Head of Infrastructure Projects & Operations
New York, NY

Job Description

Organization: Mobility

Business Unit: United States

Requisition Number: 244248

Primary Location: United States-New York-New York

Other Locations: United States-Oregon-Portland

Assignment Category: Full-time regular

Experience Level: Senior level

Education Required Level: Bachelor's Degree

Travel Required: 25%

Job Description:

Position Overview:

The Head of Infrastructure Projects & Operations is responsible for managing infrastructure projects, associated customer engagement, market opportunities, and operations throughout Siemens Mobility North America. The individual in this role should have a deep understanding of power engineering and electrification within the rail industry. The position is required to interface with business unit leads, functional heads, and global experts.

Primary Responsibilities:

* Coordinates overall planning of relevant projects and decides on allocation of resources.
* Maintains constant communication to customers, outside contractors or other stakeholders.
* Takes final decision on organization related budgets.
* Initiates and oversees continuous development of Project Management infrastructure.
* Takes care for effective risk management measures, for the Project Management organization assigned.
* Ensures that assigned Project Management organization meets all agreed performance goals.
* Acts as personal advisor to unit´s Senior Management, in all Project Management related issues.
* May clarify cases as advanced escalation point.
* Heads dedicated team of Project Manager and/or Project Management Office staff.

Required Knowledge/Skills, Education, and Experience:

* Education: Bachelor's degree in related field
* Experience: 8+ years of experience in power engineering.
* Experience within the rail industry is a plus.
* Individual must demonstrate high professional judgement and competence.
* Position requires seasoned management abilities to manage multiple teams with highly qualified technical staff in national or international projects.
* Individual must be capable of motivating and influencing others to achieve impact on results in larger organization.
* Well established in external and internal networks within field of expertise.
* Demonstrated ability to proactively share knowledge in a systematic way in larger organization to grow know-how base and supports a learning organization.

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