Job Description Summary

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

1. Project Leadership and Execution

• Lead with team end-to-end execution of HVDC projects, ensuring delivery in accordance with contract requirements, budget, schedule, and quality standards.
• Partner with Project Director to establish project execution strategy, governance, and delivery plans.
• Drive project performance across all phases including engineering, procurement, manufacturing, installation, testing, commissioning, and handover.
• Ensure alignment between project scope, execution methodology, and customer expectations.
• Manage internal and external project stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
• Provide leadership to cross-functional and geographically dispersed project teams.

2. Commercial and Financial Management

• Along with Project Director take ownership of project P&L, cost control, margin protection, cash flow, and financial forecasting.
• Monitor project budgets, expenditures, contingencies, and billing milestones.
• Identify and manage changes in scope, claims, variation orders, and contractual entitlements.
• Ensure robust contract/commercial management in cooperation with finance, commercial, and contract management teams.
• Drive opportunities for cost optimization and operational efficiency.

3. Schedule and Resource Management

• Support to develop and maintain integrated project schedules and key milestone plans.
• Support & ensure appropriate allocation of project resources across engineering, supply chain, site execution, and commissioning activities.
• Monitor schedule progress and implement recovery plans when needed.
• Coordinate with functional managers to secure the required competencies and capacities for successful project delivery.

4. Risk and Opportunity Management

• Lead identification, assessment, and mitigation of project risks and opportunities.
• Maintain project risk registers and ensure timely implementation of mitigation actions.
• Anticipate project execution challenges related to technology, interfaces, supply chain, construction, grid connection, and regulatory requirements.
• Escalate critical issues appropriately and propose practical solutions.

5. Customer and Stakeholder Management

• Serve as the primary point of contact for the customer on all project execution matters.
• Build strong customer relationships and ensure high levels of satisfaction and trust.
• Lead customer meetings, project reviews, progress reporting, and executive-level communications.
• Manage interfaces with consortium partners, subcontractors, suppliers, utilities, consultants, and regulatory authorities as applicable.

6. Contract and Claims Management

• Ensure compliance with contractual obligations and project governance requirements.
• Support interpretation of contract terms, management of obligations, and administration of key notices.
• Lead or support preparation and negotiation of claims, extensions of time, and change requests.
• Work closely with legal and contract management teams to protect company interests.

7. Quality, Safety, and Compliance

• Promote and enforce a strong culture of EHS (Environment, Health, and Safety) across all project activities.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, customer specifications, industry regulations, and applicable standards.
• Drive quality assurance and quality control throughout project execution.
• Ensure project lessons learned are captured and applied.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems Engineering, or related discipline.
• Master’s degree is an advantage.
• Project Management certification such as PMP, IPMA, or equivalent is preferred.

Experience

• 15+ years of experience in project management, with significant experience in Large Infrastructure projects in the field of Transmission, Generation or O&G. Experience in HVDC, FACTS technologies will be an added advantage.
• Proven track record of successfully delivering large, complex, multidisciplinary projects of > $100 M.
• Must have experience of working on global contracts (in multiple geographies) and hands on experience of partnering & working with global teams from various countries and cultures.
• Strong experience in managing customer contracts, project financials, risks, and claims.
• Experience in international project environments and matrix organizations preferred.
• Experience with utility, transmission system operator (TSO), or grid projects is highly desirable.

Required Skills

• Understanding of HVDC systems, power transmission projects, and large infrastructure delivery.
• Excellent project management capabilities across scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, and stakeholder management.
• Strong technical, commercial and contractual acumen.
• Leadership skills with the ability to manage large cross-functional teams.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and customer relationship management skills.
• Proficiency with project planning, reporting, and financial management tools.

• Familiarity with EPC contract models and consortium project execution.
• Ability to manage multicultural and geographically distributed teams.
• Strong presentation and executive reporting skills.

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