Outage Manager

Job Description SummaryVernova Purpose

GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. Are you excited at the opportunity to electrify and decarbonize the world?

What impact you’ll make

The Outage Manager is responsible for preparation, planning, leading execution, and close out of complex planned/emergent Outage events for gas turbine, steam turbine and generator agreements while supporting the development of the business strategy for field fulfilment excellence in FieldCore. The Outage Manager is a focal role, with accountability for driving consistent outage planning and execution, and adoption of best practices and lessons learned. Will lead complex outages for their assigned Country/Countries or location(s) wherever possible, given the need to achieve target utilization levels.

Job DescriptionWhat you’ll do

• Manage complex outage event preparation (Planned/Emergent/Upgrade) from start to finish, including outage schedule development, TFA/craft labor/tooling/cost planning, customer management - pre/post outage meetings, mobilization planning, JCE execution, and event close out

• Own onsite execution (site lead) with large teams during assigned outages, ensuring Fulfilment-5 goals and requirements are met.

• Manage on job cost tracking, productivity, while managing execution risk/FMEA and any NU/Service warranty

• Drive improvement of on-time delivery, outage cost and productivity, implementation, effectively update and maintain accurate tracking files, control man hour cost and pacing

• Lead project quotation development including work scope, site condition check, preliminary safety and risk analysis to identify potential issues or obstacles and to minimize cost impact for site execution

• Support customer operations team during shut-down, start-up, running and performance testing of turbine, generator and auxiliary systems

• Ensure proper execution documentation is prepared, used, reviewed, stored and delivered including, Field Procedures, Quality Procedures, EHS, and Customer Outage Reports

• Work with web systems applications for proper allocation, preparation, planning and forecasting of labor, tooling, vendor management

• Respond to forced outages/emergency promptly, be on site when needed, investigate/escalate site issues to restore the units to operating conditions in a timely manner

• Support Customer Service Leader on technical communication to customer staff during outage execution

• Actively work to improve and optimize existing processes and look for simplification opportunities

• Ability and willingness to work holidays, weekends and overtime as required by field assignments

• Travel may be required

• May be assigned other duties to help proactively drive our FieldCore vision and align with our organization’s core values.

What you’ll bring (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree in science/engineering or a High School Diploma / GED with 4 years of experience in power generation industry.

• Minimum of 8 years applicable experience and demonstrated success/knowledge on gas/steam turbine or generator maintenance (depending on needs)

• Minimum of 3 years of specialized/industry experience of gas/steam turbine generator & auxiliary system outage planning and execution.
• English proficiency required

What will make you stand out

• Strong Project Management and planning skills (Primavera scheduling tool preferred)

• PC proficiency, web applications including advanced Excel skills

• Able to interface effectively with all levels of the organization and external customers

• Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills and influencing skill

• Strong technical and maintenance knowledge of gas/steam turbines and generators

• Strong team leader in dynamic, energetic and complex customer site environments

• Ability to work under high pressure and constraint time, committed and process oriented

• Ability to work multiple project simultaneously and effectively in a cross-functional team

• Ability to influence stakeholders to deliver customer and business needs

• FEP graduate

You must have legal authorization to work in Canada and any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation: the drug screen requirement in the background check process is not required if the role is based in Canada.

For candidates applying to a Canadian-based position, the pay range for this position is between $102,200 and $152,200 CAD. 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 for an existing vacancy.

Additional Information#LI-Remote - This is a remote position