Hybrid Project Management Specialist – Project Planning

at GE Vernova

• Job title: Project Management Specialist – Project Planning
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior, Mid level
• Salary: $80,700 - $121,100 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Oakbrook Terrace, United States

About the role

• Project Management Specialist overseeing project planning, budgets, and customer satisfaction in hybrid role at GE Vernova. Responsible for project delivery, financials, and team collaboration for successful project completion.

Responsibilities

• responsible for project delivery, profit & loss accountability, and customer satisfaction through management of project related activities and resources
• Builds tender integrated schedules and cost estimates
• Build project schedule and project budgeting in cost and schedule tools
• Ensures compliance to the Global Standard process for Project Controls
• Support PM to align project budgets to as sold in appropriate systems
• Maintain project schedule and cost forecast throughout project
• Analyze schedule and cost trends and provide forecasted cost and schedules to project team
• Maintain a register of potential schedule and cost risks
• Maintain a register of actual and committed costs
• Checks and controls cost movements, compares with current scope and progress as well as with previous forecast
• Communicates schedule and cost status/forecasts/risk to functional cost owners and drives/supports risk mitigation
• Provides internal and external project reporting of project status
• Collaborate with 3rd parties on project cost and schedules
• Provides change order calculations to ensure schedule and cost estimates are accurate
• Updates change in appropriate systems to ensure costs are aligned to the current situation
• New Orders booking and maintaining
• Responsible for timely and accurately processing of project financials (Margin as Sold, current as sold, and current forecast) from order booking to project completion
• Ensure that project data reporting is in line between SAP and approved Project Reviews in Unifier according to budget deviation approved
• Prepare and participate in cash sessions: identification of invoicing triggering events, invoice format, steps from invoice generation until payment, preparation of project cash instruction
• Ownership of timely invoicing with documentation and cash collection on the project
• Coordinate and effectively manage all internal financial interfaces on the project such as participating units
• Support project close out and claims
• Lead the team of Project Cost Control analysts on larger projects

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma / GED with at least 3 years of experience in Job Family Group(s)/Function(s))
• Demonstrate strong proficiency in English language (oral and written)
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel
• Minimum of 2 years planning projects
• Minimum of 2 years providing cost controlling on projects
• Ability and willingness to travel 10% of the time, and must comply with all relevant company travel and tax policies
• Team player with a proactive, collaborative approach and strong attention to details
• Lead planner on 2+ turnkey projects
• Basic knowledge of Primavera P6 & SAP
• Excellent time management, organizational and data driven skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
• access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource
• access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services
• GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions
• access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants
• tuition assistance
• adoption assistance
• paid parental leave
• disability benefits
• life insurance
• 12 paid holidays
• permissive time off