Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Hitachi Energy USA Inc. is hiring a Project Manager to lead execution of GIS new-business projects in the North American region. The role is accountable for project delivery, contract compliance, customer satisfaction, financial performance, and coordination of internal teams, suppliers, and customers.
Responsibilities
- Leads the project team allocated to the project, defining main guidelines, allocating project tasks, and motivating and monitoring internal and external resources to accomplish all tasks and milestones
- Provides performance feedback regarding allocated resources working on projects
- Defines, jointly with the Project Controls and Sales department, all project plan documents, including scope and financial plans, schedule, and risk management plans
- Ensures that the project follows execution best practices and Hitachi Energy policies and processes
- Effectively monitors and controls project progress and efficient resource utilization throughout all project phases
- Coordinate's product fabrication in remote factories (i.e., Switzerland) with all internal functions and teams maximizing engagement of all parties involved in the project
- Monitors and controls project financials, overseeing project invoicing status, cost, expenses, and cash flow
- Identifies, qualifies, quantifies, and manages project risks, and ensures that all opportunities are identified and pursued
- Captures, analyzes, and shares lessons learned throughout the project
- Ensures that the project is formally closed out, as contractually agreed
- Drives the formal acceptance of the project, contract close-out and its acknowledgement by the customer and handover to service department
- Ensures that the project consistently applies contract and claims management, in accordance with Hitachi Energy policies and contractual agreements
- Coordinates with Supply Chain Management, and successfully procures required services, materials and equipment for the project from external and internal suppliers
- Support Supply Chain Management in supplier negotiations, claims and project changes
- Acts as key contact for the customer and an escalation point for project issues
- Builds and maintains strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders and effectively communicates with all stakeholders
- Ensures the project follows and complies with company health & safety, environmental and security 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
Skills
- 8+ years of experience in project management or project engineering of complex engineering related projects
- Experience with GIS projects or at least of similar size, complexity and HV equipment related is a must (involving engineering, procurement, production, site construction work / installation and commissioning)
- Bachelor's degree in engineering and 5 years of experience in project manager or project engineering of complex engineering related projects
- Experience with GIS projects or at least of similar size, complexity and HV equipment related is a must (involving engineering, procurement, production, site construction work / installation and commissioning)
- Must have strong English communication skills and presentation skills
- Must have strong interpersonal skills to be able to lead project teams towards successful execution and create successful and long-lasting relationships with customers and other internal and external collaborators
- Must be proficient with MS Office (Excel, Word)
- Must have strong knowledge of SAP
- Must have demonstrated experience in negotiation skills
- Candidates must already have work authorization that would permit them to work for Hitachi Energy in the United States
- Bachelor's degree in engineering highly preferred
- Highly prefer PMP certification OR Hitachi Energy Project Manager Certification
- Experience with Gas Insulated HV switchgear a huge plus
- Highly prefer experience with Power Distribution/ Utility Electrical products
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