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Job Description

GE Vernova - The Energy to Change the World

 With over 130 years of experience and proven innovation, GE Vernova is leading a new era of energy. We are electrifying the world while working to decarbonize it. Our name reflects our mission. “GE” carries a legacy of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” signals Earth’s lush ecosystems, while “Nova” nods to a new era of lower-carbon energy we are helping to deliver.

Focused on the future, GE Vernova is accelerating the shift to reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy. We help customers power economies and deliver electricity vital to health, safety, and quality of life.

Let’s Talk about the Role
As a Lead Project Manager, you will be responsible for managing customer equipment, facilities, or infrastructure-related projects, ensuring successful project delivery, financial performance (P&L), and customer satisfaction.

The role involves overseeing project-related activities and resources, with accountability for planning and execution. You will have a certain degree of autonomy and responsibility for departmental operations, while working within established functional practices, procedures, and guidelines. Some decision-making and judgment will be required, generally with guidance from more senior colleagues.

Key responsibilities

• Act as a single point of contact for customer contacts and internal / external project team.
• Contracts scope, terms and conditions, risk and opportunities and project milestones analysis
• Customer kick-off meeting plus regular progress reviews as per contract and/or customer requirements and confirm strong customer intimacy.
• Kick-off meeting with Grid Solutions supplying units and other internal contributors to confirm roles and responsibilities plus regular project progress reviews with involved teams starting at the transfer review with tendering/commercial teams till close out review.
• Strong communication with customer teams to support supplying units for engineering approvals and facilitate the progress of activities and the on-time delivery.
• Coordinate all local activities related to the project (Field Service Team, local procurement, logistics, management of local subcontractors in charge of site activities, installation of supplied equipment, coordination of site activities in compliance with EHS standards with close coordination with supplying units, subcontractors, and customer…)
• Ensure Risk & Opportunities regular assessment, ensure follow-up of actions plan and claim management when required.
• Close follow-up of budget and actual costs to ensure that project finance performance is achieved (Materials, labor, logistic, site subcontractor and other costs), propose options/alternatives to optimize the costs permitting to improve projects profitability.
• Ensure and control the sales, invoicing to customer and cash targets for the projects. Close follow-up of customer payments . On time reporting and forecast.
• EHS : ensure EHS provisions for contract team and customers are met at site, compliant with actual GE EHS rules
• Strong coordination with tendering and commercial teams to prepare the offers and negotiate the contracts. Strong return of experience required to prepare future offers, with a desirable basic knowledge of Italian procurement law.
• In coordination with commercial team, support to develop business opportunities.

What you’ll bring (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering with extensive Project Management experience in GIS and AIS substations.
• Strong technical knowledge of High Voltage (HV) equipment and the associated business.
• Good communication skills in both English and Spanish, written and spoken.
• Valid EU work authorization.

What will make you stand out

• Proactive, autonomous, and resilient professional with strong leadership, analytical, and problem-solving skills, capable of taking initiative and managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent project management and communication skills, with the ability to align resources, drive project execution, and build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders. SAP knowledge is a plus.

Our Culture

 Every action shapes our future. That’s why our north star is a culture of impact, where everyone is empowered to thrive and achieve.

Addressing the urgent need to build a more sustainable electric power system while improving the trajectory of climate change emissions are global priorities, and we take our responsibility seriously. That is our mission at GE Vernova: continuing to electrify to thrive and decarbonize the world We play a significant role in leading a new era of energy.

Our technology helps generate approximately twenty-five percent of the world’s electricity today, and we are working to power the rest. If we want the future of energy to be different, then join us and be the difference. Together, we are the Energy of Change!

We're determined to be the best place to grow

 We believe that strong careers are built on a variety of experiences, strong connections, and continuous development. We’re committed to providing you the tools to navigate and shape a strong career journey that aligns with a healthy work-life balance. No two careers are the same, and yours should reflect your personal and professional goals. Your people leader and trusted mentors will support you through navigating your journey.

We also prioritize fair pay, performance-based rewards, and wellbeing programs for you and your family. With opportunities to move across teams and functions, your career can keep evolving while sustainability stays at the core of everything we do.

Inclusion & Diversity 

We are passionate about creating an inclusive work environment. By valuing the ideas and contributions of a diverse workforce we help inspire others to grow, succeed, and raise the bar for everyone.

As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, GE Vernova is committed to support disadvantaged groups whilst providing equal opportunities for both GE Vernova associates and applicants alike.

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