Project Manager

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Eaton has been a key player in the Middle East for 40 years. This July, we announced the construction of a new sustainable campus in Dubai, which will bring together our commercial, manufacturing, and support functions, providing room for future growth.

About Eaton

Eaton is a power management company where we provide energy-efficient solutions that help our customers effectively manage electrical, hydraulic and mechanical power more efficiently, safely and sustainably. Eaton is dedicated to improving the quality of life and the environment through the use of power management technology and services. Eaton has approximately 96,000 employees and sells products to customers in more than 175 countries.

The Project Manager is responsible to ensure the successful delivery of medium / large projects for strategic customers across EMEA. Such projects are mainly for Electrical Systems & Solutions business unit, and would be responsible for overseeing the design, supply, installation and testing works. Working as an integral part of the EMEA Customer Project Management organization, the Project Manager can work from a local (or home) base, whilst travelling (25%) as needed to other locations, FAT at suppliers factortories or to the construction sites during implementation phases. The role requires an experienced, composed, highly motivated, self-starter who can effectively communicate and work with a wide variety of stakeholders in a dynamic environment.

What You'll Do

• Use modern project management practices and techniques to execute projects from PO to handover to service. This includes design engineering, procurement, and implementation of projects electrical and/or automation projects for critical infrastructure.
• Take full responsibility for his/her assigned projects and bring them to successful completion using Eaton project management processes and tools, plus managing the people and resources who deliver the project.
• Identify, build, and maintain a project team. Organize kick-off then regular meetings, and ensure clear scope and understanding of deliverables for all internal (e.g. engineering, procurement, service) and external stakeholders (e.g. customers, end users, contractors, 3rd parties, subcontractors)
• Provide regular reporting to both internal and external stakeholders to ensure common understanding of progress toward the project's deliverables.
• Own the project schedule: Build, maintain, and regularly update and communicate the project schedule for all assigned projects (MS Projects), including the required support resources to execute (e.g. FSEs, Engineering.)
• Identify and maintain a risk register, while actively working to mitigate and/or eliminate potential problems.
• Work with Eaton internal engineering teams to align on the definition of deliverables as per technical specification and customer requirements
• Provide design submissions and confirmations for the projects to the customer and wider community from initial design submissions through design confirmation following the customer processes.
• Manage the project margin by controlling costs, managing variations, and regularly report out the financial forecast and status as required. This includes managing and controlling costs for Eaton internal and 3rd party external support.
• Training/Transition: The Project Manager will organize and often lead the customer (and internal) training at project closure, hand over to the Eaton service support teams, and do a full lessons-learned close out of the projects.
• The Project Manager may also be called on to provide occasion support for other sites where expertise is lacking to support customer needs.
• Continually identify ways to improve the way Eaton execute projects and share learning. This may involve developing new initiatives and recommending better ways to work based on analysis and learning on sites as well as overall customer trends.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or master's Degree from an accredited institution with a strong preference toward electrical / mechanical engineering is highly desirable.
• 3-5+ years of project management, experience with other large and complex industrial projects will also be considered
• Product portfolio & possible applications for standard and non-standard systems is a plus.
  
  

Skills

• Experience with Project Management of major capital goods (ideally electrical / mechanical) and experience in renewables, utilities and large industry is a plus
• A strong personal presence and proven ability to manage others is highly desirable.
  
  

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation and benefits package
• Challenging projects in dynamic collaborative team
• We make your aspirations matter Eaton encourages internal promotion, whenever possible
• We make your growth matter - We invest in our employees for the long term not just with salary and benefits, but with ongoing learning and development opportunities made available through Eaton University
• We make your contributions matter - reliability, safety, efficiency, and sustainability are at the core of our dedication to improving people's lives and the environment through power management technologies.
• We make your wellbeing matter We put your health and safety first. Wellness at Eaton is more than a program, it's about changing the environment by offering the right tools to help empower employees to make that happen
  
  

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