Full-Time
Correctives Field Leader
Wind
Updated on 8/20/2026
GE Vernova
1,001-5,000 employees
Global energy provider: power, wind, electrification
Compensation Overview
$104.2k - $173.7k/yr
No H1B Sponsorship
Schenectady, NY, USA
Remote
Travel 50% or more within North America is required.
Bachelor's, Associate's
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- A high school diploma or GED is required.
- At least 7 years of experience in wind services, field operations, maintenance, or a related industrial service environment is required.
- Ability and willingness to travel 50% or more within North America, including flexibility for outage schedules, remote site support, and emergent operational needs, is required.
- A valid driver’s license is required.
- Lead North America-based hourly field teams executing major component upgrades, corrective maintenance campaigns, and blade repair activities.
- Ensure field work complies with approved procedures, quality requirements, technical standards, customer commitments, company policies, regulatory standards, and service operating procedures.
- Provide frontline field leadership for safe execution, work quality, productivity, crew effectiveness, readiness, deployment, completion tracking, issue resolution, and escalation management.
- Align labor resources, site priorities, operational constraints, tools, parts, documentation, training, and support with outage and campaign commitments.
- Own safety leadership, including EHS expectations, stop-work authority, hazard identification, pre-job planning, risk mitigation, and corrective actions for safety events and near misses.
- Drive quality discipline through procedural adherence, inspection rigor, accurate documentation, workmanship expectations, and corrective actions for quality escapes and execution deviations.
- Provide direct leadership, coaching, performance management, talent assessment, development planning, succession support, recruiting, onboarding, training completion, qualification readiness, retention support, and employee engagement for field personnel.
- Own execution performance and operating metrics covering safety, quality, productivity, schedule attainment, labor utilization, cycle time, outage performance, and training and certification compliance.
- Drive operating rhythms, performance reviews, field inspections, backlog and labor-deployment oversight, risk identification, corrective actions, escalation closure, workforce planning, timekeeping, reporting, documentation, and labor tracking.
- Partner with planning, technical support, engineering, sourcing, logistics, EHS, quality, and operations teams to translate business priorities into field execution plans and resolve execution barriers.
- Support customer communication through timely status updates, issue awareness, and execution transparency.
- Drive standard work, continuous improvement, structured problem solving, lessons learned, best-practice sharing, productivity improvement, crew effectiveness, quality performance, and execution consistency across regions.
- Lead hourly field resources across multiple North America sites and campaigns, with direct impact on fleet availability, customer satisfaction, outage performance, safety outcomes, productivity, and execution cost.
- An associate or bachelor’s degree in a technical, engineering, business, or related field is preferred.
- Experience leading large-scale wind service campaigns or major corrective field operations is preferred.
- Experience leading teams performing major component exchange, upgrades, large corrective maintenance, retrofit campaigns, or blade repair work is preferred.
- Ability to work in demanding field conditions, including climbing turbines and supporting field execution as needed, is preferred.
- Prior people leadership experience with responsibility for team performance, coaching, and employee development is preferred.
- Working knowledge of EHS systems, field risk management, and safe work practices in an industrial environment is preferred.
- Ability to lead in a field-based, multi-site operating environment with changing priorities is preferred.
- Technical knowledge of major wind turbine components and related replacement or upgrade processes is preferred.
- Experience with blade repair operations and quality oversight is preferred.
- Familiarity with outage planning, workforce scheduling, and field resource deployment is preferred.
- Lean, continuous improvement, or standard work deployment experience is preferred.
- Experience using field service, maintenance management, or operational reporting systems is preferred.
- Military leadership experience or equivalent technical field leadership background is preferred.
GE Vernova is a global energy company created in 2024 to support the electricity grid and the energy transition, with three focuses: Power, Wind, and Electrification. It sells large-scale equipment, signs long-term service agreements, and provides software to utilities, independent power producers, grid operators, and large industrial energy users. Its products include H-Class gas turbines that can burn natural gas with blends of hydrogen toward 100% hydrogen, Haliade-X offshore wind turbines up to 14.7 MW, and GridOS software that unifies grid data to help manage networks and integrate renewables. By combining hardware, services, and software under GE heritage, it aims to meet rising electricity demand while accelerating decarbonization across global energy systems.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
$17.6M
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Founded
2022
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Q2 2026 orders jumped 88% to $24.2 billion, led by Power and Electrification.
- Data center orders exceeded $5 billion in first-half 2026, more than all 2025.
- Management raised 2026 guidance and expects at least 125 GW gas backlog by year-end.
What critics are saying
- Wind orders fell 40% in Q2 2026, and GE Vernova expects roughly $400 million losses.
- Massachusetts courts blocked GE Vernova from exiting Vineyard Wind over unpaid $300 million claims.
- Tariff uncertainty and permitting delays still throttle U.S. onshore wind orders through 2026.
What makes GE Vernova unique
- GE Vernova sells the grid and turbine hardware that runs 25%-30% of global electricity.
- Its 116 GW gas backlog and H-Class turbines lock customers into decade-long service contracts.
- GridOS, HVDC, and Prolec-backed electrification make it harder for utilities to multi-source suppliers.
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