Project Manager Wind Onshore

Axpo is a Swiss energy company with over 6,000 employees active in more than 30 countries across Europe, the USA and Asia with the purpose to enable a sustainable future through innovative energy solutions. With its wind division, Axpo develops, builds and operates onshore wind farms in all windy regions of Europe and is also active in Romania. The company aims to add a total of 3 GW of wind capacity in the next years.

Main duties & responsibilty

• Manages the development process of wind onshore projects that requires involvement and alignment of resources and tasks in multiple functions across the organization (defines, plans, coordinates, and follows up)
• Full responsibility for the development of wind energy projects from site identification until they are ready for construction (site selection, site assessment, approval process, grid connection, execution planning) and support in financing and commercialization
• Management of service providers, business partners and suppliers along the development process
• Conducting negotiations with authorities, community representatives, property owners, suppliers, service providers, business partners and other project participants
• Provide timely status reports, project analysis and recommendations
• Maintains resourced delivery plans that comprehensively cover all aspects of projects, identifying and managing dependencies
• In consultation with project team members and stakeholders identifies and provides solutions;
• Actively seeks to resolve roadblock, tracks and reports project delivery progress, issues and escalations
• Initiates, organizes, facilitates, and participates in cross-function workshops and meeting necessary to review and agree alignment and actions on cross function topics/issues
• Takes projects through to project closure and collects lessons learned
• Must be a team player with excellent communication skills and the ability to work as part of a multi-functional / international team
• Must be able to work alone, yet able to proactively collaborate with team members

Job requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in civil or mechanical engineering or renewable energies
• 5+ years of previous experience in renewable energy, in programme and project management planning, resource management, cost management, risk management, document management, communication and time reporting
• Knowledge about planning and permitting processes in wind energy incl. applicable laws and regulations
• Advanced Romanian and English, both spoken and written
• Strong working knowledge of MS Office
• Previous experience in managing complex cross-functional projects in a multicultural environment is considered a plus
• Demonstrates highest level of ability in all aspects of communications
• Willingness to travel

Soft skills

• Demonstrate the ability to work in a dynamic atmosphere with rapidly shifting projects and priorities
• Ability to foster positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring open cooperative environment
• High degree of self-organization and flexibility as well as the ability to work independently and on one‘s own responsibility

What we offer

• Competitive salary
• Laptop and mobile phone
• Medical insurance
• Lunch check

Our benefits

Become part of Axpo‘s market success and actively shape the change in the industry. With us you can develop your own skills, tackle exciting challenges and take on responsibility. Your contribution counts at Axpo, so get involved! We live agile innovation processes. The start-up atmosphere makes it easy to share your ideas and make things happen.