Project Director (f/m/d)

About the Role

Job ID
298328
Location
Germany
Hessen
Frankfurt am Main
Remote vs. Office
Hybrid (Remote/Office)
Company
Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
Organization
Gas Services
Business Unit
Solutions
Full / Part time
Full-time
Experience Level
Senior Management / Executive
A Snapshot of Your Day 

As the Project Director Power Plant Solutions, you take full ownership of the overall project delivery and lead from the front in problem-solving mode, while keeping the teams aligned, focused, and accountable. In a typical week, you represent the project status to clients, management, and other stakeholders with clarity and confidence. During safety walks on site, you engage with colleagues at all levels to reinforce safe execution and a strong ownership mindset. You remain in control across all phases—from engineering and inspections at our manufacturing facilities to construction site execution—driving the project relentlessly toward successful completion. Every day, you connect with numerous stakeholders, build commitment, and create the team spirit required for everyone to treat the project as their own. You combine different project management methods with an entrepreneurial mindset, balancing process discipline with result orientation in the best interest of the project.

How You’ll Make an Impact 
  • Take full ownership for the on-time delivery of permit documentation according to BImSchG
  • Take full entrepreneurial responsibility for delivering and managing large EPC projects in the Power Plant Solutions business, including cost, schedule, functionality, quality, and customer satisfaction
  • Report to the responsible Business Manager and lead the overall project scope, covering gas and steam turbine generators, heat recovery steam generators, instrumentation and control, electrical equipment, machinery equipment, civil works, and installation packages across all phases from design, procurement, manufacturing, and installation through to commissioning
  • Own risk, opportunity, and issue management end-to-end by defining robust mitigation strategies and actively converting challenges into value-creating opportunities
  • Contribute actively during the bid phase, ensuring that risk assessments are carried into project execution, bid costing is reviewed for financial robustness, and technical, commercial, and contractual requirements are managed with an entrepreneurial focus on value, risk, and opportunity
  • Lead negotiations with stakeholders on change requests and their contractual incorporation
  • Drive Project Excellence@Siemens Energy planning elements and milestone work results, set up and maintain the Project Management Plan, and define and control the project team’s adherence to the QA and HSSE plans
  • Manage customer expectations and requirements with clear accountability for functionality, quality, and the overall value of the provided solution
  • Ensure efficient communication with all relevant stakeholders and foster transparent, targeted, and inclusive communication within the project team to build trust, alignment, and shared ownership
  • Establish a framework for regular compliance checks across the project and promote a culture in which compliance, accountability, and responsible decision-making are owned by the full team
What You Bring
  • > 60 months of international project management experience leading complex A-type projects with full delivery ownership
  • University degree within mechanical engineering, electrical engineering or other equivalent engineering sciences
  • Long-term experience in project management methods and tools, with proven exposure to power projects and complex EPC business environments
  • Strong leadership experience, including people management, development, team motivation, and the ability to create a project culture in which the team takes ownership and delivers as one
  • Proven commercial mindset and solid understanding of project economics in the power business, with the ability to act entrepreneurially within the project framework
  • Proven EHS Leadership and advanced know-how in Compliance Regulations as well as expert knowledge of international rules and regulations relevant for Project Management, Supply Chain Management, Asset Management and Global Procurement 
  • Business fluent English and German skills, expectation of extensive amount of travel as well as experienced in the German permitting process BImSchG
  • Project Director certification for A Project roles, or willingness to obtain the required certification in line with Siemens Energy / IPMA project management standards 
About the Team

Our Gas Services division offers Low-emission power generation through service and decarbonization. Zero or low emission power generation and all gas turbines under one roof, steam turbines and generators. Decarbonization opportunities through service offerings, modernization, and digitalization of the fleet. 

Who is Siemens Energy? 

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100.000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.      

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Our Commitment to Diversity 

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences. 

Rewards/Benefits 
  • In addition to an attractive remuneration package in line with the market, you can expect an attractive employer-financed company pension scheme
  • We also offer the opportunity to become a Siemens Energy shareholder
  • We offer our employees the opportunity to work flexibly and remotely, and our inspiring offices provide space for collaboration and creativity
  • The professional and personal development of our employees is very important to us. We provide them with the opportunities to learn and develop in a self-determined way, various attractive programmes and learning materials are available for this purpose
  • In relation to the "compatibility of family and work", we have a wide range of offers, e.g. flexible working time models, childcare places at many locations, the possibility of trial part-time work or even a sabbatical  
We value equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities.

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