in supporting the transition to in-house image processing.
• Strong analytical and auditing skills with attention to detail.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to hold vendors accountable while maintaining productive working relationships.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, analytics, sourcing, and field operations teams.

For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $113,200.00 and $188,800.00. 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 November 13, 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.