Senior Project Manager, Korean Services

Are you ready to help shape the future of sustainable energy in Korea?

At SFW Korea Services, we support power producers in maintaining, upgrading, and modernizing their industrial facilities to achieve their operational, environmental, and business objectives.

Since 1980, Sumitomo SHI FW has delivered 37 CFB boiler projects in Korea. In 2012, we established our local Services organization to provide long-term support for these valuable assets. Since then, we have helped boiler owners maximize reliability, availability, and performance through our extensive expertise in thermal power generation.

As our Services business continues to grow, we are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead modernization projects, drive successful execution, and help our customers achieve their long-term energy production goals.

Who are we?

Sumitomo SHI FW, shortly SFW, is a global leader in combustion and steam generation technology. With more than 500 circulating fluidized bed (CFB) steam-generating units delivered worldwide, we serve utilities, independent power producers, municipalities, and industrial customers across the globe.

Our leadership in CFB combustion technology is built on a commitment to delivering highly efficient, fuel-flexible, and environmentally responsible solutions. We take pride in converting low-quality fuels, waste materials, and waste heat into affordable and sustainable power, heat, syngas, and steam.

With over 1,000 employees worldwide, we combine global expertise with a strong local presence to support customers throughout the lifecycle of their assets.

What we can offer you?

Firstly, you will get a very wide position with endless opportunity to bring value by means of deep competence in boiler and combustion technology with project execution excellence.

You will have solid mandate to develop together with our customers ways of cooperation using Sumitomo FW’s widening portfolio for power producers. This will not be a position to follow procedures but a position where you will participate in contributing and developing the best execution practices globally together with the Sumitomo Experts and support from stable 450-year-old company.

You will have an opportunity to create and participate in a new future for a company that does understand the need and opportunity to renew itself along with the disruption that is ongoing in the energy industry worldwide.

The role – Senior Project Manager, Korean Services

As part of our strategy to expand our Services business in Korea, we are seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead the successful execution of major service and modernization projects.

As Senior Project Manager, Korean Services, you will drive the execution of larger projects by

• Developing needed competences and capabilities for making SFW Korea Services stronger local provider
• Managing Korea Services project execution operations
• Taking responsibility and demonstrating high HSSE performance on customers sites
• Working closely with customers, vendors, subcontractors and other stakeholders relevant to successful project execution
• Ensuring customer quality expectations are met
• Co-operating with SFW’s talents worldwide to bring best value to our customers

As a member of our Services business function, you will also participate e.g. in

• Strategy direction
• Internal operation processes development
• Sales and marketing support
• Ways of working development
• Contracting model definitions
• Partner management and
• Operations management

In this role you will report to “Vice President, Technology modernizations and Upgrades” and be located in Gunsan, Republic of Korea with remote work from home – including domestic and international travel.

To be successful in this role, we expect

• University degree in relevant field
• Several years’ project management experience of larger projects in a client facing role
• Proven knowledge and track record of project execution
• Experience of Korean business environment
• Strong plus if You already have an understanding of the energy industry and its’ value chains and value generating mechanisms, as well how technologies add value to customers business in it. At least you have a great appetite and capability to learn this fast based on your earlier experience.
• Some experience from maintenance and service business

• You are keen on building strong relationships both externally with customers & partners and internally with colleagues cross-functionally

• You enjoy multitasking & challenges and are a high achiever with positive, can-do mentality and integrity
• You have sound judgement and the ability for independent evaluation and decision-making
• Fluent in English and in Korean language

How to apply

Does this sound like an exciting opportunity? If yes, we would love to hear from you!

Apply by sending your application letter and CV by 16^th of August through our career portal:

Careers | Sumitomo SHI FW

For more information, give a call at + 82 10 5644 5854 (Director, Korea Services) or drop a mail at sean.cho@shi-g.com.