Day in the Life: Marleen, Project Manager Datacenters at Siemens
Meet Marleen, Project Manager Datacenters at Siemens, where she leads large-scale datacenter projects across the EMEA region. With a strong focus on planning, budgeting, quality control, and communication, Marleen's day is a dynamic mix of project coordination, stakeholder management, and technical troubleshooting. Whether she's aligning with suppliers, diving into internal strategy meetings, or monitoring project milestones, she ensures everything runs smoothly.
Name: Marleen
Job: Project Manager Datacenters
What does a Project Manager Datacenters do at Siemens?
Driving hyperscale datacenter projects for Siemens’ electrical distribution systems within EMEA region. Responsible for planning, budget, quality, and communication. Focus on project management, customer management, contract management, claim management, people management, and troubleshooting.
Here’s what a day in Marleen's life looks like!
9-10 AM: Updating e-mails, checking my diary, catching up with colleagues
10-11 AM: PM-tasks
11-12 PM: Progress meeting with main suppliers or the customer
12-1 PM: Lunch walk with colleagues
1-2 PM: PM-tasks
2-3 PM: Internal meeting regarding engineering, finance or planning topics
3-4 PM: PM-tasks
4-5 PM: Internal meeting regarding engineering, finance or planning topics
5-6 PM: Updating e-mails
PM tasks vary per day and per project phase. In general, these tasks consist of monitoring the planning, updating finances and the risk register, monitoring EHS and quality topics, claim and change management, monitoring procurement topics, monitoring manufacturing progress, clarifying engineering requirements, and minimizing delays, troubleshooting, escalations.
How do you unwind at the end of the day?
I have the luxury of living within walking distance of the office. At the end of a working day, I unwind as I walk home and then I exercise at the gym, play squash or have dinner with friends.
What do you love about your job and your employer?
My job is dynamic and challenging. One day my diary is dominated by meetings. The other day, my diary is fairly empty while ad hoc tasks or hurdles pop up during the day that require adaptability and flexibility. Relatedly, I enjoy the many responsibilities you have as a project manager to move the project forward. The focus is on constantly improving project execution and solving problemens where necessary taking into account time, buget, and quality constraints. Besides these hard skills, soft skills are also important when working with the customer, your suppliers, and the internal project team.
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