Lead Project Manager

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.

GE Vernova - The Energy to Change the World

With over 130 years of experience and proven innovation, GE Vernova is leading a new era of energy. We are electrifying the world while working to decarbonize it. Our name reflects our mission. "GE" carries a legacy of quality and ingenuity. "Ver" signals Earth's lush ecosystems, while "Nova" nods to a new era of lower-carbon energy we are helping to deliver.

Focused on the future, GE Vernova is accelerating the shift to reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy. We help customers power economies and deliver electricity vital to health, safety, and quality of life.

Let's Talk about the Role
As a Lead Project Manager, you will be responsible for managing customer equipment, facilities, or infrastructure-related projects, ensuring successful project delivery, financial performance (P&L), and customer satisfaction.

The role involves overseeing project-related activities and resources, with accountability for planning and execution. You will have a certain degree of autonomy and responsibility for departmental operations, while working within established functional practices, procedures, and guidelines. Some decision-making and judgment will be required, generally with guidance from more senior colleagues.

Key responsibilities

• Act as a single point of contact for customer contacts and internal / external project team.
• Contracts scope, terms and conditions, risk and opportunities and project milestones analysis
• Customer kick-off meeting plus regular progress reviews as per contract and/or customer requirements and confirm strong customer intimacy.
• Kick-off meeting with Grid Solutions supplying units and other internal contributors to confirm roles and responsibilities plus regular project progress reviews with involved teams starting at the transfer review with tendering/commercial teams till close out review.
• Strong communication with customer teams to support supplying units for engineering approvals and facilitate the progress of activities and the on-time delivery.
• Coordinate all local activities related to the project (Field Service Team, local procurement, logistics, management of local subcontractors in charge of site activities, installation of supplied equipment, coordination of site activities in compliance with EHS standards with close coordination with supplying units, subcontractors, and customer...)
• Ensure Risk & Opportunities regular assessment, ensure follow-up of actions plan and claim management when required.
• Close follow-up of budget and actual costs to ensure that project finance performance is achieved (Materials, labor, logistic, site subcontractor and other costs), propose options/alternatives to optimize the costs permitting to improve projects profitability.
• Ensure and control the sales, invoicing to customer and cash targets for the projects. Close follow-up of customer payments. On time reporting and forecast.
• EHS : ensure EHS provisions for contract team and customers are met at site, compliant with actual GE EHS rules
• Strong coordination with tendering and commercial teams to prepare the offers and negotiate the contracts. Strong return of experience required to prepare future offers, with a desirable basic knowledge of Italian procurement law.
• In coordination with commercial team, support to develop business opportunities.