Siemens Gamesa

A Snapshot of Your Day

As part of the Onshore Asia Pacific (AP) Regional Unit of Siemens Energy Wind Power (SE WP), Australia and New Zealand project pipe- line brings significant value to the business, thus the PM Hub Head is a key role and overall responsible for the successful management and delivery of a project pipeline according, but not limited, to the following goals: 

-Project portfolio P&L success, to ensure that the total projects managed all add value to the business.  

-Effective and entrepreneurial leadership of the project teams to perform  in  accordance  with SE WP Project   Management (PM@SGRE) body of knowledge and collection of  best- practices; 

-Escalation at the  portfolio  environment  level  of  external and internal issues; 

-Value orientation combined with a detailed market understanding and benchmarking. 

-Build effective communication and management of internal and external multi-stakeholders to achieve project portfolio objectives in SE WP best interests and customer satisfaction.

How You’ll Make an Impact

▪HSE Leadership: 

-Ensures Safety is a pre-condition to perform the project works at all times; 

-Ensures internal and external HSE standards and targets are achieved; 

-Motivates all colleagues (and implements measures) to achieve Zero-Harm Policy; 

-Promotes   HSE   awareness   throughout   the   entire   projects lifecycle; 

-Ensures the project teams clearly understand that a proactive, well-coordinated   and  consistent   HSE  management   is   the foundation of the project works; 

▪ Build Project Infrastructure: 

-Benchmark on Good Industry  Practices in the  country to collaborate with Construction and Logistics regional functions systematically,   developing   and   building   a   resilient   and competitive wind project infrastructure;

-Collaborates  with  Construction,  Logistics  and  Procurement functions to develop construction and in-land logistic capabilities for the market focusing on, but not limited to: Suppliers capacity assessments,Commercial Mechanisms and Contract Templates; 

▪Leadership and Team Development:  

-Sets high-performance values and result-oriented behaviours by example, and consistently insist on compliance;  

-Responsibility for team building;   

-Agrees targets and empowers Project Managers and delegates the execution and management of the projects;   

-Actively  seeks  and  provides  feedback  (e.g.  team  members, functional managers, peers and customers);  

-Display management skills (e.g. consistency, problem- solving/prevention, time management) and takes responsibility for own work-life balance and engages team-members to do the same;  

-Supports team-members professional development (e.g. Performance appraisal process, training, coaching);  

-Involves the project team in all critical project issues;  

-Demonstrates  leadership  to  the  functionally  assigned  and multicultural   project   teams,   agrees   targets  and  delegates effectively;  

-Embraces change to do things differently in order to achieve 

better results and manages resistance;  

-Encourages an ownership culture within the project team;  

-Ensures efficient Resource Management, obtaining commitments and reaching agreements on the  planning and assignment   of   necessary   resources   and   promoting   an ownership culture;  

-Ensures  a  proactive  and  effective  Collaboration and Communication within the company to promote stakeholders’ commitment and contribution to fulfill the projects and portfolio targets; 

▪Business Integrity: 

-Adheres to all SE WP Business Conduct Guidelines (e.g. Tax Regulations, Delegation of Employees, Export Controls EHS, Compliance); 

-Ensures compliance to standards, rules and regulations; 

-Follows  existing  rules  (e.g.  tax  regulations,   arms-length principle, guarantees and export controls); 

-Leads team members to act according to Business Conduct Guidelines; 

-Involves the necessary corporate units (e.g. crisis management); 

▪Driving for Results and Entrepreneurship:  

-Stands for the overall responsibility on projects and portfolio to risk/opportunity and looks for core data to speed up the process;   

-Decides the best course of action through effective decision- making, seeks relevant data and decides even when faced with incomplete information;   

-Uses scenarios, root-cause analysis and shifting of perspective to find optimal solutions;  

-Represents the projects and portfolio in relevant decision Boards, internally an externally;  

-Acts with creativity, innovation and adaptability in face of obstacles or new events;  

▪Strategic Orientation and Decision-Making including Analytical Skills: 

-Develop a vision and mission for the department aligned with company  strategic  objectives,  and  share  them  with  team  to achieve high morale; 

-Plans and establishes clear objectives and agreed priorities for the department; 

-Identifies/ creates additional opportunities out of the ongoing projects and at portfolio level; 

-Chooses  the best course of action consistent  with key assumptions, through  effective  and timing  decision-making,monitors progress through metrics and reevaluates how well plan is working and whether it needs to change; 

▪Value Orientation:  

-Displays excellent understanding of how the business operates and adds value to customers;  

-Promotes  projects  success  as  critical  for  long-term  financial success of the company and one the main engines for profitable growth;  

-Maximizes   the   value   of   delivering   the   portfolio   projects according to business objectives and targets;  

-Displays active leadership and participation in the projects;  

-Adheres   and   promotes   PM@SGRE   processes   to   control projects progress to meet cost and schedule targets;  

-Examines causes of value erosion and acts to eliminate or reduce them in collaboration with the different stakeholders;  

▪Customer Focus:  

-Actively gathers information on the customer and customer's objectives and manages their requirements and expectations;  

-Actively   builds   and   maintains   positive   and   cooperative relationships with customer senior representatives;  

-Actively  and  continual  communicates  with  customer's  senior representatives  to  detect  relationship  problems  before  they become serious and negotiates to resolved issues and disputes before they need to be elevated;  

-At an early stage, informs customer, senior management and project teams of deviations from projects plans;  

▪Requirements Management and Quality Management:  

-Adheres   and   promotes   company   Integrated   Management System;  

-Ensures a Quality Management Plan is developed and updated during projects life cycle and the deliverables meet contractual requirements;  

-Ensures  project  teams  calibrates  internal  and  contractual requirements,  standards  and  codes  and  these  are  correctly transferred to Design and Bill of Materials checklists;  

-Ensures  a  cross-functional  process  approach  while  retaining functional structure,   

-Collaborates cross-functionally to ensure a high level quality of products  and  services  provided  by  suppliers  and  that  meet customer requirements and expectations;  

-Ensures a complete and systematic Requirements Management and Quality Management to achieve customer satisfaction and reduce the costs of non-conformances;  

-Ensure that identified non-conformances are properly recorded and corrective and preventive actions are implemented;  

-Ensures systematic Learning in Projects through the utilization of experiences, as well as provides feedback from the projects execution, contributing to continuous improvement (i.e. how it can be done better, faster, or more cost effectively);  

▪Portfolio and Project Financials: 

-Lives full P&L responsibility for the project and portfolio financial results according to defined targets; 

-Improves  projects  gross  profit  and  cash-in  forecasting,  and optimizes capacity utilization of project related assets; 

-Reviews the project proposals/order entry costing; 

-Ensures regular financial controlling and reporting according to SE WP regulations; 

-Identifies   non-conformances   and   acts   to   minimize   non- conformance costs; 

-Ensures the proper assessment of the risks and opportunities and recognition in the projectfinancials   estimates  and calculations; 

-Ensures  change  orders  are  executed  and  enhance  projects profitability; 

-Ensures disciplined Cost Management in the projects as a pre-requisite to proactively secure its financial targets; 

-Ensures  transparency  about  Project’s  portfolio  performance through Controlling and Updating Management; 

▪Projects Planning, Controlling and Closure, including Execution: 

-Supports   project   teams   on   the   development   of   Project Management   Plans  and  drives  commitment  to  relevant  planning elements and milestone results; 

-Guides and supports project teams to  proper plan and ramp-up the execution of site activities; 

-Performs regular project status review meetings and decides on acceptance of milestone work results;

project  plans  and  anticipate  problems  and  resolve  them  in advance;  

-Documents work results according to PM@SGRE framework and customer contractual requirements;  

-Supports  project  teams  to  achieve  projects  completion  and turnover to customers and internal Projects Closeout;  

-Guides and supports project teamsto ensure proper Scheduling Management to successfully complete the projects on time;  

-Ensures that project teams understand that good Documentation and Records Management is also essential to the  successful  fulfillment  of  project  and  portfolio  information requirements and entire operation of the company;  

▪Bid, Contract and Claim Management:  

-Participates on the Sales process;  

-Performs contracts review and analysis, and develops action plans concerning risks, opportunities and contractual obligations;  

-Agrees with stakeholders the strategies for making / mitigating / defending claims;  

-At an early stage identifies, drives, defends and mitigates claims 

-Consults and involves the project teams in the identification of contractual changes and claims;  

-Negotiates with stakeholders on changes and incorporates them into contracts;  

-Establishes  consistent  Contract  Management  practices  with the project team;  

-Involves and collaborates with Legal Counsel when required;  

▪Risk and Opportunity Management:  

-Ensures a professional and integrative function of Risk  and Opportunities Management process throughout the project’s life cycle, to achieve projects and portfolio targets;  

-Ensures a continual and proactive monitoring and management of risks and opportunities and, when required, ensures an early escalation;  

-Identifies  and  assesses  risks  and  opportunitiess  utilizing available measurement processes and tools;  

-Devises  suitable  response  plans  for  risks  mitigation  and opportunities maximization, and ensures the implementation of the planned measures;  

-Implements  procedures  to  solve  all  major  issues  with  the necessary  internal  and  external  partners,  prior  to  projects derailing;  

-Monitors   the   progress   with   an   integrated   KPI   tracking tool/system to enable early warning, prior to projects objectives deteriorating;  

-Collaborates with stakeholders to perform post-project reviews and compilation of historical database;  

▪Collaboration and Influencing including Negotiation and Conflict Management:  

-communication with  all  relevant   stakeholders  in  different countries/  regions,  customers,  partners, suppliers  and  other interest groups; 

-Communicates across the company with internal contacts on opportunities for business and process improvements; 

-Develops interpersonal relationships,effective communication and presentation and manages conflicts; 

-Drives a multicultural communication and collaboration; 

-Involves Procurement at an early stage, according to SE WP procurement processes and regulations; 

-Facilitates  and  monitors  effective  team  collaboration  (e.g. coaching, training, cross-functional meetings) 

-Cooperates closely with functional managers and multidisciplinary teams; 

-Negotiates to resolve conflicts between technical disciplines and influence the probability of particular outcomes which have an impact on the projects and portfolio results; 

-Ensures   a   proactive   Collaboration   and   Communication Management  approach  to  foster  stakeholders’  consent  and strength  their  contribution  to  fulfill  the  projects  and  portfolio

What You Bring

▪Bachelor or Masters Degree in a related field; 

▪Project  Management  knowledge  and  minimum  of  10  years’ experience  in  the  Wind  industry  and  in  a  leadership  role  with sizable scope for at least 5 years, preferable in the OEM side and windfarm construction; 

▪Multicultural awareness and global project management experience; 

▪Knowledge and experience in management of personnel and teams, finance and international construction contracts; 

▪Excellent IT skills including MS Office/SharePoint and exposure to work with data analytics; 

▪Excellent communication skills in English are essential, both verbal and written; 

▪Excellent communication, negotiation skills and experience in customer relationship management; 

▪Excellent time management skills; 

▪Excellent team player with skills at influencing stakeholders; 

▪Able to travel (domestic and international) at least 50% of the time