Lead Fleet Performance Engineer

The job

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Job description

Job Description Summary
The Fleet Performance Engineer for GE Vernova is responsible for monitoring, analyzing, and interpreting the technical performance of the installed fleet to identify abnormal behavior, degradation, recurring issues, and emerging reliability risks.
This role combines strong engineering knowledge with data-driven analysis.
The Fleet Performance Engineer will work with operational data, alarms, events, configurations, maintenance history, and field information to understand how products behave under real operating conditions and translate those observations into actionable engineering insights.
The engineer will work closely with Fleet Reliability & Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Controls Engineering, Data Analytics, AI, Field Service, Product Engineering, Quality, and R&D teams.
A key objective of the role is to move the organization from reactive issue investigation toward proactive and predictive fleet management.

Job Description

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Monitor fleet performance, availability, reliability, and energy-production KPIs across solar and energy-storage assets.
• Analyze operational data, alarms, events, and maintenance history to identify performance deviations, recurring issues, and emerging risks.
• Develop and maintain standardized dashboards, reports, and analytical views that provide clear fleet and asset-level visibility.
• Investigate underperformance and quantify its technical, operational, and customer impact.
• Benchmark assets, sites, configurations, and operating conditions to identify performance gaps and best practices.
• Partner with Reliability and RCA teams to define affected populations, support investigations, and validate corrective-action effectiveness.
• Develop early-warning indicators and analytical methods that support condition-based and predictive maintenance.
• Translate analytical findings into prioritized recommendations for operations, maintenance, engineering, controls, software, and product teams.
• Define data and contextualization requirements with Data Engineering and Analytics/AI teams, including asset hierarchy and phase-module traceability.
• Identify data-quality, completeness, and consistency issues and support sustainable corrective actions.
• Communicate fleet insights, risks, and recommended actions clearly to technical teams, customers, and business leaders.
• Maintain analytical methods, assumptions, and documentation while promoting data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement.

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, Controls Engineering, Energy Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Engineering experience with power conversion, renewable energy, energy storage, industrial controls, electrical systems, or similar complex technical products.
• Experience analyzing operational or field data to solve technical problems.
• Ability to interpret alarms, events, trends, electrical measurements, and system operating conditions.
• Ability to communicate complex technical findings clearly to both engineering and leadership audiences.
• Ability to work effectively across multiple engineering disciplines and global teams.
• Professional proficiency in English.

• Professional proficiency in English.
• This role requires 10-15% travel (both domestic and international)

• Experience with utility-scale solar inverters, Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), power conversion systems, or renewable power plants.
• Experience in Field Service, Commissioning, Product Engineering, Reliability Engineering, or technical troubleshooting.
• Understanding of inverter and power-conversion architecture.
• Understanding of plant controls, SCADA, PLCs, historians, alarms, and event logging.
• Experience working with large operational datasets.
• Working knowledge of tools such as Python, SQL, Power BI, MATLAB, or equivalent analytical platforms.
• Experience with time-series data analysis.
• Able to understand reliability concepts such as failure rate, MTBF, population analysis, and failure-mode classification.
• Experience supporting Root Cause Analysis.
• Familiarity with statistical analysis and anomaly detection.
• Ability to understand interactions between hardware, software, controls, environmental conditions, and system operation.
• Strong curiosity and ability to identify patterns across apparently unrelated technical events.
• Strong understanding of electrical and system-level engineering principles.
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills.

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The city

The job is in Williamsport, PA. Below is what the official statistics say about living and working there.

How Williamsport compares. Among the 100 largest places in Pennsylvania, Williamsport is #22 by population, #6 for long commutes (#1 = fewest), #87 for homeownership (#1 = highest), #20 for rent (#1 = cheapest). Its county, Lycoming County, is #29 of 67 counties for average pay ($55,535).

The place in numbers

Williamsport has 27,612 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 0.2% of the population of Pennsylvania. It covers 9 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 3,146 people per square mile. The median age is 31.5, 23% younger than the state median (31.5 against 40.9).

Housing

The median gross rent is $855 a month (rent plus utilities), 29% below the state median ($855 against $1,209). Over a year that is 21.0% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $154,300, which is 3.2 times the median household income ($48,851); a ratio under 4 usually means ownership is within reach for many households. 43.0% of households own their home, 38% below the state average (43.0% against 69.3%). A low ownership share points to a rental-heavy market with more apartments and shorter stays.

Work and pay

The Williamsport, PA metropolitan area has 49,510 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $46,050 a year, 10% below the national median ($46,050 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are office and administrative support (5,270 jobs, median $42,950); production (4,740 jobs, median $45,890); food preparation and serving related (4,650 jobs, median $28,610). The area is most specialised in office and administrative support (0.9 times), where the share of workers is above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are office and administrative support ($42,950). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of Lycoming County was 3.1%. 59.4% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in Lycoming County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.

Getting around

Among workers, 64.1% drive alone, 4.5% use public transit, 7.0% walk, 11.9% work from home. 4.7% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 72% below the state average (4.7% against 16.4%).

People and education

26.9% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 23% below the state share (26.9% against 35.2%). 1.9% of residents were born outside the United States, 75% below the state share (1.9% against 7.7%). The poverty rate is 25.4%, 117% above the state rate (25.4% against 11.7%).

Climate

The warmest month is Jul, averaging 73°F (23.0°C), and the coolest is Jan at 25°F (-3.8°C). About 1,128 mm (44 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Jul is the wettest month (117 mm) and Feb the driest (65 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.

Nearby cities to compare

Closest cities in this guide: Sunbury (29 miles, rent 14% lower); Bloomsburg (34 miles, rent 15% higher); Berwick (43 miles, rent 7% lower); State College (53 miles, rent 49% higher). Rent differences are against Williamsport; use the Compare tab to put any two cities side by side.

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Official links for Williamsport

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Where to live

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Career paths

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Distances

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The employer

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Official links for GE Vernova

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What is the cost of living there?

Median rent in Williamsport is $855 a month and median household income $48,851 (ACS 2020–2024).

How old is this listing?

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Are there similar jobs?

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• Wages and projections: BLS OEWS (May 2025) and Employment Projections 2025–35.
• City and county figures: Census Bureau ACS 2020–2024, BEA, BLS QCEW and LAUS, NASA POWER climatology; distances from Census Gazetteer coordinates.

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