Service Operations Project Manager (Onshore Wind)

It takes the brightest minds to be a technology leader. It takes imagination to create green energy for the generations to come. At Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) we make real what matters. 

Reporting to the Service Operations Manager – AU/NZ, your role as a Service Operations Project Manager will see you manage Service operations in South Australia and Western Australia. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring effective and efficient delivery of planned, preventative, and upgrade services to SGRE’s existing South Australian and Western Australian wind farm customers. 

Your role will be busy and varied, and you will lead planning and preparations for new Service contracts in addition to managing a team of Site Team Leaders and Service teams across multiple wind farm sites. 

More specifically you will be accountable for:

Relationship Management

• Developing and maintaining strong working relationships with key customer contacts and act as a first level escalation point for customers to address any issues with Service Operations as they arise.

Service Operations

• Actively manage SA and WA Service Operations to ensure they are functioning as required to meet SGRE’s contract obligations, provide high quality service to our customers and meet set KPI’s.
• Proactively review existing operations and in consultation with Site Leads and other stakeholders identify and implement prioritised opportunities for improvement in key areas of safety, quality, productivity and cost.
• Reviewing potential new maintenance contracts and orders to develop draft resourcing and other plans as necessary.
• Oversee/lead major component changeouts projects and other works of high complexity and risk in WA and SA.

Health and Safety

• Actively fostering SGRE’s “Safety is my Choice” culture in the workplace.
• Ensure Service Operations are in compliance with applicable EH&S statutory, company and related requirements.

You will be based in South Australia and have the capacity to travel to wind farm sites in both South Australia and Western Australia.

You will interface regularly with SGRE’s service management team, our service technicians and customers and SGRE peers globally. 

What you will ideally bring:

To be successful in this role, you will bring:

• Substantial wind farm, or equivalent, service experience including demonstrated management or team leadership responsibilities. Ideally you will have had some experience in setting up new operational sites. 
• Demonstrated experience in managing the complexities of a geographically dispersed workforce and the capacity to develop and maintain positive working relationships with your teams.
• Extensive experience in liaising and negotiating with customers on a wide range of service related and technical topics.
• Demonstrated experience in reviewing and managing service contracts.
• Demonstrated experience and the ability to professionally interact and work with management at all levels in a complex multi-national organisation.
• Strong written, verbal and presentation skills.
• An unrestricted Australian Drivers Licence.

You will be highly organised and flourish in a fast paced and ever-changing environment. Your ability to manage complex business relationships in a professional, tactful and motivating manner will be an area of strength. 

You will thrive in an environment which demands your multitasking skills and your capacity to successfully manage the demands of a complex matrix of inputs will be an area of strength.

You will be passionate about creating positive customer experiences along with the ability to be a positive and motivating mentor to your teams.

What's on offer?

• An opportunity to join a global brand that leads the way with onshore and offshore renewable energy technology.
• Generous remuneration package.
• Exciting learning and development opportunities along the way with on-the-job training, international exchange and career development opportunities.
• SGRE values your commitment to our business and is proud to support initiatives to better balance your family and work life. These include options to purchase additional annual leave and flexibility to support your busy life.

About us

Siemens Gamesa unlocks the power of wind. For more than 40 years, we have been a pioneer and leader of the wind industry, and today our team of more than 25,000 colleagues work at the centre of the global energy revolution to tackle the most significant challenge of our generation – the climate crisis. 

With a leading position in onshore, offshore, and service, we engineer, build and deliver powerful and reliable wind energy solutions in strong partnership with our customers. A global business with local impact, we have installed more than 110 GW and provide access to clean, affordable and sustainable energy that keeps the lights on across the world. 

To find out more, visit www.siemensgamesa.com and connect with us on social media.

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We’d love to hear from you so please submit your cover letter and resume below.

Best of luck!

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively promotes equality and diversity. Indigenous Australians and women are encouraged to apply.

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy is a global organisation and it recognizes that its employees represent a large variety of cultures, ethnicities, beliefs and languages. This wealth of diversity is what makes Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy more innovative, creative, sensitive and committed to society. Our diversity is what makes us who we are, and we are immensely proud of that. 

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy believes that we all have the right to be treated with dignity and respect in the workplace regardless of our race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, beliefs, sex, sexual orientation, gender, circumstances of pregnancy or parental leave, age, disability or marital status. 

We seek to promote respect for the law, equality and inclusion for our employees in order to ensure that there is no discrimination by reason of race, gender, marital status, ideology, political opinions, nationality, religion or any other personal, physical or social condition. 

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy offers a truly flexible and inspiring place to work, with a global presence and a commitment to providing a working environment in which every employee can develop their potential and maximize their contribution.