Project Controls and Planner

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As a Project Controls and Planner, you will be a vital part in project execution and support Project Management teams by applying integrated project control processes, tools and techniques and providing expertise to project planning and scheduling, progress monitoring, cost management, as well as risk management activities.
You will be part of the product group HVDC within Hitachi Energy, with your base location in Ludvika, Sweden. The HVDC technology has been on the market for the past 60 years and is an enabler for renewable energy integration, supporting future energy transition for a sustainable future. Please find out more about our world-leading technology at https://www.hitachienergy.com/offering/product-and-system/hvdc
Your responsibilities
You will lead planning, scheduling and cost control 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.
Be active team member and be a single point of contact for time schedule and deliveries.

Your background
Currently working as Project Planner in EPC company, or similar.
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.
Minimum of 3 years of experience in planning and/or cost control on lump sum projects or equivalent.
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
Are you ready for a new exciting challenge? Does the above description sound like you? Welcome to apply by June 12! Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, so don’t wait – apply today! 
Recruiting Manager Madeleine Andersson, +46 107-38 21 98, madeleine.y.andersson@hitachienergy.com, will answer your questions about the position. Union representatives - Sveriges Ingenjörer: Mikael Hjort, +46 107-38 29 86; Unionen: Stefan Barkman, +46 107-38 33 04; Ledarna: Christer Fridlund, +46 107-38 29 12. All other questions can be directed to Talent Partner Hanna Kontsu, +46 107-38 53 25, hanna.kontsu@hitachienergy.com
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