- Senior
- Bureau à Campinas
Job Description Summary
We are seeking an experienced Sr Project Manager to lead complex, multidisciplinary projects involving the design, manufacture, testing, and delivery of large rotating machines, with a particular focus on synchronous condensers.The selected candidate will be responsible for end-to-end project execution — from engineering through manufacturing, factory testing, shipment, and site commissioning — ensuring technical, schedule, and financial objectives are met.
This role requires close collaboration with international engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing teams across multiple time zones and cultures.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
- Lead full project lifecycle for large rotating equipment (design, manufacturing, testing, delivery, and commissioning).
- Coordinate multidisciplinary teams (engineering, supply chain, sourcing, quality, and services) across global locations.
- Ensure on-time, on-budget, and quality-compliant project execution, managing interfaces among global factories and engineering centers. Owns the alignment of the functions to a consolidate project schedule.
- Oversee design and manufacturing reviews, ensuring adherence to customer specifications and applicable standards (IEC, NEMA, API, etc.).
- Provide transparent project updates — progress, risks, mitigations, financial status — to senior management and customers.
- Facilitate cross-cultural collaboration and maintain strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Manage commercial aspects of the project: forecasting, invoicing, and claims/change management. Keep close connection with customer (internal and external) through the complete project cycle.
- Support customer meetings, inspections, and factory acceptance tests (FATs).
- Foster a culture of safety, quality, and continuous improvement across all project activities.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Energy Engineering (or related field).
- Solid experience in project management or engineering management of large rotating machines (generators, motors, or synchronous condensers).
- Strong understanding of electromechanical design and manufacturing processes (stators, rotors, auxiliaries, balance-of-plant).
- Proven track record of managing complex international projects with cross-functional and cross-cultural teams.
- Fluency in English and Portuguese (spoken and written).
- Demonstrated ability to work under pressure, prioritize competing demands, and deliver to tight schedules.
- Strong communication and leadership skills — able to influence, align, and drive accountability across matrix organizations.
- Willingness to travel internationally for project and customer meetings (~10–20%).
- Experience with synchronous condenser projects or other large synchronous machines.
- Familiarity with factory operations and testing of high-power electrical machines.
Preferred Qualifications:
- PMP or equivalent project management certification.
- Desirable knowledge on French;
- Working knowledge of ERP / project control systems (SAP, Primavera, etc.).
- Logistics rules like incoterm, HS Code.
Behaviors:
- SQDC priority in that order in the behaviors;
- Lean Culture (kaizen, TT,LT,MLT) & quality solving tool;
Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: No