Siemens

Substation Project Manager

Siemens$90K — $130K *
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, management, or related field.
  • Minimum of 5 years of project management experience in substations.
  • Experience with AIS, transformers, breakers, and gas-insulated switchgear.
  • Strong communication, leadership, and team-building skills.
  • Proven track record in process improvement and quality management.
  • Project Management certifications (e.g., PMP, IPMA) preferred.
  • Willingness to travel up to 30% and relocate to Raleigh, NC.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary point of contact for customers and stakeholders on multiple substation projects.
  • Manage simultaneous projects to ensure timeline and budget adherence.
  • Lead scheduling, budgeting, risk management, and opportunity assessment activities.
  • Oversee the project execution phases from handover to construction completion.
  • Maintain full P&L responsibility and capture lessons learned for continuous improvement.
  • Collaborate with global and local teams to enhance knowledge of AIS and GIS products.

Benefits

  • Annual performance bonus
  • Career growth and development opportunities
  • Supportive work culture with a healthy work-life balance
  • Company-paid health and wellness benefits
  • Paid time off and holidays
  • 401k/Savings Plan
  • Family building benefits
  • Parental leave
  • Competitive total rewards package
Full Job Description
Snapshot of Your Day

You'll oversee multiple substation projects as the main point of contact for customers and stakeholders, ensuring timelines, budgets, and customer expectations are met. Your day centers on guiding projects from handover through construction close-out while managing planning, forecasting, risk, and change activities.

You'll own full P&L accountability, drive continuous improvement by capturing lessons learned and minimizing non-conformance costs, and work closely with global and local teams as you deepen your knowledge of AIS, GIS, and substation solutions.

How You'll Make an Impact
  • Serve as the primary customer and stakeholder point of contact across multiple substation projects.
  • Manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring schedule adherence, customer satisfaction, and financial performance.
  • Lead core project management activities, including scheduling, budgeting, risk and change management, opportunity assessment, and forecasting.
  • Oversee all phases of project execution from handover through construction completion.
  • Maintain full profit and loss (P&L) responsibility while capturing lessons learned and reducing non-conformance costs (NCCs).
  • Collaborate daily with global and local teams while continuously building expertise in AIS, GIS, and substation products.

What You Bring
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or management or related field, with a minimum of 5 years in substations, preferably in project management.
  • Substation experience, including but not limited to: AIS, transformers, breakers, MV/HV gas-insulated switchgear, and balance-of-plant (BOP) equipment.
  • Excellent communication, leadership, team-building, and customer-facing skills.
  • Demonstrated experience in process improvement, quality management, and working with global teams.
  • Project Management certifications preferred (e.g., PMP, IPMA).
  • Ability to travel up to 30% domestically and on occasion internationally.
  • If not already local to Raleigh, NC, the selected candidate must be willing to relocate (relocation assistance provided)
  • Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future employer-sponsored work authorization. Siemens Energy employees with existing US visa sponsorship may be eligible for internal transfer.

Your Opportunities for Personal Growth
  • Work within a diverse Substations team with a wide range of skills and backgrounds, enhancing both your technical and professional development.
  • Leverage the deep expertise of the Substation team as a powerful source of learning and career advancement.
  • Strengthen your coaching and leadership skills through collaborative team environments.
  • Gain exposure to a highly diverse, multicultural work environment with international collaboration across Germany, Canada, and colleagues of many nationalities.

About the Team

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.

Our Substations Group is a key contributor of our Transmission Business Unit with more than 20 years leadership in the US Market. Leader and where we perform complex Systems projects, offering complete electrification of those Substations.

Rewards
  • Competitive base salary
  • Annual performance bonus
  • Career growth and development opportunities
  • Supportive work culture and a healthy work- life balance
  • Company paid Health and wellness benefits.
  • Paid Time Off and paid holidays
  • 401k / Savings Plan
  • Family building benefits
  • Parental leave
  • Competitive total rewards package

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.
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