Head of Order & Project Management (m/f/d) Medium Power Transformers

A Snapshot of Your Day

The Head of Order & Project Management (m/f/d) Medium Power Transformers leads the team responsible for managing the Medium Power Transformer project portfolio within an Engineering-to-Order business. This involves translating customer specifications into internal factory orders and ensuring projects are completed within targets for schedule, costs, and quality while meeting customer requirements. Key responsibilities include coaching and developing the team, enhancing margins, managing risks and opportunities, and overseeing change orders and claims. The role requires strong moderation and presentation skills, as well as the ability to define and improve process standards.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Lead and develop the order management team with a focus on resource planning, coaching, and development to achieve project targets and improve margins
• Monitor project progress, ensure financial control, and maintain quality and data integrity in collaboration with the Commercial Project Manager (CPM), while identifying opportunities for project and process improvements
• Conduct regular project reviews with stakeholders and senior management, utilizing strong moderation and presentation skills to ensure overall factory performance
• Implement and maintain project management standards and tools, including phases, milestones, and quality gates, in alignment with sister factories
• Facilitate risk and opportunity management, change orders, and claims, coordinating with Offer Management when necessary, and act as a thought partner for complex projects. Handle and support complex customer communications to ensure clarity and satisfaction

What You Bring

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Business Management or equivalent relevant professional experience
• Extensive experience in a manufacturing environment
• Proficiency in project management (ideally certified), team leadership, and process digitalization and visualization
• Strong knowledge of risk, quality, and conflict management
• Excellent command of German and English, ideally acquired in an intercultural setting

About the Team

Our Grid Technology team enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid. The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character - no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits

• The opportunity to engage in an exciting environment on meaningful projects
• Career development opportunities
• Supportive work culture and International environment
• Flexible working times
• Canteen or meal contributions
• Pension fund

At Siemens Energy we offer competitive compensation and additional benefits based on your performance, experience and qualification. Due to the Austrian legal regulations, we are obliged to state the minimum salary for this position. Please note that there is a clear willingness for a higher compensation considering your individual expectations, expertise and skills. The minimum salary for this position in the collective agreement for the electrical and electronics industry is in the amount of EUR 79.204,72 gross/year for a full-time position (38,5 h/week).

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