Current Job Vacancies at General Electric, 5th March, 2019

GE (NYSE:GE) drives the world forward by tackling its biggest challenges. By combining world-class engineering with software and analytics, GE helps the world work more efficiently, reliably, and safely. GE people are global, diverse and dedicated, operating with the highest integrity and passion to fulfill GE’s mission and deliver for our customers. We are recruiting to fill the position below:     Job Title: Senior Staff Technical Program Manager Job ID: 3259081 Location: Lagos, Nigeria Job Function: Digital Technology Business Segment: Power Headquarters Role Summary

• The Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, reporting to Sr/Director of IT Business Transformation, will serve as the IT lead for Sub Saharan Africa Power Services and Gas Power Systems (GPS).
• He/She will be responsible for program management, change management, last-mile deployment, and region local solutioning. The program manager will partner with regions’ technology pillars (analytics/data and IT Ops) to ensure local solutioning meeting business outcome and operating needs.

• The program manager will partner closely with regions functions, including sales, project installations, Quality, ITO & OTR, FieldCore, etc, to ensure SSA IT programs are aligned to region’s growth plan and cost-out/cost-avoidance targets
• The program manager will also act as SSA region’s process SME to global IT vertical COEs for both GPS and Power Services

• Responsible for all last-mile programs IT success & executions for SSA, including ERP and enterprise systems, and local solutioning
• Ensure all IT system and data/analytics are rolled out sustainably for both long terms and short terms
• Region’s SME expert for Power Services and GPS regional process and local configurations
• Be familiar with SSA GPS and Power Services business models and country dynamics, to lay out IT programs aligned to P&L business outcome (growth, costs, etc)
• Responsible for simplification outcome, from process, systems and data perspectives, across all SSA region functions
• Define programs (either leverage global platforms or region’s innovated platforms), to drive CoPQ along with Quality and functions

• BS, BA, MS and/or MBA in Engineering, Computer Science, or Information Technology, with 7+ years of experience in the relevant field, 4+ years of program management and software management, and 2+ years of managing executive stakeholders and client management or equivalent knowledge or experience
• Proven track record of leading programs, facilitating workouts, and managing program outcome success and executions
• Ability to work across matrixed structure, and influence stakeholders and key users, across ITO and OTR functions
• Strong communication skills and inclusiveness with functions and IT
• Proven as a change agent & have ability to think outside of BOX
• Cultural awareness & sensitivity:
• Ability to flex style to suit differing cultural norms
• Demonstrated organizational skills, high standard of accuracy, attention to detail, and excellent follow-up skills
• Ability to work effectively with all levels in the organizations, including senior leadership
• Ability to propose solutions that solve business challenges and IT roadblocks. Not Afraid of raising voices, when needed
• Effective interpersonal & strong influencing skills
• In Nigeria: a valid NYSC discharge or exemption certificate will be required (please indicate clearly on your resume)
• In Nigeria: must have valid authorization to work full-time without any restriction in Nigeria
• In countries other than Nigeria: must have valid authorization to work full-time without any restriction in the role’s location

• GE Power Services or Gas experience preferred.

• The Hydro Plant Support Engineer will lead the site service activities for hydropower plants in nominated SSA countries.
• He/she is the primary liaison / point of contact between GE Hydro/Service Leadership, GE Hydro/Engineering, project management, supply chain, the site team, sale team and customers.
• Scope includes ensuring the completeness of the deliverable solutions of GE Hydro services.

• Obtain information on hydro power plant assets & setup, mainly on E&M, for the designated areas such as hydro turbine & generator technologies, existing DCS, governing, excitation and other mechanical & electrical BoP systems including customer purchasing plans and Maintenance budget
•  Actively visit customer’s plants (02 plants par month/per customer at least), participate in customer meetings and connect customer needs with our products’ available options and solutions
• Deliver timely / accurate responses to customer technical inquiries including quick quote proposal and execution (for transactional opportunities) leveraging GE Hydro COEs supports – Sales, Com Ops and COE engineers
• Provide hands on technical support to customers and field teams for general E&M services and specific upgrades
• Partner with GE Hydro/SSA sale team for technical discussion with customers
• Establish and maintain relationships with external and internal parties to ensure that customer requirements are ultimately understood and achieved
• Lead and manage cross-functional teams and coordinating with GE Hydro/Project Manager in executing contract at site
• Facilitate the configuration of control software and parameters based upon the site requirements / specific unit configurations (for control plant support)
• Liaise between customers and GE Hydro/Engineering regarding balance of plant equipment for configuring interfaces, safety protections and control (for control plant support)

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Civil or Industrial Engineering from an accredited university or college
• Minimum of 10 years in Hydropower Electro-mechanical field services i.e. maintenance, installation and commissioning or manufacturing
• Minimum 0f 03 years in engineering
• Strong knowledge and relationship with local customers at Plant level
• Ability and willingness to travel more than 50% of the time
• A valid NYSC discharge or exemption certificate will be required (please indicate clearly on your resume)
• Must have valid authorization to work full-time without any restriction in Nigeria

• Strong knowledge of mechanical and/or electrical components of Hydropower,
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to do Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to understand and resolve problems
• A plus for knowledge of VBA, SQL, OPC, ODBC, MODBUS, networking, ALSPA and MarkVIe controls software
• Strong knowledge of / experience with MS Office (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint)
• Ability to interpret technical drawings, wiring schematics
• Power Generation, Renewable Energy and Hydro experience
• Comfortable providing technical presentations to peers, customers and leadership regarding the details of technical issues and project status
• Strong, self-directed, collaborative team player with interpersonal skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• English/local language fluency (French for West and Central African countries and Portuguese for Southern Africa countries)