Job Description Summary

The Senior Project Manager serves as a strategic execution leader within the Major Correctives organization and is responsible for the successful delivery of complex, high-risk, and high-value wind turbine corrective campaigns across North America.

This role maintains ownership of multiple customer portfolios and major corrective workstreams including Major Component Upgrades (MCU), Blade Services, Liftra crane-less exchanges, and fleet reliability campaigns.

The Senior Project Manager is accountable for customer satisfaction, financial performance, vendor management, scope execution, resource alignment, and operational excellence across assigned regions, customers, or programs.

Unlike a Project Manager who owns individual projects, the Senior Project Manager owns customer relationships, execution strategy, contractor performance, and portfolio-level outcomes while mentoring Project Managers and influencing business decisions across the organization.

Job Description

Core Responsibilities

Safety, Quality & Compliance

• Champion a world-class safety culture across all assigned projects and contractors.
• Own portfolio-level EHS performance and corrective action closure.
• Ensure compliance with GE Vernova standards, customer requirements, and regulatory obligations.
• Maintain prevailing wage compliance and certified payroll governance.
• Ensure audit readiness across all projects.
• Drive quality improvements and reduction of repeat failures.
• Lead root cause analysis and corrective action planning for major events.

Customer Ownership & Strategic Account Management

• Serve as the primary operational point of contact for assigned customer portfolios.
• Build and maintain executive-level customer relationships.
• Lead recurring business reviews, project reviews, and corrective action discussions.
• Develop customer-specific execution strategies aligned with contractual commitments and fleet priorities.
• Anticipate customer needs and proactively identify opportunities to improve fleet reliability and availability.
• Lead customer escalation management and recovery planning efforts.
• Drive customer satisfaction, retention, and growth opportunities.

Portfolio & Scope Ownership

• Own execution strategy and financial performance across one or more major corrective workstreams including: Major Component Upgrades (MCU), Gearbox exchanges, Main bearing exchanges, Generator replacements, Hub replacements, Drivetrain campaigns, & Large corrective maintenance campaigns
• Blade Services Including: Structural blade repairs, Blade bushing campaigns, Blade replacements, Composite corrective actions, & Fleet-wide reliability campaigns
• Liftra Operations
• LT1200 and LT1000 execution planning
• Crane-less exchange strategy
• Equipment utilization optimization
• Contractor and technician alignment
• Campaign execution governance

Financial Ownership

• Manage project and portfolio budgets.
• Identify and mitigate financial risks.
• Lead change order development and recovery efforts.
• Support pricing strategies and scope development activities.
• Drive working capital improvement through timely invoicing and project closeout.

Vendor & Contractor Management

• Serve as the operational owner for strategic contractor and vendor relationships.
• Evaluate contractor performance against safety, quality, productivity, and cost expectations.
• Lead vendor scorecard reviews and performance improvement initiatives.
• Develop execution strategies utilizing internal and external resources.
• Support contractor sourcing and capacity planning activities.
   

Operational Leadership

• Lead execution reviews across active projects and campaigns.
• Partner with scheduling teams to optimize resource utilization.
• Identify execution bottlenecks and implement corrective actions.
• Support workforce planning and deployment decisions.
• Drive standardization and operational excellence initiatives.
• Lead lessons learned and continuous improvement activities.

Leadership & Team Development

• Mentor and develop Project Managers and Associate Project Managers.
• Provide coaching on customer management, financial ownership, and execution leadership.
• Support succession planning and talent development initiatives.
• Participate in hiring, onboarding, and performance management activities.
• Promote a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous improve