Hitachi Energy Hiring for Senior Project Manager at Houston, TX Full Time

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Hitachi Energy is seeking a Senior Project Manager for its Raleigh, North Carolina location. This role is responsible for managing project execution, contract compliance, customer satisfaction, and financial return for one or more of the most complex and/or large projects in the Grid Automation business unit involving major financial commitments. You’ll work as part of our Hitachi Energy team, which serves utility, industrial, and commercial customers with products and services to help distribute electricity efficiently and reliably, maintain power quality, and control and manage electrical networks.

Your 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. Serve as technical consultant to managers and project participants, and coordinate project activities.
• Defines, jointly with the Project Controls department, all project plan documents, including scope and financial plans, schedule and risk management plans. Plan and coordinate major projects that may be scheduled concurrently, involve unusual problems for which there is little precedent, and impact the organization’s reputation, objectives and future business. Coordinate activities of support groups, arrange staffing for various phases of projects, and assign specific responsibilities.
• Ensures that the project follows execution best practices and Hitachi Energy policies. Effectively monitors and controls project progress and efficient resource utilization. Monitors and controls project financials, overseeing project invoicing status, cost, expenses and cash flow. Devise innovative strategies to cost-effectively accomplish objectives while ensuring that overall efforts are in concert with customer and company requirements. Captures, analyses 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.
• Ensures that the project consistently applies contract and claims management, in accordance with Hitach 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.
• Ensure timely delivery of quality information and materials. Ensure product quality and field service product performance.
• 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. Develop, recommend, and implement initiatives to ensure customer satisfaction and improve performance. Maintain high responsive to customers.
• Review status reports and modify plans or schedules as necessary. Serve as prime interface with major customers and project participants to identify problems, devise innovative solutions, negotiate and reach mutually satisfactory agreement, and seek opportunities for additional business.
• Ensure timely contract completion, customer satisfaction and desired financial return.
• Identifies, qualifies, quantifies and manages project risks, and ensures that all opportunities are identified and pursued.
• Manage project risks and take aggressive measures to avoid incurring penalties, warranty repairs, or other costs that involve substation financial risks.
• In conjunction with related groups, manage opportunities to develop business projections and implement strategies to achieve growth/profitability objectives and ensure responsiveness to customers. Maintain awareness of new developments, competitors’ product offerings, and opportunities for new business.
• Ensures the project follows and complies with company health, safety, and environmental policies Drive the project team to identify, qualify and quantify HSE risks and concerns and develop a comprehensive plan to eliminate them.
• Lead by example and be recognized as a reference in HSE awareness.

Your background

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Technical Degree or similar and a minimum of 8 years of combined experience in Engineering and Project Management functions OR Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Technical Degree and a minimum of12 years of combined experience in Engineering and Project Management functions.
• Candidate must already have a work authorization that would permit them to work for Hitachi Energy in the United States.
• Experience with Substation Projects, Substation Automation, Protection and Control, Microgrids, Battery/Energy Storage Systems or Telecommunications
• PMP or other Project Management Certification is preferable
• Exceptional financial, analytical, communication and leadership skills
• Experience with Primavera P6 Scheduling or similar tool
• General experience with SAP including Project System module or similar ERP tool
• Available for short period travels

More about us

Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader that is advancing a sustainable energy future for all. We serve customers in the utility, industry and infrastructure sectors with innovative solutions and services across the value chain. Together with customers and partners, we pioneer technologies and enable the digital transformation required to accelerate the energy transition towards a carbon-neutral future. We are advancing the world’s energy system to become more sustainable, flexible and secure whilst balancing social, environmental and economic value. Hitachi Energy has a proven track record and unparalleled installed base in more than 140 countries. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ around 38,000 people in 90 countries and generate business volumes of approximately $10 billion USD. www.hitachienergy.com Hitachi Energy is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. We welcome you to apply and want you to know that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizen status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, family medical leave status, protected veterans’ status or any other legally protected characteristic. For more information regarding your EEO rights as an applicant, please visit the following websites: https://www.dol.go v/sites/dolgov/files/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf and https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ofccp/regs/compliance/ posters/pdf/OFCCP_EEO_Supplement_Final_JRF_QA_508c.pdf. Protected veterans and qualified individuals with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access Hitachi Energy career site as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by calling a Hitachi Energy HR Representative at 1-888-504-2007 or by sending an email to: [email protected]. Resumes and applications will not be accepted in this manner. #LI-NAM1

2022-05-20