Project Planning and Controls Specialist - HVDC

Hitachi, Ltd.; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi, Ltd. in India seeks a Senior Project Planner to lead planning and scheduling for EPC/Sub-Station projects. You will build integrated schedules, monitor progress, and report deviations, ensuring alignment with baselines and cost plans.

You will collaborate with engineering, construction, and SCM, define resource needs, manage risks, and drive planning scenarios while maintaining compliance with internal and external regulations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree is required.
• 5+ years of EPC/Sub-Station project planning and controls experience.
• Strong knowledge of Primavera P6, PIMS, MS Project and document management systems.
• Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Visio.
• Ability to define baselines, schedule integration, and resource loading.
• Experience with CPM scheduling, EOT, MPR, DPR, and risk assessment is preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and scheduling for all project phases.
• Maintain and analyze actual and forecasted schedules.
• Monitor deviations, provide reports, and manage schedule risks.
• Develop integrated, baselined schedules aligned to cost and cash flow.
• Collaborate with engineering, construction, SCM and client to resolve changes and risks.
• Prepare schedule analyses and support EOT claims.
• Communicate progress and issues to stakeholders in a timely manner.

Skills

Scheduling

Project planning

CPM analysis

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Primavera P6

PIMS

MS Project

Power BI

Visio

Document Management

MS Office

Job description

The opportunity:

Lead planning, scheduling efforts for all project phases. Maintain and analyse actual and forecasted schedules. Monitor, report and manage deviations.

How you'll make an impact:

• Ensures projects follow sound methodology and execution practices in accordance with internal standard procedures. Ensures that an integrated schedule for the project’s entire scope of work is provided.
• Analyses project requirements with project team, checks that all essential work activities have been identified in sufficient detail to serve as a basis for developing realistic project schedules. Defines, jointly with the project team, project work aligned to the cost breakdown structure, develops, and maintains properly linked, required role loaded/integrated, baseline and current schedules that provide time phased baseline, actual and forecast data for project.
• Monitors project progress and regularly analyses project critical paths to ensure all critical path activities and project milestones are progressed to the plan, notifies Project Managers of any deviations or scheduling issues, and provides input for optimizing resources. When required prepares EOT Schedules and Schedule Analysis to support Project Team. Works together with Line Management Organization to resolve Resource Demand / Supply Conflicts. Issues progress reports, schedule updates and productivity data on a regular basis and as requested by customers and stakeholders.
• Supports the establishment of a baseline plan for cost and cash flow performance measurement. Works with project team to define the necessary resources for project completion, evaluating the work breakdown structure and standard productivity.
• Works closely with engineering, construction, pre-commissioning, commissioning, client and contractors to identify potential changes in scope and quantifies the impact of each change in a timely fashion.Works with project team to identify and assess the priority of project risks (e.g. schedule, cost and scope risks), and proposes mitigation plans. Analyses impact of risk on the overall timeline and resources.
• Integrates material resource requirements with project schedule and defines procurement activities and order lead times. Regularly communicates with SCM team and updates schedules to ensure procurement activities take place in a timely way and lead times are optimized to meet schedule targets.
• Participates in project reviews. Composes reports and updates all required project data in Project Controls and reporting systems for Management Information and Project Analysis. Communicates project progress and control issues to project management team and offers solutions.Effectively communicates appropriate information to the Project Manager and other stakeholders in a timely manner and to achieve desired understanding.
• Where required: Support Sales & Operations Planning Process. Work together with Sales team to define Planning Scenarios, and drive workload data collection process from organization. Chair monthly S&OP Review Meeting.
• You will be responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
• 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:

• You hold a bachelor's degree.
• Have Project Planning and Controls Experience with a work experience of 5+ years in EPC / Sub-Station Projects.
• Must have knowledge and skills in Primavera P6, PIMS, MS Project, Document Management Systems, Power Bi, Visio, etc.
• Knowledge and experience using MS Office: Word, Excel, Power Point.
• Good knowledge of process structuring & process management.
• Experience in Large Scale EPC project with specialization in Project Planning and Controls, experience in Baseline Schedule Finalization, MPR, DPR, EoT Claim, CPM, etc, experience in Home Office planning with Site execution experience in Sub Station or any EPC projects are preferred.
• Self-starter calibre who could own tasks through to completion.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.