Job Description Summary

The Heavy-Duty Service Engineering (HDSE) Operations Leader serves as the strategic partner and Chief of Staff to the Executive Director, Heavy-Duty Service Engineering and the broader Heavy-Duty Service Engineering leadership team. This high-influence SPB1 role is responsible for the operational heartbeat of a ~1,300-person organization, ensuring that technical strategy, resource allocation, operating rhythms, lean transformation, and execution governance are aligned with Gas Power and GE Vernova business objectives.

This leader owns the governance, operational standards, performance visibility, and program management frameworks that enable disciplined execution across engineering value streams to drive technical excellence for our global Heavy-Duty Power Plant fleet. The role requires strong business judgment, executive presence, data-driven decision making, and the ability to lead horizontally across Engineering, Product Management, Global Services, Finance, HR, Supply Chain, Quality, Lean, and Business Operations. The successful candidate will help the organization convert strategy into measurable outcomes while reinforcing the GE Vernova Way: drive innovation, serve our customers, lean is how we work, win as one team, and drive accountability.

Job Description

• Operational Governance & Business Management: Own the operating system for Heavy-Duty Services Engineering, including annual priorities, long-term operating strategy, operating reviews, action tracking, leadership follow-up, and daily, weekly, and monthly management cadences. Ensure leadership discussions are data-based, action-oriented, and connected to Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost in that order.
• Demand, Capacity & Resource Management: Lead global demand-capacity planning processes in partnership with engineering leaders and business operations. Help functional leaders prioritize and deploy resources across customer commitments, requisition execution, strategic programs, technical risk reduction, and productivity commitments. Maintain clear visibility to capacity, demand, resource constraints, contractor usage, labor productivity, and financial performance.
• Financial and Operating Plan Discipline: Partner with finance and engineering leadership to support budget planning, operating plan execution, forecast accuracy, voucher and cost-center discipline, and productivity tracking for ~$220MM operating budget. Identify risks and opportunities early, recommend mitigation actions, and drive follow-through to deliver committed business outcomes.
• Performance Visibility & KPI Management: Define, maintain, and continuously improve the dashboards, bowler metrics, and business intelligence mechanisms that track organizational health and execution performance. Establish clear measures for SQDC, productivity, demand-capacity, engineering cycle time, lead time, quality, corrective actions, transformation progress, and customer responsiveness.
• Operational Excellence & Lean Transformation: Drive lean operating rigor across the organization, including standard work, leader standard work, daily management, KPI development, problem solving, waste elimination, Hoshin Kanri deployment, and breakthrough-priority governance. Ensure lean is embedded into how the organization operates rather than treated as a stand-alone initiative.
• Quality and Compliance Partnership: Partner with quality, product safety, technical compliance, and engineering leaders to strengthen process discipline, design quality, documentation quality, execution rigor, and prevention-based problem solving. Champion a quality-first mindset and ensure that delivery and cost actions do not compromise safety, compliance, or technical integrity.
• Strategic Initiative and Program Management: Translate Heavy-Duty Services Engineering priorities into executable plans, governance, milestones, metrics, risk reviews, and stakeholder alignment. Provide operational leadership for critical initiatives, including Engineering 2030, productivity actions, value stream improvements, capability development, and operating model improvements.
• Enterprise-Wide Influence: Serve as a primary interface between Heavy-Duty Services Engineering and cross-functional business stakeholders. Represent the organization in Gas Power Engineering operations forums and translate enterprise priorities into functional execution. Lead horizontally to remove barriers, improve alignment, and reinforce a One Team approach across global organizations.
• Executive Partnership and Decision Support: Act as a trusted proxy and operating partner for the Executive Director, proactively identifying blind spots, surfacing risks, framing decisions, and resolving complex cross-functional roadblocks. Manage information flow, prepare executive-level materials, and ensure leadership time is focused on the highest-impact issues.
• Communication & Organizational Effectiveness: Lead the organization communication strategy, including leadership updates, operating reviews, All-Hands content, newsletters, business updates, and other mechanisms that create clarity and alignment across a global team. Connect individual engineering contributions to customer outcomes, business performance, GE Vernova priorities, and the Engineering 2030 transformation.
• People Leadership & Team Development: Lead assigned operations resources (12 reports) and partner closely with finance, HR, and functional leaders. Set clear expectations, coach for performance, support development planning, and build organizational capability to operate a complex global engineering organization with rigor, pace, transparency, and accountability.

Desired Leadership Attributes

• Strategic Architect: Able to operate with a multi-year horizon, connect market and business dynamics to engineering priorities, and convert strategy into a clear operating model, metrics, governance, and execution cadence.
• Influencer of Influence: Proven ability to lead through matrixed, global environments where success depends on trust, credibility, alignment, and the ability to mobilize leaders without always relying on direct authority.
• Decisive Operator: Data-driven, action-oriented, and comfortable making recommendations despite ambiguity. Demonstrates restless dissatisfaction for the status quo and the discipline to follow through until measurable outcomes are achieved.
• Executive Communicator: Able to synthesize complex operational, technical, financial, and organizational information into clear decision-ready messages for senior engineering and business leaders.
• Servant Leader: Builds confidence and capability in others, listens actively, creates inclusion and connectedness across global teams, and demonstrates humility, transparency, and accountability.
• Customer and Quality Advocate: Measures processes and performance through the customer’s eyes while protecting safety, quality, compliance, and technical integrity as non-negotiable priorities.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or comparable 4-year technical degree from an accredited university or college.
• 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in engineering, engineering operations, program management, lifecycle management, product engineering, project engineering, or a related industrial technology environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strategic Operations & Business Management: Proven ability to lead operating rhythms, resource planning, and large-scale cross-functional initiatives within a global, matrixed organization.
• Engineering & Domain Expertise: Deep technical knowledge of Gas Power products, engineering lifecycle processes (requisition, configuration, and product definition), and power plant systems.
• Performance Analytics & Lean Execution: Demonstrated success in using KPIs, business intelligence tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau), and Lean fundamentals (Standard Work, Hoshin Kanri, problem-solving) to drive continuous improvement.
• Leadership & Collaboration: Extensive experience managing teams and building consensus across diverse functions, regions, and leadership levels to resolve complex issues and deliver outcomes.
• Executive Communication & Financial Acumen: Strong capability in financial planning (OP, productivity, cost management) and the preparation/presentation of high-level materials for executive leadership.

 

 

For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $152,400.00 and $254,000.00. The Company pays a geographic differential of 110%, 120% or 130% of salary in certain areas. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set.

 

 

Bonus eligibility: discretionary annual bonus.

 

 

This posting is expected to remain open for at least seven days after it was posted on August 17, 2026.

 

 

Available benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, 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 Vernova 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 financial planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability benefits, life insurance, 12 paid holidays, and permissive time off.

 

 

GE Vernova Inc. or its affiliates (collectively or individually, “GE Vernova”) sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs GE Vernova 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 GE Vernova welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.