Westinghouse Announces Initial Organizational Changes

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.