Project Planner

Hitachi Energy Sweden AB; Ludvika kommun; On-site; SEK 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working time

Health care and wellness allowance

Career development training

Job summary

Hitachi Energy Sweden AB in Ludvika is seeking an experienced professional for a project planning role in the HVDC sector. You will lead scheduling and project efforts, while analyzing project requirements and monitoring progress.

Qualifications include an engineering degree, experience in planning and cost control on lump sum projects, and excellent communication skills. The role offers flexible working hours, health care benefits, and opportunities for career advancement within a diverse company.

Qualifications

• Experience in planning and/or cost control on lump sum projects.
• Thorough understanding of logical sequencing in EPC projects.
• Ability to lead planning activities in multi-location projects.
• Experience in cost management and compliance with schedules.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning, scheduling, and project efforts.
• Provide project status analysis and tracking.
• Define project work and cost breakdown structure.
• Monitor project progress and critical paths.

Skills

Planning and cost control

Project management

Communication skills

Team management

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

The Opportunity

HVDC (High Voltage Direct Current) is a product group in Hitachi Energy, which develops, manufactures and sells DC 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. The HVDC market for large scale transmission and offshore wind is booming as an enabler for the global energy transitions. All these projects are classified as very critical infrastructures and hence cyber security requirements and standard compliance is very high.

We are interested to learn more about you and what you can contribute with so don't hesitate to apply even though you don´t meet all requirements.

A team with great cooperation and with diverse background is waiting for you to join!

How you´ll make an impact

You will lead planning, scheduling and efforts for all project and tender phases.

To timely provide the Project Manager, and the Line Managers, with Earned Value Management Analysis, with look ahead, reliable and comprehensive information about the project status: schedule, progress, planned, actual, forecast, resources and productivity, trends, and risks.

Should have strong scope management skills to drive projects and tenders within HVDC service.

Analyzes project requirements with project/tender 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 and cost breakdown structure, develops and maintains properly linked, required resource-loaded/integrated, baseline and current schedules that provide time-phased baseline, actual and forecast data for the 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 the project team of any deviations or scheduling issues, and provides input for optimizing resources.

Issues progress reports, program updates and productivity data on a regular basis and as requested by customers and stakeholders.

Contributes to Sales and Operation planning (SOP) at HVDC Service

Your background

Experience in planning and/or cost control on lump sum projects or equivalent.

Thorough understanding of logical sequencing and interfacing of project execution activities in EPC projects

Ability to lead planning and project controls activities in multi-location EPC projects.

Experience to plan activities and monitoring execution schedules and physical progress in all project phases.

Experience in cost management, including cost estimate input from departments, comparing estimate input to experience data, ensuring compliance with time schedule.

Strong communication skills, ability to highlight key issues and communicate them to management and other stakeholders.

You are a good proactive team player, with team management and leadership skills.

Engineering degree and proficiency in English are required, additional language skills incl Swedish is an advantage.

What we offer

Collective agreement

Flexible working time

Health care and wellness allowance

Fantastic career possibilities within Hitachi Energy both within Sweden and globally

Mentor to support you throughout onboard phase

Various trainings and education supporting employee development

Diversified company with over 70+ nationalities working in Sweden

Supplementary compensation for parental leave

Employee Benefit Portal with thousands of discounts and perks

More about us

Are you ready for a new exciting challenge? Does the above description sound like you? Welcome to apply. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, so don't delay - apply today!

Recruiting Manager Johnny Helsing, [e-mail] will be happy to answer your questions regarding this position. Union representatives - Sveriges Ingenjörer; Mikael Hjort, + 46 107 38 29 86; Ledarna: Frank Hollstedt, [phone]; Unionen: Fredrik Holmgren, [phone]. All other questions should be directed to Talent Partner Eva Schölin, [e-mail]