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GE Vernova Value Stream Director I - 7F in United States
About GE Vernova
GE Vernova is a planned, purpose-built global energy company that includes Power, Wind, and Electrification businesses and is supported by its accelerator businesses of Advanced Research, Consulting Services, and Financial Services. 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. GE Vernova is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., with more than 80,000 employees across 100+ countries around the world.
GE Vernova’s Gas Power business engineers advanced, efficient natural gas-powered technologies and services, along with decarbonization solutions that aim to help electrify a lower carbon future. As part of the Gas Power One Field Services team, FieldCore installs, maintains and upgrades power generation equipment, enabling operators of the world’s energy infrastructure to provide more reliable and affordable energy.
Job Summary:
The Vale Stream Director I will lead, develop, and manage a specific technology Outage Planning, Execution and Close Out for a Value Stream with global application, partnering with Lean for Field Services and Value Stream Project teams to deploy regionally. The value stream ownership includes detailed outage planning, mobilization, execution, closeout and continuous improvement. Partners with stakeholders across the enterprise including P&L Engineering, Methods, Tooling, FieldCore, Resources, FieldCore Regional Operations, and various Lean roles to first operate to standard and then make breakthrough improvements. Responsible for global standardization of processes, tools and implementation into the regions; focusing on both tactical execution success and strategy related to development, utilization and penetration to reduce overall outage variation, cost and cycle time.
Responsibilities:
Develop and continuous improvement of outage standards for specific technology and scope to the appropriate level of detail to achieve consistent SQDC outcomes.
Standards span all documents/systems and all phases of service planning and delivery.
Drives updates to standards in all systems and documents such as schedules, methods, tooling BOMs, schedule and WBS, skills in ServiceMax and Kahuna, corresponding JCE.
Creates and maintain current and future state value stream/process maps for specific technology-scope value stream, as well as more detailed mapping for specific activities along the value stream such as disassembly, rotor work, combustor work.
Lead, develop, and manage Projects and Programs with global application, partnering with Regional Lean Project teams to deploy regionally, including material flow and supporting the transition of sites into a “Toyota Factory”
Provide equipment-specific subject matter expertise to the organization and act as technology SME for event vision
Own multiple global, cross-functional Kaizen projects focused on reducing cost and cycle time related to the specific technology responsible covered
Uses value stream/process maps to develop a kaizen calendar and other improvement projects to reach future state and breakthrough results at component, process, and value stream level.
Participate and co-lead Live Outage Content Development, Kaizens, Pilot’s, Go-Live and Sustainment
Manage interface for the value stream of multiple functional teams including Engineering issues and improvements, Sourcing cost and strategy, Tooling BOMs and productivity, Manufacturing and field presentation as well as overall Services support.
Responsible for critical Bowler metrics for covered technology, covering in MOR’s and with Senior FieldCore and Gas Power Leadership; hard focus on, Safety (I&I), Quality (Escapes, VOC), Delivery (OTD) and Cost (outage cost productivity).
Drives accountability to realize improvements from all supporting organizations – relentless follow up to ensure implementation and realized value stream improvement.
May be assigned other duties to help proactively drive our FieldCore vision and align with our organization’s core values
Travel required
Required Qualifications & Experience:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in related field with minimum five years of Field Engineer or Project management experience; additional years of experience in power generation can be substituted for degree
Former Field Engineering, Outage Management, Contractual Service Leader or Service Manager experience
11+ years progressive experience and demonstrated success/knowledge
6+ years managing and developing multi-discipline teams, preferably with international reach across multiple service types
5+ years of specialized/industry experience
Strong experience in power generation and field services experience in Heavy Duty Gas and/or Steam Turbine maintenance
English proficiency required
Desired Characteristics:
Master’s degree preferred
A deep understanding and experience with gas turbine outage execution
Experience with lean methodologies
Experience with outage productivity tooling and developing cost remediation projects & programs
Excellent communication and management skills and strong interpersonal skills; ability to work with all levels of employees
Expert in power generation outage maintenance
Strong project planning and organizational skills
Ability to handle multiple projects concurrently
Very results-oriented
Work well both independently and in a team environment, including in remote work settings
Ability to travel, including internationally, 30-40% of the time
Compensation and Benefits:
The annual salary range for this position is $120,000 to $180,000. This is an exempt from overtime position. FieldCore benefits include insurance (medical, dental, vision, disability, and life), retirement savings, health and Wellness reimbursement, and a bonus or incentive program. Eligibility for FieldCore benefits is determined under the terms of the applicable benefits plan.
FieldCore is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sex, national origin, age, veteran status, status as a qualified individual with a disability, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, ancestry, genetic information, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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