Universal Relay Program Manager

**Job Description Summary**: Reporting to the R&D Leader of Real Time Controllers, you are a leader & representative of product across product teams, outside company and is responsible for leading program management activities on Universal Relay family of protection devices.

Responsibility spans the product life cycle, project planning, resource loading, budget and cross functional execution, leading all areas of the product design, engineering thru successful execution and launch of product releases.

**About us**:
**Why we come to work**:
At GE Renewable Energy, our engineers are always up for the challenge -and we’re always driven to find the best solution. Our projects are unique and interesting, and you’ll need to bring a solution-focused, positive approach to each one to do your best. Surrounded by committed, loyal colleagues, if you can dare to bring your ingenuity and desire to make an impact, you’ll be exposed to game-changing, diverse projects that truly allow you to play your part in the green energy transition

**Essential Responsibilities**:

- Lead and sustain a world class development team to consistently deliver complex platforms and projects of varying size and duration
- Coach, mentor a diverse product development team through lean/agile development transformation
- Spearheads adoption of industry standards, within the company; evangelize Agile transformation, estimation techniques and shared best practices across teams.
- Manage the overall product release plan, including, projects/epics, and own the acceptance criteria for the release
- Manages the technical dependencies, within product and cross business areas, such as industrialization and quality
- Develop, own, manage, and communicates product roadmaps, and work with product management and cross functional teams to drive strategic program planning with a 5+ year outlook
- Work with product owners and architects to set priorities and influences current projects, and develop incremental multi generation plans aligning product, technology and business vision.
- Own and manage the multiple prototyping. product development budgets and maintain project data relating to budget tracking and financials
- Deliver resource strategy plans, including use of 3rd parties/partners, etc., in support of development and support activities
- Provides expertise to proactively address potential defect areas in complex systems and ensures compatibility between sub-systems and dependent systems.
- Initiate and lead product/service or architectural innovations and identifiy critical design areas early in the development process.
- Create strategic business partnerships and relationships through contractual relationships with external suppliers
- Use Lean methodologies for process improvements to guide and continuously improve the development, sustaining & support activities

**Required Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
- A minimum of 10+ years of experience in project/program development of embedded systems, along with established leadership across the discipline and function
- Demonstrated expertise in product development preferably using Agile methodologies within embedded development

**Desired Characteristics**:

- Proven experience leading and mentoring experienced developers, as well as collaborating with other managers, architects and cross functional teams.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to encourage innovation, risk taking and creative thinking in others through performance coaching/mentoring/recognition.
- Strong verbal, written and interpersonal skills including the ability to build solid relationships conduct negotiations and make presentations to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience with electronics compliance for EMC CE, UL, IEC, IEEE is highly desirable.
- Exposure to Hardware, Firmware and Software architectures of PLC’s, protection and control relays, gateways and data concentrators.
- Experience with Canadian research and development taxation submission preparation, SRED is desirable
- Ability for occasional travel (internationally) is required to visit with customers and vendors
- Embraces accountability to drive technical road maps cross-divisional with software, hardware, product validation and certification, in partnership with product management.

**Additional Information**

GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

**Additional Information**:
**Relocation Assistance Provided**:Yes