Quality Manager

Job Description Summary

GE Vernova (NYSE: GEV) Addressing the climate crisis is an urgent global priority and we take our responsibility seriously. That is our singular mission at GE Vernova: continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to help 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.

Together, we have The Energy to Change the World. Learn more at www.gevernova.com

As a member of the Nuclear Quality team in Canada, you will be a fundamental contributor to improve the customer experience and the cost of poor quality and drive operational improvements. This role will require you to drive quality improvements for the nuclear business using Quality Improvement and Continuous Improvement methodologies. Be the subject matter expert of Canadian Standards that apply to our parts and services teams.

Job Description

The role is responsible for the leading the Quality function within the nuclear segment and driving continuous improvement across Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost for our customers and the business.

• Owner for all Quality matters, working as a voice of the Nuclear Services in Canada into the Steam Power business, shaping and driving improvements for our customers.
• Create and drive operating rhythms around customer facing metrics (e.g. Cx, NCRs, COPQ) including trend analysis and improvement plans for Field Services, Repairs, Parts, and Engineering Services for the Segment.
• People leader for a team of quality managers; assigning to projects, ensuring development of the team, and applying operation rigor to ensure all customer requirements fulfilled.
• Provide operation support in terms of any customer meetings, suppliers, factories, and project teams to ensure we maintain the required levels of quality.
• Driving resolution of quality issues, fronting to customers and suppliers where required and utilizing internal organization to support resolution and prevention.
• Ensuring all field related preparation and execution activities are compliant with customer quality requirements, implementing and applying lessons learned proactively between outages.
• In conjunction with the Operations team, serve as a change agent in institutionalizing Lean methodologies to drive simplification and customer responsiveness.
• Support the development of a Communication and Learning Plan to seek, share, and implement best practices to drive a learning organization.
• Apply Quality Assurance, Quality Control, and Lean methodologies to improve process capability and eliminate defects.
• Lead and facilitate cross-functional project teams to drive standardization and simplification wing to-wing process. This includes providing change leadership (Change Acceleration Process) methods and tools across assigned critical business initiatives. Communicate teams’ progress to Business Leaders
• Manage the Canadian Quality Standards qualifications globally in Steam Power.
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) or Business or related discipline, from an accredited college or university
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in Quality within the power industry or supply chain industries
• Minimum of 2 years of direct exposure to N299 quality standards
• Ability to travel 25% annually, at times on short notice.
  
  

Desired Qualifications

• Understanding of Quality Management Systems, Technical Regulations and Standards
• Ability to represent the company towards customers, partners and other stakeholders.
• Ability to interface effectively with all levels of the organization as well as organizations outside of Services and understand the internal and external ecosystems.
• Engages the staff to contribute/lead as one team.
• Creates a climate in which people are motivated and engaged to help the organization achieve its objectives.
• Ability to lead, influence, motivate and coach diverse teams to achieve a unified goal.
• Strong business and quality acumen, demonstrates and drives accountability.
• Strong, proven previous leadership capabilities at both Quality and Operations with strong oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to recruit, retain, and develop a team of quality professionals.
• Strong customer service mindset, ability to connect strong operating performance to customer fulfillment and overall business performance.
• Holds self and others accountable for the demonstration of the identified culture promise.
• Is able and eager to see beyond the current state to imagine and continually fine-tune a future that will ensure the long-term viability of the business.
• Creates an environment in which everyone feels motivated and empowered to personally contribute.
• Strong oral and written communication skills; listening skills.
  
  

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

• This is a remote position