Senior Project Manager – Controls & Digitalization

Siemens Energy; Jundiaí; On-site; BRL 300,000 - 500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth opportunities

Company paid health and wellness

Job summary

Siemens Energy Brasil Ltda. seeks a Senior Project Manager – Controls & Digitalization to lead complex automation and digitalization projects in Latin America.

You will coordinate engineering, procurement, manufacturing, and service teams, manage budgets and schedules, and serve as the main customer liaison to ensure successful delivery and high reliability. The role requires strong leadership, deep knowledge of DCS/PLC/SCADA, cybersecurity awareness, and willingness to travel internationally.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field.
• PMP certification is highly preferred.
• Proven experience managing complex projects in energy/industrial sectors.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex Controls & Digitalization projects across Latin America.
• Manage scope, schedule, budget, risks, and contracts.
• Coordinate cross-functional, multinational teams and stakeholders.
• Serve as primary customer interface and ensure governance.

Skills

Project management

Multinational team leadership

Stakeholder management

Budget and financial management

Risk management

English proficiency

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

PMP certification

Tools

DCS

PLC

SCADA

Cybersecurity awareness

Job description

Siemens Energy and Siemens Gamesa are becoming Omterra. "We energize society" by supporting our customers to make the transition to a more sustainable world, based on innovative technologies and our ability to turn ideas into reality. With nearly 100,000 employees around the world, we shape the energy systems of today and tomorrow.

Senior Project Manager – Controls & Digitalization

About the Role

Job ID

304844

Location

Company

Siemens Energy Brasil Ltda.

Organization

Gas Services

Business Unit

Service Latin America

Full-time

Experience Level

Manager / Team Leader

A Snapshot of Your Day

As a Senior Project Manager for Controls & Digitalization within Siemens Energy's Gas Services organization, you will lead complex automation, control systems, electrical systems, and digitalization projects across Latin America. You will serve as the primary link between customers, global engineering teams, commercial stakeholders, and service organizations, ensuring the successful delivery of high-impact projects that enhance power plant reliability, operational efficiency, and digital transformation. Your daily activities will include managing project execution strategies, budgets, schedules, risks, contracts, and stakeholder expectations while coordinating multidisciplinary and multinational teams. You will play a critical role in delivering innovative solutions involving control systems, industrial automation, cybersecurity, digital platforms, and modernization technologies that support customers throughout their energy transition journey.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Lead the execution of complex Controls & Digitalization projects across Latin America, delivering value to customers in the power generation and industrial sectors.
• Manage project scope, schedule, budget, risks, and resource allocation throughout the entire project lifecycle.
• Coordinate cross-functional and global teams, including Engineering, Procurement, Manufacturing, Finance, Commissioning, Service, and Sales.
• Act as the primary customer interface, building strong relationships and ensuring effective project governance and communication.
• Drive the successful implementation of automation systems, DCS, PLC, SCADA, turbine controls, electrical systems, cybersecurity solutions, and digital technologies.
• Promote project excellence by monitoring financial performance, mitigating risks, driving continuous improvement initiatives, and ensuring customer satisfaction

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Electrical, Automation, Control Systems, Mechatronics, Mechanical, Industrial, or related fields).
• Solid experience in project management within industrial, energy, automation, digitalization, or critical infrastructure environments.
• Proven track record managing projects involving control systems, industrial automation, digitalization, DCS, PLC, SCADA, electrical systems, or related technologies.
• Strong knowledge of project execution methodologies, financial management, risk management, and change order administration.
• Experience leading multicultural and multinational teams while managing complex stakeholder environments.
• Advanced English skills, with the ability to lead meetings, customer discussions, and project activities in a global environment. Spanish is a plus.
• Demonstrated experience as a Project Manager managing customer-facing projects with significant technical and commercial complexity.
• PMP certification required or strongly preferred.
• Availability to travel domestically and internationally as required.

About the Team

The Controls & Digitalization team within Siemens Energy Gas Services delivers cutting-edge automation, control, and digital transformation solutions for power generation facilities across Latin America. The team supports modernization programs, lifecycle service projects, cybersecurity initiatives, remote monitoring solutions, and plant optimization programs that help customers improve reliability, efficiency, sustainability, and operational performance. Working within a highly collaborative global organization, team members partner with experts from multiple countries and disciplines to deliver innovative technologies that maximize the value of critical energy assets and support the evolving demands of the energy transition.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

• Career growth and development opportunities
• Company paid Health and wellness benefits