Job Vacancies at GE Vernovas

GE Vernovas a planned, purpose-built global energy company that includes Power, Wind, and Electrification segments and is supported by its accelerator businesses of Advanced Research, Consulting Services, and Financial Services. Building on over 130 years of experience tackling the world’s challenges, GE Vernova is uniquely positioned to help lead the energy transition by continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to decarbonize it. GE Vernova helps customers power economies and deliver electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. GE Vernova is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., with more than 80,000 employees across 140+ countries around the world. GE Vernova’s Gas Power business engineers advanced, efficient natural gas-powered technologies and services, along with decarbonization solutions that aim to help electrify a lower carbon future.

We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:

1.) Controls Field Engineer

Job Location: Lagos

Job Summary
What Impact You'll Make:

• Commissioning specialist responsible for the installation, commissioning, maintenance and troubleshooting for the full range of hardware and software products in the Controls Services Business portfolio.
• As well as external reporting: Controls Field Engineer may report to the client, the plant/utility owner, the construction firm, giving daily or weekly updates on job progress or as needed.
• Responsible for reviewing plant engineering documents and P&ID’s, troubleshooting of plant systems and equipment, planning, organizing, integrating and direction of resources such as labor, tools and materials as required to complete the work scope according to contractual requirements.
• You may be assigned to other duties to help proactively drive our GE Gas Power Controls vision and align with our organization’s core values.

Job Description
What you'll do:

• Actively manage controls and instrumentation activities on-site during Installation, Commissioning and Maintenance of upgrade project or new installation, including but not limited to oversight of installation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and diagnostics for controls system such as Mark V, Mark Vi, Mark Vie, Cimplicity and HMI’s..
• Provide customers with technical direction and support on Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) packaged products.
• Understand PLC ladder logic, including basic understanding of how to navigate through ladder rungs while troubleshooting
• Trace through the software documentation.
• Implement control constant modifications.
• Reading and Modifying software sequencing
• Set up and modify the hardware /software associated with Gas and Steam Turbine systems.
• Troubleshoot existing Control Solutions hardware and software installations on-site.
• Prepare field services jobs and coordinate with the project /Service managers
• Provide training to customer employees as needed
• Supervise cable laying, meggering and connection
• Maintain accurate timesheets and acquire customer's signature on timesheets before leaving the job site
• Understand T&C (Terms and Conditions) commitments
• Provide timely and accurate internal and external reports.
• Ensure contractual obligations are met and attend technical meetings with Customers.
• Ensure all in-field activities are carried out safely complying with company environmental, health, and safety (EHS) guidelines and procedures.
• Provide expert consultation on complex projects.
• Timely and accurately input hours, expenses, timesheets in internal systems
• Pre-outage and installation planning; possibly recommending and administering policies and procedures.
• Availability to frequently travel (. i.e. More than 75%), work offshore and in restricted countries
• Ability and willingness to work holidays, weekends and overtime as required by field assignments.
• Drive customer satisfaction through commitment to quality.
• Support the business growth initiatives.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering and 5 years, in power plant maintenance, turbine generator maintenance, or power plant electrical equipment installation/ commissioning.
• Experience working on GEV Controls systems such as Mark V, Mark Vi, Mark Vie/s etc.
• Proven working experience in Oil & Gas and Power Plant industry field activities.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, to convey technical concepts to business and technical personnel
• Strong knowledge in rotating equipment control philosophy (Gas Turbine, Steam Turbine, Centrifugal Compressor, Reciprocate Compressor) and their auxiliaries
• Strong knowledge in unit control panel (UCP), motor control centre (MCC), direct current panel (DCP), distributed control system (DCS) and firefighting system installation and commissioning
• Strong knowledge in field devices, instruments and actuators (servo-valves, thermos elements, transmitters etc)
• Ability to handle special tools like pressure pump, multi-meter, frequency generator, oscilloscope and field generator
• Ability to understand and implement technical drawings (wiring diagram, P&ID, General Arrangement, etc).
• Ability to work under pressure
• Willing to travel, in country and worldwide, and to work over-time
• Fluent English
• Valid driver's license and passport (or able to obtain a passport).
• Strong computer skills using MS Office software

What Will Make You Stand Out:

• Qualified level. Has the knowledge and skill to actively support an outage and be aware of where to seek answers to questions as they arise. Has experienced successful installations and outages.
• Experience with Gas /Steam Turbine Driver Control Systems and Auxiliary Systems and their integration with Mark Controls Systems.
• Familiar with Instruments and controls and PLCs for controls training
• Familiarity with computer network systems & switches
• Wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.
• Strong analytic and problem-solving skills
• Good interpersonal and organizational skills
• Strong computer skills
• Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• Ability to manage turnkey

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2.) Customer Support Specialist

Job Location: Lagos

Job Summary

• Administrative and Executive Support. Impacts quality of own work and the work of others on the team.
• Executes standard operational/technical tasks typically subject to instructions and work routines.
• There is latitude to rearrange the sequence to complete task/duties based on changing work situations.

Job Description
What you'll do:

• Office and administrative assistance to teams or individuals. Should not include calendar management and other "personal support" agenda.
• Broadening knowledge of own technical discipline to execute policy/strategy. May include support roles with specialized technical field of knowledge; still acquiring higher level knowledge and skills.
• Basic understanding of key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work. Good understanding of how work of own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the area.
• May have some autonomy to make decisions within a defined framework. Resolves issues in situations that require good technical knowledge and judgment within established procedures. Consults more senior team members for issues outside of defined instructions/parameters.
• A job at this level requires good interpersonal skills and may be required to lead a junior team. For customer facing roles, develops strong customer relationships and serves as the interface between customer and GE. Explains technical information to others.

What You'll Bring

• Background in Engineering or analytical degree is a requirement.
• 1+ years of experience in Customer Support Management in Marine and Offshore Projects.
• This role requires basic experience in the Project Management & Administrative Support.

What Will Make You Stand Out:

• Strong inter-personal skills with a working knowledge of the Marine & Offshore business in both SSA and other Global regions; focusing on local requirements as well.
• Strong oral and written communication skills. Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs.
• Proficiency in Microsoft office packages, particularly excel, PowerPoint and word.

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3.) Lead Customer Portfolio Manager 

Job ID: R5021861
Job Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description / Summary
What Impact You'll Make:

• This job entails the management of assigned customer portfolio through the planning, execution and closeout of parts and services projects with the sole aim of achieving profitability for GE and customer satisfaction.
• It requires collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to achieve the above aims.
• The candidate will also support the commercial drive to expand the opportunities within the assigned customer portfolio.
• Guided by professional practices and policies that are shaped by the role.
• The role has moderate autonomy, requiring high levels of operational judgment.

What you'll do 

• Perform in the role as the interface between the customer and GE Vernova.
• Own and coordinate the profitability of assigned customer portfolio
• Coordinate the shipment of gas turbine and other parts as per customer contract terms.
• Plan and execute gas turbine maintenance and troubleshooting services per GE Vernova standard requirements and the terms of the customer contract/ purchase order.
• Coordinate project closeout per GE Vernova standard requirements
• Oversee the issuance of customer invoices and collection of cash per the terms of the contract and invoices.
• Support sales and commercial team in generating more commercial opportunities for the company.
• Support manager and senior contracts personnel on assigned contracts Function as the liaison for the customer on contract matters
• Uses some judgment and has some ability to propose different solutions outside of set parameters to address and resolve customer operational and commercial issues.
• Uses technical experience and analytical thinking.
• Uses multiple internal and limited external sources outside of own teams to arrive at decisions.
• Collaborate with manager to deliver immediate and overall business objectives.

What you'll bring 

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university in any field of engineering.
• At least 5 years of experience working in the power generation sector.
• Understanding of project management methodology will be an advantage

What will make you stand out: 

• Strong character and ability to work under pressure.
• A good understanding of GE gas turbine technology and Combine Cycle power generation operations.
• High competency in the use of Microsoft office packages especially excel and PowerPoint.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs.
• Established project management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead a team.

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