Job Summary

The Value Team Lead (VT Lead) plays a key role in driving cross-functional execution delivering customized Solar Turbines customer projects by aligning engineering resources, removing execution barriers, and ensuring successful project outcomes. This role leads through influence rather than direct people management and serves as the primary focal point for Value Team performance across multidisciplinary teams.

Key Responsibilities

Execution Leadership

- Lead the Value Team to achieve safety, quality, delivery, and cost objectives.
- Monitor project execution, workload, priorities, and schedule commitments.
- Identify, communicate, and mitigate execution risks.

Agile Project Management

- Apply Agile principles to improve team responsiveness, execution visibility, and delivery performance.
- Facilitate planning, daily stand-ups, backlog prioritization, execution reviews, and retrospectives.
- Track project metrics and drive continuous improvement actions.
- Promote a culture of accountability, transparency, and iterative improvement.

Team Coordination

- Coordinate activities across Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Project Management, and Product Groups.
- Facilitate team reviews, issue resolution, and decision-making.
- Promote effective communication and collaboration across disciplines.

Continuous Improvement





- Drive operational excellence and process improvement initiatives.
- Share lessons learned and encourage adoption of best practices.
- Support transformation, standardization, and productivity initiatives.

People Development

- Coach and mentor team members.
- Support onboarding, knowledge sharing, and capability development.
- Foster a culture of accountability, teamwork, and engagement.

Qualifications

Required

- Bachelor's degree in engineering or related technical discipline.
- 8+ years of engineering, project execution, or product delivery experience.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence without direct authority.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred

- Experience in Oil Gas, Power Generation, or Industrial Equipment industries.
- Solid technical expertise in industrial gas turbine package and auxiliary systems development
- Knowledge of Solar Turbines products and order-to-delivery processes.
- Experience with Agile, Scrum, Lean, or hybrid project management methodologies.

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