Senior Functional Leader, Upgrades Planning & Scheduling

GE Vernova • Atlanta, GA

4d • Remote

About The Position

The Senior Functional Leader – Upgrades Planning & Scheduling is accountable for defining and delivering the global vision for upgrades planning, scheduling enablement and Risk Management across Inquiry to Order & Order to Remittance (ITR) within the Integrated Services Management (ISM) multi-year digital transformation program. This role partners with Projects & Engineered Solutions (P&ES), Engineering Teams, Global Process Excellence, Regional and Global Operations, and Fulfillment teams to transform fragmented planning activities into a data-driven, KPI-led execution system. The leader ensures planning tasks, schedules, and operational milestones are unified into a single digital workflow—enabling real-time visibility, predictability, and performance management across the upgrades lifecycle.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college.
• 7+ additional years of experience in cross functional roles supporting Commercial, Supply Chain, Field Services, Region Operations organizations

Nice To Haves

• Proven experience leading service, operations, or field service transformations across regions using Digital Technology.
• Strong background in process standardization, Lean, and operating model design.
• Functional expertise with GEV Applications specifically Event Vision, Field Vision, RealTrack, SMWB, PLM, Primavera.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business strategy into scalable digital solutions in partnership with IT.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the global strategy for planning and scheduling for Upgrades and collaborate with Global Process Excellence Outage Planning & Scheduling functional leader for field services planning scope.
• Transform traditional planning tasks into actionable, KPI-driven workflows that directly influence operational performance, cycle time, and on-time delivery.
• Design P&ES planning and scheduling processes within ISM, ensuring project plans are execution-ready and aligned with engineering scope, outage windows, and field resource availability.
• Translate engineering scope and milestones into executable project schedules, maintaining tight linkage between engineering deliverables, parts readiness, and field execution timelines.
• Manage schedule impacts driven by outage date changes, ensuring downstream effects to engineering activities and parts delivery are proactively identified, assessed, and re-baselined.
• Ensure Parts delivery readiness is integrated into planning decisions, partnering with Supply Chain and ERP+ teams so material availability, lead times, and constraints are reflected directly in project schedules.
• Establish the data foundation required for P&ES operational KPIs like Outage impact to delivery timelines.
• Own the functional roadmap for Upgrades planning & scheduling within ISM.
• Position Salesforce as the orchestration layer that integrates planning data across systems.
• Ensure scalable, governed solutions that enable real-time schedule management and execution visibility.
• Serve as the primary functional counterpart to IT.
• Co-own solution design, validate blueprints, and shape delivery to ensure alignment with business priorities.
• Drive clarity on requirements, scope, and value-based prioritization.
• Lead enterprise change management by aligning stakeholders, clarifying roles, and embedding new ways of working.
• Drive adoption across regions while enabling structured decommissioning of legacy systems in line with the ISM roadmap.
• Establish strong functional governance, clear decision rights, and effective escalation mechanisms to enable speed and accountability.
• Build organizational capability to sustain transformation outcomes.
• Own functional accountability for legacy applications, ensuring committed backlog delivery with discipline while supporting transition and sunset plans aligned with the future-state architecture.

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
• access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource
• access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services
• GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions
• access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants
• tuition assistance
• adoption assistance
• paid parental leave
• disability benefits
• life insurance
• 12 paid holidays
• permissive time off

What This Job Offers

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