HDGT NU Technical Academy Leader
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Summary GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. Are you excited at the opportunity to electrify and decarbonize the world? As the Technical Academy Leader for Heavy-Duty Gas Turbine New Units, you will be responsible for building, and leading HDGT NU Technical Academy as a strategic enabler of business growth, capability development, and organizational readiness. You will ensure alignment with the Business Line's Long-Term Strategy, growth priorities, and workforce needs, including ramp-up, onboarding, reskilling, upskilling, and knowledge transfer across critical technical domains. This is not just a training role. It is a strategic capability-building leadership role that combines learning strategy, organizational development, technical knowledge transfer, change management, stakeholder leadership and business execution & transformation This role reports to the Global Projects Leader and works in close partnership with the senior leaders, subject matter experts, cross functional stakeholders, HR Leader, and has high visibility to Business Line and Pole Leadership.
Job Description
What you'll do (Roles and Responsibilities) - Define, Launch and Lead the our Technical Academy strategy in alignment with business priorities, workforce plans, and long-term strategic objectives. - Translate business growth and capability needs into structured learning pathways , curriculum, and development methods. - Partner with senior leadership, subject matter experts, and instructional designers to develop and deploy relevant, high-quality learning content. - Develop and own global onboarding strategies that accelerate new hire productivity and ensure standard capabilities are consistently delivered across a high-volume hiring environment. - Prioritize and manage our Academy offerings to support critical skills development, technical upskilling, onboarding, and knowledge transfer. - Promote just-in-time, workflow-based, and practical learning approaches that support operational effectiveness and embed standard work into how teams operate. - Leverage GE Vernova platforms, digital, virtual, and hybrid learning platforms to improve scalability, accessibility, and learner experience. - Collaborate across Business Lines and functions to identify shared learning needs, leverage existing content, and create synergies as the lead of the HDGT NU Technical Academy - Oversee learning delivery, participant management, certification, and post-training evaluation, leveraging existing enterprise platforms. - Manage the Academy budget and monitor metrics to ensure success, cost-effectiveness and measurable business impact. What you'll bring (Basic Qualifications) - Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college. - Minimum 10 years of experience in a Technical, Business Leadership, or/and Engineering role, Operations, Learning and/or project management. - Preferred location; Schenectady / Greenville / Atlanta / Houston / Baden, Sw. What will make you stand out - Strong business and technical (engineering ) acumen within our Heavy Duty Gas Power New Units and ability to connect learning strategy with business outcomes. - You have worked across multiple levels of leadership (including senior executives) to influence change and drive organizational transformation and communicate effectively to these stakeholders - Experience working in a global or matrixed organization with cross-regional or cross-functional scope with proven project management skills - Experience managing budgets and delivering results in a matrixed environment. - Led process improvement initiatives from strategy through full deployment with measurable results. - Strong understanding of project execution and how capability development drives business performance. - Familiarity