The posting
Job Description 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 with developing learning management systems, e-learning platforms, and digital learning solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to lead change, foster continuous learning, and support organizational growth.
- Comfortable with converting ambiguity into clear measurable progress and can pivot as needed.
GE Vernova offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. 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).
Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes
#LI-Remote - This is a remote position
Application Deadline:
For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $154,800.00 and $258,000.00. The Company pays a geographic differential of 110%, 120% or 130% of salary in certain areas. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set.
Bonus eligibility: discretionary annual bonus.
This posting is expected to remain open for at least seven days after it was posted on October 17, 2026.
Available benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability benefits, life insurance, 12 paid holidays, and permissive time off.
GE Vernova Inc. or its affiliates (collectively or individually, “GE Vernova”) sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs GE Vernova reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace, or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a GE Vernova welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.
