Project Controls and Planning Manager

GE Vernova; East Greenwich (RI); On-site; USD 141,000 - 191,000; Full time

Job summary

GE Vernova is seeking a Project Controls and Planning Manager for Offshore Wind Projects. The role involves managing planning processes, ensuring safety and quality in site operations, and collaborating across teams to achieve strategic project goals. Ideal candidates will possess strong leadership skills and a background in engineering, with at least 5 years of relevant experience.

Benefits

Healthcare benefits including medical, dental, and vision

Retirement savings plan with matching contributions

Tuition assistance

Paid parental leave

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years significant experience in planning operations.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a cross-functional environment.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for Project and Service Planning for offshore wind farms.
• Ensure site maintenance operations are planned with safety and quality.
• Develop and manage planning processes for operational efficiency.

Skills

Communication

Problem-solving

Leadership

Organizational skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in engineering or technical discipline

High school diploma with 10 years experience

Job description

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Job Description Summary

We are seeking a Project Controls and Planning Manager for Offshore Wind Project and Service activities for the Vineyard Offshore Wind Farm and potentially additional Offshore Wind Farms in the region.

Job Description Summary

We are seeking a Project Controls and Planning Manager for Offshore Wind Project and Service activities for the Vineyard Offshore Wind Farm and potentially additional Offshore Wind Farms in the region.

The successful candidate will have a solution orientated mindset and a result orientated delivery style. Excellent communication and listening skills with the team are essential. You can identify opportunities to improve long term and short term planned activities and discuss with relevant stakeholders. With excellent attention to detail, structure, and organizational skills, you can apply a proactive problem-solving view on managing the planning process for Offshore Wind Project and Service activities and take the initiative to improve planning processes. You have a safety conscious mindset and can build trust and steer by influence to form solid relationships and culture. You have a project orientated mindset and understand that good results are achieved in collaboration with internal and external parties. Providing the planning processes and capabilities that enable high performance service to SQDC targets in collaboration with our customers.

Primary location will be onshore and at the operations facilities as needed. The onshore base location of Vineyard Wind Project is in New Bedford, Massachusetts and the O&M Base is Tisbury, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Exemplify GE Leadership Behaviours - Act with Humility, Lead with Transparency, Deliver with Focus
• Stand up for the GE Lean program, introducing and implementing LEAN principles.
• Responsible manager for the Project and Service Planning functions across the windfarm(s).
• Synergy development and deployment with Customer by integration of other work as part of the Production Based Operational Plan.
• Establish alignment with the customer on the operational planning processes. Finding mutual benefit within the setup and facilitating transparent delivery planning, consent for work and operational progress reporting.
• Define needs strategic direction for tools, materials, PPE, contractors, resources to execute the annual and monthly work scopes through the master maintenance schedule, creating rotation work schedules with month look ahead.
• Own and develop the availability forecasting process and facilitate management of change to rectify deviations from expectations.
• Ensure site maintenance operations are planned, with high standards of safety and quality, delivered to budget and according to the defined schedule, recording and tracking relevant KPIs and reporting on progress, deviations to plans and mitigations.
• Establish the processes for Load and Capacity model to determine long term demand and facilitate commercial planning throughout the project lifecycle
• Align the site activity demand plan with commercial expectations, evaluating planned technicians, planned service schedules, requisitions, documentation requirements and wind turbine availability.
• Develop the Lead personnel training plans
• Align offshore Leads scheduling with Site Operations demand, managing and mitigating potential deviations to SQDC targets.
• Own master plan and schedule for project execution and develop scenarios
• Define the monthly corrective and preventative maintenance planning considering weather forecast, transportation, resources, and contractual obligations.
• Identify and communicate planning recovery actions in case of deviation to the management team.
• Development of the spare parts, consumable, and specialised tooling strategy to align minimum spares planning to be operationally deployable.
• Collaborate with the Supply Chain Management teams to ensure end to end processes and capabilities are in place for parts and tools inventory management.
• Develop the data processes that facilitate lean workflows between the planning team and site operations.
• Grow the continual improvement culture within your area of responsibility, ensuring that high quality knowledge is retained and improved, facilitating feedback to required stakeholders across the business.
• Support the development and continual improvement of Standard Operation Procedures.
• Aid in the development of all planning systems and processes as required to deliver Offshore Wind Maintenances.
• Own projects KPI (bowler) updates and action tracking and interface with fiancé team to reflect operational forecasting in financial forecasting.
• Ability and willingness to work offshore occasionally
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in an engineering discipline or professional education / apprenticeship in a technical discipline with extensive professional experience (OR high school diploma with a minimum of 10 years relevant experience)
• Minimum of 5 years of significant experience of planning operations and leading teams.
  
  

Desired Characteristics

• Demonstrated ability to work in a cross-functional, global environment, with remote teams as a steady team player who can enable change and get work over the line.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.
• Demonstrated ability to lead programs / projects.
• Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs.
• Established project management skills.
• Ideally practical experience with LEAN principles, tools and processes
  
  

The base pay range for this position is $141,100.00 - $190,200.00 USD Annual USD Annual USD Annual USD Annual. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set. This position is also eligible for variable incentive compensation of 15%. This posting is expected to close no earlier than June 6, 2025.

• The Company pays a geographic differential of 110%, 120% or 130% of salary in certain areas.
  
  

Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach, 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 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 planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and paid time-off for vacation or illness.

General Electric Company, Ropcor, Inc., their successors, and in some cases their affiliates, each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e., is a “Sponsor”). Each Sponsor 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 Sponsor’s welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.

GE Vernova offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Vernova is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE Vernova will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Electric Power Generation

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