Senior Project Manager

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The Control Hardware Project Management consist of a group of highly experienced and diverse Project Managers and Planners who work across Platform, technology and legacy portfolio.

The department is part of the Control Hardware organization which are delivering the turbine Hardware infrastructure including Electronics, Cables, Sensors, Panels and Power supplies. We have a specific focus on continuous improvements and seeks to optimize the way we work. The department has a mix of Technology development and Project execution.

Responsibilities

• Identifying, planning, and coordinating a set of related projects within programme and managing their interdependencies in support to specific business case priorities.
• Typical responsibilities may include but not limited to
  • Ensuring strategic view over the set of projects
  • Providing the framework for implementing business cases, or large-scale change, by conceiving, maintaining, and communicating a vision of the outcome of the programme and associated benefits
  • Ensuring agreement of business requirements to translate these into operational plans
  • Determining, monitoring, and reviewing programme scope, costs, and schedule programme resources, interdependencies, and programme risks
  • Foreseeing, understanding risk with regards to time, quality, performance, resource, and realization and providing mitigative action in supporting the business cases
• Delivery of agreed project scope within the tolerances for time, cost, quality, scope, risks, and benefits
• Plan, monitor, implement, and control the project according to Vestas Governance and report to relevant stakeholders
• Ensure value chain alignment with a large range of project stakeholders
• Setup an effective organization of your projects including a good governance - Project Leadership is key in this role
• Ensure proper project risk management 

Qualifications

• Master's / Bachelor's in any engineering specialization
• We expect that you have a Diploma or Master level education within relevant academic field (e.g. Engineering or Business)
• Minimum 10+ years of proven experience in managing medium to high complexity R&D projects in a matrix organization with multi-disciplinary and multicultural teams
• Ideally have achieved recognized Project Management accreditation (typically Prince2, PMI or similar)
• Solid language skills (verbal and written) in English are required
• Experienced user of project management tools such as MS Project and JIRA
• Ideally have experience in Stage Gate Model project delivery

Competencies

• Having wide-ranging experience in area of at least one specialization; impacting the achievement of own and other functional goals across value chain; work is guided by defined processes
• Acting as key advisory in area of specialization. Taking responsibility for meeting allocated technical or project/supervisory priorities
• Exercising latitude in determining goals and approaches to key assignments
• Contributing to the development of organizational standards to achieve goals with delegation and define standards for the task and delivery
• Has a robust understanding of the relationship between own specialization and wider customer/organizational requirements
• Creatively applying a range of specialist skills to perform an extensive range of varied and complex work activities to develop and develop new ideas and deliver solutions
• Shall communicate complex concepts and negotiates with others to adopt/adapt a different point of view. Convincing others where shared interest exists to accept new concepts, practices, and approaches
• Taking on functional specialism leadership role and creating knowledge and innovation across. Identifying, utilizing, and developing knowledge networks
• Developing specialized teams / task force technically with moderate and complex impact issues. Establishing milestones and playing significant role in the assignment of tasks or responsibilities
• Solving complex conceptual issues based on existing precedents or procedures while managing senior stakeholders by focusing on solutions

What We Offer

We offer an opportunity to be part of a good team in an exciting business with very good products, supporting Vestas' overall mission. The working environment in Control Hardware is informal but with clear direction. You will be part of an effective matrix organization split between line management, technical leadership and project execution.

Additional Information

Your primary workplace will be Vestas India, Chennai.

Please note: We do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to the advertised closing date. Please be advised to apply on or before 30th April 2024.

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About Vestas
Vestas is the energy industry’s global partner on sustainable energy solutions. We are specialised in designing, manufacturing, installing, and servicing wind turbines, both onshore and offshore. 
Across the globe, we have installed more wind power than anyone else. We consider ourselves pioneers within the industry, as we continuously aim to design new solutions and technologies to create a more sustainable future for all of us. With more than 173 GW of wind power installed worldwide and 40+ years of experience in wind energy, we have an unmatched track record demonstrating our expertise within the field. 
With 29,000 employees globally, we are a diverse team united by a common goal: to power the solution – today, tomorrow, and far into the future. 
Vestas promotes a diverse workforce which embraces all social identities and is free of any discrimination. We commit to create and sustain an environment that acknowledges and harvests different experiences, skills, and perspectives. We also aim to give everyone equal access to opportunity. 
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