Job Description
Hitachi Energy has an exciting opportunity as a Project Planning and Controls Specialist. You will act as a key resource for planning, scheduling, controlling, and monitoring customer-specific projects of various values and complexities and delivering accurate and thorough information about the project status, including the schedule, progress, planned, actual, forecast, resources and productivity trends, and risks, to the project manager and line managers promptly.
How You'll Make An Impact
* Leading the Project Planning and Controlling function for the projects in HV Service UK.
* Support Operations Manager and Project Managers in planning, scheduling and control.
* Development of a comprehensive project plan during tender and execution as per the scope. Establish project schedule, man-hour budget and monitor its progress.
* Develop and maintain an integrated role/resource-loaded baseline and current schedule for better cost forecasting.
* Routinely analyse, evaluate and forecast the current project status against the baseline schedule.
* Assess the impacts of design or construction changes to the schedule.
* Evaluate the actual position of the project, compare the actual state with the desired state, and take corrective actions if required.
* Contributing to the on-time delivery of the project. Driving collaboration between the partners, stakeholders and customers.
* Actively monitoring and controlling the project progress using Hitachi Energy policies and best practices to ensure that customer requirements are completed on time and in accordance with the contract.
* Understand and apply project planning and execution practices in accordance with internal project control standard procedures/instructions
* Notify the project team of any deviation or scheduling issues.
* Issue progress reports, program updates and productivity data regularly and as requested by customers and stakeholders.
Your Background
* Knowledge of MS Project and Primavera P6.
* Certification or further education, like PMI-PMP, is desirable.
* Strong communication skills and pronounced customer orientation, as well as structured working methods and the ability to work in a team.
* Experience working with project management plans (PMP) and plans, specifications and estimates (PS&E).
* Proficiency in both spoken & written English is required
* Ability to develop, maintain and update detailed schedules, ensure adherence to quality standards, create reports and provide analysis using Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.
Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader in electrification, powering a sustainable energy future through innovative power grid technologies with digital at the core. Over three billion people depend on our technologies to power their daily lives.
With over a century in pioneering mission-critical technologies like high-voltage, transformers, automation, and power electronics, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time – balancing soaring electricity demand, while decarbonizing the power system.
Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 50,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $16 billion USD. We welcome you to apply today.