Region Productivity Operations Manager III, ( 26-2490)

FieldCore, part of GE Vernova, is a global energy company focused on power generation and decarbonization solutions. The Region Productivity Operations Manager III will manage outage cost productivity and project controls for a sub-region, leading a team to optimize resources and ensure efficient outage execution.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the overall sub-regional organization of Project Control Analysts, ensuring world class support and building a robust recruitment and succession plan
• Responsible for overall Productivity and Project Controls rhythms, KPI’s and Metrics in their respective sub-region; including the SII outage cost out op plan build for both the CS and TX Business units
• Partner with both the sub-region Service Director and Service Managers within FieldCore’s region to provide support on outage cost productivity and Project Controls
• Review and understand the work scope of every outage through a detailed outage planning process; driving consistency on the 3-month Operations Schedule and Cost Review thorough the Post Outage Review, leading meaningful reviews for each assigned outage
• Utilize data from post outage reviews to make strategic recommendations for outage execution performance to the regions during the planning process
• Make site visits to lead Lean Action Work Outs and support with critical outages
• Assist the optimization of job cost estimates (JCE) and Man-load schedules using Primavera as appropriate to understand idle time and productivity opportunities
• Review the bid document to ensure appropriate productivity measures have been accounted for
• Ensure Implementation and execution of Top Programs on all applicable sites and quantifies the results and track programs commitment vs. execution for best practices/lessons learned
• Apply project planning methodology and enforces a productivity focus in rigorous weekly execution rhythms
• Ensure PCA’s are trained and equipped to delivery world class reporting, monitor their metrics and drive results
• Understand outage risk landscape and escalate PCA reporting Outage Performance Updates as required to keep key stakeholders apprised
• Develop cost and OTD remediating actions for outages that are escalated during execution
• Monitor and remediate outages that demand more resources than planned in the final JCE
• Quantify productivity on a granular level in both hours and dollars for executive report out
• Deliver targeted cost out operating plan
• Develop and implement productivity training
• Work with the sourcing department on vendor qualifications/management/optimization to minimize sourcing costs
• Identify overall Inefficiencies and find Productivity Gains
• Travel required
• May be assigned other duties to help proactively drive our FieldCore vision and align with our organization’s core values

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in related field with minimum five years of Field Engineer or Project management experience; additional years' experience in power generation can be substituted for degree
• 10+ years of leadership level experience in a global/complex environment
• 5+ years of managing and developing employees
• 4+ years of experience in power generation and field services
• Heavy Duty Gas Turbine and/or Steam Turbine Experience required
• Primavera experience
• English proficiency required
• Master's degree Preferred
• Excellent customer service skills
• Excellent communication and management skills and strong interpersonal skills; ability to work with all levels of employees
• Expertise in power generation outage maintenance
• Strong project planning and organizational skills
• Ability to handle multiple projects concurrently/very results-oriented
• Work well both independently and in a team environment (capable of being managed remotely and managing remote, indirect reports)
• Ability to travel 10-20%