Outage Manager Remote, Poland

Field Core, part of GE Vernova is looking for an exceptional Outage Manager to join our Field Operations team based in Poland.

GE Vernova is a planned, purpose-built global energy company that includes Power, Wind, and Electrification businesses 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.

GE Vernova helps customers power economies and deliver electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. GE Vernova is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., with more than 80,000 employees across 100+ countries around the world.

GE Vernova’s Gas Power business engineers advanced, efficient natural gas‑powered technologies and services, along with decarbonization solutions that aim to help electrify a lower carbon future. As part of the Gas Power One Field Services team, Field Core installs, maintains and upgrades power generation equipment, enabling operators of the world’s energy infrastructure to provide more reliable and affordable energy.

As the Outage Manager you will be responsible for preparation, planning, leading execution, and close out of complex planned/emergent Outage events for gas turbine, steam turbine and generator agreements while supporting the development of the business strategy for field fulfilment excellence in Field Core.

You will play a focal role, with accountability for driving consistent outage planning and execution, and adoption of best practices and lessons learned:

• Manage complex outage event preparation (Planned/Emergent/Upgrade) from start to finish, including outage schedule development, TFA/craft labour/tooling/cost planning, customer management – pre/post outage meetings, mobilization planning, JCE execution, and event close out
• Own onsite execution (site lead) with large teams during assigned outages, ensuring Fulfilment‑5 goals and requirements are met
• Manage on‑job cost tracking, productivity, while managing execution risk/FMEA and any NU/Service warranty
• Drive improvement of on‑time delivery, outage cost and productivity, implementation, effectively update and maintain accurate tracking files, control man‑hour cost and pacing
• Lead project quotation development including work scope, site condition check, preliminary safety and risk analysis to identify potential issues or obstacles and to minimize cost impact for site execution
• Support customer operations team during shut‑down, start‑up, running and performance testing of turbine, generator and auxiliary systems
• Ensure proper execution documentation is prepared, used, reviewed, stored and delivered including Field Procedures, Quality Procedures, EHS, and Customer Outage Reports
• Work with web systems applications for proper allocation, preparation, planning and forecasting of labour, tooling, vendor management
• Respond to forced outages/emergency promptly, be on site when needed, investigate/escalate site issues to restore the units to operating conditions in a timely manner

You will be specialised in the Power Generation industry with demonstratable success and knowledge on gas and steam turbine as well as generator and auxiliary system maintenance, outage planning and execution. You will also be:

• Strong in Project Management and have exceptional planning skills (Primavera scheduling tool preferred)
• IT proficient with web applications including advanced Excel skills

A formal education and subsequent university Bachelor or Master’s degree in a STEM subject are nice to have, but we are most interested in your total experience and professional achievements.

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