Project Coordinator

Welocalize, Inc; Madrid; On-site; EUR 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Health insurance

Pension

Job summary

Lightsource bp is seeking a Project Coordinator (VIE) in Madrid to lead and coordinate the CoOR project activities within the Global Transformation Management Office. You will manage timelines, budgets, risks and dependencies while aligning stakeholders and driving continuous improvement across digital and non-digital projects.

The role requires 2–4 years of PM experience, familiarity with agile and waterfall methods, and a background in energy or renewables is a plus.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of project management approaches and methods.
• Experience in agile and traditional (waterfall/hybrid) delivery methods.

Responsibilities

• Deliver project outputs to scope, time and budget with measurable milestones.
• Own operational plans and a single source of truth (SSoT).
• Coordinate resources, vendors and cross-project dependencies to keep delivery on track.
• Support stakeholder coordination, clear communication and decisions.
• Manage day-to-day risks, issues and change control end to end.

Skills

Project management

Agile & Hybrid delivery

Renewable energy knowledge

PM experience 2-4 yrs

Education

Bachelor or Master in computing, project, or business management

Tools

MS Project

Planner

Excel

PowerBI

Job description

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VIE - Cost of Ownership Reduction (CoOR) Project Coordinator F/H

We are Lightsource bp - and we're on a mission to become a global leader in onshore renewables, anchored by our proven track record in solar development.
For over a decade we've been actively working to diversify the way our world is powered with sustainable and responsible renewable power. We work to safely deliver affordable, reliable, large-scale onshore renewable and energy storage solutions to help the world decarbonise.
Our growing business is constantly innovating and investing to help drive the energy transition. Our people and projects are focused on supporting long-term sustainable growth and energy security.
Lightsource bp operates with five core values: **Safety** , **Integrity** , **Respect** , **Sustainability** , and **Drive** .
We seek to attract and hire individuals who share our commitment to creating a safe workplace, uphold the highest standards of integrity, and demonstrate respect for colleagues, communities, and the environment. Our recruitment process promotes sustainability by valuing long-term growth and responsible practices, while seeking candidates with the drive to innovate and lead in the global energy transition.
Together, these values shape how we engage, assess, and welcome talent to join us in delivering transformational solar power solutions worldwide.
Lightsource bp was fully acquired by bp in 2024.
What you'll do (the role)
Summary
The Project Manager in the Global Transformation Management Office (TMO) team leads delivery of digital and non‑digital projects across the global portfolio, applying the most appropriate agile or traditional methodology to ensure outcomes are delivered to scope, time and budget. They own a single source of truth for operational plans, coordinate resources and vendors, manage risks, issues and dependencies, and drive stakeholder alignment and decision‑focused governance to realise measurable business value. Reporting into the TMO Program Management function, they also coach and enable delivery teams and provide concise, data‑driven reporting and continuous‑improvement inputs to ensure predictability and strategic alignment
Responsibilities of the Role

• Deliver project outputs to scope, time and budget: translate project objectives into measurable milestones and acceptance criteria; execute plans to deliver agreed outputs, monitor spending and escalate deviations early to protect outcomes.
• Own operational plans and a single source of truth (SSoT): maintain and govern up to date project plans, task lists, backlogs, dates, owners, dependencies and risks so the team has one reliable dataset for prioritisation and decision making.
• Coordinate resources, vendors and cross project dependencies: secure and allocate internal and third-party resources, manage capacity and portfolio overlaps, and proactively resolve interproject dependencies to keep delivery on track.
• Support stakeholder coordination, clear communication and decisions: proactively align stakeholders, prepare concise meeting artefacts, run decision focused forums, capture actions/owners and follow up to ensure timely inputs and approvals.
• Manage day to day risks, issues and change control end to end: own risk and issue logs, quantify impacts, implement mitigations, apply change control for scope/schedule/cost changes and escape unresolved or high impact items to the senior PM or sponsor.
• Facilitate delivery team performance and capability: remove blockers, coordinate BAs and vendors, ensure tasks have owners and realistic estimates, and coach PM/BA colleagues to model strong delivery behaviors.
• Provide reliable reporting and drive continuous improvement: produce concise, data driven weekly status updates (R/Y/G, KPIs), track commitments vs outcomes, capture lessons learned and propose small process improvements to raise delivery quality

Why you'll make a great member of the team
Experience & Knowledge Required

• Strong understanding of project management approaches and methods
• Experience in agile and traditional (waterfall/hybrid) delivery methods and ability to tailor approaches as needed
• Any knowledge and experience of the Renewable Energy sector would be an advantage
• 2-4 years hands‑on project management delivering digital and non‑digital projects

**Skills Required**

• Good negotiation skills and the ability to develop strong working relationships
• Strong stakeholder management
• Good commercial and business awareness Ability to adapt to continually changing priorities and aggressive project timeframes
• Possesses an analytical mind, with a keen eye for detail and desire to probe further into data
• Takes ownership and uses initiative
• Good knowledge in MSProject, Planner, Excel, PowerBI
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

**Education Required**

• Bachelor or Master degree in computing, project, or business management subject, plus some project management experience OR
• Good level of general education with a good level of project management experience
• Any project management certifications would be an advantage

Why you'll want to work for us
Our company is a place where you can be yourself and grow, a place where your ideas and opinions matter.
Be you: We pride ourselves on being an inclusive community, where every individual is valued and treated with respect.
Be responsible: Our culture is driven by our core values - from operating safely to ensuring our projects are responsible.
Be recognized: Alongside a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits including annual bonus, retention bank, health insurance, pension and other local benefits.
Be inspired: Beyond your day‑to‑day working life at Lightsource bp, there's a variety of initiatives that will contribute to your own personal development. These include our charitable causes, supporting our solar honey project, or volunteering on our VIBES committee to name a few.
Our core values: Lightsource bp truly cares about creating a sustainable future through safe, responsible and meaningful low carbon energy projects. Our core values of Safety, Integrity, Respect, Sustainability and Drive are the guiding principles for everything we do.
For further information on our career opportunities and life at Lightsource bp, please visit **

**Job Description Summary**
Own the project control activity globally and drive consistent functional specifications and common global processes for projects implementation. Activities that are conducted to better understand or ultimately meet the expectations of the customer Responsible for departmental operations planning/execution or is focused on execution of professional activities within a technical discipline. Functions with some autonomy but guided by established policies or review of end results.
The job allows modification of procedures and practices covering work as long as the end results meet standards of acceptability (quality, volume, timeliness etc.).
**Job Description**
**Roles and Responsibilities as a PEM :**

• Supervising co‑ordinating and leading the engineering activities of the project in line with the project's safety, quality, on‑time time delivery, and cost criteria.
• Manage the scope and engineering deliverables in coordination with responsible functions / disciplines.
• Manage global time schedule of concerned engineering activities, check coherency & alignment with other project functions activities (procurement, construction, commissioning) and organise follow up of critical activities impacting project performance.
• Lead and drive project execution strategy, manage internal / external outsourcing for design work‑packages.
• Respect and guard the engineering aspects of contractual limits and liabilities towards partners, suppliers and customers.
• Operate under the matrix organization, supported by technical experts and design teams, and ensure to achieve project objectives.
• Follow the engineering budget and identify potential savings and highlight to the Project Manager all instances requiring additional budget.
• Participate and contribute to the project multidisciplinary design reviews according to the EMH procedures and per the project strategy.
• Manage scope or design changes & prepare related claims and VO to be approved by Project Engineering Director or Project Manager.
• Lead and ensure design validation throughout customer acceptance,
• Lead the technical specifications and supplier's documents to enable procurement of materials and plant detailed design from RFQ to SAT.
• Lead the technical ownership of the project towards customer and all internal / external stake‑hunters.
• Follow and enforce adequate governance actions to manage engineering performance of the project.

**Required Qualifications:**

• Engineering degree level or equivalent education/experience.
• Experience of Engineering activities to lead and deliver grid transmission projects in EPC type environment.
• Successful experience in project technical management in a multi‑disciplinary team's context including multiple interfaces and with products coming from several countries.
• Able to lead and excel with the teams in matrix organisation.

**Desired Characteristics:**

• Strong Knowledge of the Transmission or Distribution industry is essential.
• Awareness and ability to comply with local regulations & customer practices in the country/area of operation is key to the role.
• Ability to coordinate multi projects & remote multi‑functional teams with clear communication and leadership.

**Additional Information**
**Relocation Assistance Provided:** No
GE Vernova is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

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