Engineering Labor Services Leader

Description

• Accountable owner and go to person for all strategic activities related to labor services / contractors including but not limited to: year over year expense budget planning and profiling, KPI’s/action plans and daily management routines, in year reporting of actuals versus plan for headcount / cost and establishing a cost productivity roadmap to drive deflation savings.
• Nurture and grow cross functional partnerships to ensure engineering’s endeavors align with sourcing and finance plans (one team). This includes collaboration, awareness, and deliberate sharing of contract vendors/scope/negotiations across functional and business lines as necessary in order to ensure a cohesive “one-team” approach to contractor management.
• Establish regular reporting rhythms (with a deck of pages as needed) to share progress, address pain points and agree on the elevated business narratives we want to share in this space.
• Drive indirect labor savings by working horizontally across Nuclear Engineering and identifying opportunities such as bundling similar work scope for volume purchasing, limiting non-preferred suppliers, and reducing the total number of suppliers used. This may involve bench marking others like GE Vernova counterparts.
• Be the Nuclear Engineering expert for all things related to labor services and contractor management.
• Accountable owner and go to person for all procurement support related activities associated with labor services / contractors including but not limited to: scoping discussions, guidance on contractor type / agency, competitive bidding, process governance, work scope duration, VMS (vendor management system) entries/upkeep and off-boarding ... all this, in compliance with local labor laws.
• Ensure proper implementation & daily management routines of Key Performance Indicators as well as associated action plans to drive successful outcomes.
• Develop and/or enhance standard work to ensure process governance while embracing lean to problem solve and value stream map the processes to seek continuous improvement and drive productivity.

Requirements

• Ability to influence others and reach mutually agreeable decisions.
• Demonstrate resilience to cope with changes.
• Desired experience with Managed Service Providers (MSP).
• Effective problem identification and solution skills.
• Prior Engineering experience in the Nuclear Industry preferred
• Ability to partner & effectively work cross team / cross functionally to deliver outcomes (say-do)
• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in business/engineering
• Prior finance/supply chain experience preferred
• Presentation skills: ability to effectively communicate with Senior Leadership.
• Bachelor’s Degree in a Business, Engineering, or related discipline
• Effective oral and written communication skills in English.
• Detail oriented & demonstrated ability in autonomously managing cross functional projects.
• Comfortable with conflict but leads as a collaborator, facilitator, and strong partner.
• Related tools experience: Vendor Management Systems, Smartsheet, etc.
• Minimum of 2 years of contractor management, vendor relations and cost optimization activities experience

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance