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About this Project Controller role at GE Vernova

GE Vernova · Onsite · Oakbrook Terrace

Job Description Summary

Job Description Summary
As related customer equipment, facilities or infrastructure projects: responsible for project delivery, profit & loss accountability, and customer satisfaction through management of project related activities and resources. Impacts quality of own work and the work of others on the team. Executes standard operational/technical tasks typically subject to instructions and work routines. There is latitude to rearrange the sequence to complete task/duties based on changing work situations.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain integrated project schedules, budgets, cost estimates, and forecasts from tender through project completion, ensuring alignment with as-sold commitments and Global Project Controls standards.
  • Monitor project schedule, costs, commitments, productivity, and forecasts; analyze trends and variances, identify schedule and cost risks, and drive/support mitigation actions with Project Managers and functional cost owners.
  • Maintain accurate project financials and data across applicable systems, including SAP and Unifier, ensuring budgets, forecasts, approved project reviews, change orders, and cost movements remain aligned.
  • Provide timely internal and external project reporting, communicating schedule, cost, forecast, risk, and overall project status to key stakeholders and collaborating with third parties as required.
  • Manage project commercial and financial activities, including new order booking, customer setup/validation, change orders, billing plan updates, invoicing, cash collection, and project cash planning.
  • Coordinate internal financial interfaces and support change-order calculations, claims, project closeout, and other project controls activities throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Lead and provide guidance to Project Cost Control Analysts on larger or more complex projects.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college or a high school diploma/GED with at least 3 years of relevant experience.
  • Minimum of 2 years of project planning experience and 2 years of project cost-control experience.

Eligibility Requirements

  • Ability and willingness to travel up to 10%, in accordance with applicable company travel and tax policies.

Desired Characteristics

  • Lead planner on 2+ turnkey projects
  • Basic knowledge of Primavera P6 & SAP
  • Excellent time management, organizational and data driven skills
  • Strong oral and written communication skills
  • Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems
  • Strong English communication skills, both written and verbal, with proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel.
  • Demonstrated attention to detail with a proactive, collaborative, and team-oriented approach.

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Additional Information

GE Vernova offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Vernova is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE Vernova will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

#LI-Remote - This is a remote position

 

 

For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $80,700.00 and $121,100.00. The Company pays a geographic differential of 110%, 120% or 130% of salary in certain areas. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set.

 

 

Bonus eligibility: discretionary annual bonus.

 

 

This posting is expected to remain open for at least seven days after it was posted on September 03, 2026.

 

 

Available benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability benefits, life insurance, 12 paid holidays, and permissive time off.

 

 

GE Vernova Inc. or its affiliates (collectively or individually, “GE Vernova”) sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs GE Vernova reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace, or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a GE Vernova welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.
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About GE Vernova

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

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