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A Project Cargo job involves managing the transportation of oversized, heavy, or complex cargo that requires specialized handling, planning, and logistics. Professionals in this role coordinate with multiple stakeholders to ensure the safe and efficient delivery of large-scale shipments, often for industries like construction, energy, or manufacturing. Responsibilities include route planning, permits, risk assessment, and selecting appropriate transportation methods such as heavy-lift vessels, cranes, or multimodal transport solutions.

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Infographic showing various Project Cargo job openings in the United States as of June 2026, with employment types broken down into 67% Full Time, and 33% Contract. Highlights an 98% Physical, and 2% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $107,124 per year, or $51.5 per hour.

Logistics Project Manager

Siemens Energy, Inc.

Orlando, FL • On-site

Full-time

Medical, Retirement, PTO

Posted 10 days ago

Siemens Energy rating

8.2

Company rating: 8.2 out of 10

Based on 83 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

94th of 418 rated machine equipment manufacturers

Job description

A Snapshot of Your Day
The Logistics Project Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing complex domestic and international logistics operations involving heavy lift, oversized, and project cargo. This role ensures compliance with all import/export regulations, customs requirements, and transportation constraints while managing multiple concurrent projects in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment. This position requires a detail-oriented professional with strong technical logistics knowledge, advanced Excel capabilities, and the ability to proactively mitigate risk across the full logistics lifecycle.
How You'll Make an Impact
  • Develop logistics concepts and pricing supporting the sales process. Evaluate proposals and quotations during execution and supporting award decisions based on evaluation of vendor risk, capability, experience and method. Areas of focus is heavy and over dimensional cargo.
  • Support import / export processes and knowledge of US Customs formalities and regulations.
  • Identify risks and work with the team to develop mitigation plans. Ensure road permits, rail clearances, HAZMAT declarations and other regulatory requirements that are part of project logistics are in place and validated.
  • Coordinate with stakeholders externally, including freight forwarders, carriers, riggers, customs brokers and surveyors. Coordinate internally with project management teams, finance teams, transport engineers, factory personnel and field service personnel and others as needed.
  • Review and validate shipping documentation including commercial invoices, packing lists, bills of lading, certificates of origin, Safety Data Sheets, etc.
  • Track project status, report non-conformance and overall performance of the logistics scope, develop supplier relationships and manage claims as needed.

What You Bring
  • Bachelor's degree in supply chain management or related field preferred; Substitution of years of experience or other degrees can be considered.
  • Minimum 3 years' experience delivering project cargo/heavy lifts, and oversized shipments via ocean, air, rail, barge, and road while having working knowledge of international import/export regulations, INCOTERMS and customs procedures
  • Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
  • Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (tracking logs, reporting, data management), & proficiency in Microsoft Word. Ability to bring digitalization skills (automation, artificial intelligence, etc.)
  • Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States without need for current or future employer-sponsored work authorization. Siemens Energy employees with current visa sponsorship may be eligible for internal transfers.

About the Team
Grid Technologies
Our Grid Technology 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. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.
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 that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.
Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo
Rewards
  • Career growth and development opportunities; supportive work culture
  • Company paid Health and wellness benefits
  • Paid Time Off and paid holidays
  • 401K savings plan with company match
  • Family building benefits
  • Parental leave

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