Senior Project Manager

Are you ready to lead high‑stakes investigations that involve people, customers, and turbines worldwide? In this role as Senior Project Manager within CIM Serious Incidents, you will oversee urgent incident responses, ensuring swift containment, thorough root cause investigations, and alignment across global teams. This is a rare opportunity to combine deep turbine knowledge with senior stakeholder exposure at one of the world’s leading renewable energy companies.

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In CIM Serious Incident team, we are working across the value chain to manage immediate containment actions, safety and root cause analysis on complex serious incidents. A Serious incident is an unexpected issue to the product that require urgent and immediate response. We respond immediately and collaborate with R&D, component suppliers, Service, and customers and many other stakeholders to manage project execution and ensure timely resolutions that improves customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities

As Senior Project Manager in CIM Serious Incident your key responsibilities and tasks will be:

• Lead serious incident projects involving turbines, from incident occurrence through root cause analysis
• Ensure immediate and fast engagement with customers, service, modules, and stakeholders across the value chain
• Drive the DMAIC process (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control)
• Coordinate and lead cross-functional teams, ensuring stakeholders are booked, aligned, motivated, and progressing
• Deliver incident and customer reports, explaining the investigation process and conclusions.
• High visibility projects with significant internal and external attention

You will work closely with Regional Business Units, Production Business Units, Group and regional Communications, R&D departments and Management to carry out all tasks above

Qualifications

The most important thing is that you know how a wind turbine functions and have proficiency in project management of complex technical nature. Other important qualifications for performing well in this job are:

• Bachelor's or master's degree and extensive experience from the wind industry
• You hold a project management certification such as Prince 2, IPMA or equivalent
• Familiarity with Continuous Improvement Management

Competencies

• Advanced and collaborative stakeholder engagement towards a variety of stakeholders, including customers
• Demonstrated ability to lead and guide cross-functional collaboration across different cultures and ensure fast execution on a project
• Are consistent and resourceful, able to decide on a course of action and implement it without oversight
• The ability to work in a time-sensitive situation with a pragmatic approach
• Being a convincing communicator who knows how to motivate project teams is key to delivering results in this role
• Good English communication skills, both written and spoken
• The ability to handle multiple projects and activities simultaneously you are responsive and address issues promptly when they arise

What we offer

We offer a challenging role, a supportive learning environment, and clear paths for career growth with a global leader in wind turbine manufacturing. You will become part of a highly professional culturally diverse team in a constantly growing industry. We value initiative and the balance between creativity and quality in all solutions, and this is a chance to shape our service strategy. You will become part of an experienced team in a highly professional environment with deep technical commitment. This is a role with high exposure to executive leadership.

Additional information

Location: DK, Ringkøbing preferred or Aarhus, PT, Porto and IN, Chennai could be considered for the right candidate.

Expected travel up to 6 trips annually.

If you have any further questions, you are welcome to reach out to Henrik Aarup, Chief Project Manager, at (45) 25461525 during normal working hours.

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis, however, 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 21st May 2026. 

Our commitment to a fair hiring.

 At Vestas, we evaluate all candidates solely based on their professional experience, education, and relevant skills. To support a fair recruitment process, we kindly ask that you remove any photos, dates of birth or graduation, gender pronouns, marital status, or other personal information not relevant to the role before submitting your CV/resume. Your CV/resume should focus on your professional and educational background, along with the necessary contact details (email and phone number). We train our hiring teams in inclusive evaluation and regularly review process outcomes to ensure fairness.

DEIB Statement

 
At Vestas, we recognize the value of diversity, equity, and inclusion in driving innovation and success. We strongly encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply, particularly those who may hesitate due to their identity or feel they do not meet every criterion. As our CEO states, "Expertise and talent come in many forms, and a diverse workforce enhances our ability to think differently and solve the complex challenges of our industry". Your unique perspective is what will help us powering the solution for a sustainable, green energy future.

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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 185 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 30,000 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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