Project Planning & Controls Specialist

Hitachi Energy Ltd.; Chennai District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy Ltd. seeks a project controls professional to manage planning, scheduling, and cost-related aspects across a project lifecycle in Chennai, India. The role emphasizes developing integrated schedules, monitoring critical paths, and coordinating with engineering, procurement, and construction teams.

You will work closely with project management to identify risks, changes, and resource constraints, ensuring timely delivery and successful project outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Ensures projects follow sound methodology and execution practices in accordance with internal standard procedures.
• Provides integrated schedule for the project’s entire scope of work.
• Develops time-phased baseline and current schedules with linked baselines.
• Monitors progress and analyzes critical paths; alerts schedule deviations to Project Managers.
• Produces schedule updates, progress reports, and productivity data for stakeholders.
• Coordinates with engineering, procurement, and construction teams to resolve scheduling conflicts.

Job description

In This Role, You Will

Instructions and guidelines:

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.

Planning and scheduling:

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 analyzes 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.

Cost, revenue, and cash flow management:

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.

Change management:

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.

Risk management:

Works with project team to identify and assess the priority of project risks (e.g. schedule, cost and scope risks), and proposes mitigation plans. Analyzes impact of risk on the overall timeline and resources.

Procurement:

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.

Project reviews:

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.

Stakeholder relations:

Effectively communicates appropriate information to the Project Manager and other stakeholders in a timely manner and to achieve desired understanding.

Sales & Operations Planning:

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.

Publication date : 2026-10-06