Job Description Summary
Who We Are
At Steam Power we are used to change and have been continuously adapting to respond to the many factors shaping our industry. Change is how we keep pace with the world around us and ensure our longterm sustainability. To achieve this requires us adopting a strong services mindset that becomes the very DNA of Steam Power. As a result we have become more of a services organization.
We believe our success in large part will depend on us being as diverse of a team as our customers and regardless of our role every one of us can contribute to making Steam Power the service provider of choice by customers around the globe. Coach drive and lead lean behaviors principles and tools across operational or functional area. Drive cultural transformation resulting in stepchange in operational business metrics.
As a Customer Service Manager (CSM) in the GE Vernova Steam Power Americas Nuclear South Region this role is a critical P&L (Profit & Loss) owner directly engaging with internal and external customers and delivering safe quality on time profitable outage on both GE Vernovas nuclear installed base of steam turbines generators and balanceofplant components as well as on Other OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) equipment. This demanding role will require you to function effectively in a broad and matrixed environment.
Job Description
Success in the Role Looks Like
Establishing yourself as a subject matter expert by demonstrating personal ownership and accountability leadership experience technical aptitude professional communications financial acumen and situational ownership as exemplified by your ability to rigorously plan and successfully deliver nuclear outages and projects to a high standard of safety quality schedule compliance profitability and high customer satisfaction.
Who you are
You understand the value customers are to our business and desire to excel in the critical interface role with them realizing that interactions will be complex challenging and not always immediately positive.
You bring strong field engineering technical direction and/or outage management knowledge on steam turbines and generators to this critical role.
You have experience with field services manufacturing and/or repairs and parts.
You have experience with GE Alstom and other manufacturers of steam turbines generators and balance of plant.
You have the proven ability to manage commercial business needs in coordination with technical requirements.
You have effective leadership skills including strong influencing ability and direct team management.
You appreciate the value and diversity of people and the importance of their development and contributions.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Be an uncompromising advocate for the importance of thinking and working with Safety and Quality.
- Meaningfully engage and incorporate Lean principles to continuously improving safety quality productivity and profitability.
- Be the single point of contact to the nuclear customers in your portfolio geographic Southeastern USA
- Be responsible for your customer portfolio financial deliverables P&L (Profit & Loss) and profitable growth.
- Establish and maintain multiple customer contacts to provide ongoing emergent and strategic support both technical and commercial to your portfolio of customers.
- Be responsible for working closely with the commercial and sales teams to contribute to proposal content for coordinating outage scope planning and successful including: preoutage safety emphasis roles and responsibilities clarity; timely accurate and complete cost estimations; management of outage services parts and repairs; closeout oversight including final report timely submittal; financial invoicing coordination customer negotiations on extra work where applicable.
- Interface with and coordinate the efforts of various internal stakeholders such as engineering finance sales sourcing affiliates risk parts and repairs to achieve identified deliverables.
- Be responsible for working with Sales and Commercial counterparts and your customers to establish clear work scope pricing division of responsibilities plus drive identification and profitable capture of emergent work.
- Oversee both planned and emergent outages extra work and Job Cost Estimator (JCE) proposals for assigned customers.
- Negotiate applicable contracts and concessions as they arise balancing maximum benefits/satisfaction for the customer with minimal acceptable financial impact to our business.
- Be responsible for driving excellence across: EHS (Environmental Health & Safety) Quality Schedule Productivity and Cost at your customer sites
- Exemplify creative problemsolving to result in mutual customer and company benefit; proactively see issues and consider solution possibilities collaboratively with the customer.
- Be an effective PeopleLeader for both direct and matrixed reports; provide mentoring and contribute to pipeline development
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree from an accredited University or College OR (a High School Diploma / GED with a minimum of 6 years of experience in a customer facing role OR an Associate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of experience in a customer facing role).
- At least 5 additional years of experience in a customer facing role in the power generation industry.
- Willingness and ability to travel 50 to 70 of the time to customer sites in southeast Georgia often with little notice in order to maintain site physical presence and interaction with customer team during outages as well as in nonoutage time.
- Willingness and ability to respond to customer issues regardless of day and time.
- The ability to obtain and maintain unescorted access at a nuclear facility
Desired Characteristics
- Bachelors Degree in STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) preferred.
- Field Engineer or comparable experience in turbine and generator maintenance and/or installation.
- Knowledge & experience within the nuclear power environment / nuclear plant operations.
- Knowledge of steam turbine and generator design operations and maintenance.
- Experience planning and successfully executing outages.
- Strong background with Contracts and Service Agreements.
- Strong quality background with Lean and/or Black Belt certification Kaizen / Hoshin Kanri / Value Stream Mapping familiarity.
- Strong leadership financial and commercial skills including familiarity with / ability to quickly learn P6 RPDM MSOffice Excel and other software packages.
- Team leader in a changing and matrixed environment.
- Demonstrated strong communication & organizational skills.
- Experience establishing credibility; developing and maintaining relationships with challenging internal and external customers.
Additional Eligibility Qualifications
GE Vernova will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United State for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable). This role is restricted to U.S. persons (i.e. U.S. citizens permanent residents and other protected individuals under the Immigration and Naturalization Act 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)3 due to access to exportcontrolled technology. GE Vernova will require proof of status prior to employment.
The salary range for this position is USD Annual. The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidates experience their education and the work location. In addition this position is eligible for a 15 performance bonus.
*The Company pays a geographic differential of 110 120 or 130 of salary in certain areas.
To comply with US immigration and other legal requirements it is necessary to specify the minimum number of years experience required for any role based within the USA. For roles outside of the USA to ensure compliance with applicable legislation the JDs should focus on the substantive level of experience required for the role and a minimum number of years should NOT be used.
Additional Information
GE Vernova will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
Required Experience:
Manager