Lead Project Management Specialist (Colombia / Venezuela)

GE Vernova, Inc.; Santiago de Querétaro; Remote; MXN 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

GE Vernova, Inc. seeks a Lead Project Control professional to join our team in Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico.

You will manage schedules and costs across tendering and project delivery, interfacing with the Project Manager and cross-functional teams to ensure on-time and within-budget performance. You will develop schedules, forecast costs, and monitor performance, escalating risks and opportunities while supporting both tendering and execution phases.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college.
• Experience in Project Management, Cost Controlling or Project Planning.
• Fluency in Spanish and English language.
• Knowledge of SAP and project management processes.

Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains the project schedule by integrating inputs from all functions and third parties.
• Provides customer reporting and communicates scheduling matters to customers.
• Maintains cost forecasts and monitors cost movements against scope and progress.
• Drives regular cost and schedule review meetings to identify risks and opportunities.
• Supports tendering with logical, feasible schedules and accurate cost estimates.

Skills

Project management

Cost control

Spanish & English

EPC knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

SAP

MS Project

Primavera P6

Job description

Job Description Summary

We are looking for Lead Project Control to join our team in Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico. Project Control function is supporting our operations to manage the project schedule & costs of our projects during tendering and project delivery phase to ensure we deliver on-time and within budget. Project Control will participate on project planning, schedule and cost analysis and will work closely with Project Manager and Project team. Project Control is responsible for the day-to-day monitoring of operational performance that is both historical and forward looking.

Roles and Responsibilities

Develops and maintains the project schedule by integrating inputs from all functions, units and third parties contributing to the project. Provides contractually required customer reporting and can communicate directly with customers on scheduling matters. Provides look ahead, backlog reporting with prioritizations to clearly communicate potential and real risk and drive the project priorities. Drives a regular cost operating rhythm to discussion risk and opportunities Develops cost forecasts based on functional input and analytics, challenges functional estimates where needed Checks and controls cost movements, compares with current scope and progress as well as with previous forecast. Also Compares with productivity factors and validates accuracy of estimates. During the project delivery phase, you will identify, escape, and support the project team to mitigate potential schedule and cost overrun risks During tendering, you support on building logical and feasible schedules that meets customer objectives by leveraging historical durations and lessons learnt there by forming the basis of an accurate cost estimate. Basic understanding of key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work. Good understanding of how work of own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the area. May have some autonomy to make decisions within a defined framework. Resolves issues in situations that require good technical knowledge and judgment within established procedures. Consults more senior team members for issues outside of defined instructions/parameters. A job at this level requires good interpersonal skills and may be required to lead a junior team. For customer facing roles, develops strong customer relationships and serves as the interface between customer and GE. Explains technical information to others.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college Experience in Project Management, Cost Controlling or Project Planning Expertise of Substation Projects principles and work processes of EPC environments and work processes of large EPC Projects. Basic knowledge of either MS Project or Primavera P6 Basic knowledge of SAP Knowledge of project management processes and procedures Fluency in Spanish and English language

Desired Characteristics

5+ year planning and cost management Strong oral and written communication skills. Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs Above all we expect you to be a self-starter with high level of flexibility, resilience, and self-learning attitude. As a person, you are a solid team-player with good prioritizing, communication, and interpersonal skills. Basic Portuguese language will be seen as benefit

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No #LI-Remote - This is a remote position 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. www.gevernova.com