About us
We are a Belgian engineering consulting firm that assists SMEs and large industrial organizations in bringing their innovation and R&D initiatives to life.
Job Description
Siemens Smart Infrastructure is looking for a Project Manager Scada & Control Systems to manage the full lifecycle of projects, both nationally and internationally, for our Digital Grid Software business. Our team focusses on accelerating and securing the energy transition for our customers through a comprehensive portfolio (e.g., Grid Simulation, Grid Control; Metering Data Management; Power Technologies International consulting portfolio). Your scope will be Belgium/Netherlands/France and African countries. Traveling is required in this role (approx. 5 to 10 times per year).
We connect the physical and the digital world with an integrated OT and IT landscape along the entire value chain from planning through operations to maintenance – following its design principles of modularity, openness, user-centricity, interoperability, and resilience.
Find out more on our products/portfolio: Siemens GSW
In this role, you will be responsible for the life cycle management of our Grid Software projects. You will be both steering and shaping our project teams from design phase up until execution, acting as a technical specialist towards our customers and internal colleagues and ensuring the correct monitoring of our projects.
This entails the following responsibilities:
Ensuring the development of projects for Utility/Energy/Industry customers. These projects are mainly aimed at creating control and supervision systems (SCADA) intended for the management of high and medium voltage electrical networks.
Ensuring end-responsibility for our large-scale projects in terms of costs, deadlines, and quality.
Setting up both waterfall/Agile mode of project execution. You will be both applying this project mode in our project execution teams and accompanying technical project and project management teams in the transition towards Agile Project Management.
Translating customer's needs to project realizations with a major focus on IT requirements.
Assembling a project team, tailored on the needs of the project and the customer's needs.
Managing the project lifecycle. In the presales phase, you will assist to the definition of the project costs and elaborate on the project specifications with your customer(s). In the project delivery phase, you are, along with your team accountable for the qualitative execution of the engineering; concept and design; functional analysis; software development; hardware configuration; testing; follow-up of installation; and commissioning. You will maintain close contact with the technical teams as well as with the customer to intervene timely on timelines, costs, resources and identify problems and issues if needed
Required qualifications
You have a master's degree in electrical, Electromechanical or Computer Science engineering.
You are experienced in Project Management for at least 5 years. And have a first experience in implementing an Agile methodology
You are aware of SCADA concept and implementation.
You have a good understanding of OT within an industrial environment.
Previous working experience in an IT/software environment is a strong advantage.
Interest/knowledge in databases, their management and interfaces with various IT applications is an asset.
Knowledge of electrical transmission and distribution is an asset.
You are flexible and curious for trips abroad.
You are fluent in French and English. Second national language is an asset and willingness to improve this knowledge is mandatory as most of our clients in Africa are French speakers.
Benefits
60.000
