Company:
Hitachi Energy
Industry: Engineering / Technical
Deadline: Not specified
Job Type: Full Time
Location: Gauteng
State:
Field: Project Management
Description
The opportunity
- We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Project Manager Transformers to join our team. In this role you will be responsible for multiple projects for all projects stages.
- You will be leading the project team, establishing the project execution approach and oversee project hand-over, execution planning, monitoring and control activities for both internal and external resources to accomplish all project goals.
How you’ll make an impact
- Driving the formal acceptance of the project, contract close-out and its acknowledgement by the customer.
- Acting as the key contact for the customer and an escalation point for project issues.
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Ensuring the project follows and complies with company health, safety, and environmental policies.
- Defining all project plan documents, including scope and financial plans, schedule and risk management plans.
- Ensuring that the project follows execution best practices and Hitachi Energy policies.
- Monitoring and controlling project progress and efficient resource utilization, project financials, overseeing projects invoicing status, cost, expenses and cash flow.
- Identify, qualify, quantify and manage project risks.
- Ensuring that the project is formally closed out as contractually agreed.
- Coaching and providing feedback for project staff.
- Organizing customer acceptance of transformers and working on removing defects in customer complaints.
- Supervising shipment, transport of the transformer from the plant to the customer and installation at the transformer assembly site.
- You will be responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
- Living Hitachi Energy’s core values safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.
Your background
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical/energy engineering.
- The PMP Certificate is an advantage.
- More than 5 – 10 years of experience in Project Management or Project Controlling in a transformer manufacturing industry.
- Experience with project management in the energy sector/Substations.
- Knowledge of MS Office and MS Project.
- Basic knowledge of SAP is beneficial.
- Ability to read technical drawings and documentations.
- Proactive, result-oriented individual with excellent interpersonal and teamwork skill as well as reliability and ability to work under pressure
- You are a real organizational talent, you have an analytical attitude, and you have good communication skills commercial insight and negotiation skills
- No objection to occasional travel abroad.
- Knowledge of various contracts (NEC3, FIDIC, etc)
- Proficiency in both spoken & written English is required.