Job Description Summary
The Power Mission Operations Leader serves as the strategic operating partner to the Executive Director, Power Mission Leader and the broader ARC leadership team. This high-influence SPB1 role is responsible for the operational heartbeat of the global Power Mission organization, ensuring that technical priorities, resource allocation, operating rhythms, lean transformation, and execution governance are aligned to ARC and GE Vernova business objectives.
This leader owns the governance, operational standards, performance visibility, and program management frameworks that enable disciplined execution across new unit technology value streams. The role requires strong business judgment, executive presence, data-driven decision making, and the ability to lead horizontally across technology, product, projects, finance, HR, sourcing, 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
Core Responsibilities
Operational Governance & Business Management: Own the operating system for Power Mission, 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 technology leaders and ARC operations. Help functional leaders prioritize and deploy resources across customer commitments, 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 technology leadership to support budget planning, operating plan execution, forecast accuracy, voucher and cost-center discipline, and productivity tracking. 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, technology 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 technology 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 Power Mission priorities into executable plans, governance, milestones, metrics, risk reviews, and stakeholder alignment. Provide operational leadership for critical initiatives, AI-enabled ways of working, productivity actions, value stream improvements, capability development, and operating model improvements.
Enterprise-Wide Influence: Serve as a primary interface between Power Mission and cross-functional…