Senior Project Planner - Hybrid Substation Scheduling Lead

Hitachi Energy; Västerås kommun; Hybrid; SEK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy is seeking a Senior Project Planner to join our Project Controls team in the Nordic Operating Unit. The role is based in Västerås, Sweden or Vaasa, Finland with hybrid working possibilities.

You will shape schedules across the full lifecycle of complex substations, aligning scope, time, cost, and progress with contractual objectives. Collaborate with project managers, engineers, and supply chain to deliver excellence.

Qualifications

• M.Sc. or B.Sc. in Electrical engineering or related field.
• Proven experience in planning and scheduling complex projects.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills to engage, motivate, and inspire stakeholders across the project organization.
• Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6 and knowledge of schedule management theory.
• Ability to prepare and maintain high quality, dynamic project schedules together with the project team.
• Proactive and self-driven mindset with ownership and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Take a leading role in planning and scheduling activities in complex projects and support project teams with schedule governance, analysis and decision making
• Develop, maintain, and analyze integrated project schedules in close collaboration with project teams
• Support predictable schedule forecasting by aligning time, cost, resources and progress
• Identify schedule deviations, risks, and opportunities early, and communicate them clearly to project stakeholders
• Prepare schedule reports and analyses, including S-curves, critical path analyzes, resource histograms and On-Time-Delivery (OTD) milestones
• Actively communicate schedule information to stakeholders to keep everyone informed
• Support and prepare What-if schedule scenarios, delay mitigation plans and Extension of Time (EoT) claims together with the project team
• Promote planning and scheduling best practices across the organization, act as a role model and support less experienced planners
• Drive the use and continuous improvement of planning and scheduling methodologies and tools

Skills

Scheduling

Primavera P6

Stakeholder communication

English language

Education

M.Sc. or B.Sc. in Electrical engineering

PMP®

PMI-SP®

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Hitachi Energy is seeking a Senior Project Planner to join our Project Controls team in the Nordic Operating Unit. The role is based in Västerås, Sweden or Vaasa, Finland with hybrid working possibilities.

You will shape schedules across the full lifecycle of complex substations, aligning scope, time, cost, and progress with contractual objectives. Collaborate with project managers, engineers, and supply chain to deliver excellence.