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Senior Project Engineering Manager (m/w/d)

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GE Renewable Energy

12d ago

  • Job
    Full-time
    Expert Level
  • Engineering
  • Berlin

AI generated summary

  • You need 10+ years in EPC for T&D, Power Gen, or Oil & Gas; expertise in engineering processes; strong project management and relationship skills; willingness to travel; and global mindset.
  • You will manage project engineering activities, oversee schedules and budgets, ensure compliance with customer requirements, coordinate technical interfaces, and lead design reviews while promoting EHS standards.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of Engineering activities in EPC type environment in T&D, Power Gen or Oil&Gas industry
  • Mastering of some engineering processes such as: Civil work, Plant configuration, control &protection hardware, System & performance studies or Electrical design
  • Successful experience in project technical management on large scale project with complex organizations
  • Strong influencing and relationship building skills
  • Knowledge of project execution risks and financial processes
  • Willingness to work in different locations for short or medium period and to travel in worldwide.
  • Demonstrated presentation skills and ability to succinctly communicate complex messages
  • Demonstrated ability to lead in an unstructured environment and deliver results
  • Demonstrates ownership & accountability, judgment and decision making, influences & inspires team, creates a vision and strategy, and has passion for the role
  • Global experience and mindset including high technical cultural competence and sensitivity

Responsibilities

  • Accountable for consolidation of provisional drawing list issue with submission dates and global time schedule of engineering activities.
  • Ensure that the follow up of critical activities is done in a regular base by discipline PEM’s (‘Project Engineering Managers’)
  • Support work-package to anticipate and mitigate delivery issues
  • Coordinate with discipline engineers delivery time of technical interfaces check that information exchange interface sheets are in place and followed.
  • Challenge the global time schedule for engineering activities in close collaboration with PEM’s and the planner
  • Ensure technical disciplines are Coordinated in terms of interfaces, synchronization
  • Responsible for the project engineering budget, he/she manages monthly follow-up of the budget, identify potential savings and deviations through the modifications sheet. He/she makes sure that the imputations are properly allocated by WBS to ensure a consistent Return on Experience.
  • Animate Visual Management sessions / I-Obeya
  • Elaborate the engineering execution strategy w
  • Participate to project strategy elaboration with Project Director
  • Define and validate the design quality plan for the whole engineering scope.
  • Ensure implementation of EMH guidelines
  • Consolidate and follow for the whole project technical risks & opportunities and the corresponding mitigation/ action plan
  • Implement a design freeze process for the project and validate the design freeze following relevant design reviews and technical risks assessment for the project
  • Responsible in front of the customer of the engineering execution of the project. He is the preferred contact of the customer management for all topics related to the engineering.
  • Accountable for the respect of customer technical requirements, he/she organizes the clause-by-clause analysis and coordinate the certification activities when required
  • Ensure compliance to customer requirements through technical queries, track, manage potential exceptions.
  • Together with all PEM’s ensure that answers to customer are consistent and check cross impact of comment
  • Manage customer technical meetings (including validation meeting, clarifications, design liaison meetings)
  • Organize with integration & interface Manager and document controller leader the technical document management for the project: tool set-up, delivery process, Master drawing list, Questions / Responses follow up
  • Validate and check consistency of the engineering documents before final release to customer
  • Coordinate Tracking of customer comments and answers, along with document resubmission
  • Ensure that Management of return status of project documentation (approved, comments, resubmit, rejected) is performed
  • Coordinate the way to Tracks & manage identified or potential deviations
  • Accountable for the On-Time Delivery of the engineering
  • Check effectiveness of design against delivery of contract requirements within project budget and look for global cost optimization during basic design
  • Approve transmittal of documents to customer
  • Review main subcontracting files for main work packages design activities (scope, deliverables, inputs, schedule)
  • Ensure that execution of OMM is coordinated
  • Ensure deployment of Engineering tools (CAD, PDM/DMS,) is done as per strategy
  • Define design management tools
  • Organize Design review plan and manage design review with Customer, and certifier (if any)
  • Integrate EHS requirements based on project Strategy
  • Set up and consolidate engineering KPI’s and reporting for the whole project on regular basis (monthly generally)
  • Ensure that non-conformance reports involving engineering are managed
  • Support PEM integration on management of technical interfaces with main subcontractors, Customers and third parties
  • Comply with Quality Procedures, work instructions and Processes in EMH
  • Report or resolve any non-conformances and process in a timely manner
  • Implement design freeze and EHS in design
  • Demonstrate EHS leadership and ensure Zero Deviation Plan is implemented within the team
  • Sets the example by demonstrating the proper acts and actively observes work conditions and behaviours, giving constructive feedback and celebrating EHS effective prevention.
  • Actively participates in defining corrective actions when work is unsafe or when an uncontrolled risk is observed.
  • Routinely observes routines and behaviours of others and provides immediate feedback regarding unsafe behaviour and celebrates achievements or safe behaviours.

FAQs

What is the primary responsibility of a Senior Project Engineering Manager?

The primary responsibility of a Senior Project Engineering Manager is to oversee the engineering execution of projects, ensuring adherence to schedules, budgets, and customer requirements while facilitating the delivery of the Green Energy transition.

What qualifications are required for this position?

A minimum of 10 years of engineering experience in an EPC environment related to Transmission & Distribution, Power Generation, or Oil & Gas is required, along with strong project technical management skills on large-scale projects.

Is travel required for this role?

Yes, there is a willingness to work at different locations for short or medium periods and to travel worldwide as part of the job requirements.

What tools and processes does the Senior Project Engineering Manager need to ensure deployment of?

The Senior Project Engineering Manager needs to ensure the deployment of engineering tools such as CAD and PDM/DMS, define design management tools, and organize design review plans.

How does the role contribute to customer relationships?

The Senior Project Engineering Manager acts as the primary contact for customer management regarding engineering execution and is accountable for meeting customer technical requirements and organizing relevant meetings.

What type of projects does the North Europe Grid System Integration (GSI) team handle?

The North Europe GSI team delivers turnkey high voltage AC and DC transmission projects for customers in the UK, Ireland, and Scandinavia.

What are the key managerial responsibilities for budget and resources in this position?

The Senior Project Engineering Manager is responsible for managing the project engineering budget, ensuring monthly follow-ups, identifying potential savings, and properly allocating costs by work breakdown structure (WBS).

What is the significance of health and safety within this role?

Health and safety are prioritized, with responsibilities including implementing design freeze processes, leading EHS initiatives, and actively observing work conditions to ensure a safe working environment.

What qualities are important for success in this position?

Strong influencing and relationship-building skills, ability to communicate complex messages succinctly, ownership and accountability, as well as global experience and a mindset sensitive to technical cultural differences are important for success.

Is there an opportunity for career development in this role?

Yes, the position offers great development opportunities within a dynamic, international working environment.

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GE Renewable Energy

GE Renewable Energy, part of GE Vernova, provides solutions for customers demanding reliable and affordable green power.

Energy
Industry
10,001+
Employees

Mission & Purpose

GE Renewable Energy, part of GE Vernova, harnesses the earth’s most abundant resources – the strength of the wind, the heat of the sun and the force of water – to power the world’s biggest economies and the most remote communities. With an innovative spirit and an entrepreneurial mindset, we engineer energy products and digital services that create industry-leading value for our customers around the world. We see the promise of renewable energy everywhere we look. Our team has the courage, scale, passion, diversity and resourcefulness needed to deliver that promise wherever and however the world needs it. Together with our customers, we’re proving that no one ever has to choose between affordable, reliable, or sustainable energy. We are unleashing limitless energy