Global Senior Project Leader - Electrical Power Systems

Cel---Critical-Power; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

CEL Critical Power in Ireland is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to deliver complex, high-value customer projects across our international operations and to develop a team of Project Managers responsible for multiple concurrent initiatives.

You will oversee governance, budgeting, risk, and change, maintain strong customer relationships, and report performance across Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Commercial and Finance teams. Willingness to travel is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, Business, or related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Fluent English with strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Willingness to travel between CEL sites and customer locations as required.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex, high-value customer projects, ensuring commitments are achieved across scope, schedule, cost, quality, safety, and customer expectations.
• Provide oversight across multiple concurrent projects, monitoring dependencies, priorities, risks, resources, and overall delivery performance.
• Manage, coach, and develop a team of Project Managers, setting clear expectations and supporting consistent, high-quality project execution.
• Act as a senior point of contact for customers, building trusted relationships and leading project reviews, escalations, negotiations, and key delivery discussions.
• Engage with senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to provide clear project updates, recommendations, and escalation of issues requiring business decisions.
• Establish and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, governance routines, and success criteria aligned with customer commitments and CEL objectives.
• Own and report on project and portfolio financial performance, including budgets, forecasts, cash flow, cost-to-complete, change impacts, margin, and profitability.
• Identify financial variances and delivery risks early, implementing recovery actions to protect customer commitments and commercial outcomes.
• Lead contract, scope, and change management, ensuring variations are assessed, approved, documented, and reflected in project cost and schedule forecasts.
• Partner with Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Commercial, and Finance to align design readiness, material availability, production capacity, commercial requirements, and delivery plans.
• Ensure project risks, issues, actions, and decisions are actively managed, with robust contingency planning and timely escalation where required.
• Oversee subcontractor, supplier, and external delivery performance where relevant, ensuring quality, cost, schedule, and compliance requirements are met.
• Lead executive and customer project performance reviews, providing accurate reporting, clear insights, and practical recommendations.
• Drive consistent project management standards, reporting discipline, lessons learned, and continuous improvement across the team.
• Ensure projects comply with applicable technical, quality, safety, regulatory, contractual, and customer requirements.

Job description

CEL Critical Power in Ireland is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to deliver complex, high-value customer projects across our international operations and to develop a team of Project Managers responsible for multiple concurrent initiatives.

You will oversee governance, budgeting, risk, and change, maintain strong customer relationships, and report performance across Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Commercial and Finance teams. Willingness to travel is required.