Assembly Operations Director

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­About GE Vernova:
GE Vernova is a planned, purpose-built global energy company that includes Power, Wind, and Electrification businesses and is supported by its accelerator businesses of Advanced Research, Consulting Services, and Financial Services. Building on over 130 years of experience tackling the world’s challenges, GE Vernova is uniquely positioned to help lead the energy transition by continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to decarbonize it. GE Vernova helps customers power economies and deliver electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. GE Vernova is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., with more than 80,000 employees across 100+ countries around the world.

GE Vernova’s Gas Power business engineers advanced, efficient natural gas-powered technologies and services, along with decarbonization solutions that aim to help electrify a lower carbon future. As part of the Gas Power One Field Services team, FieldCore installs, maintains, and upgrades power generation equipment, enabling operators of the world’s energy infrastructure to provide more reliable and affordable energy. 

Job Summary:

The Assembly Operations Director I leads the daily operations of the assembly cell within a factory environment to ensure safety, quality, delivery, cost, and productivity objectives are achieved. This role is responsible for coordinating assembly-related activities, driving operational excellence, and ensuring efficient execution of production plans to support business and customer needs. The Assembly Operations Director I establishes and reinforces standard work, lean manufacturing practices, and continuous improvement across the assembly cell, while leading teams to achieve business goals with a strong focus on safety, quality, and performance. This role operates with moderate autonomy and requires strong operational judgment and leadership.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Drive and lead a culture of safety prioritization within the assembly cell
• Provide leadership and direction within the assembly cell to achieve safety, quality, delivery, cost, and manpower goals through strong daily management
• Lead daily assembly operations to ensure production targets, takt adherence, schedule attainment, and customer commitments are met
• Execute strategy for continuous improvement of assigned assembly operations and processes and create standards to be upheld across the cell
• Drive the Lean vision as a change agent and implement a Lean strategy to reduce waste, improve flow, optimize workstation layout, and increase assembly efficiency
• Support early integration of Lean principles in assembly process design, line setup, workstation readiness, and capacity planning for new products or operational initiatives
• Ensure clear and consistent communication of key business, site, production, and customer issues to employees
• Drive a collaborative, cross-functional partnership with internal stakeholders and supporting organizations including EHS, Quality, Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain, Materials, Maintenance, and Operations
• Work closely with support functions to understand top drivers of assembly operating cost and develop a strategy with the team to drive improvement
• Partner with supporting organizations to drive cost competitiveness, operational efficiency, and high-performing assembly execution
• Select, hire, train, develop, and provide ongoing leadership and direction to assigned personnel
• Interface with other organizations and vendors to ensure assembly material, tooling, equipment, and service requirements are met on time
• Provide ongoing support in scheduling resources, coordinating manpower, and ensuring assembly readiness to meet internal and external customer requirements
• Achieve the highest levels of internal and external customer service
• Support strategic planning for manpower, tooling, equipment, line capacity, production space, and other assembly cell resources
• Oversee day-to-day assembly cell management activities including labor planning, material flow, workstation readiness, process adherence, housekeeping standards, and equipment coordination
• Ensure compliance with applicable environmental, health, safety, quality, and manufacturing regulations, standards, and company policies
• Monitor assembly performance metrics and drive actions to improve safety, first-pass yield, throughput, on-time delivery, labor productivity, and cost efficiency
• Support business continuity through effective coordination of production issues, corrective actions, and operational risk mitigation
• Travel may be required
• You may be assigned other duties to help proactively drive our Fi