Enterprise Projects Operations Leader - Integrated Projects

GE Vernova • Houston, TX

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About The Position

The Enterprise Projects Operations Leader for Integrated Projects within the Projects Coordination Office (PCO) is a senior cross-business execution leader responsible for driving operational rigor, visibility, and governance across GE Vernova’s largest and most complex enterprise projects during the Order-to-Remittance (OTR) phase. These projects typically span multiple business units and technologies and may include Gas Turbines, Wind Turbines, High Voltage (HV) systems, Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), and Energy Management Systems (EMS), often delivered as integrated solutions for data centers, hybrid plants, and other large-scale customer applications. This leader will establish and drive a comprehensive enterprise project operations framework focused on Cash Collection, Revenue Recognition, Delivery performance, and Margin tracking across cross-business projects. The role ensures that operational and financial execution risks are proactively identified, quantified, managed, and escalated, while enabling disciplined operating rhythms, accurate forecasting, and strong linkage between project execution, commercial outcomes, and leadership decision-making. The Projects Operations Leader will coordinate with project directors, finance, commercial teams, supply chain, logistics, planning, and business unit operations leaders to ensure consistent execution standards and visibility across the enterprise project portfolio. They will support governance from project handoff into execution through shipment, billing, cash realization, and project closeout, ensuring that key operational and financial metrics are managed with speed, accuracy, and accountability. They will engage with senior leadership across GE Vernova and partner with business units to drive cross-functional alignment, resolve operational bottlenecks, and improve the predictability of project outcomes. This role will be critical in creating a repeatable operating model for integrated enterprise projects, strengthening execution discipline, and improving cash flow, margin performance, and customer delivery outcomes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, Supply Chain, or related discipline from an accredited university or college.
• 15+ years of experience in project operations, project execution, finance operations, supply chain, commercial operations, or related roles in complex industrial, energy, or infrastructure environments.
• Significant experience managing cross-functional execution across multiple stakeholders in large, complex projects.
• Demonstrated experience with one or more of the following: cash collection, revenue recognition support, shipment/fulfillment operations, project financial management, or margin analysis.
• Proven ability to operate effectively across business lines and lead in matrixed, global organizations.

Nice To Haves

• MBA or Master’s degree preferred.
• Strong understanding of large-scale project execution in power generation, electrification, renewables, grid, or integrated energy systems.
• Experience with enterprise project financial and operational governance, including KPI management, forecasting, and executive reporting.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, with the ability to connect operational events to cash, revenue, and margin outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to identify execution risks early and drive cross-functional resolution.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and data interpretation skills.
• Strong communication and influencing skills across senior leadership, project teams, and business partners.
• Experience leading process improvement, Lean, or Kaizen initiatives.
• Ability to thrive in highly complex, fast-moving environments with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Enterprise Project Operations Leadership: Develop and implement a comprehensive cross-business project operations framework for large-scale integrated enterprise projects in OTR. Establish standard operating rhythms, project reviews, and governance mechanisms for enterprise project execution. Drive operational consistency across multiple business units to support execution excellence on complex, multi-segment projects. Ensure clear handoff and continuity from tendering/ITO into OTR execution with strong focus on operational and financial performance.
• Cash Collection & Billing Performance: Lead cross-business visibility and governance for billing, collections, overdue management, and cash conversion across enterprise projects. Partner with project teams, commercial finance, controllership, and business finance to identify and resolve barriers to invoicing and cash collection. Drive disciplined review of billing milestones, customer payment status, contractual triggers, disputes, claims impacts, and collection risks. Escalate cash collection risks and develop mitigation actions to improve working capital performance and cash predictability.
• Revenue Recognition Governance: Coordinate with finance, controllership, project teams, and business units to support accurate and timely revenue recognition across integrated projects. Ensure operational inputs that affect revenue recognition are visible, validated, and aligned across project execution teams. Track key drivers impacting revenue timing, including shipment status, installation progress, milestone achievement, change orders, and customer acceptance events. Support reviews of revenue risk, forecast accuracy, and execution assumptions with project and finance leadership.
• Delivery & Fulfillment Performance: Provide cross-business operational oversight of shipment readiness, shipment execution, and fulfillment performance for enterprise projects. Partner with sourcing, manufacturing, logistics, planning, and project execution teams to identify risks to on-time shipment and downstream project milestones. Drive integrated visibility to critical path equipment, shipping constraints, export/import issues, documentation readiness, and site delivery interfaces. Escalate fulfillment constraints and coordinate mitigation plans to protect customer commitments and financial outcomes.
• Margin Tracking & Operational Performance: Establish and manage a robust operating mechanism for enterprise project margin tracking, including key drivers, risks, opportunities, and execution impacts. Partner with project directors, finance, and business operations leaders to monitor margin erosion, cost exposure, change order conversion, and recovery actions. Ensure key operational events affecting margin are surfaced early and addressed through structured reviews and action plans. Support leadership decision-making through integrated analysis of schedule, shipment, cash, revenue, and cost performance.
• Monitoring, Analytics, and Reporting: Develop and maintain enterprise project dashboards and reporting tools that provide visibility to operational and financial KPIs. Consolidate data across systems and business units to support accurate reporting of cash collection, shipment status, revenue outlook, margin performance, and execution risks. Deliver regular executive operating reviews, trend analysis, and action-oriented insights to PCO and business leadership. Drive data quality, metric standardization, and transparency in reporting across the enterprise project portfolio.
• Cross-Business Collaboration & Governance: Coordinate across GE Vernova business units to ensure an integrated approach to enterprise project operations in OTR. Partner closely with PCO leaders, project directors, finance, commercial, planning, supply chain, and fulfillment teams to align priorities and execution actions. Lead cross-functional operating reviews and governance forums focused on operational execution and financial outcomes. Serve as a key escalation point for cross-business issues impacting cash, revenue, shipment, and margin.
• Continuous Improvement & Process Excellence: Continuously evaluate and improve project operations processes, tools, and governance models for enterprise projects. Lead Lean and Kaizen initiatives to simplify workflows, improve visibility, and eliminate execution inefficiencies across OTR operations. Capture and apply lessons learned from major projects to strengthen future operating models and performance outcomes. Promote a culture of accountability, operational rigor, and proactive risk management across PCO and participating business units.

Benefits

• GE Vernova offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation.
• Available benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services.
• Retirement benefits include the GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants.
• Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability benefits, life insurance, 12 paid holidays, and permissive time off.
• GE Vernova Inc. or its affiliates (collectively or individually, “GE Vernova”) sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs GE Vernova reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace, or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a GE Vernova welfare benefit plan or program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level