Senior Project Engineering Manager

GE Vernova, Inc.; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

GE Vernova is seeking a Project Engineering Manager to lead electrical design and engineering activities for large energy projects on a hybrid work model across Europe. You will coordinate multi-disciplinary teams, manage budgets, and ensure delivery within safety, quality, time and cost criteria.

You will guide technical deviations, lead design reviews, and liaise with partners, customers, and delivery partners to ensure compliance with customer requirements and project objectives.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree level or equivalent education/experience.
• Experience of Engineering activities as lead engineer in EPC type environment.
• Successful experience in project technical management with multi-disciplinary teams and multiple interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Define scope and engineering deliverables with responsible functions / disciplines.
• Manage global time schedule of engineering activities and ensure coherence with related project functions.
• Plan delivery time of technical interfaces, coordinate with partners, customers and third-party contractors.
• Ensure on-time design delivery to stakeholders with suitable quality and partner documents.
• Support Project Engineering Director and I&I Manager in engineering changes for large/complex projects.
• Lead and coordinate design teams with support from primary, secondary and civil designers.
• Monitor engineering budget and identify potential savings, flag budget overruns to the Project Manager.
• Participate in multidisciplinary design reviews per EMH procedures and project strategy.
• Manage design changes and prepare related claims and VO for approval.
• Analyse customer requirements and ensure compliance through technical queries and change tracking.
• Validate design during customer acceptance and manage project documentation status.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional coordination

Electrical design

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

Job Description Summary

Become part of a winning team and help to deliver the Green Energy transition.

During a period of rapid expansion GE Vernova are looking to recruit Project Engineers to work on our exciting new projects within our Northern European Grid Solutions Business which has the main offices in UK, France Denmark & Norway with a footprint in countries spread over north, south & west Europe. You’ll be based from one of our office establishments. We have a flexible approach to working operating a hybrid system.

As a Project Engineering Manager you will be managing, supervising co-ordinating and leading the engineering activities of the project in line with the project’s safety, quality, time delivery, and cost criteria, you’ll be the technical lead of electrical design and engineering of large energy projects – including preparing specifications, leading on deviations and clarifications, attending FATs and SATs.

As a Project Engineering Manager, you’ll be co-ordinating design activities, managing the project design budget, overseeing the design change process, supervising, and coordinating engineering activities required to execute the project, whether done in house or by our delivery partners, and ensure technical co-ordination of the Grid Solutions Project.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Defining the scope and engineering deliverables in coordination with responsible functions / disciplines.
• Manage global time schedule of concerned engineering activities, check coherency of links between engineering activities and other project functions activities (procurement, construction, commissioning) and organise follow up of critical activities of the project or of your discipline.
• Plan and manage delivery time of technical interfaces with your work package, put in place exchange interface sheets with partners, customer, and third-party contractors.
• Ensure on-time delivery of design to stakeholders with suitable quality including Partner documents.
• For large & complex projects support Project Engineering Director and Project I&I manager in the engineering change management.
• Lead & coordinate design teams – you’ll be supported by Primary, Secondary and Civil Designers.
• 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.
• Analyse customer technical requirements, prepare and or consolidate clause by clause analysis and ensure compliance to Customer requirements through Technical Queries, identify, track, manage potential change.
• Validate design throughout customer acceptance.
• Ensure that Management of return status of project documentation internal or external (approved, comments, resubmit, rejected) is performed for your work package.
• Prepare or review technical specifications and supplier’s documents to enable procurement of materials and plant detailed design.
• Check effectiveness of design against delivery of contract requirements within project budget and look for global cost optimisation in all design phase and mainly during basic design.

Required Qualifications:

• Engineering degree level or equivalent education/experience
• Experience of Engineering activities as lead engineer 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.

Desired Characteristics:

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

About Us:

GE Vernova is a world leader in the energy solutions market with a portfolio of energy businesses across the globe. Grid Solutions provides equipment, systems, and services to bring power reliably and efficiently from the point of generation to end power consumers. We electrify the world with advanced grid technologies and accelerate the energy transition – and we want you to be part of that change and enjoy imagination at work.

If you are ready to make a difference and usher in a new era of clean, reliable energy, come join us.

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.