Senior Project Planner - Hybrid, Electrical Substations

Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc.; Vaasa; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy Finland Oy in Vaasa, Finland, invites a Senior Project Planner to join the Project Controls team within the Nordic Operating Unit. The role covers planning and scheduling for complex electrical substation projects from tendering to handover, with hybrid work options in Vaasa and Västerås.

You will develop robust schedules, align time and cost with stakeholders, and produce schedule progress reports while supporting risk management, change control, and On-Time-Delivery milestones.

Qualifications

• M.Sc. or B.Sc. in Electrical engineering or related field.
• Proven experience in planning and scheduling complex projects.
• Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6.
• Excellent written and verbal English; Finnish/Swedish a plus.
• PM Certification (PMP® and/or PMI-SP®) is an advantage.
• Proactive, self-driven mindset with ownership and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Take a leading role in planning and scheduling activities for complex projects and support governance.
• Develop, maintain, and analyze integrated project schedules with project teams.
• Support forecastability by aligning time, cost, resources and progress.
• Identify deviations, risks, and opportunities and report to stakeholders.
• Prepare schedule reports and analyses (S-curves, critical path, resource histograms, OTD).
• Communicate schedule information to stakeholders to keep everyone informed.
• Lead What-if scenarios, delay mitigation, and EoT discussions with the project team.
• Promote best practices in planning and scheduling across the organization.

Skills

Collaboration

Communication

Project scheduling

Education

M.Sc./B.Sc. in Electrical engineering

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Hitachi Energy Finland Oy in Vaasa, Finland, invites a Senior Project Planner to join the Project Controls team within the Nordic Operating Unit. The role covers planning and scheduling for complex electrical substation projects from tendering to handover, with hybrid work options in Vaasa and Västerås.

You will develop robust schedules, align time and cost with stakeholders, and produce schedule progress reports while supporting risk management, change control, and On-Time-Delivery milestones.