Senior Project Manager

ANDRITZ; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life and disability insurance

401k matching

Employee assistance program

Individualized training and career plan

Job summary

A leading global engineering company is looking for a Project Manager to oversee hydroelectric projects in Charlotte. This role requires managing multidisciplinary teams, ensuring projects are delivered on schedule and within budget, while meeting technical and environmental standards. Ideal candidates should have a BSc in Engineering and over 5 years of experience in heavy industrial project management. The position offers comprehensive benefits, including health insurance and 401k matching.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience managing complex projects in a heavy industrial environment.
• Proven ability to oversee project execution and administration.
• Able and willing to travel 25%.

Responsibilities

• Communicate and develop relationships with clients.
• Manage project schedules and budgets.
• Oversee project fieldwork and quality reviews.
• Provide routine status reporting to stakeholders.

Skills

Project management

Team leadership

Negotiation

Customer relations

Organizational skills

Problem-solving

Education

BSc in Engineering or Construction Management

PMI or PE certification preferred

Tools

Primavera P6

MS Projects

MS Office Suite

Job description

This position is responsible for overseeing and coordinating all aspects of hydroelectric projects from conception to completion. This role involves managing multidisciplinary teams, ensuring that projects are delivered on time, within budget, and meet technical and environmental standards. The selected candidate will provide strategic direction and leadership oversight to project teams and drive optimisation of benefit and risk of technical and commercial matters. This position will own project and risk management processes, develop, measure and report the project to all stakeholders.

The following responsibilities form the core of this role:

• Communicating and developing relationships with clients
• Developing and managing project schedules and budgets
• Scheduling and coordinating internal and external resources
• Overseeing project fieldwork and reviewing quality
• Ensures appropriate communications channels are maintained and reporting schedules adhered to. Key relationship manager for the project.
• Responsible for routine reporting of the project's status to the customer and internally
• Sets team goals and provides performance reviews for the team performance
• Lead Project Team meetings to address status (operational, budget & resource)and critical issues
• Foster a true, business minded, customer-oriented atmosphere and skill set for the project team allocated across functions
• Develop and implement continuous improvement for assigned projects to ensure the quality of the deliverables

Do you fit the profile?

Successful teams share objectives, and they also share values! In addition to your strong skills and experience, we need someone with high motivation, a positive mindset, and a willingness to be part of a team.

The ideal candidate should be willing to work in a complex, fast-paced environment, with evolving priorities. Result and solution-oriented candidates who follow through with ideas and commitments will perform well within ANDRITZ. As our projects have large scopes and often require years to be completed, your perseverance will be valued with us.

• BSc, Engineering, Construction Management, Business, or related study
• PMI or PE Preferred
• 5+ years experience managing complex projects in a heavy industrial environment
• Experience with developing and managing intricate schedules, projecting and controlling costs
• Computers skills required are Primavera P6, MS Projects and MS Office Suite
• Proven ability to oversee project execution and administration, coordinate field personnel, effect cost recovery, and handle technical submittals, manuals, and drawings
• Proven success in customer/vendor relations
• Savvy negotiator with exceptional organizational skills
• High degree of integrity, discretion and diplomacy
• People, Change and Influence management skills
• Able and willing to travel 25%

What do we offer?

• Life, disability, dental and extended health insurance;
• 401k matching;
• Employee assistance program;
• Employee individualized training and career plan.

Did you know?

• Over 185 years of experience in turbine design
• Over 489,000 MW of installed and upgraded capacity
• Over 135 years in electrical engineering
• 65 representative offices worldwide
• More than 6100 employees worldwide
• Over 50 Compact Hydro units per year
• A complete range of designs up to 800 MW
• 20 manufacturing sites worldwide
• 20% of all turbines in operation worldwide

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Project Management