GE Vernova’s Gas Power business is a global leader in gas turbines and power plant technologies. They are seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead the execution of Simple and Combined Cycle projects, ensuring customer satisfaction and effective management of project activities and resources.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as first and primary customer contact for assigned projects
- Lead customer engagement, negotiations, and issue resolution to ensure successful project outcomes
- Manage and align multiple internal and external stakeholders including customers, partners, contractors, and vendors to achieve project targets and deliverables
- Influence peers and stakeholders to adopt alternative perspectives or solutions when required for problem solving
- Own end‑to‑end execution of mega, complex, non‑turnkey, and product / equipment‑only projects along with less complex combined cycle projects
- Develop early execution strategies in partnership with the ITO Commercial Manager and ensure successful transition into project execution
- Coordinate contract reviews to ensure full alignment on requirements, scope, and obligations
- Manage project execution with an SQDC (Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost) lens and provide the framework for self and others to engage at Gemba
- Full P&L accountability, including Revenue, Contribution Margin, and Cash
- Drive ownership and accountability for key project performance metrics
- Align teams when trade‑offs arise between cost, schedule, performance, and risk. Develops and manages the risk register with mitigation action
- Promote and drive GEV’s Safety Toolkit on project teams, partners, and subcontractors, placing health and safety above all other priorities, even under pressure. Develop, own, and actively manage the Risk & Opportunity Register, including mitigation actions
- Utilize multiple internal and external inputs to support sound, risk‑based decision making
- Develop deep expertise within project execution and/or technical discipline, serving as a subject matter expert where applicable
- Interpret internal and external business challenges and drive best practices to improve products, processes, or services
- Lead teams to develop creative solutions within complex manufacturing, engineering, or production environments
- Employ advanced operational, engineering, and product management techniques across interdependent workstreams
- Collaborate closely with partnering functions to resolve cross‑functional issues and execution constraints
- Provide direct or indirect leadership of project teams and resources with moderate to high complexity, risk, and scale
- Support Functional Project Managers with escalations across functions, customers, and partners
- Present project, business, or technical solutions to internal and external senior leadership teams
- Influence without authority in a matrix organization to drive unified execution
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university
- Minimum 7 years of Project Management experience within Energy, Construction, or large capital project environments
- Must be willing to travel up to 40% of time
- Experience and demonstrated understanding of large capital project execution costs and estimates
- Certified Project Management Professional
- Graduate of the Field Engineer or Project Management Leadership Program
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple phased projects simultaneously and independently
- Demonstrated strong customer focus and the ability to foster strong relationships; Experience working with and influencing senior level leaders
- Demonstrated strategic thinking, problem solving, business and financial acumen
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Demonstrated presentation skills and ability to succinctly communicate complex messages
- An inclusive style and strong interpersonal and leadership skills at all levels to gain acceptance and buy in from other matrix functions to accomplish goals
- Demonstrated ability to make independent decisions, manage conflicting priorities in a fast-paced environment and effectively interface at all organizational levels
- Experience applying data and lean tools and technologies for strategic, operational and project efficiencies