Sr Manufacturing Leader - COE Leader

Job Description Summary GE Vernova is powering the world's energy transition. With approximately 80,000 employees and ~7,000 gas turbines installed across more than 100 countries, we keep the lights on for billions of people — delivering brighter cities, stronger economies, and a better-connected world. Now, we're growing fast, and we need exceptional leaders to help us scale.

This is a high-impact, senior manufacturing leadership role at the heart of GE Vernova's Gas Power operation in Greenville, SC. As a COE (Center of Excellence) Leader, you will serve as the operations manager for a major assembly area — owning Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost (SQDC) across a large, complex team of approximately 500 hourly and 50 salaried employees. This is not a role for the faint of heart.

We are doubling output within 12 months, then scaling an additional 25% the following year. We need a leader who has built precision assembly operations before, understands the discipline required to do it right the first time, and can instill a world‑class Foreign Object Debris (FOD) prevention culture — something we are actively elevating across the site. You'll carry direct accountability for approximately $500M+ in Cost of Goods Sold and play a critical role in shaping the future of how we build some of the most complex power generation equipment on the planet.

What You'll Do:

• Develop and execute the manufacturing organization's strategic vision, communicate priorities to team members and stakeholders, and engage teams to optimize performance.
• Provide leadership across the operation to meet customer requirements for safety, quality, cost, delivery, and product integrity.
• Establish and sustain a culture of assembly excellence, with a strong focus on standardized work, process discipline, defect prevention, and right-first-time execution.
• Lead the development and deployment of robust assembly processes, including standard work, tooling, fixtures, torque/fastener controls, inspection points, and configuration control.
• Establish and maintain a strong Foreign Object Debris/Damage (FOD) prevention and control culture, embedding FOD prevention into daily operations, workplace standards, training, and leader standard work.
• Drive quality at the source, ensuring assembly defects are prevented rather than passed downstream and that abnormalities are identified, contained, and resolved quickly.
• Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Quality, Materials, Sourcing, EHS, and other functions to align priorities and deliver the greatest customer outcomes.
• Analyze production labor and capacity requirements and implement appropriate staffing, equipment, technology, and capacity decisions within budget.
• Drive key initiatives including EHS, FOD prevention, 5S deployment, shop productivity, lean manufacturing, quality improvement, leadtime and cycle-time reduction.
• Lead complex manufacturing and assembly challenges using structured problem solving to eliminate root causes and improve process capability.
• Work with customers, functional leaders, and internal teams to meet organizational, technical, and product requirements.
• Lead efforts to simplify and improve assembly processes while maintaining product quality, configuration control, and customer requirements.
• Direct process and product improvement programs and provide manufacturing process expertise throughout the organization.
• Develop leaders and team members through coaching, mentoring, performance feedback, and targeted growth opportunities.
• Build a high-accountability culture where leaders are present in the operation, standards are clearly defined, and deviations are quickly identified and addressed.
• Ensure effective communication of key business,…