Outage Manager

GE Vernova; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

GE Vernova in Johannesburg seeks an experienced professional to support power station services and outage management. You will plan, schedule, and execute maintenance activities on customer sites, contributing to reliability and performance of sold or existing products.

The role requires a degree in Engineering or Project Management, at least 4 years in power station services, and strong cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering or Project Management.
• Strong knowledge of power plants (steam turbine/generators).
• Ability to work effectively across functions.

Responsibilities

• Outage event schedule development, outage execution management, post-outage reporting, and outage warranty execution.
• Developing in-depth knowledge of a technical discipline and applying it to policy/strategy.
• Understand key business drivers and how own work integrates with the wider team.
• Exercise judgment and propose solutions outside set parameters with guidance.
• Act as an individual contributor or early people leader and mentor teammates.

Skills

Power plant knowledge

Maintenance planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Financial acumen

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Project Management

Job description

Job Description Summary

All resources, and logistics required to perform services and maintenance activities on customers' site/property. These activities contribute to, maintain, repair and refurbish sold or existing products. Includes all types of maintenance service (preventive and remedial), manage maintenance facilities and field services engineering. Impacts departmental operations and responsible for planning/execution. The role has some autonomy but is focused on execution of activities within an operating discipline covered by standard functional practices and procedures. Some judgment may be required but this is typically with guidance.

Job Description Summary

All resources, and logistics required to perform services and maintenance activities on customers' site/property. These activities contribute to, maintain, repair and refurbish sold or existing products. Includes all types of maintenance service (preventive and remedial), manage maintenance facilities and field services engineering. Impacts departmental operations and responsible for planning/execution. The role has some autonomy but is focused on execution of activities within an operating discipline covered by standard functional practices and procedures. Some judgment may be required but this is typically with guidance.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Outage event schedule development, Outage execution management, post Outage reporting, and Outage warranty execution


• Developing in-depth knowledge of a technical discipline. Uses prior experience and acquired technical expertise to execute policy/strategy.


• In-depth understanding of key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work. In-depth understanding of how work of own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the area.


• Uses some level of judgment and has ability to propose different solutions outside of set parameters but with guidance. Uses prior experience and on-the-job training to solve straightforward tasks. Has access to technical skills and analytic thinking required to solve problems. May use multiple internal sources outside of own team to arrive at decisions.


• A job at this level is likely to be an individual contributor with proven interpersonal skills or an early people leader who can hire and develop talent. Provides informal guidance to new team members

Required Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering or Project Management from an Accredited university or institution.


• Minimum 4 years experience in power station services.


• Good technical knowledge of Power plant - Steam Turbine and Generators.


• Ability to work effectively across functions.


• Financial acumen, knowledge of pricing and cost management.

Desired Characteristics

• Strong experience in the power station services and outage management.


• Excellent written/oral communication and interpersonal skills, customer focused, enthusiastic.


• Ability to understand and improve complex processes in a cross-functional environment


• Outstanding interpersonal, Strong communication skills, capable of influencing and driving execution of outage works on sites


• Willingness and ability to travel


• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.


• Ability to document, plan and execute programs


• Safety and Quality drive is paramount

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No