Senior Services Project Manager

Essential Responsibilities

• Serve as the GE Vernova representative and focal point for the customer on the project, owning the customer relationship for the project duration and driving customer issue resolution.
• Own project execution, including cross-functional coordination of engineering, procurement, shipping logistics, field/ outage execution and performance demonstration.
• Provide Project Leadership, effectively managing and facilitating cross-functional GE Vernova teams to ensure on time delivery, contract deliverables fulfilment, and margin attainment/ enhancement.
• Manage key stakeholders and 3rd party subcontractors.
• Understand and implement Contract Terms & Conditions.
• Manage project financials: price, cost, forecasts, margin, invoicing, and receivables, manage project risk/improvement, and participate in Margin Reviews.
• Drive project schedule; work with Project Planner/Scheduler on schedule creation and management.
• Proactively identify, manage, and mitigate project risks throughout the project lifecycle. Escalate risks and issues as needed for resolution.
• Actively manage project changes with the Customer and project team, following the change management process.
• Maintain Project Management system with current scope, schedule, financials, risks, etc. Maintain project documentation.
• Provide project status updates and lead Project Reviews as required.
• Capture and report project best practices/ lessons learned and Cost-of-Poor Quality cases.

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in engineering from an accredited college or university.
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience in Power Generation/ Oil & Energy industry
• Obtain Gas Power Services PMO Project Manager Qualification within 21 months of assignment including successful training, passing a review board, and obtaining the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent.
• Maintain PMO Project Manager Qualification status through ongoing training and recertification as required.
• Ability and willingness to travel

Desired Characteristics

• Demonstrated project management skills and passion for Project Management.
• Skilled at leading and influencing cross functional team members in a matrix organization.
• Power plant technical proficiency
• Strong commitment to EHS culture
• Proficiency in French is a plus
• Skilled Communicator; professional and tactful in oral and written communications with multiple GE functions/levels and with the Customer; applies good judgment on frequency and detail of communication.
• Confident yet humble. Ability to tactfully ask questions to create clarity and transparency on projects.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills.
• Ability to effectively switch-task and manage multiple projects at the same time.
• Ability to quickly respond to and manage project changes.
• Motivated to plan and lead team as well as to manage project administration.
• Appetite for learning PM processes and tools, as well as CM&U products and technology updates.
• Ability to set realistic objectives, accurately appraise situations, detect risks and issues, and collaborate with GE Vernova internal teams, subcontractors and customer to find win-win solutions.
• Embraces and demonstrates sensitivity to culture of customer and internal team members.
• Experience interpreting or applying Contract terms & conditions and binding agreements.
• Understanding of GE Vernova financial processes, revenue recognition, costs, margin, and quarterly forecasting.
• Understanding of project scheduling; ability to manage critical path activities to meet outage date.
• Direct customer-facing experience.
• Project Management Leadership Program (PMLP) Graduate, or other Project Management training.
• Experience with GE Vernova's installed base and/or customers in SSA