Valve Converter Lead Project Engineer - Lead the delivery of the valve converter and cooling system projects in an international HVDC environment, manage schedules, budgets, risks, and customer interactions while driving continuous improvement.
Roles and 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 the 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 meetings, witness type testing in presence of customer or consultants.
- Actively share and learn good practices and lessons learnt as continuous improvement for future project executions.
- Adhere to the EHS policies.
Skills and Competencies
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Exceptional 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.
Advantages
- Prior experience as Project Manager or project lead.
- Prior experience in engineering.
- Project management certification.
What We Offer
- A key role in a dynamic, international working environment with a large degree of flexibility of work agreements.
- Competitive benefits, and great development opportunities - including private health insurance.
- Relocation assistance: No.