GE Vernova Mechanical Engineering Intern

Job Description Summary

Come and join our powerful, unified force with the energy to change the world. Our mission is BIG.

Our TRANSFORMATION is key – bringing the right businesses together to LEAD the ENERGY TRANSITION. Our TEAM is ready.

Addressing the climate crisis is an urgent global priority and we take our responsibility seriously. Building on over 130 years of experience tackling the world’s challenges, GE Vernova is uniquely positioned to help lead the energy transition by continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to decarbonize it. GE Vernova helps customers power economies and deliver electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life.

Job Description

This Turbine Module internship offers exposure across the full-breadth of rotating and/or static hardware, such as blades, nozzles, and shrouds. This internship will provide ample opportunities to perform design and structural analysis of turbine components for new product introductions (NPI), engine validation, RCA (root cause analysis), and Services support. Interns are paired with more senior members to ensure high-quality mentoring and training. Assignments are flexible and varied, where the assignment leader will work with the intern to “tune” their internship.  Day-to-day tasks within the team can include detailed hardware design and ownership, developing tools, modeling in CAD (NX), stress and life analysis in FEA (ANSYS), test data evaluation, product definition, manufacturing and qualification support, and partnering with our Services team to tackle challenging RCAs. Detailed hardware design analysis to include thermal, stress and modal analysis, low and high cycle fatigue, creep, oxidation, fracture mechanics, and advanced analytical FEA methods and design optimization. Application of AI and Machine Learning tools in design and lifing analyses will be in scope.

Project Outcomes:

The outcome of the internship will involve the development and validation of analysis methodologies leveraging state of the art tools and techniques including machine learning, neural network, and other appropriate AI methods. Specific focus areas could include development of advanced creep management techniques for hot gas path blades and 3D fracture assessments in dovetails. The intern will learn turbomachinery components and lifing, and application of advanced modeling tools to predict and manage life of these components operating in extremely harsh environments.

Primary Skills Developed:

Mechanical Design, Gas Turbine Knowledge, Design Tools, Application of AI in Design & Lifing Turbomachinery Components

Basic Qualifications:

-Bachelors (or Masters/PhD/DSc) in Mechanical/Aeronautical/Aerospace/Materials/Chemical Engineering.

-Minimum of 4.0/5.0 GPA.

Addressing the climate crisis is an urgent global priority, and at GE Vernova, we take our responsibility seriously. That is the singular mission of GE Vernova: to continue electrifying the world while simultaneously working to help decarbonize it. In order to meet this mission, we provide varied, competitive benefits to help support our workforce: Our Culture | GE Vernova (gecareers.com)

The pay for this position ranges from $27-$35 / hr. based on years of undergraduate/graduate field of study completed.

This position is also eligible for:

• Relocation Assistance: Co-op/Interns will be reimbursed for reasonable, proper, and documented expenditures incurred while initially reporting to work and returning to school/home upon completion of the assignment. Employees with a permanent address greater than 50 miles away from the work location are eligible.
• Housing Allowance: Co-op/Interns employees receive a weekly housing allowance to help off-set living expenses when the co-op/Intern’s permanent residence is at least 50 miles away from the work location.
• Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services
• GE Retirement Savings Plan (RSP) after their accumulated service reaches 90 days, and they meet any other eligibility requirements as defined in the plans. (Eligibility occurs on the 1st of the month following the 90th day.)

General Electric Company, Ropcor, Inc., their successors, and in some cases their affiliates, each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e., is a Sponsor”). Each Sponsor 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 Sponsor’s welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.

Inclusion

At GE Vernova, we believe in the value of your unique identity, background and experiences. We are committed to fostering an inclusive culture, where everyone feels empowered to do their best work because they feel accepted, respected and that they belong.  Click here to learn more: https://jobs.gecareers.com/vernova/global/en/i-d-e

This posting will remain open until at least November 1, 2025.

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