Suggested Improvement Operations Manager, ( 25-1966)

Description

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­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 Suggested Improvement (SI) Operations Manager is responsible for building and maintaining strong working relationships with Live Outage (LO) Technology Directors and Methods Managers to ensure the timely resolution and implementation of SI’s and change requests. This role involves driving the prioritization and execution of SIs in alignment with business priorities, utilizing daily management tools for tracking and reporting progress. The manager will foster synergy between LO and Methods Content, ensuring comprehensive Read Across between products. Additionally, the role includes researching necessary content, identifying field opportunities, and coordinating with field resources to deliver high-quality solutions.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Build strong working relationships with the Technology Directors of assigned LO Technologies
• Establish a working rhythm with LO Technology Directors and Methods Managers that allows for timely resolution and implementation of received SIs and change requests
• Maintain ownership of all SI’s and change requests for assigned LO Technologies from SI receipt to SI implementation
• Drive SI prioritization and implementation in accordance with business priorities (Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, Customer/Strategy)
• Use daily management database tools for handling, tracking and reporting progress
• Drive synergy between LO and Methods Content ensuring 100% Read Across between Content products (LO Checklists/Methods Field Procedures)
• Research media libraries, content and company applications to locate needed content
• Identify field opportunities with LO Technology Directors; coordinate with Methods Process Manager to request field resources; partner with field resources to ensure delivery of high quality, complete and accurate solutions for SI resolution and implementation
• Participate in Kaizen events as necessary
• Work across teams to develop metrics, contextual analysis, and reports to a variety of internal and external stakeholders
• Analyze lessons learned and recommend process improvements to drive future behaviors and methodologies
• Coordinate best project control practices in accordance with established standards and procedures
• Travel to outage sites and regional offices as required to support specific projects
• You may be assigned other duties to help proactively drive our FieldCore vision and align with our organization’s core values.

Required Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree with three years’ field experience
• 5+ years applicable experience and demonstrated success/knowledge
• 2+ years of specialized/industry experience
• Proficiency using Live Outage
• English proficiency required
• Excellent customer facing and communication skills

Desired Characteristics:

• A deep understanding and experience with gas and steam turbine outage execution
• Open mindset and enthusiasm to work in multi-cultural and global role
• Familiarity of dynamic project environments
• Possess high level organizational ability, proven leadership, and decision-making capabilities
• Experience in troubleshooting and problem solving
• Excellent communication and management skills, strong interpersonal and influencing skills; ability to work with all levels of employees

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.