Job Description Summary

The NAM Major Correctives Leader is responsible for the execution and financial performance of the Major Crane Activities and Blade Repairs for the North America Region. They will ensure the highest standards of safety, quality, and operational excellence in the execution of all repair activities, driving customer satisfaction and achieving demanding business targets.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

Operational & Contractor Management

• Safety & Quality Leadership: Champion a zero-fatality safety culture and maintain the highest quality standards for all repair activities.
• Contractor Management: Oversee the successful and efficient execution of third-party crane and labor vendors. Ensure compliance with safety obligations, quality execution and performance metrics.
• Efficiency: Implement continuous improvement initiatives to enhance service efficiency, reduce operational costs, and maximize turbine uptime.

Financial Performance

• Budget Management: Responsibility for the major repairs budget, including developing, managing, and achieving annual operating budgets.
• Target Achievement: Meet or exceed aggressive performance targets for.
  • Work Standards of the various types of repairs.
  • Financial Budget adherence (cost control) in line with cost catalog. Drive continuous improvement and innovative vendor cost strategies to deliver annual savings on repairs and limit GE Vernova risk.
  • Transactional Execution In support of regional targets (non-contracted services, upgrades, and spot work).

Leadership and People Management

• Advanced Leadership: Provide inspiring and decisive leadership to a large team of employees and contractors.
• Talent Development: Focus on the recruitment, training, development, and retention of a highly skilled and safety-conscious workforce.
• Performance Management: Establish clear performance goals, conduct regular reviews, and foster a culture of accountability and high performance for both GEV teams and Contractors.

Stakeholder Management and Industry Influence

• Customer Relationships: Build and maintain strong, high-level relationships with key customers (asset owners, utilities, independent power producers) across all countries in the region, acting as the primary executive point of contact for service matters.
• Regulatory Compliance: Ensure all operations comply with local environmental, health, safety, and labor regulations.
• Industry Influence: Develop and leverage relationships within the broader wind energy industry, including suppliers, governmental bodies, and industry associations, to advance the company's position and influence regional standards.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college in a relevant discipline.
• 7–10+ years of experience in field services, wind turbine maintenance, major component repairs, crane operations, or related energy‑sector service execution.
• 5+ years of leadership experience managing employees and/or contractors in a field‑based or service‑delivery environment, including oversight of third‑party vendors.
• Strong knowledge of operational execution, contractor management, safety & quality standards, and cost control, including budget management and adherence to cost catalogs.

Desired Characteristics:

• Strong people‑leadership capability, with a proven ability to motivate, develop, and manage diverse, distributed teams and third‑party contractors.
• Effective partner management, including experience collaborating with crane vendors, blade repair specialists, and field labor providers to ensure safe, high‑quality, and productive execution.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to anticipate and resolve complex repair, crane, or logistics challenges in a dynamic field environment.
• Excellent communication and customer‑facing skills, able to build trusted relationships with asset owners, utilities, and other key stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience driving LEAN, cost‑out, and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and repair execution.
• High attention to detail and strong ownership mindset, able to manage multiple repair types, shifting priorities, and variable work scopes simultaneously.
• Solid understanding of safety regulations, environmental compliance, and labor requirements across NAM.

For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $192,000 and $288,000 USD. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set.

Additional Information

 

 

For candidates applying to a U.S. based position only:

 

 

Bonus eligibility: discretionary annual bonus.

 

 

This posting is expected to remain open for at least seven days after it was posted on January 22, 2026.

 

 

Available benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, 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 Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity Executive Services. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability benefits, life insurance, 12 paid holidays, and permissive time off, and the Restoration Plan, a nonqualified plan with company credits on eligible pay above IRS limits.

 

 

GE Vernova Inc. or its affiliates (collectively or individually, “GE Vernova”) sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs GE Vernova 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 GE Vernova welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.