Job Description Summary

The Engineering Productivity Leader will be the responsible and accountable leader for Engineering budget planning to deliver commitments while maximizing productivity. It will include all elements of the business planning cycle inclusive of current year pacing, SII/Op planning for the next year and long-range forecasting (3–5-year view). Additional scope will include: leading Engineering cost productivity initiatives, liquidation rate planning, program management of the R&D, FPC, and other budgets as well as other core operational and tools related activities (vouchering, bullet trains etc.))

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

• Partnering with Nuclear Engineering organization and value stream partners to help guide critical decision making for meeting financial commitments while maximizing productivity for engineering budget
• Provide accountable ownership of Engineering budget, including development strategy, target setting, and daily management routines of associated KPI’s
• Compare demands (Req, R&D, FPC) and connect the dots between actuals, trending and partner with Finance to predict the liquidation impact. 
• Provide active feedback to Engineering operations & finance and course adjust headcount and functional cost productivity to meet organizational goals 
• Partner with Digital to establish dashboards & visual management to proactively enable the ability to spot productivity trends, stop work and bring the right stakeholders together to discuss anomalies & potential problems 
• Partner with other Operational Leaders and Finance to analyse key variables & set various cost liquidation rates for the year ahead 
• Translate and communicate Nuclear business objectives into Engineering productivity actions
• Lead monthly Engineering productivity and budget meetings and provide clear concise communications with the extended business partners. 
• Partner with finance to manage bullet trains and find opportunities for cost reductions.  Work cross-functionally (IT, Sourcing, etc) to activate plans & realize savings 
• Provide engineering oversight of vouchering tools and guide strategy and maintenance.  
• Partner with Digital to manage, maintain and improve overall demand and capacity data portal quality
• Establish and drive consistency of Engineering productivity data sources for one source of truth for Nuclear organization
• Effectively partner with the other Engineering leaders for current year pacing and op planning for the following year. 
• Challenge status quo in terms of the current operating model / current processes always in search of a better more productive way.  Eliminate process waste and minimizing touch-times / hand-offs, always with a Lean mindset.
• Summarizing, elevating, and creating content / delivering narratives to key business leaders  

Qualifications / Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in technical or business-related discipline from an accredited university or college
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with financial planning/demand planning with large complex organizations. 
• Minimum of 10 years of industrial related experience
• Minimum of 2 years Supervisory/People Leader experience

Eligibility:

• The preferred work location is the GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy site in Wilmington, NC but highly qualified remote candidates will be considered (US based)
• This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.

Desired Characteristics

• Prior experience in regulated industries, such as Nuclear
• Prior experience in Power, Energy industries
• In depth understanding of Engineering functional cost categories, processes and hours usage. 
• Proven experience leading cross functional teams toward a common goal using credibility, influence and trust as key elements to say-do  
• Proven to be effective driving outcomes in large matrixed organizations – understands how to navigate geographies, cultures, relationships 
• Proven ability to work efficiently without direct supervision 
• Strong oral and written communication skills 
• Ability to communicate requirements & facilitate best practice-sharing in a motivating, engaging way. 
• Ability to juggle multiple priorities and the logistics associated with them 
• Comfortable with conflict but leads as a collaborator, facilitator and strong partner.  
• Critical, systems thinker with the ability to bring others along, e