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About the Role

The NAM Correctives Field Leader is responsible for the safe, compliant, and effective execution of field operations for North America hourly teams performing major component upgrades and blade repair work scopes. This leader owns frontline execution performance across assigned field resources and is accountable for safety, quality, productivity, workforce effectiveness, and customer delivery outcomes. This role provides direct leadership to hourly field employees and/or frontline crew leads supporting major campaigns, large corrective maintenance events, retrofit activity, and blade repair operations. The leader is expected to drive standard work, strengthen operational discipline, build organizational capability, and ensure field teams are positioned to execute complex work scopes reliably and safely across multiple customer sites. The role requires strong partnership across planning, technical support, engineering, sourcing, EHS, and operations leadership to remove barriers to execution and deliver business commitments. The NAM Correctives Field Leader is also expected to create a high-performance team culture through coaching, clear accountability, field presence, and disciplined follow-through.

Responsibilities

Lead North America-based hourly field teams executing major component upgrades, corrective maintenance campaigns, and blade repair activities.
Ensure field work is executed in alignment with approved procedures, quality requirements, technical standards, and customer commitments.
Provide visible frontline leadership in the field to reinforce safe execution, work quality, pace, and crew effectiveness.
Drive daily execution rigor across assigned work scopes, including readiness, deployment, completion tracking, issue resolution, and escalation management.
Support outage and campaign execution by aligning labor resources, site priorities, and operational constraints with business commitments.
Ensure field teams are equipped with the required tools, parts, documentation, training, and support needed to perform work effectively.
Respond to emergent operational issues and adjust priorities as needed to maintain execution continuity and customer support.
Own safety leadership for assigned field teams, including reinforcement of EHS expectations, use of stop works authority, hazard identification, pre-job planning, and risk mitigation.
Ensure full compliance with company policies, customer requirements, regulatory standards, and service operating procedures.
Drive quality discipline in the field by reinforcing procedural adherence, inspection rigor, documentation accuracy, and workmanship expectations.
Lead follow-up and corrective actions for safety events, quality escapes, near misses, and execution deviations.
Partner with EHS, quality, and technical teams to identify systemic issues and implement sustainable countermeasures.
Set clear expectations that safe and compliant execution is the baseline for performance.
Provide direct leadership, coaching, and performance management for hourly field employees and/or frontline crew leaders.
Build a strong field organization through active talent assessment, development planning, succession support, and workforce capability building.
Establish a high-accountability team culture with clear expectations for safety, conduct, performance, quality, and customer focus.
Conduct regular field engagement, coaching conversations, and performance follow-up to improve team effectiveness and strengthen employee development.
Support recruiting, onboarding, training completion, qualification readiness, and retention efforts for field personnel.
Identify skill gaps across teams and work with training and operational leaders to improve technical and leadership capability.
Reinforce employee engagement through communication, recognition, inclusion, and consistent leadership presence.
Own execution performance for assigned field teams through the management of key operating metrics, including safety performance, quality performance, productivity, schedule attainment, labor utilization, cycle time, outage execution performance, and training and certification compliance.
Drive operating rhythm and performance reviews for field execution, including regular inspection of work in progress, backlog, labor deployment, and execution risk.
Use data, field observations, and team feedback to identify gaps and implement corrective actions.
Escalate constraints proactively and drive closure with the appropriate cross-functional teams.
Support forecast accuracy and workforce planning by aligning labor availability and capability with expected business demand.
Ensure administrative rigor across timekeeping, reporting, documentation, and labor tracking requirements.
Partner closely with planning, technical support, engineering, sourcing, logistics, EHS, and broader operations teams to support successful field execution.
Translate business priorities into actionable field execution plans for frontline teams.
Ensure execution issues impacting safety, quality, customer commitments, or cost are elevated quickly and managed with urgency.
Support customer communication needs through timely status updates, issue awareness, and execution transparency as required through the operating team.
Contribute field insight to improve planning assumptions, tooling readiness, work instructions, job risk reviews, and execution strategy.
Act as a key linkage point between frontline crews and business leadership to ensure alignment between strategy and execution realities.
Drive adoption of standard work across major component and blade repair operations.
Identify and implement opportunities to improve productivity, crew effectiveness, quality performance, and execution consistency.
Lead problem-solving efforts on recurring execution issues, resource constraints, and field process gaps.
Share lessons learned and best practices across teams and regions to strengthen fleetwide execution capability.
Support a culture of continuous improvement by encouraging structured feedback, accountability, and practical field-based solutions.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED
Minimum of 7 years in wind services, field operations, maintenance, or a related industrial service environment
Ability and willingness to travel 50%+ within North America, with flexibility required for outage schedules, remote site support, and emergent operational needs
Valid driver’s license

Skills

Strong safety leadership
Sound operational judgment
Credibility with frontline teams
Ability to lead through field presence
Clear ownership mindset
Bias for action
Ability to balance people leadership with execution discipline
Strong decision-making capability in high-pressure and dynamic environments
Ability to hold teams accountable while developing engagement and trust
Effective cross-functional collaboration
Effective escalation management
Strong communication skills across hourly teams, peers, and senior leaders
Commitment to continuous improvement
Commitment to operational standardization
Technical knowledge of major wind turbine components
Experience with blade repair operations
Familiarity with outage planning
Familiarity with workforce scheduling
Familiarity with field resource deployment
Lean experience
Continuous improvement experience
Standard work deployment experience
Experience using field service systems
Experience using maintenance management systems
Experience using operational reporting systems

Location

North America

Work Type

Remote
Field Operations

Experience Level

7+ years in wind services, field operations, maintenance, or a related industrial service environment
Experience leading large-scale wind service campaigns or major corrective field operations
Demonstrated experience leading teams performing major component exchange, upgrades, large corrective maintenance, retrofit campaigns, or blade repair work
Prior people leadership experience with responsibility for team performance, coaching, and employee development
Military leadership experience or equivalent technical field leadership background

Education Level

High school diploma or GED
Associate or bachelor’s degree in a technical, engineering, business, or related field

Salary/Compensations

$104,200.00 - $173,700.00
Geographic differential of 110%, 120% or 130% of salary in certain areas

Benefits

Medical coverage
Dental coverage
Vision coverage
Prescription drug coverage
Access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource
Access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services
GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions
Access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants
Tuition assistance
Adoption assistance
Paid parental leave
Disability benefits
Life insurance
12 paid holidays
Permissive time off

About the Company

GE Vernova offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation.

Equal Opportunity

GE Vernova is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
GE Vernova will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening.
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).