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.

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

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 culture and 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 

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