Senior Project Manager
About The Position
If you thrive on leading complex projects, navigating senior stakeholders and bringing global teams together, this could be your next challenge. You’ll manage major New Product Introductions and Technology Transfers within Vestas’ global nacelle manufacturing organization and lead projects that can span multiple locations, workstreams and functions. Bring your experience, leadership, and curiosity to a role where you can make a tangible contribution to the future of renewable energy. Technology & Operations > Manufacturing > Nacelles Industrialization Project Management Nacelles Industrialization Project Management delivers projects withing Vestas' global nacelle manufacturing footprint by efficiently planning and executing the Manufacturing project portfolio in a safe, high-quality, timely and cost-effective way. We are a team of almost 15 project managers headed from Denmark but located in multiple geographical locations and with different cultural backgrounds. We are hiring a Senior Project Manager to manage one of our key New Product Introductions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in project management, management discipline or engineering
- IPMA C, PRINCE2, PMP or similar project management certificate
- 7+ years project management experience
- Previously responsible for 10 mEUR+ capital expenditures projects
- Proficient communication and presentation skills in English, both verbally and in writing
Nice To Haves
- Know-how from the wind industry will be an advantage, but it is not a must
- Value chain understanding
- Market and customer understanding
- Business case understanding
- Steering Committee facilitation and governance
- Situational Leadership - Leading over distance and across cultures including Leading leaders
- Project budgeting, controlling and accounting
- Risk management
- Project planning, monitoring and control
- You take accountability for your team's performance, responsibility for your decisions and speak up when facing challenges and issues
- You are able to build trust and fully empower your project team to ensure full engagement and utilization of skills and competencies, allowing you to keep the overview
- You communicate upwards, outwards and downwards in an open, direct and clear way to ensure full transparency and alignment
- You approach your projects with curiosity and execute diligently, steadily and purposefully with focus on cooperation, stakeholder management and "what is best for Vestas"
Responsibilities
- Ensure all launches (NPI, Tech Transfers and Module Updates) are carried out successfully with manufacturing stability and proper training to local employees
- Developing and leading robust project organizations, managing all aspects of the project across the value chain with project management best practices and in compliance with Vestas project processes
- Delivery of agreed project results within the tolerances for scope, quality, time, cost, risks and benefits
- Own project governance, stakeholder management, finances, resources and planning; lead workstreams/sub-PMs and move decisions through senior steering committees
- Larger programmes can involve around 250 participants and 10 workstreams
- Projects may also include manufacturing optimization and digital manufacturing transformation / IT implementation
- Long term, raise the maturity and quality of project leadership across Manufacturing
Benefits
- great professional and personal development opportunities
- highly professional, international work environment
- top manufacturer of wind turbines
- most sustainable company in the world
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
