Senior Manager - Engineering Capability & Transformation Leader

GE Vernova, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 152,000 - 254,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Employee assistance programs

Job summary

GE Vernova is seeking a Senior Manager - Engineering Capability & Transformation Leader to drive the Talent & Skills workstream within Engineer 2030. You will shape workforce strategy, lead kaizen-driven transformations, and align engineering capabilities with business goals across the enterprise.

You will partner with Talent Management, HR and business leaders, leveraging AI-enabled analytics to identify skills gaps, plan development, and oversee programs such as Edison.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in STEM with 7+ years in engineering or technical field
• Proven ability to lead structured problem-solving including kaizen events and RCA
• Ability to translate business strategy into workforce capability frameworks and talent pipelines
• Strong data fluency and ability to build workforce intelligence models
• Experience leading without direct authority in a global matrix organization
• Excellent written and verbal communication for executive-level content

Responsibilities

• Lead Engineering Workforce Capability Transformation and advise on skills gaps
• Design and deploy a modernized GE Vernova-level engineering review with the CTO
• Leverage analytics and AI-enabled tools to map skills and plan development
• Collaborate with Talent Management, HR, and business leaders on pipeline strategy
• Lead stakeholder communications and monthly reviews with executive sponsors

Skills

Structured problem-solving

Leadership without direct authority

Data fluency/workforce analytics

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in STEM

Job description

Job Description Summary

Coach, drive and lead lean behaviors, principles, and tools across a operational or functional area. Drive cultural transformation resulting in step-change in operational business metrics.

About the Role

GE Vernova is executing its most significant engineering talent transformation in a generation. Engineer 2030 is GE Vernova's strategy to double engineering productivity while ensuring the company has the deep domain expertise and skills needed to scale the company while embracing the world's most consequential energy challenges. This is a program architect role for someone who can hold strategy and execution simultaneously to leverage the existing talent ecosystem to build engineering-specific solutions and drive adoption across businesses to build capabilities. This leader will be an early adopter and practitioner of AI-enabled workforce intelligence tools, applying emerging capabilities to improve the quality, speed, and precision of engineering capability decisions. The Senior Manager - - Engineering Capability & Transformation Leader is the engineer behind the Talent & Skills workstream, one of five workstreams of Engineer 2030. This role is part of the Engineering & Technology Excellence function within GE Vernova EDGE, reporting to the Engineering Operations and Lean Leader. This leader will also own stakeholder alignment with the executive sponsors of the Workstream. This role operates with direct visibility to the CTO and all five-business unit Engineering leaders and will partner with the Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Learning and Development, and HR communities.

The Work You Will Lead

GE Vernova's engineering talent model was built for a prior era and does not help us scale to meet the moment. It is reactive and optimized for single-business execution. The Talent & Skills workstream is the engineering systems layer for building the skills taxonomy, workforce analytics capability, and talent mobility infrastructure that allows GE Vernova to direct its best engineers to its hardest problems across teams and businesses, at scale, and ahead of demand.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Workforce Capability Transformation: Ensure engineering workforce strategy is forward-looking and calibrated to where GE Vernova's engineering needs are heading, not where they have been. Recommend where GE Vernova should build, buy, or deploy technology to close skills gaps, translating business demand signals, attrition risk, and pipeline data into actionable workforce decisions in partnership with talent management, talent acquisition, HR business partners, and business leaders.

Enterprise Engineering Capability Review: Design and deploy a modernized GEV-level review to be facilitated by the CTO that brings engineering teams together with talent management and HR to connect skills gap analyses, succession planning, and internal mobility in a single, repeatable process. Apply enterprise standards and facilitate talent discussions that enable strategic skill sharing across businesses. Lead structured kaizen events to build the review framework in partnership with HR, Talent, and Engineering and sustain the program over time.

Talent Intelligence & Skills Gap Analysis: Leverage workforce analytics, AI-enabled talent intelligence platforms, skills inference tools and external market data to develop a view of GE Vernova's engineering skills landscape. Help identify critical engineering capabilities, future skills need, workforce risks, deployment opportunities, and development priorities. Translate directional data into strategic recommendations grounded in business context and aligned to the enterprise skills strategy and common data standards.

Pipeline Strategy: Partner with the GE Vernova Talent and Talent Acquisition to help inform the Engineering external talent strategy for priority skill gaps, including sourcing approaches, university partnerships, and internal early career pipeline development while leveraging enterprise partnerships, programs, and standards.

Engineering Development Program Ownership: Lead the Edison program and any other assigned, new Engineering development programs, including their ongoing strategy, refresh, and execution, within GE Vernova enterprise development program standards. Work in partnership with the Business Engineering Leaders, Talent Management and Learning & Development teams to evolve curriculum, scope, and strategic alignment to Engineer 2030 priorities.

Stakeholder Communication & Program Leadership: Connect the Talent & Skills workstream with the four other Engineer 2030 workstreams: Culture, Systems Engineering, Technologists, and Transformation. Ensure talent strategy reflects where engineering roles, tools, and methods are evolving, particularly as AI-enabled engineering tools transform the skills and workflows required in real time. Lead the workstream weekly operating cadence and synthesize progress into Monthly Operating Review updates with executive sponsors. Build alignment with stakeholders in engineering, transformation, and talent intelligence while strengthening connectivity to GE Vernova's enterprise talent system.

Required Qualifications

• For roles in USA: Bachelor's Degree in a STEM Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math), or similar with a minimum of 7+ years’ experience in progressive experience in engineering, technology, or other deeply technical field.
• For roles outside USA: Bachelor's Degree in a STEM Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math), or similar with a minimum of significant years’ experience in progressive experience in engineering, technology, or other deeply technical field.
• Proven ability to lead structured problem-solving including kaizen events, root cause analysis, and process design.
• Track record of translating business strategy into workforce capability frameworks, skills architectures, or talent pipeline strategies.
• Strong data fluency: ability to build and interpret workforce intelligence models and convert findings into strategic recommendations.
• Experience leading without direct authority across business units in a matrixed global organization to create a One Team operation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable crafting executive-level content and facilitating senior leadership discussions.
• Demonstrated ability to operate within enterprise governance while adapting solutions to the needs of a specialized technical population.

Desired Characteristics

• Experience applying Lean tools (kaizen, daily management, standard work, VSM, 5S).
• Familiar with AI-enabled talent, intelligence tools and appetite to apply emerging capabilities to improve workforce strategy quality.
• Demonstrated experience activating talent review processes, skills taxonomies, readiness models, or workforce planning approaches within enterprise standards.
• Understanding of technical expert career architecture programs and the workforce management complexities of deep domain expert populations.
• Athletes in build mode - energized by bringing structure to ambiguous, high-stakes programs with no existing playbook.
• Alignment to the GE Vernova Way and a demonstrated commitment to cross-business collaboration and inclusion.

Why This Role

Engineer 2030 is GE Vernova's commitment to its engineers, giving them clear growth paths, AI-enabled tools, and the opportunity to solve the most consequential technical challenges in energy. This role is the strategic core of that commitment: the architect of the talent and skills infrastructure that determines whether GE Vernova can scale its engineering capability as fast as the energy transition demands.

For candidates applying to a Canadian-based position, the pay range for this position is between $162,900 and $244,000 CAD per year. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate's experience, education, and skill set.

For Applicants in Spain: Nonnational candidates are responsible to know the minimum documentation requirements to be able to be contracted in country: NIE- Social Security Affiliation Number in Spain (NAF) and Bank Account in Spain. They must be in possession of them at the time of start hiring. GE will not sponsor this requirement.

Additional Information

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: No

For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $152,400.00 and $254,000.00. The Company pays a geographic differential of 110%, 120% or 130% of salary in certain areas. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set. Bonus eligibility: discretionary annual bonus.

• Available benefits includes 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.
• Retirement benefits include