Job Description

Job Description Summary

The Senior Project Manager serves as the primary strategic lead for high-complexity, large-scale transformer manufacturing portfolios. With over 20 years of experience, this role provides technical and commercial leadership to ensure multi-million dollar projects achieve superior financial returns, technical integrity, and customer satisfaction. Beyond day-to-day execution, the Senior PM is responsible for driving process improvements, managing high-stakes client relationships, mitigating enterprise-level risk, and mentoring the project management team. This role functions as an internal advocate for the customer, balancing stringent quality requirements with factory throughput and financial optimization.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Strategic Portfolio Management: Oversee a portfolio of complex projects, ensuring alignment with factory capacity, long-term financial targets, and organizational business goals.
• Executive Commercial & Financial Leadership: Assume full accountability for project P&L, including cash flow forecasting, margin optimization, and managing complex commercial disputes or contract variations.
• High-Stakes Stakeholder & Client Management: Serve as the executive liaison for critical accounts, facilitating high-level negotiations, conflict resolution, and strategic alignment during major project milestones.
• Operational Excellence & Process Improvement: Identify bottlenecks in the value chain (Design-to-Dispatch) and lead cross-departmental initiatives to standardize processes, improve lead times, and enhance operational efficiency.
• Risk & Governance Authority: Define and implement robust risk-mitigation strategies for technical or commercial project failures; ensure strict adherence to international standards, regulatory requirements, and internal audit protocols.
• Site Strategy & Complex Erection Support: Oversee the strategy for large-scale site installations, providing high-level technical guidance to site teams for critical commissioning and troubleshooting of non-routine, complex transformer setups.
• Mentorship & Team Development: Provide technical and professional mentorship to junior/mid-level Project Managers to foster a culture of high performance and technical excellence within the PMO.

Required Qualifications

• Experience: 20+ years of experience in project management within the Transformer or heavy electrical equipment industry, with a proven track record of managing large-scale, international, or highly complex projects.
• Education: B.E./B.Tech in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering
• Domain Expertise: Mastery of transformer design, manufacturing, testing, and site commissioning methodologies, including knowledge of international standards (IEC/IEEE/ANSI).
• Leadership Skills: Ability to lead through influence, navigate organizational matrix structures, and manage cross-functional teams toward a unified goal.

Desired Characteristics

• Strong oral and written communication skills. Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems. Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs. Established project management skills.
• Note:
• To comply with US immigration and other legal requirements, it is necessary to specify the minimum number of years’ experience required for any role based within the USA. For roles outside of the USA, to ensure compliance with applicable legislation, the JDs should focus on the substantive level of experience required for the role and a minimum number of years should NOT be used.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes