Generator Upgrades (Legacy Alstom Technologies) Value Stream Leader (m/f/d)

Job Description Summary

The Generator Upgrades Value Stream Leader (focussed on legacy Alstom technologies) is accountable for the end-to-end performance, flow and execution of the 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 handover 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 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 Generator Upgrades Value Stream (focussed on legacy Alstom technologies) 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 Generator 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.

A healthy, balanced lifestyle can mean different things to different people. We’ve created programs that support the way you live and work today.

GE Vernova invests to provide opportunities to grow your career by providing a path for continued on-the-job learning and development.

For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $131,600 and $219,300. The Company pays a geographic differential of 110%, 120% or 130% of salary in certain areas. 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 expected to remain open for at least seven days after it was posted on October 19, 2026.

Available benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability benefits, life insurance, 12 paid holidays, and permissive time off.

GE Vernova Inc. or its affiliates (collectively or individually, “GE Vernova”) sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs GE Vernova reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace, or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a GE Vernova welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.

Additional Information

- This is a remote positionApplication Deadline:

About Us

Addressing the climate crisis is an urgent global priority and we take our responsibility seriously. That is our singular mission at GE Vernova: continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to help decarbonize it.

If we want our energy future to be different…we must be different.

Our mission is embedded in our name. We retain our treasured legacy, “GE,” in our name as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” / “verde” signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. “Nova,” from the Latin “novus,” nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver.

Together, we have The Energy to Change the World. www.gevernova.com