Job Description Summary

What impact you’ll make

The Operations Leader works directly with the Plant Leader to drive operational excellence, standard work, and execution across Veresegyház plant. This role serves as a key partner to the Plant Leader in translating business strategy into clear operating priorities, establishing consistent management systems, and driving accountability across the organization.

In addition to supporting the daily operating rhythm of the plant, the Operations Leader owns several strategic initiatives that provide exposure to different aspects of the business, develop enterprise relationships, and build the business knowledge required for future manufacturing leadership opportunities.

Job Description

What you’ll do

• Partner directly with the Plant Leader to establish and execute plant priorities, operating rhythms, and leadership standard work.
• Drive consistency and discipline in the plant operating system, including daily management, visual management, tiered accountability, escalation, and performance reviews.
• Work across functional and operational teams to ensure priorities are understood, actions are clearly owned, and commitments are executed.
• Establish and sustain leader standard work across the plant, helping leaders focus their time on the activities that drive safety, quality, delivery, cost, and people performance.
• Identify gaps in operating performance and drive structured problem solving and follow-through across the organization.
• Support the Plant Leader in preparing and executing key business reviews, operating reviews, and leadership meetings.
• Partner with Lean, Quality, EHS, Materials, Engineering, and Operations leaders to drive common operating standards and continuous improvement.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives and special projects identified by the Plant Leader, with responsibility for developing the strategy, engaging stakeholders, and delivering measurable results.
• Support plant-wide transformation efforts including Lean, 5S, quality improvement, productivity, capacity, automation, digital manufacturing, and organizational capability.
• Serve as a trusted thought partner to the Plant Leader, bringing data, insights, and recommendations to complex business decisions.
• Build relationships across the site and broader Gas Power organization and represent the plant in cross-functional and cross-site forums.
• Develop a broad understanding of the Gas Power business, products, customers, value streams, and functional organizations.
• Help connect strategy to execution by ensuring plant priorities translate into clear actions and sustained results at the shop-floor level.

 

What you’ll bring (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Business, or another technical discipline.
• Significant manufacturing leadership experience.
• Major manufacturing and/or operations experience.
• Fluent Hungarian and English language skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence and cross-functional collaboration, including environments where not all resources report directly to you.
• Experience establishing operating systems, standard work, performance management, and structured problem solving.
• Demonstrated success leading complex business initiatives and driving measurable results.

 

What will make you stand out

• Experience in aerospace, aviation, power generation, automotive, defense, or another highly engineered manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated progression toward broader manufacturing, enterprise, or multi-site leadership.
• Strong business acumen and ability to connect operational performance to business and financial outcomes.
• Experience serving as a chief of staff, operations integrator, transformation leader, or strategic partner to a senior manufacturing leader.
• Demonstrated ability to establish and sustain leader standard work, daily management, visual management, and operating rhythms.
• Strong Lean manufacturing and structured problem-solving capabilities.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and drive execution across organizational boundaries.
• Strong executive presence and communication skills with the ability to engage effectively from frontline employees through senior leadership.
• Proven ability to operate effectively in ambiguity and lead complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• Highly curious, adaptable, and motivated to learn a complex global business.
• Demonstrated appetite for broader enterprise leadership and increasing scope of responsibility.

With over 130 years of history, GE Vernova is leading the global energy transition by electrifying the world while driving essential decarbonization. Our Veresegyház site—the company’s second-largest facility outside the U.S.—is a center of industrial innovation and operational excellence.

Our fully digitized plant acts as a hub of four integrated "mini-factories" (Aero, Repair, Combustion & Coating, and Hot Gas Path), specializing in the manufacturing and refurbishment of high-end gas turbine components and power plant systems. Driven by Lean methodology and a highly skilled workforce, we combine agility with precision to meet dynamic market demands. Join us in engineering the future of energy.

What We Offer:

• Multi-element benefits package (company car, annual bonus, cafeteria, health insurance)
• Excellent working conditions in our modern factory
• Company laptop and phone for work
• Restaurant offering quality meals (healthy and affordable menu options)
• Book lending, own gym, and outdoor sports fields for relaxation after work
• GE Volunteer Groups: teams aimed at improving our environment through community collaboration (e.g., Women’s Network, Sustainability, Pride Alliance)

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