Project Planning & Controls Specialist

Hitachi Vantara Corporation; Chennai District; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy is seeking a Project Controls professional in Chennai to lead planning, scheduling, and cost-control activities for complex projects. You will create time-phased baselines, monitor progress, and collaborate with engineering, procurement, and construction teams to resolve scheduling conflicts and optimize resources.

The role requires strong experience in project controls, risk assessment, and change management to ensure on-time project delivery and adherence to budgets.

Qualifications

• Experience in project scheduling and critical path analysis.
• Ability to develop time-phased baselines and monitor progress.
• Coordinate with engineering, procurement and management to optimize schedules.

Responsibilities

• Ensure projects follow standard methodologies and integrated schedules.
• Develop and maintain linked, baseline and current schedules with time-phased data.
• Monitor progress, analyze critical paths, and report deviations to management.

Skills

Scheduling

Critical Path

Project Controls

Resource Planning

Job description

Job Description:

In this role, You will:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. Stakeholder relations:

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

9. 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.

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