Siemens

Substation Project Manager

Siemens • $100K — $130K *
Raleigh, NC 27610In-Person
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
Reposted 2 days ago
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or management
  • 5+ years of experience in substations or project management
  • Strong expertise in AIS, transformers, breakers, and MV/HV gas-insulated switchgear
  • Excellent communication and leadership skills
  • Demonstrated experience in process improvement and quality management
  • Willingness to travel up to 30% domestically and internationally

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary contact for customers and stakeholders on multiple substation projects
  • Manage several projects simultaneously, ensuring schedule adherence and customer satisfaction
  • Lead key project management activities including scheduling, budgeting, and risk control
  • Oversee all stages of project execution from handover to completion
  • Take full profit and loss (P&L) accountability for assigned projects
  • Capture and share lessons learned to reduce non-conformance costs while collaborating with global teams

Benefits

  • Career growth and development opportunities
  • Company paid health and wellness benefits
  • Paid time off and holidays
  • 401K savings plan with company match
  • Family building benefits
  • Parental leave
Full Job Description
A Snapshot of Your Day

Join our Business Unit Transmission and play a pivotal role in delivering innovative products, solutions, and services that keep energy flowing efficiently. As part of our Substations Group - backed by more than 20 years of leadership in the U.S. market - you'll take on complex system projects that bring entire substations to life. You'll work on expansion, replacement, and upgrading initiatives, providing complete electrification from planning through execution. Every day, you'll contribute to projects that power communities, strengthen grid reliability, and advance the energy transition. Additionally, you'll work alongside a diverse, multicultural Substations team - connecting with colleagues across Germany, Canada, and beyond - to sharpen your technical expertise, accelerate your professional growth, and strengthen your coaching and leadership skills in a supportive, team-driven culture.

How You'll Make an Impact
  • Serve as the primary contact for customers and stakeholders on multiple substation projects, ensuring clear communication and strong relationships.
  • Manage several projects at once, driving schedule adherence, maintaining high customer satisfaction, and delivering solid financial results.
  • Lead key project management activities such as scheduling, budgeting, risk control, change management, opportunity assessment, and forecasting.
  • Oversee every stage of project execution - from handover to final construction completion - while ensuring quality and safety standards.
  • Take full profit and loss (P&L) accountability for your assigned projects, tracking performance against targets.
  • Capture and share lessons learned, actively reducing or eliminating non-conformance costs (NCCs) while collaborating closely with local and global teams and expanding your expertise in AIS, GIS, and Substation products.
What You Bring
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or management with 5+ years' experience in substations or project management.
  • Solid substation expertise - covering AIS, transformers, breakers, MV/HV gas-insulated switchgear, and balance-of-plant (BOP) equipment - paired with a strong work ethic, a continuous learning mindset, and preferably Project Management certifications such as PMP or IPMA.
  • An excellent communicator with proven leadership, team building, customer-facing expertise, and strong organizational and time-management skills to effectively handle multiple priorities.
  • Demonstrated expertise in process improvement, quality management, and collaborating effectively with global teams.
  • Willing to travel up to 30% domestically and internationally.
  • Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States without need for current or future employer-sponsored work authorization. Siemens Energy employees with current visa sponsorship may be eligible for internal transfers.
About the Team

Grid Technologies

Our Grid Technology division 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.

Rewards
  • Career growth and development opportunities; supportive work culture
  • Company paid Health and wellness benefits
  • Paid Time Off and paid holidays
  • 401K savings plan with company match
  • Family building benefits
  • Parental leave
https://jobs.siemens-energy.com/jobs

About Siemens

Siemens AG is a German multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Munich and the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe with branch offices abroad. The principal divisions of the company are Industry, Energy, Healthcare, and Infrastructure & Cities, which represent the main activities of the company. The company is a prominent maker of medical diagnostics equipment and its medical health-care division, which generates about 12 percent of the company's total sales, is its second-most profitable unit, after the industrial automation division. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index. Siemens and its subsidiaries employ approximately 385,000 people worldwide and reported global revenue of around €87 billion in 2019 according to its earnings release.
Learn more about Siemens
Size
305,000 employees
Industry
Business Services
Founded
1847
NASDAQ
SIEGY
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