Power Mission Operations Leader

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 stakeholders. Represent the organization in ARC 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 technology contributions to customer outcomes, business performance and GE Vernova priorities.
• People Leadership & Team Development: Lead assigned operations resources and partner closely with quality, lean, finance, HR, and functional leaders. Set clear expectations, coach for performance, support development planning, and build organizational capability to operate a complex global technology 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 technology 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 technology 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 Technology from an accredited university or college.
• 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in technology, technology operations, program management, lifecycle management, product technology, project technology, or a related industrial technology environment.
• 10+ years of experience within the power generation, energy, industrial, or similarly complex technical industry.
• Demonstrated experience leading operating rhythms, business management, performance management, resource planning, or strategic initiative execution in a global, matrixed organization.
• Demonstrated experience using operational data, KPIs, dashboards, or business intelligence tools to improve performance visibility, decision making, and execution discipline.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing and presenting executive-level materials to senior leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across functions, businesses, regions, and leadership levels to resolve issues and drive outcomes. Preferred Qualifications
• Prior people leadership experience, including leadership of operations, quality, lean, project management, or business operations resources.
• Experience with financial planning