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Engineering Business Quality & Lean Leader - Global Services (m/f/d)

GE Vernova
Greenville, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 13 May 2026
💰 $254,000/yr($152,400/yr$254,000/yr)

About the role

Job Description Summary

The Engineering Business Operations Quality and Lean Leader is responsible for integrating Gas Power Engineering with the Global Services Business Line value stream, ensuring Engineering execution, operational priorities, and improvement initiatives are fully aligned to deliver performance across Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost (SQDC).

This leader partners closely with Business Line leadership, Engineering functional teams, and embedded Lean and Quality organizations to align priorities, remove barriers, and accelerate execution across the value stream. The role ensures Engineering activities are effectively integrated within the broader Win, Design, Buy, Build, and Execute workstream.

The leader also drives deployent of GE Vernova’s Lean Operating Method, including MOR, Hoshin Kanri, Daily Management, Lean roadmaps, and Kaizen, strengthening operational rigor, performance transparency, and structured problem solving across Engineering organizations supporting the value stream.

Serving as the single integration point for Engineering performance and improvement initiatives, this role connects strategy to execution and ensures improvement efforts are prioritized, coordinated, and sustained across the enterprise.

This position provides a unique opportunity for a high performing leader to operate at the intersection of Engineering, Business Line leadership, and enterprise initiatives. The role offers broad exposure to value stream strategy, operational performance, and cross functional leadership while enabling direct impact on GE Vernova’s global energy portfolio.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary integration leader between Business Line value stream leadership and Gas Power Engineering, ensuring alignment of priorities and execution across Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost (SQDC).

  • Represent Engineering within Business Line operating cadences including Monthly Operating Reviews (MOR), staff meetings, and operational reviews, ensuring Engineering performance, risks, and improvement priorities are visible and addressed.

  • Participate in Gas Power Engineering MORs and ensure value stream priorities, performance gaps, and improvement opportunities are effectively integrated across organizations.

  • Drive accountability for improvement outcomes across Engineering organizations supporting the value stream, ensuring measurable progress in operational performance and key SQDC metrics.

  • Coordinate cross functional problem solving to address systemic performance gaps, ensuring effective containment, root cause elimination, and prevention.

  • Advance deployment of GE Vernova’s Lean Operating Method across Engineering teams supporting the value stream, including MOR, Hoshin Kanri, Daily Management, Lean roadmaps, and Kaizen, ensuring teams operate with clear performance visibility, predictable execution, and structured problem solving at the point of impact.

  • Integrate improvement roadmaps across Engineering organizations supporting the value stream, ensuring Lean, Quality, reliability, and operational initiatives are aligned and executed in a coordinated manner.

  • Partner with Engineering Lean and Quality leaders to accelerate improvement execution and ensure consistent application of continuous improvement and problem-solving practices.

  • Identify systemic operational risks impacting value stream performance and drive timely escalation and resolution with Engineering and Business Line leadership.

  • Drive Read Across of lessons learned, corrective actions, and improvement opportunities across Engineering teams to prevent recurrence of systemic issues.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or a related technical discipline.

  • Significant leadership experience in engineering, operations, manufacturing, or business operations within a complex industrial or technology environment.

  • Demonstrated ability to drive operational performance across Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost (SQDC) through structured operating systems and continuous improvement.

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving capability with experience applying Lean principles and operational management systems, including Daily Management, value stream improvement, and structured problem solving to translate complex operational challenges into actionable improvement plans.

  • Proven ability to lead cross functional initiatives and influence leaders across Engineering, Operations, and Business Line organizations.

Desired Characteristics

  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management s

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