Heavy Duty New Unit Multi Projects - Director

GE Vernova; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

GE Vernova, Inc. is seeking a Project Director to lead mega-project executions within its Heavy Duty Gas Power portfolio.

The role oversees the project lifecycle from inception to closure, guiding strategic vision and portfolio outcomes while mentoring Project Managers and building a robust leadership pipeline. The incumbent will influence financial performance and risk across multiple projects.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university.
• Experience: 10+ years of experience leading mega-projects or complex portfolios within the Energy or large-scale infrastructure sectors.
• Strategic Acumen: Translate complex business challenges into clear, actionable, sustainable project strategies.
• People Leadership: Lead and develop a team of Project Managers with coaching, feedback and development actions.

Responsibilities

• Portfolio-Level Outcomes: balance resources, risks, and performance across the portfolio to drive value.
• Strategic Execution: define long-term project strategies and proactivity handle market, technical, and customer challenges.
• Complex Problem-Solving: act as escalation point for cross-functional bottlenecks and optimize solutions.
• Stakeholder Influence: align diverse internal/external stakeholders toward the long-term vision.
• Customer Ownership: maintain executive relationships to drive portfolio issue resolution and execution.
• People Leadership: mentor Project Managers, provide priorities, performance feedback, and development planning.

Skills

Portfolio management

Strategic vision

People leadership

LEAN/Kaizen

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Job Description Summary

GE Vernova's Gas Power business engineers advanced, efficient natural gas-powered technologies and services, along with decarbonization solutions that help enable a lower-carbon future. As a global leader in gas turbines and power plant technologies and services, we are seeking a project Director to lead the execution of Simple and Combined Cycle projects within our Heavy Duty Gas Power business.

The Project Director (PD) is responsible for the overall execution of a mega project or multiple projects with a key Customer. Acting as the primary point of contact for the customer, the PD is responsible for the project lifecycle from contract inception through final closure. This role provides the strategic vision required to align complex delivery models with long-term business objectives. By integrating deep operational acumen with a focus on portfolio-level outcomes, the PD influences financial performance, mitigates systemic risks, and serves as a lead mentor, fostering a pipeline of future project leaders and high-performing team members. In addition, in some cases the Project Director serves as a people leader with direct supervisory responsibility for Project Managers, including coaching, performance management, development planning, and team capability building.

Job Description

Strategic Vision & Portfolio Management

• Portfolio-Level Outcomes: Manage the interconnected health of multiple projects, ensuring that resources, risks, and performance targets are balanced across the portfolio to drive aggregate business value.
• Strategic Execution: Define and iterate on long-term project strategies. Shift focus from reactive management to proactive anticipation of market, technical, and customer-driven challenges.
• Complex Problem-Solving: Serve as the ultimate escalation point for cross-functional bottlenecks. Deploy advanced analytical techniques to resolve high-complexity issues that span engineering, manufacturing, and field execution.
• Stakeholder Influence: Navigate complex organizational matrices to align diverse internal and external stakeholders toward a unified, long-term vision.
• Customer Ownership: Develop strong executive relationships to facilitate an open and candid dialogue. Leverage to drive positive outcomes on cross portfolio issue resolution, claims management, and project execution.
• People Leadership: Directly lead and develop a team of Project Managers. Provide clear priorities, ongoing coaching, performance feedback, development planning, and talent assessment to ensure strong project execution and a robust leadership pipeline. Support employee engagement, accountability, and retention through active people leadership

Coaching, Mentorship & Team Development

• Talent Development: Actively identify and mentor high-potential Project Managers and functional leads. Provide ongoing feedback and career coaching to build a sustainable leadership pipeline. For direct reports, conduct regular performance discussions, assess readiness for expanded scope, and create targeted development actions.
• Culture of Excellence: Champion a culture of continuous learning and growth. Facilitate knowledge sharing across the project organization to ensure best practices are codified and scaled.
• Team Empowerment: Coach teams on "influence without authority" and soft-skill development, empowering individuals to take ownership and solve complex problems at their level.
• Resilience & Well-being: Proactively manage team health by fostering psychological safety and emotional intelligence, ensuring the team remains energized and resilient through high-pressure delivery phases.

Financial & Operational Influence

• Value Stream Optimization: Champion LEAN and Kaizen principles to redesign value streams, eliminating waste and enhancing project efficiency at scale.
• Financial Stewardship: Proactively influence financial outcomes by optimizing Estimates at Completion (EAC) and Cost-to-Come (CTC) projections. Lead margin maximization efforts through precise control of cash, revenue, and invoicing cycles.
• Contractual & Claims Strategy: Lead negotiations on complex change orders and vendor claims, utilizing a strategic approach to protect project interests while maintaining robust customer relationships.

Risk, EHS & Integration

• Risk & Opportunity Architecture: Own the portfolio Risk & Opportunity register. Quantify risks not just for individual tasks, but for the overall project outcome.
• EHS & Quality Leadership: Enforce a "zero-compromise" culture regarding EHS and quality standards, regardless of pressure to accelerate schedules.

Qualifications & Competencies

Education: Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university.

Experience: 10+ years of experience leading mega-projects or complex portfolios within the Energy or large-scale infrastructure sectors.

Strategic Acumen: Demonstrated ability to translate complex business challenges into clear, actionable, and sustainable project strategies.

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