Senior SW Project Manager

Safegrid – A G&W Electric Company; Turku; Hybrid; EUR 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Safegrid, a G&W Electric Company, is seeking a Senior SW Project Manager in Turku, Finland, to coordinate quarterly planning, maintain delivery visibility, and support multidisciplinary software development across Finland and the US.

You will work with the Director of Engineering & Product and specialists across backend, data, UI/UX, and DevOps, ensuring structured execution, informed decisions, and continuous improvement of processes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in technical project or program management in software or technology development.
• Strong understanding of software development processes and dependencies.
• Planning, scheduling, LOE and capacity planning, dependency and risk management, resource planning and reporting.
• Experience coordinating across backend, data, UI/UX, DevOps/infrastructure, integrations, and related areas.
• Experience with geographically distributed development teams across Europe and North America.
• Excellent facilitation, reporting, and English-language communication skills.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in CS/SE/EE with familiarity with delivery tools.

Responsibilities

• Support quarterly planning and consolidate LOE, resources, dependencies, and risks into a quarter-level view.
• Coordinate the continuous product process from planning to release and completion.
• Maintain delivery visibility across active initiatives and prepare management reporting materials.
• Facilitate follow-ups to clarify progress, blockers, actions, and ownership.
• Identify resource conflicts and support allocation, onboarding, and efficient use of resources.
• Coordinate impact assessment and keep stakeholders informed during urgent work or deviations.
• Continuously improve software R&D coordination practices.

Skills

Project management

Software development fluency

Planning & delivery

Multidisciplinary coordination

International team coordination

English communication

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE/EE

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field

Job description

Software | Product Development | Turku, Finland

Create clarity. Coordinate planning. Keep software delivery visible and predictable.

Are you an experienced technical project manager who enjoys coordinating complex development initiatives, bringing structure to multidisciplinary work, and helping international teams deliver successfully? Safegrid is entering its next phase of growth as part of G&W Electric. We are looking for a Senior SW Project Manager to coordinate our continuous software product-development process and maintain clear delivery visibility across parallel initiatives in Finland and the US.

This is a senior coordination and support role. You will work closely with the Director of Engineering & Product, and specialists across backend, data, UI/UX, and related areas. Your technical understanding will help you recognize dependencies, support informed decisions, and keep execution structured and transparent.

Role at a glance

Primary focus: Quarterly planning, continuous product process coordination and delivery visibility

Team interface: Director of Engineering & Product, multidisciplinary SW R&D teams

Ways of working: Agile product development, structured follow-up, clear documentation and continuous improvement

What you will do

• Support quarterly planning. Coordinate the planning cycle and ensure the required inputs are available. Consolidate Level of Effort (LOE) estimates, resource and competency needs, dependencies, capacity assumptions, timing, and risks into a clear quarter-level view for prioritization and scope decisions.
• Coordinate the continuous product process. Maintain up-to-date view of items through planning, development, testing, release, and completion. Support the Director of Engineering & Product in refining feature definitions and preparing regular product meetings.
• Maintain delivery visibility. Keep an integrated view of active initiatives, including progress, timing, blockers, dependencies, risks, workload changes, resource needs, and deviations. Prepare concise status views and management-reporting material.
• Facilitate focused follow‑up. Determine when initiative catch‑ups are useful and facilitate them to clarify progress, blockers, actions, ownership, and next steps—helping teams stay aligned without taking over technical problem‑solving or creating unnecessary process.
• Support capacity and resource coordination. Identify resource conflicts, capability gaps, and bottlenecks and support allocation, onboarding, and effective use of internal and external resources.
• Support change and release coordination. When urgent work or significant deviations arise, coordinate the impact assessment and make implications for scope, schedule, resources, dependencies, risks, and committed work visible. Track features through testing, release, operational handover, and completion.
• Continuously improve SW R&D processes. Help improve coordination practices without unnecessary bureaucracy.

What you bring

• Strong project‑management foundation. Typically 8+ years of relevant experience in technical project or program management, or a comparable coordination role in software or technology development, including complex or changing environments.
• Software‑development fluency. A strong understanding of software‑development processes and enough technical depth to work effectively with technical specialists, recognize dependencies and risks, and support informed decisions without taking over technical ownership.
• Planning and delivery discipline. Demonstrated capability in planning, scheduling, prioritization, LOE and capacity planning, dependency and risk management, resource planning, progress tracking, and management reporting across multiple parallel initiatives.
• Multidisciplinary development coordination. Experience coordinating work across backend development, data engineering, data science, UI/UX, system engineering, DevOps/infrastructure, integrations, and related technical areas.
• International team coordination. Experience working with geographically distributed development teams, preferably across Europe and North America, and creating clarity across time zones and changing priorities.
• Ownership, collaboration, and clear communication. Excellent facilitation, reporting, and English‑language communication skills. You work independently, listen to different viewpoints, challenge plans constructively, surface risks early, and support teams without relying on direct authority.
• Relevant education and tools. A minimum of bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field—or equivalent experience and familiarity with modern delivery and planning/reporting tools.

Experience that would help you succeed

• Experience with software products in energy, electrical grids, IoT, industrial systems, or critical infrastructure; understanding of medium‑ or high‑voltage distribution, grid monitoring, system protection, analysis, or fault response is a plus.
• Experience with cloud/server architectures, scalable data platforms, APIs and integrations, sensor‑to‑cloud architectures, and data‑intensive or near‑real‑time applications.
• Understanding of cybersecurity, regulatory requirements, and restrictions related to geographically sensitive data in regulated or mission‑critical environments.
• Experience coordinating R&D subcontractors, vendors, distributed software‑development teams, or customer‑driven development alongside longer‑term product and platform work.
• Experience in a growing or transforming product‑development organization and in portfolio‑level planning across related initiatives; Agile/Scrum/SAFe certification is helpful, and PMP is a plus.

Why this role matters

Safegrid develops intelligent grid‑monitoring technology for medium‑ and high‑voltage networks. As our software development grows across technical areas and locations, teams need strong coordination without unnecessary process overhead. You will help create the planning discipline, visibility, and follow‑up that support informed decisions, productive collaboration, and reliable software delivery for a smarter, more resilient grid.

Location and working model

This is a hybrid role based in Turku, Finland. Partial remote work is possible, with regular presence at the Turku office expected on average at least two days per week to support coordination, team collaboration, and alignment. Work with the Espoo office and other Safegrid/G&W locations may also be required as needed.

About Safegrid

Safegrid Oy, a G&W Electric Company, is a leading provider of intelligent grid solutions that help utilities and grid operators locate, predict, and prevent grid faults. With its Intelligent Grid System, Safegrid enhances grid performance and reliability using non‑intrusive wireless sensors and advanced analytics, ensuring a safer and more resilient power system. Safegrid is headquartered in Espoo, Finland, and operates as part of the G&W Electric global family of companies. For more information, visit www.safegrid.io.

About G&W Electric Co.

G&W Electric is a leading provider of innovative power grid solutions that help utilities and grid operators protect, automate, and strengthen the electric grid. Our portfolio spans load and fault interrupting switches; reclosers; sensors; system protection equipment; power grid automation; cable accessories; and solutions for intelligent fault location, prediction, prevention and analytics. G&W Electric is headquartered in Bolingbrook, Illinois, with production facilities in the United States, Canada, Italy, Finland, China, and Mexico — delivering on our purpose to keep the lights on and the data flowing since 1905.

For more information

about the job please contact Juha Korhonen, [e-mail], [phone]