Senior Project Manager – Grid Automation

About the Opportunity

Senior Project Manager – Grid Automation | Stafford or Glasgow, United Kingdom

Do you want to take ownership of complex Grid Automation projects that are helping modernise electricity networks and enable the energy transition across the United Kingdom and Northern Europe?

GE Vernova is looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager to join our expanding Grid Automation North Europe Cluster, within Grid Solutions.

Based primarily in Stafford, with Glasgow available as an alternative location, you will lead the delivery of technically complex and commercially significant Grid Automation projects across the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Nordic region.

About the Role

Reporting to the Grid Automation North Europe Operations Manager, you will lead the strategy, planning and delivery of multiple complex Grid Automation projects, including offshore wind, transmission and distribution projects.

You will take ownership from contract handover through engineering, procurement, manufacturing, site delivery, commissioning and final customer acceptance, including Provisional Acceptance Certificate or Taking Over Certificate milestones.

This is a senior, customer-facing and commercially accountable role. You will balance customer expectations, technical delivery, schedule, quality and financial performance while leading multidisciplinary teams across a complex matrix organisation.

The position is currently an individual contributor role without direct reports. However, you will coach and support other Project Managers, share lessons learned and help strengthen project-management capability across the organisation. For someone with the right leadership potential, the role may also offer future development towards a Project Management Team Leader position.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of several complex Grid Automation projects running in parallel.
• Develop project execution strategies and management plans aligned with contractual requirements, customer expectations and business objectives.
• Define project governance, lead gate and progress reviews, and coordinate engineering, procurement, manufacturing, field services, commercial and finance teams.
• Secure the resources required for successful delivery and address roadblocks, performance issues and cross-functional dependencies.
• Take responsibility for the full project scope, analysing customer and contractual requirements and identifying gaps, inconsistencies or changes.

About You

Skills For Success

You will be an experienced project-delivery professional who thrives on complexity, accountability and customer engagement.

You Will Bring

• Substantial experience managing complex projects within Grid Automation, transmission and distribution, Protection and Control, substation automation or a closely related power-sector environment.
• Experience managing projects through the full lifecycle, from contract handover through commissioning and customer acceptance.
• Experience leading several active projects or a complex project portfolio in parallel.
• Strong knowledge of project scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk and contractual management.
• Commercial accountability for project profit and loss, margin, costs, forecasting and revenue.

Eligibility

Desirable Experience

Direct experience delivering offshore wind, offshore substation or renewable grid-connection projects would be advantageous, but it is not an absolute requirement.

We are also interested in candidates who have managed similarly complex projects within:

• Grid Automation
• Protection and Control
• Substation automation
• Transmission infrastructure
• Renewable grid connections
• HVDC-related systems
• Complex electrical EPC projects
• Power-system integration

Benefits

Education

A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering or a related technical discipline is preferred.

However, we are most interested in your overall experience, technical knowledge and professional achievements. Candidates with substantial equivalent experience gained within Grid Automation, Protection and Control, transmission and distribution or a related environment will also be considered.

About Company

The Approach We Are Looking For

You will take full ownership of project outcomes and approach each project with an entrepreneurial mindset.

You will be comfortable identifying problems without waiting for detailed direction, driving actions across teams, maintaining momentum during complex challenges and protecting project schedule, quality, margin and customer relationships.

You will bring energy, resilience and a practical, solutions-focused approach to project delivery.