Product Line Manager, Rotor

Role Overview

The Rotor Product Line Manager (PLM) - manages the strategic and commercial lifecycle of rotor-related product offerings across the heavy-duty gas turbine and steam turbine fleet. This role is responsible for defining and executing product strategies that improve reliability, availability, manufacturability, and lifecycle cost, while ensuring alignment with customer needs and business objectives. The PLM works cross-functionally with Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Sales, and Service teams to develop and commercialize rotor solutions that drive growth, profitability, and fleet performance.

The ideal candidate for this role brings a combination of deep technical understanding of turbine rotors and strong product management acumen, with the ability to translate engineering realities into commercially successful solutions. They are comfortable operating in high value decision environments, while possessing a working knowledge of rotor behavior under high temperature and stress conditions, key failure mechanisms such as fatigue, creep, fracture mechanics and structural life assessment. Equally important, they have a strong appreciation for design for manufacturability, including forging, machining, inspection, and repair processes, along with awareness of inspection and refurbishment techniques such as NDT, weld repair, and coatings. Beyond technical depth, this individual understands the broader business context-how rotor decisions impact reliability, availability, performance, and lifecycle cost-and can effectively balance technical risk with cost and commercial value, partnering across engineering, manufacturing, and commercial teams to deliver solutions that win in the market and perform in the field.

Key Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Lifecycle Management:

1. • Develop and execute the multi-frame rotor product roadmap, including upgrades, repairs, and lifecycle extension strategies
   • Define product positioning, priorities, and investment decisions based on fleet data, technical risks, market needs, and financial performance
   • Lead lifecycle decisions, including enhancements, redesigns, and end-of-life strategies

Technical Leadership:

1. • Translate rotor engineering insights into product requirements and value propositions
   • Ensure alignment between design intent, manufacturability, and field execution
   • Support technical assessment of risks, failure modes, and mitigation strategies

Manufacturing and Supply Chain Integration:

1. • Collaborate with Manufacturing and Supply Chain to ensure rotor solutions are: Manufacturable at scale, Cost-effective and schedule-aligned
   • Delivered with required quality standards
   • Support development of strategic suppliers and repair capabilities

Market Research and Competitive Analysis:

1. • Conduct market research using S&P Global Capital IQ, conduct competitive benchmarking, and gather customer insights to inform product strategies.
   • Collaborate with the Market Intelligence Team (MIS) to deliver market intelligence insights throughout organization.
   • Communicate market trends, opportunities, and threats to internal stakeholders to facilitate informed, data driven business decisions.

Financial Performance Management:

1. • Manage financial aspects including budgeting, sales forecasting, product pricing evaluations, and cost control measures.
   • Regularly monitor product profitability and implement strategies to enhance financial performance.
   • Engage with the Project Management Office (PMO) to leverage operational experience for cost effective execution and update the product to achieve financial excellence.

Product Launch and Marketing:

1. • Collaborate closely with marketing and commercial teams to develop and implement effective go-to-market strategies.
   • Provide clear, concise, and impactful product messaging both internally and externally.

Customer Excellence:

1. • Engage directly with customers in collaboration with commercial teams to foster relationships and gain actionable feedback.
   • Own the associated product line user messaging and present on both technical and commercial topics to the customer at annual conferences, quarterly webinars, executive and plant level meetings.

Sales Strategy Support:

1. • Develop and support sales teams with leading sales strategy forums, product training, and customer-specific solutions.
   • Assist commercial teams by providing frame-related technical expertise, product information and supporting opportunity development activities.
   • Support pricing strategies and deal structures with energy market insights, customer ROI, NPV and associated value discussions.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

1. • Serve as the central coordinator among Applications Engineering, Service Engineering, Product Development, Project Management Office (PMO), Manufacturing, Finance, Sales, Service Operations, Supply Chain, and Marketing teams to ensure alignment of goals and timely execution of product strategies.
   • Support supply chain teams with key vendor relationships to achieve cost-down and product development goals (this may include strategic vendors such as MHI/MELCO/MEPPI, other vendors)

Data Stewardship and Communication:

1. • Act as the expert and steward of product data within the organization, maintaining accuracy and consistency of product information.
   • Regularly present product financials, roadmap, strategic initiatives, and recommendations to leadership teams and the organization.
   • Continue to drive/support improvements in internal systems (engineering system, CRM, etc.) to simplify and hasten the commercialization of products from idea to business volume (order intake, revenue and margin)

Continuous Improvement Initiatives:

1. • Identify and facilitate opportunities for improvement in processes and internal systems.
   • Identify and facilitate opportunities to enhance the product line's thermal performance, efficiency, reliability, availability, emissions, cost, operational risk, and competitive advantage.

Requirement

• Bachelor's degree (BA) from a four-year college or university; or at least ten (10) years related experience in the power generation industry and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

WHY SHOULD YOU APPLY?

1. • Excellent Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision & 401K Matching).
   • Excellent growth and advancement opportunities.
   • Tuition reimbursement and on-the-job training.
   • Paid vacation, sick time and holidays.
   • Committed to quality product and services.
   • Great working environment and culture.
   • Employee Appreciation Programs and Events.