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Lead Project Management Specialist - Project Planning

AT GE Vernova
GE Vernova

Lead Project Management Specialist - Project Planning

Houston, TX

Job Description Summary

As related customer equipment, faciliaties or infrastructure projects: responsible for project delivery, profit & loss accountability, and customer satisfaction through management of project related activities and resources. Impacts departmental operations and responsible for planning/execution. The role has some autonomy but is focused on execution of activities within an operating discipline covered by standard functional practices and procedures. Some judgment may be required but this is typically with guidance.

Quality & Lean
• Comply with Quality Procedures, work instructions and Processes at GSI level and Project Controls Function
• Report or resolve any non-conformances and process in a timely manner

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• Identify areas of opportunity for standardization / optimization and where possible participate in a Kaizen or similar lean event to implement any identified improvements

EHS
• Demonstrate commitment to safety through participation in formal and informal discussions
• Adhere to all safe working procedures in accordance with instructions
• Ensure safety work instructions are complied
• Participate in the resolution of safety issues.
• Initiate actions to improve health and safety where needed

Performance Measurement
• Schedule quality
• Cost forecasting quality
• Schedule forecast quality
• Cost and schedule performance of project
• Timeliness of reporting
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En tant qu'équipement client, installations ou projets d'infrastructure associés : responsable de la livraison du projet, de la responsabilité des profits et pertes et de la satisfaction du client grâce à la gestion des activités et des ressources liées au projet. Impacte les opérations du département et responsable de la planification/exécution. Le rôle dispose d'une certaine autonomie mais est axé sur l'exécution d'activités au sein d'une discipline opérationnelle couverte par des pratiques et procédures fonctionnelles standard. Un certain jugement peut être nécessaire, mais cela se fait généralement avec des conseils.

Qualité et allégeance
• Se conformer aux procédures qualité, aux instructions de travail et aux processus au niveau GSI et à la fonction de contrôle du projet.
• Signaler ou résoudre toute non-conformité et tout processus en temps opportun
• Identifier les domaines d'opportunité de normalisation/optimisation et, si possible, participer à un Kaizen ou à un événement Lean similaire pour mettre en œuvre les améliorations identifiées.

EHS
• Démontrer un engagement envers la sécurité en participant à des discussions formelles et informelles.
• Adhérer à toutes les procédures de travail sécuritaires conformément aux instructions
• S'assurer que les consignes de sécurité de travail sont respectées
• Participer à la résolution des problèmes de sécurité.
• Initier des actions pour améliorer la santé et la sécurité si nécessaire

Mesure des performances
• Qualité du planning
• Qualité des prévisions de coûts
• Planifier la qualité des prévisions
• Performance des coûts et des délais du projet
• Rapidité des rapports

Job Description

About Us:

Come bring your energy to change the world

Grid Solutions, part of the GE Vernova portfolio of energy businesses, serves customers globally with over 12,000 employees. Grid Solutions provides equipment, systems, and services to bring power reliably and efficiently from the point of generation to end power consumers. We electrify the world with advanced grid technologies and accelerate the energy transition.

GE Vernova, a dynamic accelerator comprised of our Power, Renewable Energy, Digital and Energy Financial Services businesses, is focused on leading a new era of energy - electrifying the world while simultaneously working to decarbonize it.

If you are ready to make a difference and usher in a new era of energy, come join us.

Why we come to work:

At GE Vernova, we are always up for the challenge - and we're always driven to find the best solution. In Project Controls, our goal is to ensure the right rigor around schedule and cost management processes to deliver projects on-time and within budget. With focus and rigor around tools, processes, operating rhythm, and people, here you shall have the opportunity to learn, contribute and excel in one of the best Project controls functions in the industry. Surrounded by committed, loyal colleagues, if you can dare to bring your ingenuity and desire to make an impact, you'll be exposed to game-changing, diverse projects that truly allow you to play your part in the energy transition.

Essential Responsibilities:

  • Builds tender integrated schedules and cost estimates
  • Build project schedule and project budgeting in cost and schedule tools
  • Ensures compliance to the Global Standard process for Project Controls
  • Support PM to align project budgets to as sold in appropriate systems
  • Maintain project schedule and cost forecast throughout project
  • Analyze schedule and cost trends and provide forecasted cost and schedules to project team
  • Maintain a register of potential schedule and cost risks
  • Maintain a register of actual and committed costs
  • Checks and controls cost movements, compares with current scope and progress as well as with previous forecast. Also Compares with productivity factors and validates accuracy of estimates
  • Communicates schedule and cost status/forecasts/risk to functional cost owners and drives/supports risk mitigation
  • Provides internal and external project reporting of project status
  • Collaborate with 3rd parties on project cost and schedules
  • Presents all financial data in a transparent way, attends project and management review to present cost status
  • Provides change order calculations to ensure schedule and cost estimates are accurate
  • Updates changes in appropriate systems to ensure costs are aligned to the current situation
  • Aligns with Finance Controller to ensure reconciliation takes place between approved project financial data and books
  • Support project close out and claims/Provide support to tenders
  • Oversee the planning function on the project
  • Ensure quality of the project controlling reporting.
  • Ensure accuracy of cost budgets, actuals, and forecasting
  • Ensure collaboration with functional cost owners to find strategies to reduce cost
  • Ensure alignment to established standards (WBS, process, procedures, tools usage)
  • Ensure efficiency and effectives of the project cost control team where applicable.

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma / GED with at least 4 years of experience in Job Family Group(s)/Function(s))
  • Minimum of 3 years planning large turnkey projects
  • Minimum of 2 projects providing cost controlling on large turnkey projects
  • Proficient in English and French
  • Ability and willingness to travel 5% of the time, and must comply with all relevant company travel and tax policies

Desired Characteristics:

  • Lead planner on 2+ turnkey projects
  • Strong oral and written communication skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.
  • Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs.
  • Established project management skills.

Hybrid out of Houston TX, Cary NC, Oakbrook Terrace IL, Foxborough MA

We deliver integrated project solutions to enable large scale electrification and support our customer needs.

The salary range for this position is 90,300.00 - 116,700.00 USD Annual. The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidate's experience, their education, and the work location. In addition, this position is eligible for a performance bonus. 90,300.00 - 116,700.00 - 133,400.00 USD Annual

Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and paid time-off for vacation or illness.

General Electric Company, Ropcor, Inc., their successors, and in some cases their affiliates, each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e., is a "Sponsor"). Each Sponsor reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace, or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a Sponsor's welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.

Projected Close Out: March 1st, 2025

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Responsabilités essentielles :

  • Élabore des calendriers intégrés d'appel d'offres et des estimations de coûts
  • Établir le calendrier du projet et la budgétisation du projet dans les outils de coûts et de calendrier
  • Assure la conformité au processus Global Standard pour les contrôles de projet
  • Aider le PM à aligner les budgets du projet sur ceux vendus dans les systèmes appropriés
  • Maintenir le calendrier du projet et les prévisions de coûts tout au long du projet
  • Analyser les tendances des calendriers et des coûts et fournir des prévisions de coûts et de calendriers à l'équipe de projet
  • Tenir un registre des risques potentiels en matière de calendrier et de coûts
  • Tenir un registre des coûts réels et engagés
  • Vérifie et contrôle les mouvements de coûts, compare avec la portée et les progrès actuels ainsi qu'avec les prévisions précédentes. Compare également avec les facteurs de productivité et valide l'exactitude des estimations
  • Communique le calendrier et l'état des coûts, les prévisions et les risques aux responsables des coûts fonctionnels et pilote/soutient l'atténuation des risques.
  • Fournit des rapports de projet internes et externes sur l'état du projet
  • Collaborer avec des tiers sur les coûts et les calendriers du projet
  • Présente toutes les données financières de manière transparente, assiste à l'examen du projet et de la direction pour présenter l'état des coûts.
  • Fournit des calculs d'ordres de modification pour garantir l'exactitude des estimations de calendrier et de coûts.
  • Met à jour les changements dans les systèmes appropriés pour garantir que les coûts sont alignés sur la situation actuelle.
  • S'aligne avec le contrôleur financier pour garantir que le rapprochement a lieu entre les données financières et les livres comptables du projet approuvés.
  • Accompagner la clôture des projets et les réclamations/Fournir un support aux appels d'offres
  • Superviser la fonction de planification du projet
  • Assurer la qualité du reporting de contrôle du projet.
  • Assurer l'exactitude des budgets de coûts, des chiffres réels et des prévisions
  • Assurer la collaboration avec les responsables des coûts fonctionnels pour trouver des stratégies permettant de réduire les coûts
  • Assurer l'alignement sur les standards établis (WBS, processus, procédures, utilisation des outils)
  • Assurer l'efficience et l'efficacité de l'équipe de contrôle des coûts du projet, le cas échéant.

Qualifications requises :

  • Baccalauréat d'une université ou d'un collège accrédité (ou diplôme d'études secondaires/GED avec au moins 4 ans d'expérience dans un ou plusieurs groupes/fonctions de famille d'emplois)
  • Minimum de 3 ans en planification de grands projets clé en main
  • Minimum de 2 projets permettant un contrôle des coûts sur de grands projets clé en main
  • Maîtrise de l'anglais et du français
  • Capacité et volonté de voyager 5 % du temps, et doit se conformer à toutes les politiques de voyage et fiscales pertinentes de l'entreprise

Caractéristiques souhaitées :

  • Planificateur principal sur plus de 2 projets clé en main
  • Solides compétences en communication orale et écrite.
  • Capacité démontrée à analyser et à résoudre des problèmes.
  • Capacité à documenter, planifier, commercialiser et exécuter des programmes.
  • Compétences établies en gestion de projet.

Hybride au QC, Canada

GE Vernova offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Vernova is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE Vernova will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes

Client-provided location(s): Houston, TX, USA; La Prairie, QC, Canada; Oakbrook Terrace, IL, USA; Foxborough, MA, USA; Cary, NC, USA
Job ID: GE_Vernova-182151105
Employment Type: Full Time

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Health Reimbursement Account
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • FSA
    • FSA With Employer Contribution
    • HSA
    • HSA With Employer Contribution
    • Fitness Subsidies
    • On-Site Gym
    • Mental Health Benefits
  • Parental Benefits

    • Adoption Assistance Program
    • Family Support Resources
    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
    • Adoption Leave
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Remote Work Opportunities
    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Commuter Benefits Program
    • Casual Dress
    • On-Site Cafeteria
    • Holiday Events
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Unlimited Paid Time Off
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Summer Fridays
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K)
    • Stock Purchase Program
    • Performance Bonus
    • Relocation Assistance
    • Financial Counseling
    • Profit Sharing
  • Professional Development

    • Tuition Reimbursement
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Lunch and Learns
    • Leadership Training Program
    • Internship Program
    • Associate or Rotational Training Program
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
    • Unconscious Bias Training

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