Mission Statement

This role is responsible for Project Management professional. As Project Manager, you will Lead the execution of medium to large size projects and ensure that all related activities are performed in accordance with Hitachi Energy India Limited policy, contractual agreements, quality standards, health, safety & environment requirements, financial targets, as well as schedule commitments. Supports the organization in process improvement to continually increase the effectiveness of project execution. Working in close collaborations with customers, engineering, quality, production, supply chain, etc. You must possess strong organizational and communication skills and work proficiently both individually and in teams.  

Your responsibilities

• Leading the project team, defining execution guidelines, allocating project tasks, and motivating and monitoring internal and external resources to accomplish all tasks and milestones. Providing performance feedback regarding allocated resources working on projects.
• Effectively monitoring and controlling project progress and efficient resource utilization.
• Monitoring and controlling project financials, overseeing project invoicing status, cost, expenses, and cash flow.
• Defining, jointly with the Finance, Quality, Engineering and Planning departments, all project plan documents, including scope and financial plans, schedule and risk management plans.
• Identifying, qualifying, quantifying, and managing project risks, and ensuring that all opportunities are identified and pursued.
• Driving the formal acceptance of the project, ensuring contract close-out and its acknowledgement by the customer
• Procuring all required services, materials and equipment from external and internal suppliers, including support in negotiations, claims and project changes.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Acting as the key contact for the customer and an escalation point for project issues.
• Confirming that the project consistently applies contract and claims management, in accordance with Hitachi Energy India policies and contractual agreements.
• Ensuring the project follows and complies with company health, safety, and environmental policies. Visible leadership in ensuring implementation of HSE requirements at site as per company procedures and policies.
• Living Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your background:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and 10 plus years in one or combination of the following disciplines: Project Management; Project Engineering; Customer support. Must have proven accomplishments.
• Atleast executed 1 full Turnkey project of STATCOM, SVAR or Flexible AC Transmission systems (FACTS), or HV Substations in project life cycle. Must have proven accomplishments.
• Clearly demonstrates critical thinking, problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills to communicate with Hitachi Energy and Customer personnel in order to successfully collaborate, coordinate, and resolve project related activities and issues.
• Knowledge of Project Management skills such as critical path and risk identification and mitigation.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and able to deliver to customer’s expectations.
• Self-motivated who drives all stakeholder to close issues and comfortable taking a leadership role as being a team member.
• Negotiation skills for interaction with internal and external customers
• Desired competencies:
• Knowledge of SAP, Primavera P6, MS project, MSWORD and MSEXCEL
• Experience from FACTS and/or HVDC projects and PMP certification will be added advantage.
• Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.