Job Posting Title Project Planning & Controls Specialist

Hitachi ABB Power Grids; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave

Private healthcare

Enhanced pension plan

Life insurance and income protection

Fitness benefits

Job summary

Hitachi ABB Power Grids is seeking a Project Planning & Controls Specialist in a hybrid role based in Birmingham. You will own development and maintenance of integrated project schedules through tendering, initiation, commissioning and close-out.

You will lead schedule reviews, analyse critical paths, monitor progress, and support risk and change assessments while working with suppliers and project stakeholders to ensure realistic, achievable plans.

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering or related discipline or equivalent industry experience.
• Experience as a Project Planner within EPC, energy, power transmission, infrastructure or similar environment.
• Understanding of sequencing and interfacing of project execution activities in EPC projects.
• Experience developing and maintaining integrated project schedules for complex multidisciplinary projects.
• Experience using Primavera P6 is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Analyse project requirements with the project team to develop detailed schedules.
• Define work breakdown structures and integrated baselines with resources.
• Maintain and monitor schedules through all project phases.
• Perform critical path, near-critical path and float analyses regularly.
• Lead schedule reviews and communicate progress and risks to stakeholders.
• Establish baselines and support planning during start-up and early planning.
• Collaborate with suppliers and subcontractors to ensure realistic plans.

Skills

Project planning

Scheduling

Risk analysis

Stakeholder management

Schedule performance

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Job Posting Title Project Planning & Controls Specialist

Location- (Hybrid) 2/3 days Birmingham offices

Please note we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position.

HVDC is a product group in Hitachi Energy, which develops, manufactures and sells direct current transmission systems on a global market. HVDC technology is used to transmit electricity over long distances and for power transmission via submarine cables. It is also used to connect power systems.

In this exciting role, you will be responsible for the planning, scheduling, monitoring and control of our delivery projects. You will own the development, maintenance and analysis of integrated project schedules throughout the project lifecycle, from tendering and project initiation through to commissioning and project close-out.

How you’ll make an impact

• Analyse project requirements with the project team and ensure all work activities are identified and developed to a level of detail sufficient to support realistic and achievable project schedules.
• Define, jointly with the project team, project work breakdown structures and develop and maintain integrated baseline and current schedules, including resource-loaded schedules where required.
• Develop, maintain and monitor project schedules throughout all phases of project execution using recognised planning and scheduling methodologies.
• Monitor project progress and regularly perform critical path, near-critical path and float analysis to identify schedule risks, opportunities and deviations from plan.
• Challenge schedule assumptions and work collaboratively with project stakeholders to develop recovery and mitigation plans where required.
• Lead schedule review sessions with project stakeholders to ensure alignment, quality and commitment to project schedules.
• Perform schedule quality reviews and ensure project schedules comply with established planning standards and governance requirements.
• Issue progress reports, schedule updates, look-ahead schedules and planning analyses on a regular basis and as required by customers and project stakeholders.
• Support tendering activities through the development of project schedules, planning deliverables, resource forecasts and schedule risk assessments.
• Establish project baselines and support project teams during project start-up and planning activities.
• Carry out pre-planning activities including reviews of scope of work, contractual requirements, work breakdown structures, engineering deliverables and project interfaces.
• Work with suppliers, subcontractors and third parties to ensure plans are realistic and achievable and analyse contractor schedule performance.
• Support risk and change assessments through schedule impact analysis and what-if scenario planning.
• Promote planning best practices and contribute to the continuous improvement of project planning processes.

Your Background

• Degree qualified in Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant industry experience.
• Experience working as a Project Planner within an EPC, energy, power transmission, infrastructure or similar project environment.
• Thorough understanding of logical sequencing and interfacing of project execution activities in EPC projects.
• Experience developing and maintaining integrated project schedules for complex multidisciplinary projects.
• Experience using Primavera P6 is preferred.
• Experience monitoring project execution schedules and physical progress throughout all phases of project delivery.
• Experience supporting lump-sum EPC projects or equivalent project delivery models.
• Knowledge of HVDC, power transmission, substations, renewable energy or large infrastructure projects would be advantageous.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence multidisciplinary teams and clearly communicate schedule risks, issues and recommendations.
• Analytical, proactive and collaborative, with the ability to work effectively in a dynamic project environment.

What We Offer:

• Generous annual leave plus public holidays with the ability to buying & selling leave days
• Enhanced pension plan with competitive employer contributions
• Private healthcare for our employees
• Health screening program and Dental Plan
• Maternity, paternity, parental leave
• Critical illness plan, Life insurance and income protection
• Fitness & health benefits (access to gyms, studios, on-demand exercise classes and library of wellness apps)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Performance-based rewards and recognition

We are a global leader in electrification, powering the electricity era to meet the energy demands of today, and the next 25 years. As the energy arm of Hitachi Group, over three billion people depend on our pioneering, mission-critical technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century of innovation, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time: driving the evolution of the world’s energy system to ensure abundant, secure, affordable, and sustainable power for today’s generation and the next.

With an unparalleled installed base in over 140 countries, we are the grid ecosystem partner across the utility, industry, data center, and transportation sectors. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 56,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $20 billion USD.