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Job Description Summary
The Grid Software Project Manager is the pathfinder for the customer, translating customer and business commitments into disciplined execution and measurable outcomes. This role leads customer-facing software solution projects from initiation through acceptance and transition, coordinating customers, delivery teams, partners, and supporting functions. The Project Manager owns delivery across scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, governance, customer value, and project financial health.
Job Description
Essential Responsibilities
· Customer and stakeholder leadership. Serve as the primary delivery contact; align expectations, communicate proactively, balance competing needs, and connect decisions to customer outcomes, confidence, adoption, and value.
· Scope and change control. Define objectives, requirements, deliverables, work breakdown structure, acceptance criteria, assumptions, and responsibilities. Baseline scope and manage changes through documented impact assessment and approval.
· Integrated schedule management. Build and actively manage milestones, dependencies, critical path, customer obligations, and internal handoffs. Maintain a current schedule, identify variance early, and drive recovery actions.
· Financial and commercial management. Own cost, margin, forecast accuracy, cash flow, billing readiness, and commercial exposure. Understand contractual obligations, identify entitlement, manage change orders, and protect project profitability.
· Customer value realization and account growth. Identify opportunities to expand customer value, solution adoption, and project scope; partner with commercial and account teams to develop appropriate growth opportunities while maintaining delivery and contractual discipline.
· Risk, issue, and decision management. Maintain a current RAID log with clear owners and due dates. Anticipate risks, lead mitigation and structured problem solving, and escalate with facts, options, and recommendations.
· Governance and reporting. Establish operating mechanisms and decision rights. Provide accurate, timely, decision-useful status, forecasts, performance data, and executive updates. Maintain complete project records.
· Cross-functional delivery leadership. Lead matrixed teams across software development, engineering, product, quality, testing, cybersecurity, infrastructure, services, finance, commercial, sales, and partners as applicable. Clarify accountability and drive commitments to closure.
· Quality, acceptance, and transition. Integrate quality planning, coordinate testing and defect resolution, maintain traceability to acceptance criteria, and support-controlled implementation and transition to customer operations and support.
· Lean and Agile delivery. Apply Lean, Agile, hybrid, or predictive practices appropriate to the engagement. Reduce delays, rework, handoff friction, and complexity through visual management, iterative planning, and continuous improvement.
· Knowledge sharing. Capture lessons learned, contribute reusable practices, support team capability, and use digital data, and AI-enabled tools responsibly to improve execution.
Functional and Leadership Competencies
Success requires demonstrated capability across the following competencies, calibrated to the scale, complexity, risk, and responsibility of the assigned project.
Functional Competencies
Leadership Competencies
Scope Management: Define, baseline, and control requirements, deliverables, acceptance criteria, and changes.
Balances Stakeholders: Manage diverse customer and business needs fairly and transparently.
Schedule Management: Build and actively manage integrated plans, dependencies, milestones, and critical path.
Ensures Accountability: Clarify ownership, track commitments, and drive closure with urgency.
Financial Management: Manage cost, margin, forecasts, cash flow, and commercial commitments.
Communicates Effectively: Tailor clear, honest, proactive communication to each audience.
Risk and Issue Management: Identify proactively, assign ownership, mitigate, resolve, and escalate.
Decision Quality: Make timely, data-informed decisions using sound judgment.
Monitoring and Reporting: Provide accurate, timely, transparent, decision-useful performance information.
Optimize Work Processes: Improve workflows, eliminate waste, and standardize effective practices.
Negotiation and Conflict Resolution: Resolve trade-offs and competing priorities constructively and professionally.
Manages Complexity: Create clarity across ambiguity, interdependencies, and matrixed environments.
Lean and Agile Delivery: Apply waste reduction, iterative planning, visual management, and continuous improvement.
Collaborates: Build effective relationships across functions, organizations, regions, and partners.
Required Qualifications
· Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, business administration, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
· 10+ years of project management experience for Senior-level customer-facing requisitions, including customer-facing software, technology, systems integration, or solution delivery projects.
· Demonstrated experience managing scope, integrated schedules, financials, risks and issues, change control, quality, governance, and executive reporting.
· Experience leading cross-functional, matrixed teams and managing customers and internal stakeholders through complex delivery situations.
· Working knowledge of software delivery lifecycles and Agile, Scrum, hybrid, and Waterfall approaches.
· Strong communication, analysis, negotiation, problem-solving, and decision-making skills across technical, commercial, operational, and executive audiences.
· Proficiency with project planning, collaboration, reporting, and financial management tools.
· PMP, PMI-ACP, Certified ScrumMaster, or comparable certification; master’s degree in a relevant field.
Preferred Qualifications
· Experience delivering electric utility software, including control-room or mission-critical operational solutions.
· Knowledge of utility operations and grid applications such as SCADA, energy management, advanced distribution management, or outage management.
· Commercial and contract management experience, including customer acceptance, change orders, margin protection, billing, and cash flow.
· Experience with global, distributed teams, implementation partners, and multi-region delivery.
Measures of Success
· Customer outcomes, operational adoption, confidence, and satisfaction.
· Predictable delivery against approved scope, schedule, cost, quality, and acceptance baselines.
· Accurate forecasts, margin stewardship, billing readiness, and cash flow management.
· Proactive closure or escalation of risks, issues, decisions, changes, and actions.
· Consistent governance, transparent reporting, contractual discipline, and complete records.
· Effective collaboration, Lean improvement, lessons learned, and reuse of delivery practices.
Additional Information
Travel requirement: approximately 5-20%, based on project and customer needs. Regional mobility is required to support customer sites and delivery activities across the assigned region. Work authorization, compensation, benefits, and local compliance language should be added for the approved requisition. Use GE Vernova’s current approved equal employment opportunity statement in the final external posting.
Additional Information
GE Vernova offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Vernova is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
GE Vernova will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $104,200.00 and $173,700.00. The Company pays a geographic differential of 110%, 120% or 130% of salary in certain areas. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set.
Bonus eligibility: discretionary annual bonus.
This posting is expected to remain open for at least seven days after it was posted on October 28, 2026.
Available benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability benefits, life insurance, 12 paid holidays, and permissive time off.
GE Vernova Inc. or its affiliates (collectively or individually, “GE Vernova”) sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs GE Vernova reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace, or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a GE Vernova welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.
