Project Manager at ABB

Your responsibilities

• Project leadership: Leading the project team allocated to the project, defining main guidelines, allocating project tasks, and motivating and monitoring internal and external resources to accomplish all tasks and milestones. Providing performance feedback regarding allocated resources working on projects. Arranging and preparing for project reviews with management per ABB Policy.
• Planning and scheduling: Defining, jointly with the Project Controls department, all project plan documents, including scope and financial plans, schedule and risk management plans. Experiencing with MS Projects is required.
• Project execution and control: Ensuring that the project follows execution best practices and ABB policies. Traveling to site as required and effectively monitor and control project progress and efficient resource utilization. Monitoring and controlling project financials, overseeing project invoicing status, cost, expenses and cash flow. Identifying, qualifying, quantifying and managing project risks, and ensures that all opportunities are identified and pursued.
• Contract claims and procurement management: Ensuring that the project consistently applies contract and claims management, in accordance with ABB policies and contractual agreements. Coordinating with Supply Chain Management, and successfully procures required services, materials and equipment for the project from external and internal suppliers.
• Stakeholder relations: Acting as key contact for the customer and an escalation point for project issues. Building and maintaining strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders and effectively communicates with all stakeholders.
• Health, safety and environment (HSE) : Ensuring the project and personnel including contractors follows and complies with company health, safety, and environmental policies.
• Safety and Integrity: Living ABB’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

• A Tertiary qualification and project management certification.
• Minimum of 5-10 years experience in project managements.
• An excellent command of the English language is required.
• Utility and industrial electrical and substation related projects inside the country as well as the region. Possible working knowledge of French and/or Portuguese will assist greatly with regional projects.