Head of Engineering Substation business

A Snapshot of Your Day

Join us in a pivotal role as the Head of Engineering for our Grid Technologies Substations business in Italy! You will lead a talented engineering team, ensuring the successful delivery of substation projects while navigating through an exciting organizational change. Imagine mentoring and developing your team, overseeing the entire lifecycle of engineering projects, and managing financial and risk aspects to guarantee project success. Your leadership will be crucial in fostering a collaborative culture and achieving operational excellence, all while contributing to the energy sector’s growth and innovation.

How You’ll Make An ImpacT

• Lead, mentor, and develop the project engineering team, setting clear goals and performance objectives to achieve outstanding operational results.
• Oversee the complete lifecycle of substation engineering projects, ensuring design, implementation, testing, and commissioning are executed flawlessly.
• Monitor project progress and performance, implementing corrective actions to resolve operational challenges and minimize delays.
• Develop and manage project budgets and financial forecasts, ensuring all engineering activities are cost-effective and aligned with company standards.
• Identify and mitigate project risks, preparing regular reports on project status, budget adherence, and team performance for senior management.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical field.
• You hold a Professional Engineer (PE) registration or equivalent in Italy (Iscrizione all’Albo degli Ingegneri).
• Significant experience in project engineering, preferably within the energy transmission or substation industry.
• Proven leadership experience managing a team of engineering professionals, demonstrating strong influencing and collaboration skills.
• You bring technical and financial acumen, with expertise in project management, planning, implementation, and risk management.
• Fluent English for technical purposes, both spoken and written. Fluency in Italian is also mandatory.

About The Team

Our Grid Technologies 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.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. We meet the growing demand for energy in more than 90 countries while helping to protect our climate. With more than 94,000 dedicated employees, we not only generate electricity for over 16% of the world’s population, but we also use our technologies to help protect people and the environment.

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 and are looking for people who share our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy:

Our Commitment to Diversity

Luckily, we are not all the same. Through diversity, we generate energy. We act with inclusion, and our creative energy is fueled by more than 130 different nationalities. Siemens Energy values the character of every individual, regardless of ethnicity, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society—all of society—and we do not discriminate in any way.

Rewards/Benefits

• Enjoy a stable employment in a company with a long history in innovation and technology.
• Flexibility: trustful environment with an inclusive and flexible way of working driven by results; hybrid way of working enabled by innovative tools and devices, personal computer and smartphone; wi-fi connection reimbursement.
• Welfare: flexible welfare programs and health insurance extendable to your family; professional and extraprofessional accident insurance; free on-site lunch options.
• Collaborate with experienced experts in an international environment.
• The professional and personal development of our employees is very important to us. With us, you have the opportunity to learn and develop in a self-determined way. Various attractive programs and measures are available for this purpose.

The total compensation package for this position, including both fixed and variable components, ranges between € 65.000 – € 85.000 gross per year.

Salary ranges for this role are provided in accordance with applicable local legislation. The stated range is based on the Italian labour market.

Where a role may be performed in multiple locations in Italy or abroad, compensation will vary depending on factors such as market conditions, including the local cost of living, as well as experience and qualifications. In such cases, the specific salary range for the location of interest will be communicated in the early stages of the recruitment process and, in any case, before any potential offer of employment is made.