Job Description Summary

Vernova Purpose:
GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable affordable and sustainable energy while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health safety security and improved quality of life. Are you excited at the opportunity to electrify and decarbonize the world

Looking to make a global impact and solve problems Through relentless innovation and continuous collaboration with our customers GE Gas Power part of GE Vernova is providing more advanced cleaner and efficient power that people depend on today and building the energy technologies of the future.


Impact youll make:
The Lean Leader is a key leadership role in the Heavy Duty Plant Engineering (HDPE) Inquiry to Remittance (ITR) organization. HDPE ITR organizations will drive single point accountability for what we sell develop and deliver on the Heavy Duty New Unit (HDNU) business P&L. The Lean Leader will continue to drive product innovation with the Plant Systems and Steam Cycle Engineering (PSSC) bid and execute to standards and deliver world class performance and lead decarbonization solutions with the inclusion of the Performance COE and Decarbonization teams.

The Lean Leader is responsible for developing and leading a culture of applying lean principals and techniques to Engineering processes across the HDNU portfolio. Specifically the Lean Leader will work closely as a partner with the Engineering ITR Upgrades/Customer Support Engineering Aero Lean Leader and all internal Engineering COE teams to advocate for lean solutions and processes drive Hoshin Kanri and the lean strategic playbook and facilitate the operational mechanisms to ensure success (e.g. KPIs/bowler charts communications employee feedback) for the ITR HDNU engineering scope.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

The Lean Leader will serve as facilitator educator advocate consultant and accountability partner to the HDNU business and the Engineering teams to ensure the application of lean to Engineering and crossfunctional business processes. They will also be responsible for driving projects across HDNU peer teams within engineering (Gas Turbine Controls Generator Configuration Management & Product Definition to name a few that are heavy contributors to the success of the HDNU deliverables) as well as engineering peer teams (Sourcing Manufacturing Projects).

The lean leader will also insure that the global HDPE ITR teams in the Proposal and Project Engineering organization and the component and product teams in PSSC are aligned and following best practices standards daily management and processes. Best practices and lessons learned will be commonly shared between the HDPE Upgrades/Customer Support Engineering and the Aero team.

Key responsibilities include:

Advocacy

• Create a culture of Lean Thinking among the HDNU supporting Engineering People Leaders focused on Servant Leadership Customer Focus EPC Partnering support & Employee Empowerment
• Broaden the application of problem solving & continuous improvement tools in a way that will improve efficiency capacity and process reliability
• Enable & empower the HDNU Engineering resources to identify lean opportunities & locally act upon and drive process simplification/efficiency
• Celebrate and share HDNU Engineering application of lean principles and techniques to recognize success and leverage lessons learned.

Organizational Learning

• Build organizational awareness and adoption of Lean as the business/functional operational model
• Develop expertise and experience in the applicable lean principles concepts & tools across the HDNU organizations
• Collaborate with subject matter experts to create training by GE for GE leveraging the quality application of the tools and techniques

Lean Strategy &

• Partner with the Engineering and Project Lean Leaders to facilitate the Hoshin Kanri & Transformational Action Planning processes across the Gas Power Engineering teams to define & drive the necessary objectives and improvement actions aligned with the Gas Power strategy
• Focus on applying Lean principles to the HDNU/Aero organization and solve critical issues identified by the HDPE leadership team relating to safety quality delivery cash and cost
• Facilitate and ensure the linkage of lean improvements to project deliverables and contractual guarantees
• Drive the necessary process standardization/harmonization for one integrated and streamlined Gas HDPE Engineering organization
• Maximize employee driven process simplification and improvements through empowerment local problem solving and continuous improvement tools

Lean Operations/Monitor & Control

• Own the monthly Engineering Operating Review and Daily Management rollup tied to the HDPE ITR improvement strategy
• Monitor overall lean activities across HDPE organization to gauge rate of adoption; develop internal metrics where necessary to quantify business impact
• Routinely pulse employees on progress of lean culture and areas to improve operational deployment of Lean

Qualifications / Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering or similar to field from an accredited university or college or equivalent knowledge and experience
• Advanced experience leading teams in a matrixed environment with particular emphasis on transactional process versus manufacturing process.
• Significant industrial related experience

Desired Characteristics

• Practitioner and expert of Lean models concepts & tools. Fluent in the language of lean SME in this area. This is a coaching and teaching role.
• Strong experience in structured problemsolving techniques using tools like TOPS 8D A3 PSR Apollo
• Appropriate experience driving business transformation and/or lean adoption preferably within an Engineering organization. The ideal candidate is a change agent that has led through tough situations and brings a will to win
• Relentless desire to challenge status quo not accept asis and find a better way focus on continuous improvement
• Proven to be effective driving outcomes in large matrixed organizations understands how to navigate geographies cultures relationships etc. Can drive work globally.
• Comfortable with conflict but leads as a collaborator facilitator and strong partner.
• Critical systems thinker with the ability to bring others along even those with conflicting priorities.
• Datadriven but decisive despite ambiguity
• Follows the principles of how we work together ... the Vernova way with focus on Innovation Customers Lean One Team and Accountability
• Customerfocused with clear concise written and oral communications to the appropriate level
• Candidates must be willing to travel if/as needed for Gemba learning from place of work and implement solution
• Prior experience in Power / Energy business

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Click here to learn more: U.S. based candidates only for purposes of complying with U.S. pay transparency requirements the base pay range for this position is$127900..00 USD Annual.

The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidates experience education and skill set. This position is also eligible for a 15 performance bonus.

*The Company pays a geographic differential of 110 120 or 130 of salary in certain areas.

This position will stay open on the career website until at least4/16/2025.

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Healthcare benefits include medical dental vision and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach a 24/7 nursebased resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program providing 24/7 confidential assessment counseling and referral services.

Retirement benefits include the GE Retirement Savings Plan a taxadvantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions as well as access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants.

Other benefits include tuition assistance adoption assistance paid parental leave disability insurance life insurance and paid timeoff for vacation or illness.

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