Job Description Summary

The Senior Project Control Manager will lead a Project Controls team, and his/her role is to lead the team for planning, development and management of project schedule and cost, aligning with all functions for HVDC/ACS/FACTs projects in India to achieve the project performance goals in accordance with the contract and the project execution strategy provided by Project Directors / Senior Project Manager / Management. You are expected to provide leadership to strategically manage schedule and cost, associated risks and opportunities. The role works within a well-defined operations framework with varying complexity levels.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

Key member of the Region Management team to support on Project Governance around Project Portfolio of HVDC/ACS/FACTS projects. Leading and driving cost control activities and reporting status to the Project teams and Region Leadership.

Schedule Control:

• Drives Project Controllers to develop and maintain the overall strategy of project schedule by integrating inputs from all functions, units and third parties contributing to the project.

• Ensures communication about the schedule status to the Project Director, Project Manager, supplier and third parties.

• Guides the team to provide schedule analysis to determine project schedule risks and opportunities then works with project team members to drive risk mitigation strategies.

• Use judgment to make decisions or solve complex tasks or problems in areas of stakeholder management. Takes new perspective on existing solutions.

• Supports development of look ahead, backlog reporting, analytics with prioritizations to clearly communicate potential and real risk and drive the project priorities.

• Leads team to align contractually with customer requirements and can communicate directly with customers on scheduling matters.

• Ensures Preparation of critical path analysis and drives action on multiple critical and near critical paths.

• Supports Generation of “what if” scenarios to optimize execution and works with project teams to evaluate feasibility.

• Use technical experience and expertise to drive team for data analysis to support recommendations with multiple internal and limited external sources outside of own function to arrive at decisions

• Lead & coach a multi-cultural cross-functional team to strive for project success.

• Sets up and secures the necessary resources for the project control activities. Support the organization of the project team.

• Monitor the Key Performance Indicators of the project team and continuously enables improvement.

Cost Control:

• Leads cost controlling function to ensure clear alignment between cost and schedule to ensure accurate project execution.

• Support change order analysis with schedule analytics and forecasts.

• Ensures management and monitoring of resource loading into the project schedule to ensure adequacy and conformance to planned cost.

• Ensures the project cost are managed with global standard tools and processes

• Ensures budgeted values are aligned with historical performance

• Reviews project scope, schedule, functional execution and progress to identify cost risks and opportunities and possible mitigation actions.

• Provide cost analytics using project information with cost functional owners to drive / support risk mitigation.

• Ensures Project Controllers own and drive the Budget Deviation Process with tools.

• Drives a regular cost operating rhythm to discussion risk and opportunities.

• Support development of cost forecasts based on functional input and analytics, challenges functional estimates where needed.

• Checks and controls cost movements, compares with current scope and progress as well as with previous forecast.  Also Compares with productivity factors and validates accuracy of estimates.

• Ensures Presentation of all financial data in a transparent way, attends project and management review to present cost status and actions.

• Supports Alignment with Finance Controller to ensure reconciliation takes place between approved project financial data and books.

• Ensures availability of time-based cost forecasts to support revenue recognition.

• Support change order analysis and claim preparation.

Required Qualifications/Skills:

• Degree Level or equivalent in Engineering or equivalent knowledge or experience.

• Minimum 12+ years of previous Project Control / Scheduling / Cost Controlling experience preferably with HVDC projects valued over 50 M$.

• As part of a project team, several years of experience in planning, scheduling and controlling.

• Knowledge in application of planning control principles (WBS, critical path, progress, resource loading), Primavera P6, Contract management – EOT preparation and supported negotiations, Risk Management, experience with CPA and EOT/ Delay Analysis.

• Good Communication Skills (Fluent English Spoken and written)

Desired Characteristics:

• Technical knowledge in electrical grids and ideally power electronics / HVDC will be an advantage.

• Ability to work on multiple tasks whilst maintaining accuracy within set time limits.
  (Grasp of big picture, ability of priority setting and capability to dive in the details)

• Positive Attitude and Resilience

• Leadership to guide & coach project teams.

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