Visual Management Program Manager, ( 25-1909)
Description
About GE Vernova:
GE Vernova is a planned, purpose-built global energy company that includes Power, Wind, and Electrification businesses and is supported by its accelerator businesses of Advanced Research, Consulting Services, and Financial Services. Building on over 130 years of experience tackling the world’s challenges, GE Vernova is uniquely positioned to help lead the energy transition by continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to decarbonize it. GE Vernova helps customers power economies and deliver electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. GE Vernova is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., with more than 80,000 employees across 100+ countries around the world.
GE Vernova’s Gas Power business engineers advanced, efficient natural gas-powered technologies and services, along with decarbonization solutions that aim to help electrify a lower carbon future. As part of the Gas Power One Field Services team, FieldCore installs, maintains, and upgrades power generation equipment, enabling operators of the world’s energy infrastructure to provide more reliable and affordable energy.
Job Summary:
This Visual Management Program Manager II owns the strategy & execution of visual management drawing creation. This role is responsible for publishing approximately 400 events annually for all technologies using Live Outage. This role also partners with stakeholders across the enterprise including Operations, P&L Engineering, P&L Methods, Global Tooling, Resource Management, Region Operations, and Lean to identify the outage execution team’s drawing needs and then organize and deliver the drawing package.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Own and improve the end-to-end process of creating and publishing Visual Management packages for the Live Outage application for all technologies
- Manage visual management drawing package builds for Live Outage for all technologies with the goal of publishing packages 30 days prior to outage start date
- Create and maintain current and future state drawing package standards
- Coordinate with global Resource Management teams to influence allocation and prioritization of all necessary FE resources in advance of forecasted outages and associated Visual Management builds
- Manage and balance assigned Visual Management budgets to properly allocate costs for Visual Management support
- Direct and prioritize the daily work of assigned Field Engineers to ensure they deliver high quality, complete and accurate Visual Management builds
- Train field engineers on how to build the visual management packages which includes finding correct part numbers, selecting correct drawings, etc; training may be customized depending on outage scope
- Conducts Genba visits with field engineers and outage execution teams to observe, obtain feedback and ensure drawings are meeting needs; identifies problems and opportunities for continuous improvement
- Builds a lean culture by partnering with other functions to identify additional content needed on drawings and improve quality and cycle time of drawing package builds
- Manages the process for the creation of the Value Object package to include coordinating with Field Engineers and others to build the packages.
- Uses value stream/process maps to contribute to a kaizen calendar and other improvement projects to reach future state and breakthrough results at component, process, and value stream level.
- Drives accountability to realize improvements from all supporting organizations through follow up to ensure implementation and realized value stream improvement.
- Prepare and publish visual management drawings as needed
- Travel may be required
- You may be assigned other duties to help proactively drive our FieldCore vision and align with our organization’s core values.
Required Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in related field with minimum five years of Field Engineer or Project management experience; additional years of experience in power generation can be substituted for degree
- 8+ years progressive experience and demonstrated success/knowledge in gas turbine maintenance (same here?)
- 4+ years of experience in power generation and field services experience in Heavy Duty Gas and/or Steam Turbine maintenance
- Proficiency with PLM, SBOM, and all GE Vernova drawing and bill of material delivery systems
- Proficiency using Live Outage
- English proficiency required
Desired Characteristics:
- A deep understanding and experience with gas and steam turbine outage execution
- Experience working in the field with outage schedules and field procedures
- Experience with Primavera and job cost estimators
- Experience with lean methodologies
- Demonstrated results leading outage improvement activities and developing cost remediation projects and programs
- Excellent communication and management skills, strong interpersonal and influencing skills; ability to work with all levels of employees
- Expert in power generation outage maintenance
- Strong project planning and organizational skills
- Ability to handle multiple projects concurrently
- Demonstrated year-on-year KPI improvement
- Work well both independently and in a team environment, including in remote work settings
Compensation and Benefits:
The annual salary range for this position is $88,800 to $146,400. This is an exempt from overtime position. FieldCore benefits include insurance (medical, dental, vision, disability, and life), retirement savings, health and Wellness reimbursement, and a bonus or incentive program. Eligibility for FieldCore benefits is determined under the terms of the applicable benefits plan.
FieldCore is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sex, national origin, age, veteran status, status as a qualified individual with a disability, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, ancestry, genetic information, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by law.