Senior Functional Leader

Title: Senior Functional Leader

, Upgrades Planning, Scheduling & Project Management

Location: Atlanta

Job Description:

Job Description Summary

The Senior Functional Leader – Upgrades Planning, Scheduling & Project Management is accountable for defining and delivering the global vision for upgrades planning, scheduling and Project & Risk Management across Inquiry to Order & Order to Remittance (ITR) within the Integrated Services Management (ISM) multi-year digital transformation program.
This role partners with Projects & Engineered Solutions (P&ES), Engineering Teams, Global Process Excellence, Global Operations, Regional Ops, and Fulfillment teams to transform fragmented planning and project management activities into a data-driven, KPI-led execution system. The leader ensures planning tasks, schedules, and operational milestones are unified into a single digital workflow—enabling real-time visibility, predictability, and performance management across the upgrades lifecycle.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

• Business Strategy & Vision: Define and lead the global strategy for planning, scheduling and OTR project management for Upgrades. Collaborate with Global Process Excellence Outage Planning & Scheduling functional leader for field services planning scope; transform traditional planning tasks into actionable, KPI-driven workflows that directly influence operational performance, cycle time, and on-time delivery. Collaborate with ITO-OTR Handover functional leader for seamless Upgrades handoff and transform OTR project management to fully integrated cross-functional collaboration and exception management.
• Process Harmonization & Operating Model: Design P&ES planning & scheduling and OTR project management processes within ISM, ensuring project plans are execution-ready and aligned with engineering scope, outage windows, and fulfillment demand availability. Translate engineering scope and milestones into executable project schedules, maintaining tight linkage between engineering deliverables, parts readiness, and field execution timelines. Manage schedule impacts driven by outage date changes, ensuring downstream effects to engineering activities and parts delivery are proactively identified, assessed, and re-baselined. Ensure Parts delivery readiness is integrated into planning decisions, partnering with Supply Chain and ERP+ teams so material availability, lead times, and constraints are reflected directly in project schedules. Establish the data foundation required for P&ES operational KPIs like Outage impact to delivery timelines.
• Digital Roadmap Ownership: Own the functional roadmap for Upgrades planning & scheduling and OTR project management within ISM. Position Salesforce as the orchestration layer that integrates planning and project management data across systems. Ensure scalable, governed solutions that enable real-time schedule & project management and execution visibility.
• Transformation Delivery Partnership: Serve as the primary functional counterpart to IT. Co-own solution design, validate blueprints, and shape delivery to ensure alignment with business priorities. Drive clarity on requirements, scope, and value-based prioritization.
• Change Leadership & Adoption: Lead enterprise change management by aligning stakeholders, clarifying roles, and embedding new ways of working. Drive adoption across regions while enabling structured decommissioning of legacy systems in line with the ISM roadmap.
• People & Capability Leadership: Establish strong functional governance, clear decision rights, and effective escalation mechanisms to enable speed and accountability. Build organizational capability to sustain transformation outcomes.
• Legacy Application: Own functional accountability for legacy applications, ensuring committed backlog delivery with discipline while supporting transition and sunset plans aligned with the future-state architecture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college.
• 10+ additional years of experience in cross functional roles supporting Commercial, Supply Chain, Field Services, Region Operations organizations

Desired Qualifications

• Proven experience leading service, operations, or field service transformations across regions using Digital Technology.
• Strong background in process standardization, Lean, and operating model design.
• Functional expertise with GEV Applications specifically Event Vision, Field Vision, RealTrack, SMWB, PLM, Primavera.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business strategy into scalable digital solutions in partnership with IT.

Additional Information

GE Vernova offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Vernova is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE Vernova will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

#LI-Remote - This is a remote position

Application Deadline:

For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $119,600.00 and $199,400.00. 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 July 08, 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.