Summary

The Traveling Site Manager reports to the Service Director at the direction of Senior Resource Manager, and is a strategic role based at site(s) and accountable for building long term relationships with customers, driving optimized operations, fiscal management, and site safety.

About us:
GE’s Onshore Wind business has a total installed base of more than 50,000 wind turbines in more than 35 counties, with 100+ GW of global installed capacity. We harness increased onshore wind energy potential through a broad family of turbines that are uniquely suited for a variety of wind environments, including Cypress, GE’s most powerful onshore wind turbine, and GE’s 2MW platform, which has more than 20GW installed and in operation today. We are committed to our customers’ success in wind, offering a broad portfolio of products and services that make renewables the energy of choice for a cleaner future.

Essential Responsibilities:

Overall scope includes leading a hub team, managing daily hub operations, turbine output, as well as exemplify excellence in leadership, safety, quality control, and financial oversight. The Site Manager partners closely with the customer and ensures alignment with GE operational excellence. Overall scope includes leading a hub team, managing daily hub operations, turbine output, as well as exemplify excellence in leadership, safety, quality control, and financial oversight. The Site Manager partners closely with the customer and ensures alignment with GE operational excellence.

As the Site Manager – Travel in North America you will:

• Travel as directed and assigned by the Senior Resource Manager to support multi-site service hubs.
• Customer focused approach to build long term relationships with customers to deliver business objectives and meet contractual requirements.
• Team engagement and development
• Continue to grow customer relationship
• Drive safety focus
• Escalate customer concerns with priority
• Partner with cross-functional teams like Sales, Commercial Operations, Sourcing, Finance, HR to meet the deliverables.
• Prioritize turbine performance to meet/exceed performance commitments.
• Provide leadership to support multi-site service hub- Initiate and support staffing requirements, coaching, training, and corrective action concerning employees and contracted partners; and succession planning.
• Lead operations within multi-site service hub ensuring weekly visits to each site;
• Own the safety culture within the hub- inclusive of contracted partners and customers.
• Be innovative and engaged in all areas of facility operations aligned with individual site plans to include creative problem solving with LEAN thinking.
• Execute daily Plan of the Day calls – prioritize and manage dispatch schedule.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a field services or equivalent managerial role in the energy industry (preferred)
• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university

Desired Characteristics:

• Advanced computer skills utilizing word and spreadsheet processing, e-mail programs, facility control and management systems, and computer diagnostic and troubleshooting tools
• Ability, willingness, and adaptability to take initiative and work without direct supervision
• Additional Technical Certification in Wind Energy or Electrical/Electronic field
• Strong leadership skills, ability to embrace and adapt to change and influence others.
• Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills
• Wind turbine or energy industry experience
• Strong functional knowledge in Operations and Maintenance best industry practices, planning, organizing, coordinating, executing and controlling the wind farm activities, productivity improvements, operational excellence in outage management.

The salary range for this position is 101,400.00 - 169,000.00 USD Annual. The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidate’s experience, their education, and the work location. In addition, this position is eligible for a performance bonus/variable incentive compensation.