Major Upgrades Contractor Manager

Schenectady, New York
GE Capital
Job Description Summary
The NAM Major Upgrades Contractor Manager will be responsible for the overall safety, quality, and performance of our contracted partners. They will promote a positive health and safety culture. Implementation and management of standard work, job efficiency for all major repairs.

Job Description

About us
GE’s Onshore Wind business has a total installed base of more than 50,000 wind turbines in more than 35 counties, with 100+ GW of global installed capacity. We harness increased onshore wind energy potential through a broad family of turbines that are uniquely suited for a variety of wind environments, including Cypress, GE’s most powerful onshore wind turbine, and GE’s 2MW platform, which has more than 20GW installed and in operation today. We are committed to our customers’ success in wind, offering a broad portfolio of products and services that make renewables the energy of choice for a cleaner future

Essential Responsibilities

In addition you will:

• Coordinate and lead weekly operations reviews and updates on contractor performance on key KPI’s and variance reviews of jobs performed in the field.
• Drive safety and accountability to the GE Life Savings principals, including root cause analysis, corrective action development, and implementation of corrective actions across our contracted teams.
• Develop and iterate standard work packages for onsite job kick-off, field execution expectations, and other operational aspects to standardize best practices, communications, and driving consistent field operations.
• Develop corrective action to reduce outliers and use lean tools to improve processes to mitigate and drive consistency to standard work and productivity with field execution.
• Work with cross functional teams, sourcing, engineering, parts, Logistics, field services, crane team, and services product line to develop tools and procedures to drive continuous improvements.
• Create and lead lean initiatives to improve operational performance of our contracted teams.
• Support P&E budget development, management, and monthly reconciliation.
• Develop performance improvement plans to improve safety performance, quality, and efficiency of our contracted resources to achieve consistent operations.
• Develop scorecards to measure contractor performance for safety, quality and execution.
• Provide guidance to all field teams on proper procedures and technical support during field execution.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in business, finance, or engineering from an accredited university or college
• Minimum of 5 years of finance or operations experience in field services.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience with contractual services, risk, accounting, or cost estimating role
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 50% of the time

Desired characteristics

• Comfortable and confident in a matrix environment
• Advanced level of excel and powerpoint experience, particularly pivot tables, advanced lookups, charts and data mining.
• Confident in Presentation Skills
• Ability to define problems collects data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusion
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills, and a team player
• Self-driven and goal oriented
• Ability to influence and gain commitment from peers and others within the organization
• Demonstrated ability to think beyond the surface and to develop and execute improvement plans; results oriented
• Track record of challenging the status quo and curiosity to learn new skills
• Initiative to learn and expand responsibilities as needed
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE 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 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: Yes