Senior Project Manager – Power Systems / Industrial Power Generation

Would you like the opportunity to work in a dynamic innovative role? Are you passionate about building relationships and ensuring customer success? Join our team!

Our Industrial and Energy Technology (IET) operates across 120 countries and serves the entire energy value‑chain and industrial sector. We hold an extensive portfolio of rotating equipment, process flow, transmission technology, and lifecycle services. Our Engineering Transformation team works to improve the quality of our Engineering processes.

Senior Project Manager – Power Systems / IPG Business

You will have full accountability for the successful execution of complex power generation projects from contract award through customer acceptance. You will lead multifunctional teams, manage executive customer and internal relationships, drive commercial outcomes, and ensure safe, predictable, and profitable project delivery. You will also serve as a key leader within the Project Management organization, mentoring project managers, supporting business strategy, and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives across the Power business.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Project Leadership: Lead the execution of large‑scale, strategically important power generation projects, ensuring alignment with contractual commitments, business objectives, and customer expectations throughout the project lifecycle.
• Customer & Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with customer leadership and key stakeholders. Act as the primary escalation point for project‑related commercial, operational, and contractual matters, driving customer satisfaction and fostering long‑term partnerships.
• Commercial & Financial Ownership: Own overall project financial performance, including revenue, margin, cash collection, and forecasting. Identify and drive opportunities to enhance project profitability through optimized execution and commercial negotiations.
• Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement: Drive best practices, lessons learned, and process improvements across the project portfolio, supporting business transformation initiatives.
• Risk & Opportunity Management: Establish comprehensive risk management strategies to proactively identify and mitigate technical, commercial, supply‑chain, and execution risks. Drive opportunity management initiatives to improve project outcomes and create additional customer value.
• Coaching & Mentorship: Provide guidance and mentoring to project managers and project teams.
• Cross‑Functional Leadership: Lead and influence multifunctional teams across engineering, sourcing, manufacturing, logistics, site services, commissioning, finance, quality, and commercial operations, fostering accountability, collaboration, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
• Site Execution & Commissioning Leadership: Support critical project milestones, including installation, commissioning, performance testing, and customer acceptance activities, ensuring safe, timely, and compliant execution at customer sites.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Energy Systems, or related discipline), Business Administration, Project Management, or a related field from an accredited university. An advanced degree (MBA or Master's) is a plus.
• Significant experience managing complex industrial, infrastructure, energy, or power generation projects (minimum 5 years).
• Proven track record of delivering large capital projects while meeting financial, schedule, quality, and customer objectives.
• Strong expertise in commercial management, contract administration, claims, and change order execution.
• Demonstrated success managing executive‑level customer relationships and navigating complex stakeholder environments.
• Experience leading multifunctional and geographically dispersed teams in a global project environment.
• Strong understanding of project management methodologies, governance frameworks, and execution processes; PMP, PMI, or equivalent certification is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of gas turbine technology, power generation systems, modular power solutions, EPC projects, or related industrial applications is preferred.
• Excellent leadership, communication, negotiation, and influencing skills.
• Willingness to travel internationally as required.

Fuel Your Passion

To be successful in this role you will have strong leadership, communication, negotiation, and influencing skills, a willingness to travel, and a passion for delivering customer success in the energy sector.

Work in a Way that Works for You

• Flexible working hours – flex your schedule during the day to fit your most productive times.

Benefits

• Contemporary work‑life balance policies and wellbeing activities
• Comprehensive private medical care options
• Life insurance and disability programs
• Tailored financial programs
• Additional elected or voluntary benefits

This position requires current work authorization in the country of employment. The employer is unable to provide or continue work authorization sponsorship for this role. You will be eligible to participate in Company‑sponsored benefit programs, including health & welfare programs and the Thrift Plan (401k). You will have a choice of coverage options that best suit your needs. Coverage options and contribution amounts are related to your benefit elections, base salary level, and specific requirements of each of these plans.

This position is eligible for our comprehensive and competitive benefits package, which can be found here, and is further eligible for additional forms of compensation such as bonuses subject to the terms of the applicable benefit plans or policies.

The Baker Hughes internal title for this role is: Project Management Advisor – Project Leadership.

About Us: We are an energy technology company that provides solutions to energy and industrial customers worldwide. Built on a century of experience and conducting business in over 120 countries, our innovative technologies and services are taking energy forward – making it safer, cleaner and more efficient for people and the planet.

Baker Hughes Company 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.

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