Project Engineering Manager – Itaipu Consortium (PEM)

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Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, BRA
In-Office
Senior level
Energy • Manufacturing • Solar • Renewable Energy
GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy.
The Role
Leads the technical integration of GE Hydro products across a consortium-executed hydropower project. Owns the consolidated engineering scope, coordinates internal teams and partner organizations, manages technical interfaces and disagreements, ensures contract and regulatory compliance, and serves as the primary technical authority for customers and consortium governance. Supports procurement, project planning, site engineering issue resolution, construction, and commissioning while managing safety, quality, schedule, and cost objectives.
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Job Description SummaryThe Project Engineering Manager (PEM) – Consortium is responsible for driving the full technical integration of GE Hydro products (Turbine, Main Inlet Valve, Generator, Hydro-Mechanical equipment, Governor, Balance of Plant, Control System, and associated tools) within a consortium-executed project. The role owns the overall technical project scope, ensuring consistency and alignment across all consortium partners' contributions, and manages all technical interfaces — internal, external, and across partner organizations. Acting as the senior technical authority for the project, the PEM represents GE's technical position to customers, partners, and consortium governance bodies, ensuring a unified and coherent technical narrative throughout the project lifecycle, from engineering execution through to site resolution and delivery.
The role reports operationally and hierarchically to the PEM Leader, with a functional reporting line to the Project Director, and coordinates Lead System Engineers and, where applicable, technical counterparts within consortium partner organizations

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage the complete plant engineering team, ensuring compliance with contract requirements and regulatory obligations.
  • Drives engineering internal and consortium organization to meet expected results in terms of Safety, Quality, On-time-delivery and Cost-to-complete
  • Own the consolidated technical scope of the project, ensuring consistency and integration across all consortium partners' deliverables.
  • Partner with PSCM (Procurement/Supply Chain Manager) to meet project material cost targets and ensure safety/quality processes are applied across the consortium.
  • Serve as the primary technical interface within the consortium governance structure, aligning technical positions across partner companies before presenting a unified position to the customer.
  • Manage and resolve technical and interface-related disagreements between consortium partners, escalating unresolved issues through appropriate governance channels.
  • Drive technical coordination with the Customer, Project Management, Engineering, and Consortium Partners, ensuring a single, consistent technical narrative.
  • Collaborate with the Project Core Team and consortium partner project leads to optimize integrated project plans.
  • Drive technical support to site for engineering issue resolution, coordinating consortium partner input as needed.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, Electrical, Electronics, or Control Engineering (or equivalent).
  • Extensive experience in engineering, preferably turnkey electromechanical projects, with strong knowledge of Balance of Plant and Control Systems.
  • Engineering experience, preferably in turnkey electromechanical projects, including in project/system engineering roles.
  • Solid understanding of hydro power plant equipment and systems (turbines, generators, governors, balance of plant, control systems).
  • contract structures, and shared liability/interface management.
  • Site experience (Construction & Commissioning).
  • Experience working across multiple countries/cultures or with international partner organizations.

Desired Characteristics

  • Commitment to internal and external customers
  • Transparent and engaged
  • Proactive
  • Responsive and adaptable
  • Leads by example
  • Global collaboration
  • Skilled in cross-company negotiation, diplomacy, and conflict resolution
  • Communication (including multi-stakeholder and cross-company settings)
  • Proactivity
  • Customer focus
  • Internal and external/partner networking
  • Product knowledge
  • Discipline & rigor
  • Negotiation & conflict resolution

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

Skills Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics, or Control Engineering, or equivalent.
  • Extensive engineering experience, preferably in turnkey electromechanical projects.
  • Experience in project engineering or system engineering roles.
  • Strong knowledge of balance of plant and control systems.
  • Understanding of hydropower plant equipment and systems, including turbines, generators, governors, balance of plant, and control systems.
  • Understanding of contract structures and shared liability or interface management.
  • Site experience in construction and commissioning.
  • Experience working across multiple countries and cultures or with international partner organizations.

GE Vernova Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about GE Vernova and has not been reviewed or approved by GE Vernova.

  • Retirement Support The 401(k) plan includes company matching contributions and additional company retirement contributions, with access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants. Feedback suggests this structure supports long-term savings beyond a basic match.
  • Parental & Family Support Paid parental leave is available with flexible, continuous or non-continuous usage, and is complemented by adoption resources and Work/Life Connections guidance. Maternity leave is described as extended relative to typical workplace norms.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Time-off programs include 12 paid holidays, permissive time off for many salaried roles, and dedicated personal, illness, and caregiving time for U.S. new hires. Some hourly roles start with a defined PTO bank, while other roles may offer unlimited time off.

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The Company
HQ: Cambridge, MA
75,000 Employees
Year Founded: 2024

What We Do

GE Vernova is a planned purpose-built company on a mission to electrify the planet while simultaneously working to decarbonize it. If we want our energy future to be different…we must be different. Our mission is embedded in our name. We retain our treasured legacy, “GE,” in our name as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” / “verde” signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. “Nova,” from the Latin “novus,” nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver. GE Vernova brings together GE’s portfolio of energy businesses including Power, Wind, Electrification and Digital businesses. With focus, GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. Together, we have The Energy to Change the World.

Why Work With Us

Join our team, to evolve and grow, surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the industry who help you get better every day. You’ll get the chance to rewrite the rules, work on cutting-edge technology, and be part of a global team for positive change.

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