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The opportunity

Join Hitachi Energy as a Project Assistant Manager and be an expert. This role allows you to gain in-depth knowledge of the specific market and provide our clients with the best-in-class product. You'll play a crucial role in making a significant impact on our business growth and customer satisfaction and contribute to building a team/function. This is your chance to work in a global environment where your expertise and creativity will be highly valued.

How you’ll make an impact

• Lead the project team by establishing clear guidelines, allocating responsibilities, and motivating and monitoring internal and external resources to achieve project milestones.
• Provide constructive performance feedback on resources assigned to the project.
• Work closely with the Project Controls function to establish project plans, including scope, financial, scheduling, and risk management plans.
• Manage and supervise site activities from mobilization through project completion, ensuring that construction, installation, and commissioning activities comply with approved drawings, specifications, and schedules.
• Monitor daily site progress and take corrective action to address delays, resource constraints, and other site-related issues.
• Coordinate site manpower, equipment, materials, and other resources to achieve project objectives.
• Review and approve work plans, method statements, and site procedures.
• Monitor and control project progress, resource utilization, financial performance, invoicing, costs, expenses, and cash flow.
• Identify, assess, quantify, and manage project risks and opportunities, ensuring that appropriate actions and mitigation measures are implemented.
• Ensure that contractual, quality, schedule, and cost-related issues are properly managed and resolved.
• Manage contract and claims activities in accordance with Hitachi Energy policies and contractual agreements.
• Coordinate with Supply Chain Management to procure the services, materials, and equipment required for successful project delivery.
• Support supplier negotiations and the management of claims, variations, and project changes.
• Lead the formal project acceptance and close-out process in line with contractual requirements and customer expectations.
• Capture, analyze, and share lessons learned throughout the project to support continuous improvement.
• Serve as the key contact for customers and act as an escalation point for project-related issues.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring clear and timely communication throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
• You will be responsible for ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
• Living Hitachi Energy’s core values safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your background 

• Bachelor’s degree or higher; a degree in electrical power engineering or a related engineering discipline is preferred.
• At least five years of experience in the electrical power engineering industry.
• Proven project management experience, including responsibility for project scope, schedules, financial performance, risks, contracts, and stakeholders.
• Experience managing site activities, including construction, installation, and commissioning.
• Experience with new-build projects in the semiconductor industry.
• Ability to communicate effectively in English and Mandarin within an international project management environment.
• Strong customer-handling and stakeholder-management capabilities, with the ability to think clearly and act systematically.
• Demonstrated leadership skills and the ability to engage and coordinate cross-functional project teams.
• Hands-on, proactive, and eager to learn, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Willingness and ability to travel domestically as required by project and site needs.

More about us

At Hitachi Energy, we foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment where you can grow and develop. We value safety and integrity, taking responsibility for our actions while caring for our colleagues and the business. Join us and be part of a team that is powering good for a sustainable energy future.

If you have any inquiries about our job openings in Taiwan, please feel free to email us at [email protected].

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Background Screening and Security Checks

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