Senior Manager - Engineering Capability & Transformation Leader

Job Description SummaryCoach, drive and lead lean behaviors, principles, and tools across a operational or functional area. Drive cultural transformation resulting in step-change in operational business metrics.
Job Description
About the Role
GE Vernova is executing its most significant engineering talent transformation in a generation. Engineer 2030 is GE Vernova's strategy to double engineering productivity while ensuring the company has the deep domain expertise and skills needed to scale the company while embracing the world's most consequential energy challenges.
This is a program architect role for someone who can hold strategy and execution simultaneously to leverage the existing talent ecosystem to build engineering-specific solutions and drive adoption across businesses to build capabilities. This leader will be an early adopter and practitioner of AI-enabled workforce intelligence tools, applying emerging capabilities to improve the quality, speed, and precision of engineering capability decisions.
The Senior Manager - - Engineering Capability & Transformation Leader is the engineer behind the Talent & Skills workstream, one of five workstreams of Engineer 2030. This role is part of the Engineering & Technology Excellence function within GE Vernova EDGE, reporting to the Engineering Operations and Lean Leader. This leader will also own stakeholder alignment with the executive sponsors of the Workstream. This role operates with direct visibility to the CTO and all five-business unit Engineering leaders and will partner with the Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Learning and Development, and HR communities.
The Work You Will Lead
GE Vernova's engineering talent model was built for a prior era and does not help us scale to meet the moment. It is reactive and optimized for single-business execution. The Talent & Skills workstream is the engineering systems layer for building the skills taxonomy, workforce analytics capability, and talent mobility infrastructure that allows GE Vernova to direct its best engineers to its hardest problems across teams and businesses, at scale, and ahead of demand.
Key Responsibilities
Engineering Workforce Capability Transformation: Ensure engineering workforce strategy is forward-looking and calibrated to where GE Vernova's engineering needs are heading, not where they have been. Recommend where GE Vernova should build, buy, or deploy technology to close skills gaps, translating business demand signals, attrition risk, and pipeline data into actionable workforce decisions in partnership with talent management, talent acquisition, HR business partners, and business leaders.
Enterprise Engineering Capability Review: Design and deploy a modernized GEV-level review to be facilitated by the CTO that brings engineering teams together with talent management and HR to connect skills gap analyses, succession planning, and internal mobility in a single, repeatable process. Apply enterprise standards and facilitate talent discussions that enable strategic skill sharing across businesses. Lead structured kaizen events to build the review framework in partnership with HR, Talent, and Engineering and sustain the program over time.
Talent Intelligence & Skills Gap Analysis: Leverage workforce analytics, AI-enabled talent intelligence platforms, skills inference tools and external market data to develop a view of GE Vernova's engineering skills landscape. Help identify critical engineering capabilities, future skills need, workforce risks, deployment opportunities, and development priorities. Translate directional data into strategic recommendations grounded in business context and aligned to the enterprise skills strategy and common data standards.
Pipeline Strategy: Partner with the GE Vernova Talent and Talent Acquisition to help inform the Engineering external talent strategy for priority skill gaps, including sourcing approaches, university partnerships, and internal early career pipeline development while leveraging enterprise partnerships, programs, and standards.
Engineering Development Program Ownership: Lead the Edison program and any other assigned, new Engineering development programs, including their ongoing strategy, refresh, and execution, within GE Vernova enterprise development program standards. Work in partnership with the Business Engineering Leaders, Talent Management and Learning & Development teams to evolve curriculum, scope, and strategic alignment to Engineer 2030 priorities.
Stakeholder Communication & Program Leadership: Connect the Talent & Skills workstream with the four other Engineer 2030 workstreams: Culture, Systems Engineering, Technologists, and Transformation. Ensure talent strategy reflects where engineering roles, tools, and methods are evolving, particularly as AI-enabled engineering tools transform the skills and workflows required in real-time. Lead the workstream weekly operating cadence and synthesize progress into Monthly Operating Review updates with executive sponsors. Build alignment with stakeholders in engineering, transformation, and talent intelligence while strengthening connectivity to GE Vernova's enterprise talent system.
Required Qualifications
For roles in USA: Bachelor's Degree in a STEM Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math), or similar with a minimum of 7+ years’ experience in progressive experience in engineering, technology, or other deeply technical field.
For roles outside USA: Bachelor's Degree in a STEM Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math), or similar with a minimum of significant years’ experience in progressive experience in engineering, technology, or other deeply technical field.
Proven ability to lead structured problem-solving including kaizen events, root cause analysis, and process design
Track record of translating business strategy into workforce capability frameworks, skills architectures, or talent pipeline strategies
Strong data fluency: ability to build and interpret workforce intelligence models and convert findings into strategic recommendations
Experience leading without direct authority across business units in a matrixed global organization to create a One Team operation
Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable crafting executive-level content and facilitating senior leadership discussions
Demonstrated ability to operate within enterprise governance while adapting solutions to the needs of a specialized technical population
Desired Characteristics
Experience applying Lean tools (kaizen, daily management, standard work, VSM, 5S)
Familiar with AI-enabled talent, intelligence tools and appetite to apply emerging capabilities to improve workforce strategy quality
Demonstrated experience activating talent review processes, skills taxonomies, readiness models, or workforce planning approaches within enterprise standards
Understanding of technical expert career architecture programs and the workforce management complexities of deep domain expert populations
Thrives in build mode - energized by bringing structure to ambiguous, high-stakes programs with no existing playbook.
Alignment to the GE Vernova Way and a demonstrated commitment to cross-business collaboration and inclusion
Why This Role
Engineer 2030 is GE Vernova's commitment to its engineers, giving them clear growth paths, AI-enabled tools, and the opportunity to solve the most consequential technical challenges in energy. This role is the strategic core of that commitment: the architect of the talent and skills infrastructure that determines whether GE Vernova can scale its engineering capability as fast as the energy transition demands.
For candidates applying to a Canadian-based position, the pay range for this position is between $162,900 and $244,000 CAD per year. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate's experience, education, and skill set.
Bonus eligibility: Discretionary annual bonus incentive.
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
For Applicants in Spain:Nonnational candidates are responsible to know the minimum documentation requirements to be able to be contracted in country: NIE- Social Security Affiliation Number in Spain (NAF) and Bank Account in Spain. They must be in possession of them at the time of start hiring. GE will not sponsor this requirement
À propos du poste
GE Vernova entreprend la transformation la plus importante de ses talents en ingénierie depuis une génération. Engineer 2030 est la stratégie de GE Vernova visant à doubler la productivité de l’ingénierie, tout en veillant à ce que l’entreprise dispose de l’expertise approfondie et des compétences nécessaires pour soutenir sa croissance et relever les défis énergétiques les plus déterminants au monde.
Il s’agit d’un rôle d’architecte de programme pour une personne capable de mener simultanément la stratégie et l’exécution, en tirant parti de l’écosystème de talents existant afin de créer des solutions propres à l’ingénierie et d’en favoriser l’adoption dans l’ensemble des secteurs d’activité. Cette personne sera parmi les premières à adopter et à utiliser des outils de veille sur la main-d’œuvre fondés s