AddressThe role gives an excellent opportunity for a motivated engineer to expand their project management skills and personal development within an international project organisation delivering complex HVDC system.
Whilst based at the HVDC Centre of Excellence in Stafford there will be some international travel opportunities to collaborate with other GE Teams, participate in customer meetings, support test facilities and site activities.
Scope:
Execute the delivery of the project regarding the converter valve and the cooling system. From the capture of the requirements to the handover to customer, as per budget and within schedule.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the delivery of one or several projects running in parallel.
- Define and maintain the Valve Delivery Project Plan.
- Define and maintain the detailed Valve Project Smartsheet Plan derived from the main Project Delivery P6 plan.
- Define and maintain the Valve Risk Register and escalade high risks to project team.
- Review planned hours, Cost-To-Completion hours vs Budgeted hours.
- Adhere to the GE HVDC operation rhythm.
- Adhere to the Valve Engineering SIPOC and delivery processes.
- Define and maintain the resource plan, request additional resources to valve engineering team leads.
- Accountability on the On-Time-Delivery and say-do ratio KPIs for the project.
- Lead cross-functional tasks and discussions.
- Lead Non-Conformities, with action plan in place and accountability to close them.
- Lead Valve Engineering Gate Reviews and Engineering Design Reviews.
- Raise Change Request when required, following a budget deviation, a change of scope or a change in design.
- Report on a monthly basis to the Head of Valve, the project progress, including achievements, budget status, risks review and resource plan, look ahead.
- Represent Valve during the customer meeting and with GE partners.
- Travel abroad to attend customer meeting, witness type testing in presence of customer or consultants.
- Actively share and learn good practices and lessons learnt as continuous improvement for future projects execution.
- Adhere to the EHS policies.
Skills and Competencies:
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
- Demonstrated ability to analyse and resolve problems.
- Demonstrated ability to lead programs / projects.
- Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs.
- Established project management skills.
- Proficiency in Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
- Proficiency in SmartSheet and/or MS project.
Advantageous:
- Prior experience as Project manager or project lead.
- Prior experience in engineering.
- Project management certification.
The Person
The candidate requires electrical or mechanical engineering expertise at graduate level or equivalent experience, with a good level of the technical understanding of general electrical and mechanical engineering.
The candidate will typically be educated to degree-level, or above, in a discipline such as engineering or science. The applicants may have some career experience in project management.
The candidate will have the ambition to move toward project manager in his/her career path with a recognised certification as project manager, such as PMP, Prince 2 or equivalent.
