Project Planner - HVDC Service

Hitachi Energy; Ludvika kommun; Hybrid; SEK 700,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan

Life insurance

Hybrid work

Wellness allowance

Healthcare benefits

Career development

Employee discounts

Job summary

Hitachi Energy in Sweden is seeking an experienced planning and project controls professional to lead scheduling for HVDC service projects and tenders. You will deliver Earned Value Management insights, monitor progress, and drive adherence to baselines across multi-location EPC efforts.

You will collaborate with project teams, define resource-loaded schedules, and support SOP processes, ensuring timely communication with management and customers.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Team player, with team management and leadership skills.
• Engineering degree and proficiency in English are required, additional language skills incl Swedish is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning, scheduling and efforts for all project and tender phases.
• Provide Earned Value Management analysis with look ahead, reliable data on schedule, progress, forecasts, resources and risks.
• Maintain strong scope management to drive projects and tenders within HVDC service.
• Analyze project requirements with the team to develop realistic project schedules.
• Define work and cost breakdown structures and maintain linked baselined schedules with time-phased data.
• Monitor progress, analyze critical paths, and notify deviations with input for optimizing resources.
• Issue progress reports, program updates and productivity data for customers and stakeholders.
• Contribute to Sales and Operations Planning (SOP) at HVDC Service.

Skills

Planning & scheduling

Cost control

EPC project sequencing

Multi-location leadership

Cost management

Strong communication

Team leadership

English proficiency

Swedish advantage

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

Join HVDC Service at Hitachi Energy

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.

Your Responsibilities

• 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.
• Team player, with team management and leadership skills.
• Engineering degree and proficiency in English are required, additional language skills incl Swedish is an advantage.

More About Us

We believe great work thrives in an environment where people feel genuinely supported and fairly rewarded. Our benefits are designed to create real value for every individual – fueling engagement, performance, and growth. By prioritizing well-being, we build a workplace where personal and organizational success grow together.

Our Benefits Offering For Our Roles Generally Includes

• Collective agreement, occupational pension & possibility of salary exchange to pension (for ITP1 and ITP2)
• Group life insurance and additional insurances.
• Flex-time and shortening of working hours in time bank
• Hybrid work & allowances for setting up a workplace at home (in agreement with line manager)
• Health care and wellness allowance
• Health insurance incl. dental, spectacles & contact lenses allowance (employee pay 140 sek/month via salary deduction)
• Psychological support program
• Supplementary compensation for parental leave
• Various trainings and education supporting employee development
• Internal career possibilities both within Sweden and globally
• Employee Benefit Portal with thousands of discounts and perks

The benefits listed above are an excerpt only and may vary depending on job grade, location and contract type. Eligibility is subject to local regulations.

Questions can be directed to Talent Acquisition Partner Eva Schölin, [e-mail]

Union representatives - Sveriges Ingenjörer: Mikael Hjort, [phone]; Ledarna: Frank Hollstedt, [phone]; Unionen: Fredrik Holmgren, [phone].