Company to streamline to enhance customer value
CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP,
Pennsylvania, Jan. 8, 2019
/PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company, a global leader in
nuclear technology, fuels and services, today announced the company
will be implementing the first phase of organizational changes to
enhance focus on its customer base and to strengthen its global
services and supply chain management capabilities.
These organizational changes will strengthen Westinghouse's
sales and delivery model by aligning accountability for product and
service delivery with the regions and ensuring optimized global
sourcing. The company expects to have all phases of the
implementation completed by the beginning of the third quarter
2019.
"Westinghouse has been on a journey to transform the way in
which we deliver our products and services to our customers in the
most effective manner that will build value for the business," said
President and Chief Executive Officer José Emeterio
Gutiérrez. "The changes will be a catalyst as we continue to
focus on strengthening the company's core business and our global
supply chain, and continuously work toward a standard of excellence
in quality, safety, client service and innovation."
Key enhancements include:
- Creation of customer-focused business units serving the
existing nuclear operating fleet with single points of
accountability for both sales and delivery for existing nuclear
operating plants.
- Development of a new business unit with accountability for key
growth areas related to the specific stages of plant lifecycle
solutions including new plant delivery; plant deconstruction,
decommissioning and remediation services; and government
services.
- Establishment of an operations delivery support function to
build Global Supply Chain into a best-in-class organization that
will support the business units through a robust procurement
organization. This function will also provide global
engineering, manufacturing and other technical capabilities in
order to ensure our customers receive the full breadth of
Westinghouse's global products, innovations and technical
capabilities.
This strengthened business unit model is a further evolution of
Westinghouse's operating model. Under this model, the Chief
Operating Officer role has been restructured as part of a broader
reorganization of the company. As a result, Chief Operating Officer
Mark Marano has elected to
retire.
Commenting on the transition, Gutiérrez stated, "Mark has done
an outstanding job supporting the company during his tenure at
Westinghouse and during our Chapter 11 process and beyond, as the
Chief Operating Officer. We thank Mark for his leadership
during this critical time in Westinghouse's transformation and for
his service to the industry."
David Howell will be president of
Americas Operating Plant Services with continued responsibilities
for commercial execution, with the added responsibility of
delivery. The change leverages David's strong operations
background as well as the close relationships he has built with
customers.
Bill Poirier will be president of
the EMEA Operating Plant Services business unit on an interim basis
while the company conducts an external search. A well-respected
global industry leader with more than 44 years with Westinghouse,
he has extensive experience in all aspects of civil commercial
nuclear power. Bill has supported operating plants in
Europe, as well the startup of
several new plants in Asia. He has been an instrumental
leader for Westinghouse in China
throughout the company's construction and startup of the world's
first AP1000® nuclear power plants.
David Durham will be president of
the newly established Plant Solutions business unit, with
accountability for the development of key growth areas related to
the specific stages of the commercial nuclear plant
lifecycle. These areas include his existing responsibilities
of new plant delivery in which Westinghouse continues its business
model by providing technology, engineering and procurement services
in a deliberative manner, as well as government services.
David will expand his responsibilities to include plant
deconstruction, decommissioning and remediation services.
Pavan Pattada is a new addition to the Westinghouse leadership
team as executive vice president, Global Operations Services.
Most recently a senior executive with Eaton Corporation, he will
lead the Global Operations Services organization with scope
including Global Supply Chain, Nuclear Fuel, Global
Components Manufacturing, Global Instrumentation and Control and
Global Engineering Services. Under Pavan's leadership, these
areas will become global operations and excellence hubs built to
support the business units in their delivery of Westinghouse's
products and services around the world while reducing costs.
Westinghouse Electric Company is the world's
pioneering nuclear energy company and is a leading supplier of
nuclear plant products and technologies to utilities throughout the
world. Westinghouse supplied the world's first commercial
pressurized water reactor in 1957 in Shippingport, Pa., U.S. Today, Westinghouse
technology is the basis for approximately one-half of the world's
operating nuclear plants. For more information, please visit
www.westinghousenuclear.com.
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Contact: Sarah
Cassella
Manager, External Communications
Westinghouse Electric Company
Telephone: +1 412-374- 4744
Email: cassels@westinghouse.com