Senior Project Manager

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Rugby, Warwickshire, England
In-Office
Senior level
Energy • Manufacturing • Solar • Renewable Energy
GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy.
The Role
The Senior Project Manager leads major projects ensuring timely delivery, customer satisfaction, and financial performance while guiding project teams and stakeholders.
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Job Description SummaryOur project management teams are the success behind some of the world’s highest profile, advanced technology programs, serving a diverse range of clients in the UK and internationally. We now have an opportunity for a talented and experienced Senior Project Manager to join us. If this sounds like your kind of career aspiration we’d like to hear from you.

Job Description

As a Senior Project Manager within GE Power Conversion & Storage you will be responsible for leading either one major project or a portfolio of projects, delivering critical systems for external customers in a safe, structured, efficient, and timely manner. Our projects are diverse, so you will lead multi-disciplinary project teams to design and implement highly customized, bespoke solutions.

Key responsibilities:

  • Leading multi-disciplinary project teams to deliver mission-critical multi-million projects to external customers, from inquiry from sales team to final delivery & commissioning.

  • Acting as the primary point of contact for customers, building effective working relationships and achieving high levels of customer satisfaction.

  • Making effective use of best practice project management techniques throughout the project lifecycle.

  • Providing leadership, support and guidance to your project team within a matrix organisation, creating clarity on objectives and promoting effective collaboration with all stakeholders and external suppliers.

  • Embracing the GE lean transformation within the business and deploying this actively within the project management context.

  • Proactively driving progress against schedule and budget and acting as the focal point for the project review process to report out status.

  • Being responsible for the project financial performance, supported by our finance team, and being the focal point for our project review process to report progress and forecasts against targets.

Essential qualifications:

  • Substantial experience of delivering integrated system engineering projects end-to-end in a commercial contracting environment with a focus on customer satisfaction.

  • Degree level qualifications in an engineering or scientific field or equivalent experience.

  • Project management training and certification (PMP, Chartered PM status, etc.)

  • Data-driven approach for the purpose of reporting, forecasting and risk mitigation.

  • Excellent communication and influencing abilities with an ability to navigate internal and external stakeholder groups.

  • Ability to travel on an occasional / short term basis when required, for example: to customer, supplier, or job site locations (UK & overseas).

  • Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office software, and Microsoft Project.

  • Full UK driving license.

Nice to have:

  • Previous projects experience in an Industrial Power Systems domain (for example rotating machinery, variable speed drives, power storage and distribution, industrial control and automation).

  • Experience in the use of SAP.

  • Experience of construction industry standard forms of contract (for example FIDIC, NEC).

This role involves work for customers who manage critical infrastructure; based on customer requirements it will be necessary to carry out background checks and suitability assessments (UK BPSS clearance OR UK SC clearance) as part of the hiring process. Read more on national security vetting levels here.

You can expect from us:

  • Challenging and exciting projects.

  • A work environment where we understand that not everyone has the same expectations about their jobs, careers and work-life balance and we are happy to discuss flexibility requirements such as hybrid working.

  • Attractive compensation.

  • Flexible benefits so you can build a package that fits your personal needs. Some core benefits are: Employer pension contribution (not subject to individual contribution), Income protection, Private Health Insurance and Life Assurance.

  • 26 days vacation + bank holidays.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

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Microsoft Project
SAP
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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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