If you’ve ever been on a train pulled by a GE locomotive, chances are that Manoj Shah’s ideas were working somewhere deep inside its steel belly. Over the last three decades, the GE engineer came up with 44 patents and many other innovations that lowered the cost and gave more muscle to electric motors for the wheels of massive mining trucks, electric pumps for deep oil and gas wells, aircraft power generators, and other equipment.
December 17, 2012
On today’s jobcast you’ll meet Ed Hall, Senior General Manager, Mechanical Technologies, GE Transportation, and Eric Dillen, Dual Fuel Program Leader with GE Transportation. Both Ed and Eric are based in Erie, PA.
November 19, 2012
As a manager for GE Transportation, Bob Wetzel spent five months last year out of the country, mostly in China. His job has taken him to six continents. Despite his lack of time in Brevard County, the married father of one daughter still finds time to donate his efforts to various charitable organizations in the area. He’s been asked to be on numerous boards, but because his travel schedule is so demanding, he is careful about where he volunteers.
September 21, 2012
Business Journal names Milwaukee’s Healthiest Employers
GE Transportation employee Andy Newpher, 38, left, of Fairview Township, sits with Edison Elementary School students Fitsama Berhe, 5, center, and Leevon Bethel, 12, right, both of Erie, as they explore their new school backpacks full of supplies which were given to them by GE Transportation at the school in Erie on Sept. 4. The corporation donated 45 of these school backpacks, each stuffed with school supplies such as pens, pencils, notebooks, binders and art materials.
June 25, 2012
A new GE Works television commercial featuring GE Transportation workers who design, build, and support GE’s most advanced and fuel efficient Evolution Series locomotives recently launched on national TV. GE Transportation, which grew 45 percent last year to $4.9 billion in revenues, has been expanding factories, building new locomotives and adding jobs. Last year it said that it would invest over $400 million to open new plants and upgrade facilities in Pennsylvania and Texas and announced more than 2,400 U.S. jobs. The project includes investments in technology, new offices for hundreds of employees, and a new customer showcase center.
