Senior Project Manager - Transformers

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Modderfontein, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng
In-Office
Senior level
Fintech • Information Technology • Logistics
The Role
Lead project operations, ensuring compliance with policies, managing budgets, and relationships with stakeholders. Oversee execution, acceptance, and project closure.
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Location:

Modderfontein, Gauteng, South Africa

Job ID:

R0095918

Date Posted:

2025-06-19

Company Name:

HITACHI ENERGY SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTD

Profession (Job Category):

Project/Program Management

Job Schedule: 

Full time

Remote:

No

Job Description:

The opportunity

We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Senior Project Manager - Transformers to join our team. In this role Lead the Operations function at local level, with full accountability running the day-to-day Operation and overachieving customer expectations through lean, faultless operational execution (Care, Customer, Cost, Cash), in an extended value chain and at the lowest total cost.

How you’ll make an impact 

           

  • Leading 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.

  • 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 providing feedback for project staff.

  • Organization of customer acceptance of transformers and work on removing defects in customer complaints.

  • Supervising shipment, transport of the transformer from the plant to the customer and installation at the transformer assembly site and managing Contracts.

  • Responsible for ensuring 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 in electrical engineering.

  • Project Management Certificate is an advantage. PMP

  • More than 14-16 years of proven experience in Project Management or Project Controlling specifically in a transformer industry.

  • Knowledge of MS Office and MS Project.

  • Basic knowledge of SAP is beneficial.

  • Ability to read technical drawings and documentations.

  • Proficiency in both spoken & written English is required.

Qualified individuals with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access the Hitachi Energy career site as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by completing a general inquiry form on our website. Please include your contact information and specific details about your required accommodation to support you during the job application process.This is solely for job seekers with disabilities requiring accessibility assistance or an accommodation in the job application process. Messages left for other purposes will not receive a response. 

Top Skills

MS Office
Ms Project
SAP
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The Company
33,676 Employees

What We Do

Since its founding in 1910, Hitachi has responded to the expectations of society and its customers through technology and innovation. Our mission is to “Contribute to society through the development of superior, original technology and products.” Over the past 100+ years this commitment has led us to work towards creating a more sustainable society through our “Social Innovation Business”. We work to apply our expertise in information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), and a wide variety of products to advance social infrastructure systems and improve quality of life across the world.

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