Job Description Summary
As a Customer Service Manager (CSM) in the GE Vernova Steam Power Americas Nuclear North 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 execution on both GE Vernovas nuclear installed base of steam turbines generators and balance-of-plant 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 Northeastern USA
- Be responsible for your customer portfolio financial deliverables - P&L (Profit & Loss) and profitable growth.
- Establish and maintain multiple customer contacts to provide on-going 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 execution including: pre-outage 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 problem-solving to result in mutual customer and company benefit; proactively see issues and consider solution possibilities collaboratively with the customer.
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 non-outage 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.
This position is open to candidates across the United States; however preference may be given to those located in the Northeast or East Coast regions to support alignment with customer locations and ensure optimal service responsiveness.
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 export-controlled technology. GE Vernova will require proof of status prior to employment.
The base pay range for this position is $119600 - $163000 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 variable incentive compensation of 15%. This posting is expected to close no earlier than May 13 2025.
*The Company pays a geographic differential of 110% 120% or 130% of salary in certain areas.
Healthcare benefits include medical dental vision and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach a 24/7 nurse-based 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 tax-advantaged 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 time-off for vacation or illness.
General Electric Company Ropcor Inc. their successors and in some cases their affiliates each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e. is a Sponsor). Each Sponsor reserves the right to terminate amend suspend replace or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a Sponsors welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.
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
#LI-Remote - This is a remote position
Application Deadline: agosto 09 2025
Required Experience:
Manager