The role is opened remotely for The Netherlands, with a travel rate of 25% across the country

　　The Senior Project Manager is responsible to ensure the successful delivery of medium / large projects for strategic Utilities, Renewables & Industrial customers. Such projects are mainly for Electrical Systems & Solutions business unit, and would be responsible for overseeing the design, supply, installation and testing works.

　　Working as an integral part of the EMEA Customer Project Management organization, the Senior Project Manager can work from a local (or home) base, whilst travelling (25%) as needed to other locations in the Netherlands, FAT at suppliers or to the construction sites during implementation phases. The role requires an experienced, composed, highly motivated, self-starter who can effectively communicate and work with a wide variety of stakeholders in a dynamic environment.

　　Eaton's projects can involve every aspect of power distribution from MV to LV equipment.

　　Project Management: MV switchgear, LV switchgear, transformers, containerized turnkey solutions, control and automation, protection studies.

　　Experience with electrical utilities, critical infrastructures, oil and gas industry would be an asset.

　　The role owns and manages projects from initial project handover from the bid team. This encompasses additional scope clarification and design, procurement, scheduling, factory site acceptance tests, and then the actual site logistics and testing, documentation, reporting, and so forth up until the completion of the formal project closeout. The Senior Project Manager identifies and liaises as required with the internal and external key stakeholders including product engineering, consultants, general/electrical contractors, and internal support organizations such as order processing, supply chain, legal and finance. The Senior Project Manager must identify and ensure proper onboarding and coordination of both internal and external (e.g. 3rd party suppliers and subcontractors) parties to ensure efficient execution of assigned projects. The role owns the project budget and raises/manages variation orders as needed and is expected to provide technical and customer knowledge leadership within the wider organization, and this role requires an experienced, composed, highly motivated, self-starter who can effectively communicate and work with a wide variety of stakeholders in a dynamic environment.

　　The role is handling 1-3 projects simultaneously, dependent of complexity and volume.

　　Projects vary from €250.000 to €15 Mln. per order.

　　You will also coordinate a project team (multidisciplinary, 10-20 employees, internal and external) and contract parties in various countries in the EMEA region.

　　Responsibilities:

　　Use modern project management practices and techniques to execute projects from PO to handover to service. This includes design engineering, procurement, and implementation of projects electrical and/or automation projects for critical infrastructure.Take full responsibility for his/her assigned projects and bring them to successful completion using Eaton project management processes and tools, plus managing the people and resources who deliver the project. Identify, build, and maintain a project team. Organize kick-off then regular meetings, and ensure clear scope and understanding of deliverables for all internal (e.g. engineering, procurement, service) and external stakeholders (e.g. customers, end users, contractors, 3rd parties, subcontractors)Provide regular reporting to both internal and external stakeholders to ensure common understanding of progress toward the project's deliverables.Own the project schedule: Build, maintain, and regularly update and communicate the project schedule for all assigned projects (MS Projects), including the required support resources to execute (e.g. FSEs, Engineering).Identify and maintain a risk register, while actively working to mitigate and/or eliminate potential problems.Work with Eaton internal engineering teams to align on the definition of deliverables as per technical specification and customer requirements.Provide design submissions and confirmations for the projects to the customer and wider community from initial design submissions through design confirmation following the customer processes. Manage the project margin by controlling costs, managing variations, and regularly report out the financial forecast and status as required. This includes managing and controlling costs for Eaton internal and 3rd party external support.The Project Manager ensures that projects are successful in terms of all key metrics such as safety, customer satisfaction, financial performance (profitability, revenue and cash-flow) and project execution timing.Training/Transition: The Project Manager will organize and often lead the customer (and internal) training at project closure, hand over to the Eaton service support teams, and do a full lessons-learned close out of the projects.The Project Manager may also be called on to provide occasion support for other sites where expertise is lacking to support customer needs.Continually identify ways to improve the way Eaton execute projects and share learning. This may involve developing new initiatives and recommending better ways to work based on analysis and learning on sites as well as overall customer trends. Compiling and managing a multidisciplinary project team.First point of contact for warranties and claims.English and Dutch language skills are required.

　　Qualifications:

　　10-15+ years of project management, experience with other large and complex industrial projects will also be considered.A strong electrical / mechanical background.A Bachelors' Degree or Masters' Degree from an accredited institution with a strong preference toward electrical / mechanical engineering is highly desirable.Product portfolio & possible applications for standard and non-standard systems is a plus.Experience with Project Management of major capital goods (ideally electrical / mechanical) and experience in renewables, utilities and large industry is a plusA strong personal presence and proven ability to manage others is highly desirable.

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