Head of Operations, Services

The Head of Operations, Services provides strategic and operational leadership for the Field Services Operations organization, ensuring safe, reliable, profitable, and customer-focused service delivery. The role is accountable for translating business strategy into disciplined execution while building the capabilities, capacity, and culture required for sustainable growth.

What will you do?

• Safety, Quality & Cybersecurity:
  • Champion a strong safety culture and ensure compliance with company, customer, regulatory, quality, and cybersecurity requirements across all service operations.
  • Ensure Service Representatives are appropriately certified, competent, and equipped with the required personal protective equipment before performing on-site work.
  • Ensure all team members complete the required cybersecurity training and use compliant, securely managed endpoints.
  • Lead timely corrective and preventive actions arising from safety incidents, audits, quality issues, cybersecurity risks, or customer feedback.
• Operations Leadership & Service Delivery
  • Lead end-to-end Services Operations covering planned, corrective, emergency, project, and contract-based service activities.
  • Drive on-time delivery, response and recovery performance, backlog reduction, productivity, utilization, service quality, and service-report completeness.
  • Ensure effective resource deployment and capacity planning to meet customer commitments, critical-service requirements, and business demand.
  • Provide decisive leadership for critical customer incidents and operational escalations, with clear ownership, communication, and recovery actions.
  • Establish robust operating rhythms, priorities, escalation paths, governance, and performance reviews.
  • Lead Services initiatives and continuous improvement programs that enhance efficiency, quality, scalability, and customer outcomes.
• Business & Financial Performance
  • Drive profitable and sustainable growth through disciplined execution of the Annual Execution Plan (AEP), supported by strategic workforce and resource planning.
  • Own operational budgets and cost performance, including headcount, overtime, subcontracting, logistics, and other service delivery expenses.
  • Monitor operational and financial performance through relevant KPIs and initiate timely corrective actions when results deviate from the plan.
  • Partner with Sales, Finance, and business leaders to improve revenue realization, billing accuracy, gross margin, productivity, and cash performance.
  • Align operational capacity with commercial priorities and support contract renewals, customer retention, and profitable growth opportunities.
• Customer Experience & Service Excellence
  • Ensure consistently high standards of service delivery, responsiveness, communication, and customer satisfaction.
  • Build trusted relationships with strategic and critical customers and maintain effective executive-level engagement.
  • Lead service recovery for material customer issues and ensure root causes are addressed through sustainable corrective actions.
  • Use customer feedback and operational data to improve service quality, reliability, and retention.
• People Leadership & Capability Development
  • Build a high-performance culture based on safety, accountability, collaboration, customer focus, ownership, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
  • Coach and develop Operations Managers, Project Managers, Project Engineers, Service Representatives, and supporting operational teams.
  • Develop workforce, capability, and succession plans to ensure leadership and technical readiness for current and future business needs.
  • Establish structured competency development, certification, technical training, knowledge sharing, and career-development pathways.
  • Identify and develop high-potential employees and strengthen succession coverage for critical roles.
• Organization, Collaboration & Transformation
  • Champion cross-functional collaboration across Services, local Business Units, and the Global Services Execution Team, breaking down silos and fostering a One-Team mindset.
  • Ensure alignment between commercial commitments and operational delivery capability, capacity, risk, and cost.
  • Deploy and continuously improve the Services Operating Model, with clear roles, decision rights, interfaces, and governance.
  • Drive a lean and agile organization that responds effectively to changing customer and business requirements.
  • Lead digital transformation through digitalization, automation, connected tools, and data-driven decision-making that improve productivity and visibility.
  • Represent Services Operations in business reviews, strategic planning, workforce planning, customer engagements, and leadership forums.

What qualifications will make you successful?

• Degree in Engineering, Business, Operations Management, or related discipline.
• Typically, 10+ years of progressive experience in service operations, engineering services, field services, project execution, or a comparable operational environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading multi-disciplinary operational teams and managing mission-critical or 24/7 service environments.
• Proven accountability for operational and financial performance, including P&L, budgets, productivity, and cost management.
• Strong track record in customer management, operational improvement, organizational transformation, and people's leadership.
• Experience developing managers, technical leaders, high-potential employees, and succession pipelines.
• Strategic thinking combined with strong execution discipline and results orientation.
• Commercial and financial acumen, with the ability to balance customer, operational, risk, and business priorities.
• Visible safety of leadership and sound judgment in high-pressure or critical-service situations.
• Ability to lead change, simplify complexity, and use data to drive decisions and accountability.
• Excellent stakeholder management, relationship-building, and communication skills with employees, executive leaders, partners, and customers.
• Demonstrated commitment to collaboration, talent development, and a One-Team culture.

What's in it for me?

• High-impact leadership role with visibility and influence across the organization
• Opportunity to shape strategy and drive how we deliver value to customers at scale
• Culture that champions innovation, collaboration, and continuous growth
• Development programs and resources designed to elevate your leadership journey

Bring your strategic vision and leadership excellence to a team that's ready to achieve great things together!

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Responsibilities

The Head of Operations, Services provides strategic and operational leadership for the Field Services Operations organization, ensuring safe, reliable, profitable, and customer-focused service delivery. The role is accountable for translating business strategy into disciplined execution while building the capabilities, capacity, and culture required for sustainable growth.

What will you do?

• Safety, Quality & Cybersecurity:
  • Champion a strong safety culture and ensure compliance with company, customer, regulatory, quality, and cybersecurity requirements across all service operations.
  • Ensure Service Representatives are appropriately certified, competent, and equipped with the required personal protective equipment before performing on-site work.
  • Ensure all team members complete the required cybersecurity training and use compliant, securely managed endpoints.
  • Lead timely corrective and preventive actions arising from safety incidents, audits, quality issues, cybersecurity risks, or customer feedback.
• Operations Leadership & Service Delivery
  • Lead end-to-end Services Operations covering planned, corrective, emergency, project, and contract-based service activities.
  • Drive on-time delivery, response and recovery performance, backlog reduction, productivity, utilization, service quality, and service-report completeness.
  • Ensure effective resource deployment and capacity planning to meet customer commitments, critical-service requirements, and business demand.
  • Provide decisive leadership for critical customer incidents and operational escalations, with clear ownership, communication, and recovery actions.
  • Establish robust operating rhythms, priorities, escalation paths, governance, and performance reviews.
  • Lead Services initiatives and continuous improvement programs that enhance efficiency, quality, scalability, and customer outcomes.
• Business & Financial Performance
  • Drive profitable and sustainable growth through disciplined execution of the Annual Execution Plan (AEP), supported by strategic workforce and resource planning.
  • Own operational budgets and cost performance, including headcount, overtime, subcontracting, logistics, and other service delivery expenses.
  • Monitor operational and financial performance through relevant KPIs and initiate timely corrective actions when results deviate from the plan.
  • Partner with Sales, Finance, and business leaders to improve revenue realization, billing accuracy, gross margin, productivity, and cash performance.
  • Align operational capacity with commercial priorities and support contract renewals, customer retention, and profitable growth opportunities.
• Customer Experience & Service Excellence
  • Ensure consistently high standards of service delivery, responsiveness, communication, and customer satisfaction.
  • Build trusted relationships with strategic and critical customers and maintain effective executive-level engagement.
  • Lead service recovery for material customer issues and ensure root causes are addressed through sustainable corrective actions.
  • Use customer feedback and operational data to improve service quality, reliability, and retention.
• People Leadership & Capability Development
  • Build a high-performance culture based on safety, accountability, collaboration, customer focus, ownership, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
  • Coach and develop Operations Managers, Project Managers, Project Engineers, Service Representatives, and supporting operational teams.
  • Develop workforce, capability, and succession plans to ensure leadership and technical readiness for current and future business needs.
  • Establish structured competency development, certification, technical training, knowledge sharing, and career-development pathways.
  • Identify and develop high-potential employees and strengthen succession coverage for critical roles.
• Organization, Collaboration & Transformation
  • Champion cross-functional collaboration across Services, local Business Units, and the Global Services Execution Team, breaking down silos and fostering a One-Team mindset.
  • Ensure alignment between commercial commitments and operational delivery capability, capacity, risk, and cost.
  • Deploy and continuously improve the Services Operating Model, with clear roles, decision rights, interfaces, and governance.
  • Drive a lean and agile organization that responds effectively to changing customer and business requirements.
  • Lead digital transformation through digitalization, automation, connected tools, and data-driven decision-making that improve productivity and visibility.
  • Represent Services Operations in business reviews, strategic planning, workforce planning, customer engagements, and leadership forums.

What qualifications will make you successful?

• Degree in Engineering, Business, Operations Management, or related discipline.
• Typically, 10+ years of progressive experience in service operations, engineering services, field services, project execution, or a comparable operational environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading multi-disciplinary operational teams and managing mission-critical or 24/7 service environments.
• Proven accountability for operational and financial performance, including P&L, budgets, productivity, and cost management.
• Strong track record in customer management, operational improvement, organizational transformation, and people's leadership.
• Experience developing managers, technical leaders, high-potential employees, and succession pipelines.
• Strategic thinking combined with strong execution discipline and results orientation.
• Commercial and financial acumen, with the ability to balance customer, operational, risk, and business priorities.
• Visible safety of leadership and sound judgment in high-pressure or critical-service situations.
• Ability to lead change, simplify complexity, and use data to drive decisions and accountability.
• Excellent stakeholder management, relationship-building, and communication skills with employees, executive leaders, partners, and customers.
• Demonstrated commitment to collaboration, talent development, and a One-Team culture.