Sr Project Manager
GE Vernova
Senior Project Manager
GE Vernova
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Illinois
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💰 $125,500 - $167,400 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Manage a portfolio of large, high-visibility, potentially high-risk substation projects, including new product introductions, first-of-a-kind solutions, international deployments, penalties, rewards, and accelerated schedules.
- Serve as the single point of contact for senior-level customer interactions and both internal and external project teams.
- Assume overall responsibility for project leadership and strategy, including planning, directing, and controlling resources and processes in complex work-scope projects to ensure compliance with customer specifications, quality standards, and safety and technical/engineering standards.
- Estimate budgets and track/influence project costs to ensure timely completion within budget.
- Engage in pre-contract processes as necessary during project scope, schedule, and cost development.
- Coordinate with other engineering fields and support functions to facilitate project development, implementation, and control.
- Coach Project Specialists, Project Managers, and other Engineers to enhance project management skills.
- Interface with providers, subcontractors, and customers to align project specifications and requirements, ensuring adherence to safety procedures and strict compliance with quality standards.
- Develop multiple contracts and subcontractor work scopes, coordinating their administration through written agreements.
- Resolve issues utilizing change management strategies and ensure timely collection of payments.
- Communicate work package completion and commitment percentages required for project financial "estimate at completion" forecasting.
- Facilitate the quantification and documentation of project performance with both the project team and customer immediately after completion.
- Manage proposal efforts for large international projects as necessary.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Electrical or Mechanical) from an accredited university or college
- Minimum 10 years’ experience in project management of electrical substations
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 25% of the time, which may include international travel.
- Must comply with all relevant company travel and tax policies, including possessing the necessary authorization to work without sponsorship and travel within the United States.
- Prior experience managing high voltage electrical utility projects.
- Previous responsibility for projects or programs involving multiple businesses and/or functions across the entire project cycle—from development and design through manufacturing, delivery, installation, and commissioning and test acceptance.
- Ability to manage external, customer-facing projects to successful completion.
- Proficiency in applying advanced technical, engineering, and quality assurance concepts to solve practical business problems.
- Experience working with global teams and partners.
- PMI certification and familiarity with modern project management techniques and software systems, including global resource planning systems and Primavera project management software.
- Familiarity with contractual terms and experience managing customer-facing contracts.
- Experience in preparing proposals for complex substations, including international projects and quality training.
- Strong decision-making skills.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
- Capacity to coordinate and prioritize multiple long- and short-term projects simultaneously.
