Resident Site Manager AXPO

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Resident Site Manager Switzerland (Beznau)

General Job Function:

Provides on-site leadership to ensure Westinghouse delivers safe, high-quality services with a focus on customer satisfaction.  Achieve financial targets set for the customer. Builds and maintains valuable customer relationships through a solid understanding of the site-specific needs and the customers buying protocol to support feeding the sales pipeline back into Westinghouse sales team.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Implement standards contained in Westinghouse “Codes of Business Ethics & Conduct”.  Ensure that all employees reporting to this position are informed about the standards and related policies, and enforce them within this supervised activity.

On-Site Customer Support

• Serves as the Westinghouse presence at customer site, representing Westinghouse’s ability to respond to planned and emergent customer needs.
• Provides valuable customer information that helps build relationships and a broader understanding of the customer’s site needs.
• Ensure Westinghouse activities and interactions are being implemented consistent with the site specific environment, policies, procedures and organization to meet requirements and eliminate cost of poor quality.
• Serve as champion for human performance (HuP) and safety.

Identify Customer Needs

• VOC: Issue regular plant status reports, as appropriate. Identify unmet customer needs and communicate within the sales and product teams for identification of potential solutions.
• Competitor and Utility Intelligence: Collect marketplace data including customer long-term O&M and capital plans as well as competitor intelligence and communicate with relevant Account Manager
• Grow the Pipeline: Identify and evaluate customer needs, review bid specifications for applicability WEC products and services.
• Propose: Direct, coordinate, and solicit various product lines for technical and financial input in support of the proposal process. Submit proposals and negotiate up to contract signature for basic opportunities with standard T&C’s as per the DOR.
• Pursue: Push the identified business opportunities in customer organization.

Execution Oversight

• Provide guidance, coaching and oversight to field project managers in the execution of a specific project. 
• Provide oversight of scope development, schedule development, contingency planning, and development of work packages/orders and project plans.
• Supervise Westinghouse personnel on site and provide feedback on individual and team performance.
• Work with Customer to remove barriers to the successful completion of projects.  These could involve work scopes, customer support requirements, plant logistics, and physical issues.
• Elevate unresolved issues through the proper channels in both the Customer and the Westinghouse organization to obtain mutual resolution.
• Coordinate the development of a unit/fleet long term strategic maintenance and performance enhancement program integrated into a total outage program.
• Indirectly report to and support the Account Executive for matters related to customer projects and OPS services.
• Develop Status Reports and lead presentations to the Account Team, Executive Steering Committee, and the Executive Board. 
• Manage and lead resolution of customer satisfaction issues (technical and commercial).
• Review performance results and manage performance metrics evaluations.
• Provide feedback and mentoring to WEC OM’s, Project/Service PM’s Supervisors and Leads
• Lead the identification of lessons learned, outage performance, and continuous improvment

Customer Relationships

• Systematically build consultative relationships at all levels within the site organization including operations, maintenance and engineering decision-makers.  Be an active member of the utility leadership team.
• Use the customer relations management tool (D365) to capture customer and competitor intelligence as well as document associated actions to support achievement target objectives. 
• Uses extensive knowledge of Westinghouse products and services, customer capital spending decisions, outage planning and technical issue resolution to become a trusted advisor to the customer.
• Attend customer status meeting or other relevant meetings to understand customer short-term issues and long-term business needs.
• Lead resolution of added scope, delays, contract changes, etc associated with site activities.

Education and Qualifications / Skills and Competencies:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent related technical discipline. 
• 10 =years of engineering or field experience.  Prior field service, outage and/or on-site utility experience.  Significant customer facing experience at the plant and corporate level.

• Assignments require broad based technical knowledge of plant operations and application of field service engineering techniques, principles and practices.

• Experience in complex contract management, customer negotiations, and supplier delivery.