Staffing and Operations Manager - Datacenters

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Hiring Remotely in USA
Remote
114K-190K Annually
Senior level
Energy • Manufacturing • Solar • Renewable Energy
GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy.
The Role
Leads workforce planning and staffing ramp-up for large-scale datacenter projects. Coordinates recruitment with project milestones, monitors hiring KPIs, oversees international immigration and global mobility, and ensures prevailing wage, apprenticeship, payroll, and labor compliance. Partners with talent acquisition, HR, immigration counsel, project leadership, unions, and trade schools to maintain workforce readiness, regulatory compliance, and project continuity.
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Job Description SummaryAs a Workforce Planning and Operations Manager within our Power Conversion and Storage business, you will play a critical role in the successful execution of high-value, large-scale datacenter projects (exceeding $1B). You will be the central point of contact for human capital strategy, ensuring that our project teams are optimally staffed, properly mobilized, and compliant with international labor and immigration regulations.
Reporting to the Program Director - Datacenters, your leadership will ensure workforce readiness and mobilization while maintaining the highest standards of regulatory and labor compliance.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

1. Staffing and Recruitment Ramp Up

  • Drive a comprehensive staffing strategy for project ramp-up, ensuring all roles are filled in alignment with aggressive project construction and commissioning timelines.
  • Partner closely with the Central Talent Acquisition team to define job requirements, align candidate profiles, and prioritize hiring needs based on the $1B+ project schedule.
  • Pace and synchronize recruitment activities with project milestones, ensuring a steady, high-quality pipeline of talent that avoids both hiring bottlenecks and idle labor costs.
  • Monitor recruitment KPIs and "time-to-fill" metrics, escalating potential delays in talent acquisition that may jeopardize project milestones.
  • Work with HR Business Partners to ensure the right technical skills are matched to project milestones.

2. Immigration & Global Mobility Oversight:

  • Manage complex international labor mobility and immigration requirements for global teams working on datacenter sites.
  • Act as the liaison between external immigration counsel, project management, and site leadership to ensure visa, work permit, and tax compliance.
  • Mitigate project delays by proactively addressing regulatory or movement barriers for key personnel.

3. Prevailing Wage & Apprenticeship Compliance:

  • Oversee and ensure project-wide compliance with prevailing wage requirements, ensuring all payroll and labor reporting meets specific local, state, or federal mandate thresholds.
  • Monitor and manage apprenticeship utilization requirements, ensuring the project meets mandatory ratios by coordinating with local unions, trade schools, or internal apprenticeship programs.
  • Maintain accurate, audit-ready documentation regarding labor classifications, hours worked, and wage rates to mitigate project risk and legal liability.

Required Qualifications:

  • Education: Bachelors degree in business administration, human resources, commerce or a related field
  • Experience: minimum 7+ years in resource management, project operations, or global mobility, specifically within large-scale industrial, energy, or datacenter infrastructure.
  • Knowledge: Basic understanding of international immigration laws, cross-border workforce management, and labor compliance.
  • Communication: Proven ability to influence stakeholders at the executive level and navigate matrixed organizational structures.
  • Complexity Management: Experience working on "mega-projects" ($500M+) where multiple disciplines and global logistics are involved.
  • Travel: up to 10% of travel based on the business needs.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Certification in Project Management (PMP) or equivalent experience.

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 positionApplication Deadline: October 28, 2026

For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $114,100.00 and $190,200.00. 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 20, 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 in business administration, human resources, commerce, or a related field
  • Minimum 7 years of experience in resource management, project operations, or global mobility within large-scale industrial, energy, or datacenter infrastructure
  • Basic understanding of international immigration laws, cross-border workforce management, and labor compliance
  • Ability to influence executive stakeholders and navigate matrixed organizational structures
  • Experience working on mega-projects valued at $500 million or more involving multiple disciplines and global logistics
  • Legally authorized to work in the United States
  • Project Management Professional certification or equivalent experience

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.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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The Company
HQ: Cambridge, MA
75,000 Employees
Year Founded: 2024

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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