Delivery Lead - Wind Controls & R&D

Vestas

Porto

Hybrid

EUR 65,000 - 90,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Vestas is seeking an experienced Delivery Manager to join the Controls Solution team in Porto, Portugal. You will oversee delivery across turbine control initiatives, aligning scope with execution in agile trains and the wider value chain.

The role requires governance, financial coordination, and evidence-based decision support to ensure realistic, transparent commitments. You will work with leaders, owners, technical teams, finance and suppliers to balance milestones with risk, while

Qualifications

Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering, business, project management or a related area, or equivalent professional experience.
At least 5 years of experience in project, program or delivery management in a complex engineering or product-development environment.
Demonstrated experience managing scope, schedules, budgets, risks, dependencies and stakeholder expectations.
Demonstrated ability to coordinate across technical teams, business functions, suppliers and geographically distributed stakeholders.
Practical understanding of Agile, Lean and flow-based delivery in a scaled engineering environment.

Responsibilities

Manage and deliver assigned projects within agreed scope, cost, schedule, quality, risk, and benefit tolerances, while serving as the primary project-level integration point across solutions, ARTs, and stakeholders.
Translate project objectives into Agile execution, converting milestones, requirements, and external commitments into planning inputs, while ensuring visibility and readiness ahead of PI Planning.
Align project delivery with the shared PI cadence, coordinating timelines, dependencies, constraints, and trade-offs across Solutions, ARTs, and supporting functions.
Maintain project governance and lifecycle management, including project initiation, tailoring, authorization, change control, stage boundaries, milestones, gates, reviews, and compliance with Vestas governance processes.
Coordinate decision-making and readiness reviews, ensuring Project Management Reviews and gate forums receive complete, timely, and evidence-based inputs.
Provide integrated project control and reporting, consolidating delivery evidence from ARTs, maintaining the project risk, issue, action, and decision landscape, and escalating deviations outside agreed tolerances.
Manage project financials, forecasting, and change requests, ensuring scope, cost, and schedule changes are reflected consistently across project controls, governance artifacts, budgets, forecasts, and project plans.