Director, Fleet Availability & Customer Assurance
Schenectady, NY - USA
Job Summary
Job Description Summary
The Director Customer Assurance & Fleet Availability is responsible for leading the strategy governance and execution of customer assurance activities related to major events fleet availability customer performance visibility and technical customer communications. This role serves as a critical link between operations engineering service and customer-facing teams to ensure timely response to major issues clear and consistent customer communication and effective oversight of turbine availability across platforms and customers.The role is accountable for strengthening customer confidence through proactive issue management structured communication availability performance monitoring and coordinated response during high-impact fleet or customer events.
Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities:
1. Major Event Management
- Lead the coordination and management of major fleet and customer events impacting turbine availability performance or customer operations.
- Establish governance escalation paths and response protocols for high-impact technical and operational issues.
- Drive cross-functional alignment during major events across engineering operations product lines field teams and customer account teams.
- Ensure timely decision-making issue tracking recovery planning and executive-level visibility during critical events.
- Oversee post-event reviews root cause follow-up lessons learned and communication of corrective actions.
2. Fleet Availability Oversight
- Provide leadership oversight for turbine availability performance across platforms regions and customer sites.
- Monitor fleet-level availability trends identify recurring risks and drive actions to improve operational performance.
- Partner with platform engineering and service teams to address technical and operational drivers affecting availability.
- Support the development of availability performance metrics dashboards and reporting routines.
- Ensure alignment between fleet performance priorities and customer commitments.
3. Strategic Fleet transformation
- Drive Fleet transformation efforts.. PACBot ROC reimagination
- Measure transformation effectiveness
4. Customer Availability Management
- Oversee customer-specific availability performance and support actions required to address gaps risks or escalations.
- Work closely with customer-facing teams to ensure customer concerns related to turbine availability are addressed with urgency and clarity.
- Provide leadership support for recovery plans and action tracking for customers experiencing significant availability or reliability issues.
- Ensure consistency in how customer availability issues are assessed communicated and resolved.
5. Customer Assurance
- Act as a central leader for customer assurance activities related to major technical and operational issues.
- Build customer confidence through transparent communication structured issue management and strong cross-functional coordination.
- Ensure customer concerns are translated into clear internal actions and ownership.
- Support strategic customer discussions where availability reliability or major issue recovery is a key focus.
- Drive a disciplined approach to customer assurance processes including risk identification escalation management and follow-through.
6. Customer Communications
- Lead major issue communications to customers ensuring messages are clear accurate timely and aligned across functions.
- Oversee technical communications related to fleet issues corrective actions operational impacts and recovery efforts.
- Partner with engineering product management legal commercial and service teams to ensure communication quality and consistency.
- Establish communication standards templates and review processes for customer-facing technical messaging.
- Ensure customer communications reflect both technical accuracy and customer impact awareness.
7. Cross-Functional Leadership
- Serve as a key integration point across engineering product lines operations services commercial teams and customer account leadership.
- Drive accountability across functions to ensure actions related to fleet availability and customer issues are executed on time.
- Escalate critical risks competing priorities and unresolved issues to senior leadership as needed.
- Influence stakeholders across multiple teams without direct operational ownership of all functions involved.
8. Performance Monitoring and Governance
- Define and maintain governance mechanisms for major event response customer assurance and fleet availability tracking.
- Review performance trends open risks and action plans with leadership on a regular basis.
- Develop KPIs and management reporting for fleet availability customer impact response effectiveness and communication timeliness.
- Ensure data-driven decision-making and visibility into key operational and customer assurance priorities.
9. Continuous Improvement
- Identify process gaps and drive improvements in event response customer communication and availability management.
- Standardize best practices for issue escalation customer messaging and recovery governance.
- Promote a culture of responsiveness transparency and customer focus.
- Support long-term initiatives to improve fleet reliability customer experience and organizational readiness for major events.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree in Engineering from an accredited university.
- Significant experience in fleet performance product support systems engineering or a related technical field.
- First experience leading project or functional engineering teams.
- Strong understanding of wind turbine operation availability
- 10 years of Experience in wind turbine engineering renewable energy or power generation.
Desired Characteristics:
- Advanced degree in Engineering Reliability Statistics Data Science or related field.
- Six sigma black belt master black belt or Lean proficiency
For candidates applying to a U.S. based position the pay range for this position is between $204000 and $306000 USD. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidates experience education and skill set.
Additional Information
GE Vernova offers a great work environment professional development challenging careers and competitive compensation. GE Vernova is anEqual Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race color religion national or ethnic origin sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age disability protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
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:
Director
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