Hydro Service Manager

Job Description Summary

GE Vernova is a planned, purpose-built global energy company that includes Power, Wind, and Electrification segments and is supported by its accelerator businesses of Advanced Research, Consulting Services, and Financial Services. Building on over 130 years of experience tackling the world’s challenges, GE Vernova is uniquely positioned to help lead the energy transition by continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to decarbonize it. Hydro Power – a major player in the hydroelectricity generation market – is a business division of GE Vernova. Our work includes the designing, manufacturing, and installation of equipment for hydroelectric power plants, as well as servicing and refurbishing existing facilities. Hydro Power’s turbines and generators represent more than 25% of the total installed capacity worldwide, with 4000 employees present in more than 30 countries.

Job Description

The Hydro Services Manager will drive services activities for hydropower plants in the nominated region. It includes proposal development and execution of services transactional works.

Services Transactional works include maintenance and repairs, condition assessment, technical assistance, spare parts and training for Hydro Turbines, Generators, Control systems and governors, auxiliaries and balance of plant. The Hydro Services Manager is at the cross road of technical expertise, site works including EHS, technical project management, with commercial awareness.

Essential Responsibilities:

As the Hydro Services Manager , you will:

• Develop strong relationship with hydro power plant maintenance teams and understand assets, maintenance needs and budget, and upcoming outages schedules.
• Actively visit customer’s plants participate in customer meetings, detect and connect customer needs with our products’ available options and solutions
• Deliver timely / accurate responses to customer technical inquiries including technico-commercial offers
• Provide hands on technical support to customers and field teams for general services and specific upgrades
• Project Execution: Lead the execution (incl. site activities and project reviews with customers) with respect to EHS, time, quality, cost commitment and drive variation orders in cooperation with engineering, supply chain and site teams. Run the project financials (sales milestones and cash, risk & opportunities)
• Ensure Customer Relationship Management tool (CRM) accuracy
• Identify required suppliers in the plant area and build a case to develop suppliers with sourcing team.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Industrial Engineering from an accredited university
• Minimum of 3 years of commercial experience interacting with customers and delivering proposals
• Proven experience in a Hydro Business related technical role involving Engineering/Procurement/Construction phases
• Ability to read and interpret mechanical/electrical/hydraulic drawings and systems
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 50% of the time
• Fluency in English and Italian
• EU work permit

Desired Characteristics:

• Entrepreneur mindset and team player attitude
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to do Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to understand and resolve problems
• Strong knowledge of / experience with MS Office (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint)
• Strong oral and written communication skills to our customers in the regional language.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

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