Lead Project Manager - HVDC Transformers

GE Vernova; Stafford; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

GE Vernova is seeking an experienced Lead Project Manager to own and deliver high-value HVDC transformer projects from handover to final delivery and customer acceptance. You will lead multi-disciplinary teams across engineering, sourcing, manufacturing, quality and logistics in a global matrix setting, ensuring scope, cost and schedule commitments are met.

Based in Stafford, United Kingdom, this role emphasizes strong commercial discipline, customer relationship management and a relentless

Qualifications

• Experience delivering complex, high-value customer-facing engineering projects.
• Proven track record from contract handover to delivery and acceptance.
• Strong financial and commercial awareness including budgets and forecasts.
• Practical knowledge of risk, change and issue management.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams in a matrix organisation.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities concurrently.
• Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication.

Responsibilities

• Own HVDC transformer projects from handover to delivery and acceptance.
• Lead multiple projects or packages with clear plans and milestones.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams across engineering, sourcing, manufacturing, quality and logistics.
• Manage budgets, forecasts, costs and margins within scope.
• Develop schedules, delivery plans and contingency actions.
• Provide accurate reporting on progress, costs and risks.

Skills

Project leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

English communication

HVDC systems

Budget management

Education

Electrical Engineering degree

PM qualification (APM/ PMP/ PRINCE2)

Tools

MS Project

ERP systems

Job description

Job Summary

As Lead Project Manager, you will take ownership of complex, high-value HVDC transformer projects from project handover through to final delivery and customer acceptance. You will manage multiple projects or transformer packages concurrently, with accountability for their operational and financial performance. Working within a global matrix organisation, you will lead cross-functional teams spanning engineering, sourcing, manufacturing, quality, logistics and other key functions. You will bring these teams together to deliver projects safely and in accordance with agreed quality, cost and schedule commitments. As a trusted point of contact for customers, you will balance commercial rigour with technical delivery, helping to protect project outcomes while strengthening customer relationships and GE Vernova's reputation for excellence. This is a project leadership position without formal direct reports. Your success will depend on your ability to influence, coordinate and lead multidisciplinary project resources across the wider organisation.

About the Role

Do you want to lead complex, high-value projects that help power the future of energy transmission around the world? GE Vernova is looking for an experienced Lead Project Manager to join our HVDC Power Transformers team based in Stafford, United Kingdom.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of HVDC transformer projects from formal project handover through to delivery and customer acceptance.
• Lead multiple projects or equipment packages concurrently, establishing clear plans, priorities, milestones and accountabilities.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams across engineering, sourcing, manufacturing, quality, logistics and other supporting functions.
• Manage project financial performance, including budgets, forecasts, costs and margin within the assigned scope.
• Develop and maintain project schedules, delivery plans and contingency or recovery actions.
• Monitor project scope and contractual commitments, ensuring that changes and their commercial or delivery implications are understood and appropriately managed.
• Drive the effective management of risks and opportunities, identifying potential issues early and implementing suitable mitigation actions.
• Act as a key point of contact for customers, maintaining clear communication and building strong, lasting relationships.
• Facilitate project and gate reviews, ensuring that actions, decisions and accountabilities are clearly documented and followed through.
• Provide accurate and timely reporting on project progress, costs, risks and overall performance.
• Work with internal teams, customers and suppliers to resolve complex technical, commercial and delivery challenges.
• Promote a strong culture of safety, quality, compliance and continuous improvement throughout project execution.
• Capture lessons learned and use them to strengthen future project delivery.

Travel

• Occasional travel, including international travel, may be required to support project delivery and customer engagement.

Qualifications

You will be a confident, organised communicator with a strong record of delivering complex projects. You will bring:

• Significant experience managing complex, high-value, customer-facing engineering, equipment or manufacturing projects.
• Experience taking ownership of projects from contract or internal handover through to delivery and customer acceptance.
• Strong financial and commercial awareness, including experience managing project budgets, costs, forecasts and financial performance.
• Practical knowledge of project risk, opportunity, change and issue management.
• Experience coordinating and leading multidisciplinary teams within a matrix organisation.
• The ability to manage multiple projects, work packages or competing priorities concurrently.
• Strong customer and stakeholder-management skills, with the confidence to communicate across technical, commercial and senior-leadership audiences.
• The ability to analyse complex information, exercise sound judgement and drive issues through to resolution.
• Strong written and spoken English; additional language skills would be advantageous.
• Confidence using project-management, reporting and documentation systems.

Education & Experience

A degree in Electrical Engineering, Project Management or a related discipline would be advantageous. However, we are most interested in your overall project-delivery experience, professional achievements and practical expertise.

Experience delivering transformers, HVDC systems, power-transmission infrastructure or other high-value engineered equipment would be particularly valuable.

We would also welcome relevant experience gained within other technically complex sectors. A recognised project-management qualification, such as APM, PMP, PRINCE2 or an equivalent certification, would also be advantageous.

Location

Electrification - Power Transformers | Stafford, United Kingdom

About GE Vernova

GE Vernova - The Energy to Change the World With over 130 years of experience and proven innovation, GE Vernova is leading a new era of energy. We are electrifying the world while working to decarbonize it. Our name reflects our mission. "GE" carries a legacy of quality and ingenuity. "Ver" signals Earth's lush ecosystems, while "Nova" nods to a new era of lower-carbon energy we are helping to deliver. Focused on the future, GE Vernova is accelerating the shift to reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy. We help customers power economies and deliver electricity vital to health, safety, and quality of life.

Every action shapes our future. That's why our north star is a culture of impact, where everyone is empowered to thrive and achieve. Addressing the urgent need to build a more sustainable electric power system while improving the trajectory of climate-change emissions are global priorities, and we take our responsibility seriously. That is our mission at GE Vernova: continuing to electrify and decarbonize the world. We play a significant role in leading a new era of energy. Our technology helps generate approximately twenty-five percent of the world's electricity today, and we are working to power the rest. If we want the future of energy to be different, join us and be the difference. Together, we have the Energy to Change the World.

We're Determined to Be the Best Place to Grow We believe that strong careers are built on a variety of experiences, strong connections and continuous development. We're committed to providing you with the tools to navigate and shape a career journey that supports a healthy work-life balance. No two careers are the same, and yours should reflect your personal and professional goals. Your people leader and trusted mentors will support you throughout your journey. We also prioritise fair pay, performance-based rewards and wellbeing programmes for you and your family. With opportunities to move across teams and functions, your career can continue evolving while sustainability remains at the core of everything we do.