Associate Project Specialist at Hitachi Energy

You as Associate Project Specialist (Open) will be part of Hitachi Energy business based in Modderfontein, Gauteng, South Africa. You will be responsible for multiple projects for all projects stages. Lead the project team, establish the project execution approach, and oversee project hand-over, execution planning, monitoring, and control activities for both internal and external resources to accomplish all project goals.

Your responsibilities

• Driving the formal acceptance of the project, contract close-out and its acknowledgement by the customer.
• Acting as the key contact for the customer and an escalation point for project issues.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensuring the project follows and complies with company health, safety, and environmental policies.
• Defining all project plan documents, including scope and financial plans, schedule, and risk management plans.
• Ensuring that the project follows execution best practices and Hitachi Energy policies.
• Monitoring and controlling project progress and efficient resource utilization, project financials, overseeing project invoicing status, cost, expenses, and cash flow.
• Identifying, qualifying, quantifying, and managing project risks.
• Ensuring that the project is formally closed out as contractually agreed.
• Coaching and provide feedback for project staff.
• Organization of customer acceptance of transformers and work on removing defects in customer complaints.
• Supervising of shipment, transport of the transformer from the plant to the customer and installation at the transformer assembly site.
• Living Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your background             

• Technical education (preferably in electrical/energy engineering) and Project Management Qualification. Project Management Certificate is an advantage.
• More than 3 years of experience in Project Management or Project Controlling.
• Experience with project management in the energy sector/Substations.
• Knowledge of MS Office and MS Project.
• Basic knowledge of SAP is beneficial.
• Ability to read technical drawing and documentations.
• Proactive, result-oriented individual with excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills as well as reliability and ability to work under pressure.
• You are a real organizational talent, you have an analytical attitude, and you have good communication skills commercial insight and negotiation skills.
• No objection to occasional travel abroad.