Automation Project Manager

Siemens Energy; Amadora; Hybrid; EUR 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary & meals

Health insurance

Remote work within country

Pontes days off

Birthday off

Job summary

Siemens Energy is seeking a Principal Automation & Digital Transformation Lead to drive end-to-end automation initiatives within the Gas Services Central division. You will align business, IT, data, and automation teams to deliver value, manage timelines and budgets, and report outcomes to executives.

The role emphasizes scoping, use-case definition, stakeholder engagement, and ensuring user adoption with strong governance and data readiness. Remote work within Portugal is possible.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Business Admin or related field.
• Proven professional experience in project management, digital transformation, automation, or process improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of automation and digital transformation projects, from scoping through implementation, adoption, and value tracking.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams across business, IT, data, and automation, managing timelines, budgets, risks, dependencies, and reporting.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to translate business challenges into actionable automation and digital use cases with clear success criteria.
• Drive change management and user adoption while ensuring alignment with data readiness and governance.

Skills

Project management

Digital transformation

Automation

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

ERP

PLM

CRM

Job description

Siemens Energy and Siemens Gamesa are becoming Omterra. "We energize society" by supporting our customers to make the transition to a more sustainable world, based on innovative technologies and our ability to turn ideas into reality. With nearly 100,000 employees around the world, we shape the energy systems of today and tomorrow.

Imagine turning complex business challenges into digital solutions that make everyday work simpler and more effective. In this role, you will lead automation and digital transformation projects from initial scoping through implementation, adoption, and value tracking within the Gas Services Central division. You will bring together business, IT, data, and automation experts, creating alignment and keeping projects moving toward their goals. Along the way, you will identify opportunities to optimize processes, navigate dependencies and risks, and help teams successfully adopt new ways of working. Your contribution will directly support the growth of Digital Operations and its expanding responsibilities in process digitalization and automation.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of automation and digital transformation projects, from scoping and use-case definition through implementation, adoption, and value tracking.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams across business, IT, data, and automation, managing timelines, budgets, risks, dependencies, and executive-level reporting.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to translate business challenges into actionable automation and digital use cases with clear success criteria.
• Analyze internal processes, identify opportunities for optimization, and collaborate with technical teams to leverage ERP, PLM, CRM, automation, and advanced digital tools.
• Drive change management and user adoption while ensuring solutions align with data readiness, process ownership, and Siemens Energy governance requirements.

What You Bring

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field, combined with proven professional experience in project management, digital transformation, automation, or business process improvement.
• Strong project and program management capabilities, including Agile methodologies such as Scrum or SAFe, risk and dependency management, budgeting, and timeline tracking.
• Familiarity with automation technologies and AI use cases, enterprise systems such as ERP, PLM, and CRM, and concepts relating to data quality, governance, and analytics.
• Excellent stakeholder and change management capabilities, with the ability to communicate at executive level, translate business requirements into clearly defined use cases, and support successful user adoption.
• PMP or IPMA certification and an Agile delivery certification such as Scrum, SAFe, or equivalent.

About the Team

This position is part of Digital Operations and supports the Gas Services Central division, with a focus on process digitalization, automation, and the delivery of high-value digital solutions across organizational boundaries.

Our Gas Services division offers Low-emission power generation through service and decarbonization. Zero or low emission power generation and all gas turbines under one roof, steam turbines and generators. Decarbonization opportunities through service offerings, modernization, and digitalization of the fleet.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With over 100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world’s electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

We celebrate character, no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

• Competitive salary and meal allowance
• Fair compensation for international work
• Health insurance coverage
• Remote work permitted within the country
• Additional 5 “Pontes” days off and Birthday off if it falls on a weekday, when not abroad (only applies for Portugal)