Wind Engineering System Simulation Leader - GE Vernova

The Wind Engineering System Simulation Leader is an executive engineering leader responsible for a global organization that predicts, analyzes, and improves overall wind turbine behavior across the full product life cycle. This team plays a critical role in enabling commercial success, advancing new product development, supporting validation and certification, and resolving field performance issues across a global fleet of more than 50,000 wind turbines.

This leader is accountable for the engineering capability used to model turbine performance, structural loads, acoustics, operability, aeroelastics and system stability under real-world operating conditions.

The role

sits at the intersection of engineering, product strategy, commercial support, and customer outcomes, helping the business make better decisions about product design, site suitability, fleet reliability, and long-term technology investment.

In addition to leading a globally distributed team, the System Simulation Leader defines the long-term strategy for simulation methods, digital tools, and software platforms required to predict wind turbine behavior at scale. This role also builds organizational capability by attracting, developing, and mentoring top engineering talent and by fostering a culture of technical rigor, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.

This is a highly visible leadership role with direct impact on product competitiveness, sales effectiveness, fleet performance, and the future of wind engineering.

Job Description

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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.