Senior Project Manager
Espoo, FI
About the role
As a Senior Project Manager at Fortum, you will play a key role in driving our decarbonization strategy while developing future-ready industrial sites.
Fortum offers tailored industrial site development solutions in Finland for global energy-intensive industrial developers and investors. With our strong commitment to driving industry decarbonisation, we offer support at the early phases of low carbon investments by providing scalable and customized industrial sites matching to requirements of investors covering various power intensive industrial segments. We shorten the time required for the investment process and promote a fast time-to-market, by several years.
As part of a highly experienced and respected team, you will actively develop existing sites and new land areas for industrial investments, such as hyperscale data centers, green steel production and hydrogen projects
The position is located in Espoo, Finland. However, occasional travelling is required mainly in Finland.
About you
We’re looking for a skilled and experienced professional who thrives in a dynamic, collaborative environment.
To succeed in this role, you will need:
- Master’s degree in engineering or a related technical field (with sufficient technical education, providing understanding on electricity intensive assets)
- 10+ years in power production or power-consuming assets with expertise especially in project development focusing on early phase of development like zoning, grid connection planning and permitting, construction permitting and environmental permitting.
- Special focus on familiarity of permitting high-voltage grid connection (110kV and 400kV) and knowledge of such grid connection designs is a plus
- Proven track record of managing complex projects
- Strong project and portfolio management skills with industry-standard qualifications
- Knowledge of contracts and legal considerations from a project management perspective
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Fluent Finnish language skills are a must have in addition to excellent English, both written and spoken. Swedish is an advantage
In addition, you will also have a systematic, proactive approach with strong business acumen and excellent interpersonal skills for managing stakeholders, subcontractors, and service providers.
We offer you
At Fortum, we believe in a better future and want to be involved in shaping it. Our workplace is a safe place, both physically and mentally. You will grow with professional colleagues, being trusted and free to challenge yourself. We offer comprehensive benefits, flexible working hours, and hybrid work model to support your productivity, development and wellbeing. We are committed to build diverse teams where everyone feels included and is treated equally.
More information about our culture and benefits can be found here.
Interested?
Please send your application via our online recruitment tool by 15th April 2026 at the latest.
We will start contacting suitable candidates right away, and will hire once the right individual is found.
In case of any questions, please contact Director, Industrial Site Development, Jyrki Holappa, jyrki.holappa@fortum.com (phone +358 50 453 2705).
To be selected for the position, the applicant must go through background clearance and a health examination.
We are Fortum
Fortum is a Nordic energy company. We generate and deliver reliable energy to our customers and the Nordic energy system while at the same time helping industries decarbonise their processes and grow. Our core operations comprise efficient and best-in-class low-carbon power generation, customer services, and heating and cooling. Fortum’s power generation is already 99% from renewable or nuclear sources with one of the lowest specific CO2-emissions in Europe. We are guided by our ambitious SBTi-validated
emission reduction targets on our way towards net-zero by 2040. For our ~4,500 employees, we commit to be a safe and inspiring workplace. Fortum's share is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki. fortum.com