Assistant Project Manager - Substations

Snapshot of Your Day In this role, you help drive day-to-day project execution, ensuring schedules, budgets, and customer commitments stay on track. You support core project management activities including planning, forecasting, risk and change management, and leadership reporting, while maintaining financial ownership for assigned scopes. Working cross-functionally, you help align resources, manage costs, capture lessons learned, and reduce nonconformance costs. You also build strong technical knowledge of GIS, AIS, and switchgear products to support effective decision‑making and successful project delivery. How You’ll Make an Impact Support and lead project execution activities to ensure delivery against established timelines, customer expectations, and financial objectives. Contribute to core project management functions, including schedule development, budgeting, risk assessment, change and opportunity management, forecasting, and recurring reporting to leadership. Maintain profit and loss (P&L) accountability for assigned project scopes and deliverables. Capture, document, and communicate project‑specific lessons learned while actively driving reductions in non‑conformance costs (NCCs). Partner with cross‑functional teams to define project outcomes, allocate resources, and manage project budgets and schedules. Continuously expand technical knowledge of GIS, AIS, and general switchgear product portfolios. What You Bring Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Business required; Master’s degree preferred. Minimum of 2 years of project management experience, preferably supporting substation projects. Experience with process improvement, quality management, and collaboration within global or cross‑regional teams preferred. Foundational knowledge of GIS/AIS, Balance of Plant (BoP), and switchgear products is a plus. Strong communication, leadership, collaboration, and customer‑facing skills. Willingness and ability to travel up to 30% domestically, with occasional international travel. Ability to relocate to Raleigh, NC if not currently local (relocation assistance provided). Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer‑sponsored work authorization. Siemens Energy employees with existing visa sponsorship may be eligible for internal transfer. Your Opportunities for Personal Growth Work within a diverse Substations team with a wide range of skills and backgrounds, enhancing both your technical and professional development. Leverage the deep expertise of the Substation team as a powerful source of learning and career advancement. Strengthen your coaching and leadership skills through collaborative team environments. Gain exposure to a highly diverse, multicultural work environment with international collaboration across Germany, Canada, and colleagues of many nationalities. About the Team Our Grid Technology Substation 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. Our Substations Group is a key contributor of our Transmission Business Unit with more than 20 years leadership in the US Market. Leader and where we perform complex Systems projects, offering complete electrification of those Substations. Rewards Competitive base salary Annual performance bonus Career growth and development opportunities Supportive work cultureand a healthy work‑life balance Company paid Health and wellness benefits. Paid Time Off and paid holidays 401k / Savings Plan Family building benefits Parental leave Competitive total rewards package Equal Employment Opportunity Statement Siemens Energy is an Equal Opportunity and affirmative action employer that encourages diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability unrelated to ability, marital status, family responsibilities, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, transgender, sex stereotyping, order of protection status, protected veteran or military status, or an unfavorable discharge from military service, and other categories protected by federal, state or local law. #J-18808-Ljbffr Siemens Energy