Delivery Manager - WAMS

Job Description Summary

Job Description

At GE Vernova, we are committed to addressing the climate crisis through innovative monitoring and control solutions that enable a zero-carbon electricity grid. Our technologies help power system owners and operators increase grid flexibility, integrate more low-carbon energy sources, and improve their ability to detect, understand, and mitigate threats to system stability and security.

GE Vernova is recognized as an industry leader in power system stability and Wide Area Monitoring, Protection and Control (WAMPAC). Transmission system operators, utilities, and network & asset owners use our solutions worldwide to improve system security, increase power transfer capability, and analyse power system performance.

Within this mission, the WAMS Services team works end-to-end from substation to control room, delivering and supporting solutions across power system dynamics, stability, control, and performance. Our work spans project delivery, support, instrumentation, monitoring and analytics, control systems, modelling, and consulting services. We help customers solve emerging challenges through innovative applications, software delivery, system studies, model validation, and diagnosis of stability and performance issues.

• Deploying enterprise software.
  Working within a highly skilled team to manage and execute software deployment, software configuration, and operational testing.
• Identifying and quickly resolving software and related IT issues within a deployment project
• Optimizing the deployment process, working with the DevOps teams
• Managing and coordinating effective software delivery

• Internal: Operations, Product Development, Tendering and Maintenance & Support
• External: Customers, Partners

• The Delivery Manager owns the project's Delivery Model and is the Technical Leader on the Project
• Performing and managing the deployment of interacting complex enterprise software and software dependencies.

• Wide Area Monitoring Systems (WAMS) or
• Energy Management Systems (EMS) or
• Distribution Management Systems (DMS) or other e-terra or Power On products

• End-to-end responsibility on the Software Delivery part of projects to meet the schedule, cost, and quality commitments.
• Good knowledge of IT infrastructures (e.g. High-Performance Storage Systems, or IT Networks, or OS/VM environments)
• Project Execution control: Building effective Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), activity tracking to update Project Manager on progress
• Share responsibility with the Project Manager (PM), through close coordination, for scope management (change requests assessment), risk management, and problem management
• Trigger and validate engineering Gate Reviews (Solution, Factory Testing Readiness, Site Acceptance Readiness)

• Implement software delivery performance measurement indicators
• Drive excellence in execution through continuous improvement and change management to implement competitiveness improvement initiatives (costs base reduction, lead time reduction, productivity improvement, quality improvement...)

• Assist tendering with the validation of the delivery model and estimations in coordination with the Regional Operations team and the Global Workforce Manager.
• Validate the Scope review at Tendering stage in coordination with the Solution Design team

• Ensure a smooth transfer to maintenance of ending projects through coordinated knowledge transfer.

• Delivery Manager may be requested by the Project Manager, who owns the Customer relationship, to contribute to Customer management activities
• Comply and contribute to elaboration of relevant Quality Procedures, work instructions, and Processes in Quality Management System
• Report or resolve any process non-conformances in a timely manner

• Demonstrate EHS leadership and ensure Zero Deviation Plan is implemented in their area of responsibility
• Sets the example by demonstrating the proper acts and actively observes work conditions.
• Actively participates in defining corrective actions when work is unsafe or when an uncontrolled risk is observed.
• Routinely observes routines and behaviors of others and provides immediate feedback regarding unsafe behavior and celebrates achievements or safe behaviors.
• Actively and routinely promotes the identification of hazards and near misses
• Ensure that all staff have done their mandatory EHS training

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma / GED with proven years of experience in Services).
  Ideal subjects: Computer Science, IT Networking, Software Development
• Minimum 3 years of experience in Services - Software Commissioning.

• 5 years of experience in software delivery organization, with operation (project delivery) background
• Strong background in integration aspects related to computer systems
• Experience of Kubernetes and microservice architecture
• Industry knowledge in the field of operation and multi sites project organizations
• Process and methodology oriented
• Ability to remotely drive people towards a common goal
• Highly collaborative and able to work across the organization to accomplish common goals
• Driving change