Senior Project Manager – Grid Automation

AL8238 UK Grid Solutions Limited; Stafford; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance

Flexible work arrangement

Development opportunities

International team

Job summary

GE Vernova Grid Solutions in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Project Manager for Grid Automation to lead end-to-end delivery of complex Offshore Wind Farm projects, from handover to final acceptance, and to coach a team of Project Managers.

You will manage schedule, cost, risk, and stakeholder relationships, drive commercial performance, and report KPIs to leadership, with approximately 15–20% travel and a degree in Electrical Engineering.

Qualifications

• Degree in Electrical Engineering; formal qualification required.
• Extensive PM experience in Transmission & Distribution (T&D).
• Background in T&D and Grid Automation, including Protection & Controls.
• Ability to manage complex, multi-workstream projects in parallel.
• Experience leading cross-functional project teams and stakeholders.
• Fluency in English and willingness to travel ~15–20%.

Responsibilities

• Lead full project delivery across Grid Automation, including Offshore Wind Farm scope.
• Manage schedule, cost, risk and customer relationships from transfer to PAC/TOC.
• Own financial performance, gross margin, forecasting and cost recovery planning.
• Maintain senior-level stakeholder relationships, ensuring proactive communication.
• Drive contract and supplier management, coordinating with procurement and contracts.
• Identify, manage and mitigate risk with action plans and opportunities.
• Coach Grid Automation PMs and share lessons learned for BPM.
• Report KPIs and consolidate execution summaries for leadership.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Stakeholder management

English fluency

Cross-functional teamwork

Risk management

Education

Degree in Electrical Engineering

Job description

Job Description Summary

The energy grid is changing fast — and the work you lead here will help shape what it becomes. As Senior Project Manager for Grid Automation, you will own the end-to-end delivery of complex, high-value projects, including Offshore Wind Farm (OWF) projects, from contract handover through to final acceptance. You will also support and coach a team of Project Managers, helping them deliver profitably and to the highest standards. This is a role where your ability to bring people together, hold complexity steady, and drive outcomes across multiple workstreams will directly contribute to the clean energy transition.

What You'll Do

• Lead full project delivery across Grid Automation projects, including Offshore Wind Farm scope.
• Managing schedule, cost, risk, and customer relationships from transfer to Provisional Acceptance Certificate (PAC) or Taking Over Certificate (TOC).
• Own financial performance for your project portfolio, including gross margin accountability, monthly sales forecasting, cost recovery planning, and regular reporting to senior management.
• Manage customer and stakeholder relationships at senior levels, representing Grid Automation externally and internally, ensuring satisfaction through proactive communication and issue resolution.
• Drive contract and supplier management, including claims and variation orders, coordinating with procurement, manufacturing units, and the contract management team.
• Identify, manage, and mitigate risk, conducting risk sessions, developing action plans, and proactively surfacing commercial opportunities across the project lifecycle.
• Coach and support Grid Automation Project Managers on Offshore Wind Farm project delivery, sharing lessons learned and contributing to continuous improvement of project management processes.
• Report on key performance indicators (KPIs) for the OWF segment, consolidating execution summaries and presenting project status to leadership.

Who You Are

You are a seasoned project leader who thrives when the stakes are high and the teams are large. You are equally comfortable driving delivery and developing the people around you, and you understand that both matter.

Required

• Degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related field. A formal qualification in this area is required given the technical complexity of Grid Automation and Offshore Wind Farm projects.
• Significant experience in project management within the Transmission & Distribution (T&D) industry.
• Proven background in T&D and Grid Automation, including Protection & Controls.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex, multi-workstream projects running in parallel.
• Strong experience leading and motivating cross-functional project teams.
• Fluency in English.
• Willingness to travel approximately 15–20% as project and business needs require.

Preferred

• Experience working in multicultural or internationally distributed project environments.
• Background in Offshore Wind Farm project delivery.
• Strong commercial acumen with a track record of execution-focused leadership.

What We Offer

• A key role in a collaborative, international environment with flexibility in how you work.
• Competitive benefits, including private health insurance.
• Genuine development opportunities, with on-the-job learning built into how we grow our people.
• The chance to work on technically complex, meaningful projects at the forefront of the energy transition.

GE Vernova employees rise to the challenge of building a world that works. Our benefits are designed to reward strong performance and support you in managing your personal and professional life.

About GE Vernova Grid Solutions

GE Vernova Grid Solutions provides equipment, systems, and services that move power reliably and efficiently from generation to end consumers. We are accelerating the transition to a more resilient, low-carbon grid - integrating renewables, advancing automation, and building the infrastructure the energy system of tomorrow will depend on.

Additional Information Relocation Assistance Provided: No

Addressing the climate crisis is an urgent global priority and we take our responsibility seriously. That is our singular mission at GE Vernova: continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to help decarbonize it. If we want our energy future to be different…we must be different. Our mission is embedded in our name. We retain our treasured legacy, “GE,” in our name as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” / “verde” signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. “Nova,” from the Latin “novus,” nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver. Together, we have The Energy to Change the World.

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