A Snapshot of Your Day The Strategic Training Forecaster plays a pivotal role in ensuring that our field service workforce - responsible for maintaining and repairing fossil fuel and nuclear turbine systems - is consistently equipped with technical expertise, safety compliance, and operational readiness required to meet the demands of a highly regulated and mission-critical industry.
This position is not limited to scheduling training sessions; it is a forward-looking, analytical, and operationally integrated role that requires anticipating skill requirements months in advance, aligning training schedules with outage and maintenance cycles, and ensuring that every resource deployed to a site is fully prepared to execute work to the highest technical and regulatory standards.
The successful candidate will combine deep industry knowledge with strong analytical capabilities, enabling them to forecast workforce needs accurately, identify skill gaps before they impact operations, and maintain a continuous state of readiness across geographically dispersed teams.
How You'll Make an Impact - Build strong relationships with field teams to maintain an accurate understanding of operational challenges, skill requirements, and training effectiveness.
- Act as a trusted advisor to field supervisors, offering insights on workforce readiness and skill deployment strategies.
- Conduct comprehensive analysis of historical outage schedules, turbine maintenance intervals, emergent repair trends, and plant upgrade timelines to determine future training requirements.
- Maintain a rolling 12-18-month training forecast that accounts for both planned and unplanned operational demands, ensuring readiness for scheduled overhauls and rapid-response situations.
- Track training completion rates, certification renewals, and compliance records to maintain a fully qualified workforce.
- Implement continuous improvement initiatives to enhance training efficiency, reduce skill gap closure times, and improve operational performance.
What You Bring - Bachelor's degree in mechanical or electrical engineering, Energy Management, Workforce Planning, or related discipline (or equivalent experience).
- Minimum of 2 years in workforce forecasting, training oversight, or field service operations within fossil or nuclear power generation.
- Proficiency in data analysis tools such as Excel, Power BI, or equivalent, with the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights.
- Comprehensive knowledge of turbine systems, outage planning, and power plant safety protocols.
- Strong communication, stakeholder engagement, and project management skills, with the ability to influence across multiple organizational levels.
- Travel required as necessary to training centers, district service offices, customer power plants and OEM facilities to conduct implementation assessments and to observe field operations.
Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States without need for current or future employer-sponsored work authorization. Siemens Energy employees with current visa sponsorship may be eligible for internal transfers.
About the Team Gas Services Our Gas Services division offers Low-emission power generation through service and decarbonization. Zero or low emission power generation and all gas turbines under one roof, steam turbines and generators. Decarbonization opportunities through service offerings, modernization, and digitalization of the fleet.
Rewards - Career growth and development opportunities; supportive work culture
- Company paid Health and wellness benefits
- Paid Time Off and paid holidays
- 401K savings plan with company match
- Family building benefits
- Parental leave
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