Global Engineering Operations & Lean Leader

Job Description SummaryThe Global Engineering Operations and Lean Leader will be responsible for identifying, developing and deploying best in class engineering practices that are harmonized across GE Vernova. This includes embedding a continuous improvement and lean culture, and providing our engineering teams with processes, tools and systems that optimize their productivity and fuels organic growth. The successful candidate will work closely with engineering teams across all the business units, the advanced research center, and cross-functionally with multiple organizations including Supply Chain, Quality, HR, Digital, IT and Finance to deploy best engineering functional practices across GE Vernova. The role is a People Leader role with a small but high impact work team.
This position offers remote flexibility and requires candidates to be based in the U.S. Eastern region, with up to 25% travel.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a lean champion and an innovative thought leader for engineering, focused on driving standardization, simplification and digitalization for the product development lifecycle.
• Work closely with exponential technology teams, including AI and Robotics, to ensure deployment, adoption, sustained usage, and measurable value capture for these technologies across engineering, manufacturing and functional organizations.
• Facilitate cross-functional kaizen events focused on high-impact areas. Ensure standard work, root cause analysis, and sustainable countermeasures are embedded.
• Capture and disseminate best practices across GE Vernova’s portfolio. Act as a knowledge integrator to support replication of successful approaches.
• Work with business units and people operations to develop the required talent profile, engineering skillsets and strategy for meeting GE Vernova’s engineering talent needs for the next decade. This includes hiring strategies, reskilling/upskilling, refining and standardizing the EEDP program, and engagement with universities to ensure a strong inflow of talent.
• Support co-ordination of critical activities across the CTO organization when required.
• Work with DT to develop and implement a robust reporting infrastructure across the end-to-end product development lifecycle, extracting data from appropriate systems to provide real time actionable insights on our product development efficiency and effectiveness.
• Provide valuable insights and direction on opportunities for investments, synergies and enhancements across the engineering operations.
• Support CTO organization with hands-on quality improvement projects aligned to strategic priorities and Hoshin Kanri (Strategy Deployment) objectives.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college in a relevant field/discipline.
• 10+ years of experience working across engineering, operations and manufacturing, supply chain and sales, with a proven track record influencing across the end-to-end product development process.
• Lean practitioner with proven experience leading quality and Lean transformation initiatives in complex industrial environments.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate kaizen events and deploy standard work to create successful sustainable changes.
• Some familiarity with ISO 9001, APQP, and other quality management systems.
• Hands-on experience with RCA tools, and operational excellence frameworks.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 25% of the time.

Desired Characteristics:

• Master's Degree from an accredited college or university.
• Impactful communicator with experience working and leading cross-culturally in large, matrixed organizations.
• Highly collaborative person, comfortable with conflict and debate normally associated with change.
• Proven mentoring and coaching abilities; demonstrated ability to motivate and inspire others and to lead with humility, transparency, and focus.
• Strong interpersonal, writing, and presentation skills; ability to conceptualize, structure, and present compelling stories to a wide range of audiences.
• Strong alignment with GE Vernova Way, including being a strong advocate for creating diverse and inclusive environments.

For U.S. based candidates only, for purposes of complying with U.S. pay transparency requirements:

The salary range for this position is $197,600 to $296,400 USD. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidate’s geographic location, experience, education, skill set, and work location. This position is also eligible for variable incentive compensation and equity. Benefits include health and additional benefits.

Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach, 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 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 planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and paid time-off for vacation or illness. ​

General Electric Company, Ropcor, Inc., their successors, and in some cases their affiliates, each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e., is a “Sponsor”). Each Sponsor 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 Sponsor’s welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.

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#LI-Remote - This is a remote positionApplication Deadline:

For candidates applying to a U.S. based position only:

Bonus eligibility: discretionary annual bonus.

This posting is expected to remain open for at least seven days after it was posted on November 24, 2025.

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 Executive Services. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability benefits, life insurance, 12 paid holidays, and permissive time off, and the Restoration Plan, a nonqualified plan with company credits on eligible pay above IRS limits.

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.