Steam Turbine Upgrades Value Stream Leader (f/m/d)
GE Vernova · Elbląg
Job Description Summary
The Steam Turbine Upgrades Value Stream Leader is accountable for the end-to-end performance, flow and execution of the Steam Turbine Upgrades value stream, translating customer demand and business priorities into predictable project delivery, quality, lead time, cash and margin outcomes.The leader owns the operating system connecting the full value stream - from order through engineering, sourcing, manufacturing, project execution, shipment/site execution and closeout - ensuring that functions operate against one integrated set of priorities, milestones and customer outcomes.
The Value Stream Leader acts as the integrator of execution across organizational boundaries, identifying and removing systemic constraints, driving accountability for commitments, and continuously improving the speed, predictability and quality of the value stream.
The role directly leads the Project Quality Managers, Scheduling team and the Value Stream Performance Team, and works across Project Management, Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, Commercial, Finance and Field Services to deliver value-stream outcomes.
Job Description
'Our Mission
At GE Vernova, we are united by a single, urgent and optimistic mission: electrify to thrive and decarbonise. The world needs us to accelerate the transition to more reliable, affordable and sustainable energy. Together, we have the energy to change the world
What impact you will make
As a member of the Value Stream Operations Leadership team within Serfices and Fuels business line of the Nuclear segment you will be an active contributor to delivering woth best in class Safety-Quality-Delivery-Cost outcomes (perform) & transforming our Value streams (transform) for improved customer & business outcomes essential to deliver on the strategy.
Key Role Responsibilities
Within the scope of Steam Turbine Upgrades Value Stream for the Services & Fuels Business Line
1. Own End-to-End Value Stream Performance
Identify systemic constraints across engineering, procurement, suppliers, manufacturing and site execution and drive cross-functional resolution to enable Customer on-time delivery, Project milestone performance, End-to-end lead time reduction, Throughput and backlog conversion, Quality and right-first-time execution, Margin protection and cost of poor quality reduction
2. Lead the Value Stream Execution Operating System
Establish and lead a disciplined operating rhythm connecting strategy, portfolio priorities and daily execution. This includes - Monthly Value Stream / MOR Review: overall performance, portfolio risk, capacity and systemic constraints, and strategic improvement priorities. Weekly Execution / S&OE Rhythm: shared-resource conflicts, escalations and decisions required.
Ensure reviews are decision and action forums rather than reporting forums. Establish clear escalation thresholds, decision rights, owners and closure dates for critical issues. Move the organization from retrospective reporting toward forward-looking execution intelligence and early warning.
Develop analytics capable of identifying where future delivery performance is likely to deteriorate before customer milestones are missed
3. Own End-to-End Flow and Lead-Time Improvement
Continuously improve the flow of Steam Turbine Upgrades from customer order through delivery. End-to-end value-stream maps, Critical-path understanding, Pacemaker processes, WIP visibility, Queue and waiting-time analysis, Pull principles, Buffer strategies, Freeze windows, Constraint management, Standard work, Decision lead times. Drive structural reduction in lead time and variability rather than relying on project-by-project expediting. Use Lean principles to improve the business system while avoiding local optimization that damages overall value-stream performance
4. Project Quality Leadership — Directly lead PQMs and embed zero-defect/right-first-time quality across ITO-to-OTR handover, design, suppliers, manufacturing, release, site execution and lessons learned..
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Business or a related discipline — with experience in complex engineered products, power generation, energy services or project-based industrial environments.
- Demonstrated leadership of cross-functional project portfolios or value streams.
- Proven track record of improving execution performance — including customer delivery, schedule predictability, lead time, quality, throughput and/or financial outcomes.
- Strong understanding of project and portfolio execution — including integrated schedules, risk management, resource prioritization, critical-path management, project quality and recovery of challenged projects.
- Demonstrated ability to lead through influence across organizational boundaries — using data, operating rhythms and structured problem solving to align senior functional and project leaders around common business outcomes.
Desired Characteristics
- End-to-end systems thinker — Optimizes the overall value stream rather than individual functions and understands how decisions propagate across Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Projects and Field execution.
- Strong execution and accountability mindset — Converts complex problems into clear priorities, decisions, owners and actions and drives disciplined follow-through.
- Forward-looking and risk oriented — Anticipates delivery, quality and capacity risks before they become customer or financial issues and acts early to change the outcome.
- Lean and continuous-improvement leadership — Strong understanding of value-stream management, flow, constraint management and structured problem solving, with the ability to move an organization from firefighting toward repeatable execution.
- Executive-level communication and constructive challenge — Able to simplify complex portfolio issues, challenge assumptions and commitments with facts, and influence senior stakeholders while maintaining strong cross-functional relationships.
Benefits Available to You
GE Vernova employees rise to the challenge of building a world that works. In order to meet this mission, we provide varied, competitive benefits to help support our workforce
Our compensation & benefits are designed to reward high performers and help you manage your personal and family needs. We offer a robust benefits package depending on your employment status and your national requirements.
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Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: No