Plants Project Manager - HVDC

The opportunity: 

Hitachi Energy is a world leader that is advancing a sustainable energy future for all. We are advancing the world’s energy system to be more sustainable, flexible, and secure, and we collaborate with customers and partners to enable a sustainable energy future – for today’s generations and those to come.

The Hitachi Energy Indian Operations Center (INOPC) is a competence center with around 3000+ skilled engineers who focus on tendering, engineering, planning, procurement, project Management, functional system testing, installation supervision, documentation and commissioning. However, over the last decade, it has evolved to become the largest Operations hub. The India Operations Centre team at Chennai, Bangalore and Gurugram supports Hitachi Energy’s units in more than 40 countries across a wide portfolio of all the four business units in Hitachi Energy To date, the team has executed engineering and commissioning for projects in more than 80 countries.

As Plants Project Manager HVDC will be the project manager for Plants & Civil design team focusing on Electromechanical, Electrical (Station Auxiliary Power), and Civil Design (including auxiliary systems) for HVDC projects.

Will support the project team in executing the project processes with Plants team.

How you’ll make an impact: 

• Be a driven proactive project manager for your Plants and Civil design team by cultivating camaraderie and promoting transparency

• Evaluate, select, and apply standard techniques, procedures, and criteria to perform task or sequence of tasks, for conventional projects with few complex features. Executes assignments using established processes.

• Ensure project timelines are met with high quality. Utilize standard processes, tools, and techniques. Ensure that engineering activities comply with the required safety regulations and contractual requirements.

• Evaluate risks and opportunities, strategizes mitigation of one’s engineering projects/programs. Supports the Project Engineering Manager in overall project risk and opportunity assessments and implementation of resulting actions. Identifies opportunities for repeating and new businesses.

• Cross functional communication, cooperation, collaboration and coordination for needed input for Plants and Civil departments

• Interact with customers, contractors, suppliers, internal disciplines, attend project meetings and present all project management aspects of projects like scope of work, delivery, cost, time and quality,

• Understand deadlines, budgetary constraints and have a strong sense of responsibility and strategic thinking, and you are comfortable with taking informed decisions for and with your team .

• Collaborate and networks with project management & engineering colleagues within Hitachi Energy. Share best practice across different projects and disciplines

• Driving the technical leads to a feasible and cost-effective solution for tenders. Taking Initiative in tender management execution process optimizations, standardization, improvement, etc.

• 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:

• Have bachelor’s in electrical & Electronics Engineering or Equivalent with a minimum work experience of 10 to 15 years in Substation primary or secondary project lead or project management in larger projects, leading a technical team or project.

• You should have understanding of Primary / Auxiliary power design of AC Substations or HVDC Stations with Project management techniques.

• You should have experience in handling tender support or bidding.

• Effective communication and collaboration skills

• Good intercultural sensitivity with strong leadership skills