Key Responsibilities
Strategic Vision & Portfolio Management
- Portfolio-Level Outcomes: Manage the interconnected health of multiple projects, ensuring that resources, risks, and performance targets are balanced across the portfolio to drive aggregate business value.
- Strategic Execution: Define and iterate on long-term project strategies. Shift focus from reactive management to proactive anticipation of market, technical, and customer-driven challenges.
- Complex Problem-Solving: Serve as the ultimate escalation point for cross-functional bottlenecks. Deploy advanced analytical techniques to resolve high-complexity issues that span engineering, manufacturing, and field execution.
- Stakeholder Influence: Navigate complex organizational matrices to align diverse internal and external stakeholders toward a unified, long-term vision.
- Customer Ownership: Develop strong executive relationships to facilitate an open and candid dialogue. Leverage to drive positive outcomes on cross portfolio issue resolution, claims management, and project execution
Coaching, Mentorship & Team Development
- Talent Development: Actively identify and mentor high-potential Project Managers and functional leads. Provide ongoing feedback and career coaching to build a sustainable leadership pipeline.
- Culture of Excellence: Champion a culture of continuous learning and growth. Facilitate knowledge sharing across the project organization to ensure best practices are codified and scaled.
- Team Empowerment: Coach teams on "influence without authority" and soft-skill development, empowering individuals to take ownership and solve complex problems at their level.
- Resilience & Well-being: Proactively manage team health by fostering psychological safety and emotional intelligence, ensuring the team remains energized and resilient through high-pressure delivery phases
Financial & Operational Influence
- Value Stream Optimization: Champion LEAN and Kaizen principles to redesign value streams, eliminating waste and enhancing project efficiency at scale.
- Financial Stewardship: Proactively influence financial outcomes by optimizing Estimates at Completion (EAC) and Cost-to-Come (CTC) projections. Lead margin maximization efforts through precise control of cash, revenue, and invoicing cycles.
- Contractual & Claims Strategy: Lead negotiations on complex change orders and vendor claims, utilizing a strategic approach to protect project interests while maintaining robust customer relationships.
Risk, EHS & Integration
- Risk & Opportunity Architecture: Own the portfolio Risk & Opportunity register. Quantify risks not just for individual tasks, but for the overall project outcome.
- EHS & Quality Leadership: Enforce a "zero-compromise" culture regarding EHS and quality standards, regardless of pressure to accelerate schedules.
Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university.
- Experience: 10+ years of experience leading mega-projects or complex portfolios within the Energy or large-scale infrastructure sectors.
Competencies
- Strategic Acumen: Demonstrated ability to translate complex business challenges into clear, actionable, and sustainable project strategies.
- Mentorship Record: Proven experience in developing talent, coaching project teams, and building a high-performance culture within a matrixed organization.
- Problem-Solving Mastery: Proven record of identifying systemic issues and implementing solutions across interdependent workstreams.
Executive Presence: Advanced ability to represent the organization at the C-Suite level, facilitating high-stakes negotiations and managing sensitive customer communications.
Additional InformationGE 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
For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $154,800.00 and $258,000.00. 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 October 01, 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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
- 10 or more years of experience leading mega-projects or complex portfolios in the energy or large-scale infrastructure sectors
- Legally authorized to work in the United States
- Successful completion of a drug screen, as applicable
GE Vernova Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about GE Vernova and has not been reviewed or approved by GE Vernova.
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) plan includes company matching contributions and additional company retirement contributions, with access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants. Feedback suggests this structure supports long-term savings beyond a basic match.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is available with flexible, continuous or non-continuous usage, and is complemented by adoption resources and Work/Life Connections guidance. Maternity leave is described as extended relative to typical workplace norms.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off programs include 12 paid holidays, permissive time off for many salaried roles, and dedicated personal, illness, and caregiving time for U.S. new hires. Some hourly roles start with a defined PTO bank, while other roles may offer unlimited time off.
GE Vernova Insights
What We Do
GE Vernova is a planned purpose-built company on a mission to electrify the planet while simultaneously working to 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. GE Vernova brings together GE’s portfolio of energy businesses including Power, Wind, Electrification and Digital businesses. With focus, GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. Together, we have The Energy to Change the World.
Why Work With Us
Join our team, to evolve and grow, surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the industry who help you get better every day. You’ll get the chance to rewrite the rules, work on cutting-edge technology, and be part of a global team for positive change.
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