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Project Engineering Manager

  • Job
    Full-time
    Expert Level
  • Engineering

AI generated summary

  • You need an engineering degree with HVDC experience, 10+ years in the industry, strong communication skills, technical leadership, and flexibility for travel and deadlines.
  • You will lead project engineering, manage schedules, ensure quality deliverables, coordinate stakeholders, motivate the team, manage customer technical relations, and prioritize project tasks.

Requirements

  • Required Qualifications
  • * Engineering degree or equivalent including power systems and power electronics subjects or proven equivalent knowledge and experience in HVDC business.
  • * More than 10 years’ experience in HVDC industry including HVDC station equipment and design.
  • * Strong sense of urgency and ability to identify and manage team organisational risks
  • * Strong written and verbal communication skills, experienced in creating and presenting to other stake holders.
  • * Able to work to deadlines under pressure whilst maintaining the safety, quality and engineering integrity of the solution.
  • * Experience in technical leadership.
  • * Must be flexible with working hours and willing to travel to support projects globally.

Responsibilities

  • Serves as the Project Engineering leader/manager to develop a scope of reaming completion works, prepare a schedule and monitor engineering activities for customer projects.
  • Provide technical leadership and interface with Project Manager to estimate cost to completion of the project.
  • Responsible to interfaces and co-ordinate various stakeholder to close project warranty scope.
  • Own the project plan for warranty engineering scope, Engineering mobilisation planning, on-time delivery and business process adherence, raise change request where appropriate.
  • Implementing process and ensure quality of deliverables.
  • Leading project engineering resources to deliver engineering scope.
  • Motivate and empower the project team providing insights and rewards to the team.
  • Responsible for customer management for technical scope of remaining project works.
  • Uses judgment to make decisions or solve moderately complex tasks or problems in areas of operational/product management, or engineering.
  • Uses technical experience and expertise for data analysis to support recommendations and uses multiple internal and limited external sources outside of own function to arrive at decisions.
  • Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience. Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus. Developing persuasion skills required to influence others on topics within field.
  • Strong sense of urgency and ability to identify and manage technical risks.
  • Ensure project on-time delivery and reduce Cost of Poor Quality.
  • Ability to decide on priority call on various tasks within the project.
  • Provide constructive feedback where appropriate.
  • Provide immediate feedback and seek to correct behaviors of the team that do not foster a good culture or contribute towards unsafe behavior or bad practices that jeopardize our achievements.

FAQs

What is the primary responsibility of a Project Engineering Manager in this role?

The primary responsibility is to lead projects in the warranty phase, working closely with the project manager to close remaining project punch lists, manage documentation, and ensure effective communication with various stakeholders.

What qualifications are required for this position?

The position requires an engineering degree or equivalent experience in power systems and power electronics, as well as over 10 years of experience in the HVDC industry, including equipment and design.

Is travel required for this position?

Yes, the role requires flexibility with working hours and a willingness to travel globally to support projects.

What skills are desired for candidates applying for this position?

Desired skills include strong written and verbal communication, interpersonal and leadership capabilities, analytical problem-solving skills, and established project management expertise.

How does the role ensure the quality of deliverables?

The Project Engineering Manager is responsible for implementing processes to ensure the quality of deliverables while leading project engineering resources to deliver the engineering scope.

What is meant by "closing project warranty scope"?

Closing project warranty scope involves completing all remaining tasks associated with the project warranty phase, ensuring that all technical aspects are finalized and customer satisfaction is achieved.

What kind of environment will the candidate be working in?

The candidate will be working in a global environment, interacting with various internal and external stakeholders, including customers, which provides an opportunity to develop problem-solving and communication skills within the HVDC community.

What kind of decision-making is expected from this role?

The role requires the use of judgment to make decisions or solve moderately complex tasks, utilizing technical experience for data analysis to support recommendations and decisions.

Are there any specific experiences that would be advantageous when applying for this position?

Experience working alongside GE would be advantageous, although it is not a critical requirement for the role.

Does the role provide opportunities for team motivation and development?

Yes, the Project Engineering Manager is responsible for motivating and empowering the project team, providing insights and rewards to enhance team performance and culture.

GE Renewable Energy, part of GE Vernova, provides solutions for customers demanding reliable and affordable green power.

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GE Renewable Energy, part of GE Vernova, harnesses the earth’s most abundant resources – the strength of the wind, the heat of the sun and the force of water – to power the world’s biggest economies and the most remote communities. With an innovative spirit and an entrepreneurial mindset, we engineer energy products and digital services that create industry-leading value for our customers around the world. We see the promise of renewable energy everywhere we look. Our team has the courage, scale, passion, diversity and resourcefulness needed to deliver that promise wherever and however the world needs it. Together with our customers, we’re proving that no one ever has to choose between affordable, reliable, or sustainable energy. We are unleashing limitless energy