What are the responsibilities and job description for the Substation Project Manager position at Siemens Energy?
A Snapshot of Your Day
Join our Business Unit Transmission and play a pivotal role in delivering innovative products, solutions, and services that keep energy flowing efficiently. As part of our Substations Group – backed by more than 20 years of leadership in the U.S. market – you’ll take on complex system projects that bring entire substations to life. You’ll work on expansion, replacement, and upgrading initiatives, providing complete electrification from planning through execution. Every day, you’ll contribute to projects that power communities, strengthen grid reliability, and advance the energy transition. Additionally, you’ll work alongside a diverse, multicultural Substations team – connecting with colleagues across Germany, Canada, and beyond – to sharpen your technical expertise, accelerate your professional growth, and strengthen your coaching and leadership skills in a supportive, team-driven culture.
How You’ll Make An Impact
Grid Technologies
Our Grid Technology division enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid. The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology.
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
Rewards
Join our Business Unit Transmission and play a pivotal role in delivering innovative products, solutions, and services that keep energy flowing efficiently. As part of our Substations Group – backed by more than 20 years of leadership in the U.S. market – you’ll take on complex system projects that bring entire substations to life. You’ll work on expansion, replacement, and upgrading initiatives, providing complete electrification from planning through execution. Every day, you’ll contribute to projects that power communities, strengthen grid reliability, and advance the energy transition. Additionally, you’ll work alongside a diverse, multicultural Substations team – connecting with colleagues across Germany, Canada, and beyond – to sharpen your technical expertise, accelerate your professional growth, and strengthen your coaching and leadership skills in a supportive, team-driven culture.
How You’ll Make An Impact
- Serve as the primary contact for customers and stakeholders on multiple substation projects, ensuring clear communication and strong relationships.
- Manage several projects at once, driving schedule adherence, maintaining high customer satisfaction, and delivering solid financial results.
- Lead key project management activities such as scheduling, budgeting, risk control, change management, opportunity assessment, and forecasting.
- Oversee every stage of project execution – from handover to final construction completion – while ensuring quality and safety standards.
- Take full profit and loss (P&L) accountability for your assigned projects, tracking performance against targets.
- Capture and share lessons learned, actively reducing or eliminating non-conformance costs (NCCs) while collaborating closely with local and global teams and expanding your expertise in AIS, GIS, and Substation products.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or management with 5 years’ experience in substations or project management.
- Solid substation expertise – covering AIS, transformers, breakers, MV/HV gas-insulated switchgear, and balance-of-plant (BOP) equipment – paired with a strong work ethic, a continuous learning mindset, and preferably Project Management certifications such as PMP or IPMA.
- An excellent communicator with proven leadership, team building, customer-facing expertise, and strong organizational and time-management skills to effectively handle multiple priorities.
- Demonstrated expertise in process improvement, quality management, and collaborating effectively with global teams.
- Willing to travel up to 30% domestically and internationally.
- Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States without need for current or future employer-sponsored work authorization. Siemens Energy employees with current visa sponsorship may be eligible for internal transfers.
Grid Technologies
Our Grid Technology division enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid. The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology.
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
Rewards
- Career growth and development opportunities; supportive work culture
- Company paid Health and wellness benefits
- Paid Time Off and paid holidays
- 401K savings plan with company match
- Family building benefits
- Parental leave