GE Vernova US | Automation Operations Leader (f/m/d)

Roles and responsibilities

• This individual will be a key connector between the Automation Center of Excellence (COE), business units, and leadership — translating operational realities into rigorous financial insight, and helping ensure automation investments are evaluated and tracked using disciplined metrics such as NPV, payback period, and ROI.
• A core focus of this role is taking complex, technical, and operational data (production metrics, downtime, throughput, quality/scrap rates, labor efficiency) and translating it into clear financial terms that leadership can act on.
• This individual will also help implement the COE service offerings that govern automation projects through defined stage-gates, reducing the risk of project failure and supporting disciplined, high-quality execution across the global portfolio.
• For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $104,600.00 and $174,400.00.
• Partner with business unit operational leaders to help ensure automation business cases accurately reflect real-world operational data and constraints.
• Support the financial evaluation of automation investments across business units, including NPV, payback period, IRR, and ROI calculations.
• Build and maintain standardized financial models/templates to help business units clearly segment investments and returns.
• Support the development of benchmarks and hurdle rates for automation investment approval in partnership with COE and business unit stakeholders.
• Support the design and implementation of the COE service offering for automation projects, helping establish clear swim lanes between the COE and business units.
• Maintain consistent KPI reporting through dashboards and visualization, giving stakeholders real-time visibility into tollgate status, project health, and portfolio performance.
• Support accountability across business units by helping enforce tollgate discipline, ensuring projects only progress when key operational and financial criteria are met.
• Prepare presentations summarizing automation investment performance and value unlocked (NPV realized, payback trends, ROI) and tollgate/project health across the portfolio.
• Provide visibility into investment risk, project execution status, and value realization to inform capital allocation decisions.
• Serve as a key link between operational teams and financial reporting, converting operational KPIs (throughput, downtime, scrap/quality rates, labor productivity) into financial impact metrics (cost savings, NPV contribution, payback impact)
• Help build repeatable methodologies/tools to standardize how operational performance is converted into financial language across business units
• Help consolidate and report on the health of the global automation investment portfolio, highlighting high-performing initiatives and underperforming/at-risk investments
• Help define criteria and deliverables required at each tollgate (e.g., business case approval, technical readiness, financial validation, go-live readiness, post-implementation review)
• Use the tollgate framework to help identify and mitigate risks, reducing the likelihood of project delays, cost overruns, or failure to achieve projected returns
• Help refine the tollgate framework based on lessons learned and evolving best practices across the global automation portfolio
• Translate complex operational and financial data into clear, decision-ready insights for leadership

Requirements

• Documented experience in financial analysis, operations, investment/capital planning, or program management, ideally within industrial, energy, or manufacturing sectors.
• Ability to translate operational data into financial insights (e.g., converting downtime, scrap, or throughput data into cost/ROI impact).
• Hands-on experience with NPV, payback period, IRR, and/or ROI analysis for capital investments.
• Exposure to stage-gate/tollgate frameworks for project governance and risk mitigation.
• Experience building or leveraging dashboards/visualization tools for KPI and performance reporting.
• Experience working within or alongside a Center of Excellence (COE) model or matrixed organization.
• Must be fully authorized to work in the nation of the applicable work location.
• English language proficiency, written and verbal, is required to successfully perform the duties of this role.
• Understanding of manufacturing/operational KPIs (OEE, downtime, scrap rate, throughput, labor efficiency) and how they translate into financial outcomes.
• Ability to "speak both languages" — operations and finance — and act as a translator between technical/operational teams and leadership.
• The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set.
• Experience presenting financial/investment performance to leadership

GE Vernova Inc.

GE Vernova became an independent company on 2 April 2024, when General Electric completed its split into three companies, and its shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol GEV. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is organised into three businesses: Power (gas, nuclear, hydro and steam technologies), Wind (onshore and offshore turbines and blades) and Electrification (grid solutions, power conversion, solar and storage, and digital tools for transmission and distribution).

• Industry: Energy equipment and services: gas, nuclear, hydro and steam power, onshore and offshore wind, and grid electrification and software
• Headquarters: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States (listed on the NYSE as GEV)