El Rubio, Andalusia, Spain
My professional life has been tied to the multinational General Electric since 2007 when I started working during a summer at the generator repair plant in Fierro, San Sebastián, while finishing my engineering degree. I became part of the electrical testing and design team. I temporarily left the company but returned nine months later as part of the "Field Engineers" program, specializing in steam turbines and performing maintenance services at client sites across Europe. I spent an average of ten months a year away from home, coordinating teams to return machines to service. During this time, I not only developed technical skills but also learned about leadership and client relations on a human level. I expanded my expertise into other technical areas, such as gas turbines, project management, and quality, which enabled me to transition to the role of "Outage Manager," leading complete maintenance outages, managing larger teams, and fostering a more commercial and continuous relationship with clients. In 2019, with the birth of my second child, I took the opportunity to reduce travel and spend more time with my family. As I had been involved in improvement processes during my final years as an outage manager, I was given the opportunity and training to develop the Lean role at a European level. Over four years, I successfully transformed the company's culture, focusing on three fundamental pillars: individual improvement through "Leader Standard Work," enhanced organizational communication via "Daily Management," and process improvement using various tools, with the most notable being "Kaizen." Now begins an exciting phase of my career, where I continue learning and mentoring others, with the mindset of growing within the company while also helping others grow along the way, with new challenges in the Heavy Duty New Units, jumping from executing outages and improving processes in Europe to installing machines globally.
The Heavy Duty New Units (HDNU) Global Cost and Productivity Leader is a role in the HDNU Global Site Issue Management (GSIM) organization. I´m responsible for driving operational rigor and excellence by defining, implementing, operationalizing various workstreams related to the wing-to-wing cost management process during the planning and execution of On-site remedial work/activities. I´m in close collaboration with various cross functional teams and stakeholders, I´m responsible for developing and scaling out the business capability to effectively identify and minimize risks and uncertainties in Non-Conformance (NCR) /Warranty (SN)/Fleet Program cost estimates while ensuring safety and quality of GE Vernova products and services. The role involves driving initiatives on continuous improvement opportunities & optimizing integration of cross functional processes/tools with aim of successfully implementing strategies to improve and maintain cost transparency and estimation capability reinforced with a robust and sustainable risk monitoring and mitigation process. This position unify the two big paths of my career, technical knowledge of the heavy duty equipment, and how outages are executed with the lean capabilities and business strategy developed last years.
As the Lean-KPO Director for Europe, I lead the deployment of Lean methodologies across multiple European sites, driving operational excellence and continuous improvement. My role involves strategic planning, facilitating Kaizen events, and implementing Lean principles to enhance efficiency and reduce waste. I am committed to building a high-performing Lean team, fostering a culture of innovation, and delivering significant cost savings and process improvements. With a data-driven approach and a focus on sustainability, I ensure the standardization of best practices and the achievement of our business objectives.
The Lean Field Services Manager III will lead, develop, and manage Lean via Productivity Tools, Programs and Projects. Responsible for regional project planning strategy, development, utilization and penetration to reduce overall outage cost in coordination with the Productivity Leader and Operations Director. Heavy focus on partnership with Gas Power MYA and Engineering to identify innovative new field ideas, vetting, validating and driving those ideas through NPI, UAT and Industrialization; translating those ideas from the innovation hub to outage cost out. A core focus will be on driving lean for field services to identify and remove waste for outage execution, driving lean action workouts and increasing the penetration of lean / productivity tool utilization. This role will have a cost out target associated with the region in which they serve.
I continue working as Outage Manager, but the GE Power and water transform itself to Fieldcore. Role Summary/Purpose Reporting to the Customer Service Leader, the Outage Manager Steam Turbines is responsible for preparation, planning, leading execution, and close out of complex planned/emergent Outage events for Steam Turbines under TX or MYA agreements while developing the business strategy for field fulfilment excellence in Power Services Europe.
Role Summary/Purpose Reporting to the Customer Service Leader, the Outage Manager Steam Turbines is responsible for preparation, planning, leading execution, and close out of complex planned/emergent Outage events for Steam Turbines under TX or MYA agreements while developing the business strategy for field fulfilment excellence in Power Services Europe.
As an Outage Quality Coach I am absolutely passionate about helping GE Power Generation Services in Europe to build a reputation for managing outages superbly. I am the person driving for things to be done differently, driving for quality first and foremost. I´m an experienced agent of cultural change, and a strong influencer with a track record of delivery. Responsibilities: • Definition and implementation of Quality standard & controls for outages, including but not limited to the improvement and standardization of FME (Foreign Material Exclusion), Quality Control Plan, etc. • Create and deliver specific training to supervisors and crew, field engineers and customer to set the expectations of a GE outage in terms of Quality and on time delivery. • Supporting Service Managers during outage preparation to ensure a strong focus on Quality from the very beginning. • Participation in critical outages to ensure compliance with Quality standards (rules of engagement, QCP, Field Procedures, FME…), performing physical verification where applicable and coaching the team performing the outage. • Measuring the performance of the teams executing the outage against Quality standards & controls, reporting to senior management. Analysis of trends and opportunities. Support outage NPS analysis and action plan implementation. • Identification of good practice and lessons learned and communicating these across teams to ensure collective learning and overall improvement.
I develop my skills to reach the level to lead outages involving all the responsabilities of my last position as field engineer, plus the responsabilitie of customer day to day relation, technical decission taken, cost understanding, and good performance of the outage against the schedule.
My work is inside the engineer department, we provide global support on the neumatic cylinder design, and we update the drawings and solve the technical problems that the customers report. I design products for the industrial automation, I work together the client to satisfice the client requirements, I follow the proyect when it´s in progress, I´m in comunication with the suppliers and with other departments to carry the project to a good finish, ussual clients are Michelin, Renault and OliverBatlle.
Technical drawings and calculations in the technical department, for the re-powering of hydraulic generators of large size, working specifically on the magnetic core, keybars, bars, coils, connection bridges, groove filling, rotor poles, bearings and frame. Generator inspection in client facilities. Making electrical test of stator, main rotor and exciter as well as mechanical inspection of bearings, gaps, and vibration test. Mechanical balance of rotor, with dynamic process in the factory, and with trial weights systems in client facilities. Inverse engineering working with the Faro arm tool and the Unigraphix NX6.0 program for the reproduction of generator pieces to change. Design of tools and machinery for the Roebel bars manufacturing section, with the objective of improve the quality of the final product as well as the process timing.