Head Of Projects

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About Husk

Husk is the worlds leading community solar mini-grid company, operating the largest, lowest-cost fleet across two continents Asia and Africa. We offer a range of clean energy services, including power and appliance sales, rooftop solar installation for rural commercial & industrial (C&I) customers, agro- processing hubs, EV leasing, clean drinking water and much more. We serve households, businesses, farmers, health clinics, schools, women and youth entrepreneurs, entirely from renewable energy 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Husk is a growth-stage company with plans to build 5,000 mini-grids, benefit tens of millions of people and avoid 700 million gallons of diesel by 2030. Our solutions serve off-grid communities, but are also grid-compatible, and can be rolled out quickly and cost-effectively to support national electrification plans.

Safety, quality and reliability, incorporating thoughtful innovation, driving excellence through collaboration to earn respect and delight customers.

Position Objective:

Head of Projects  will be responsible for managing the strategic initiatives of the Project and Construction organization. They will be building a team capable of developing detailed project plans, ensuring resource availability, partnerships to deliver every project on time within budget and as per the defined quality standards. They will be responsible to manage the people and processes to ensure that projects and will be the go-to person for everything involving a projects organization.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Manage the project organization in terms of processes and people to build an organization that can manage over 600 projects being executed globally in a year
• Maintain and manage working relationships with discoms dealing with electricity transmission & distribution for regulatory approvals
• Development of tools and systems to effectively and efficiently manage the projects
• Organization of resources (men, material and machines) to ensure delivery as per plan
• Build digital systems that can help scale project management and provide real time feedback of status on ground.
• Monitor & follow-up the project cost and productivity to achieve / exceed target profitability
• Support cash-flow by ensuring timely delivery and proper invoicing
• Deliver project as per man-month schedule and milestones
• Build partnerships with contract management for EPC for scaling projects to the tune of 30-50 site per month.
• Preparation of project plan in accordance with the budget
• Coordinate with engineering to develop preliminary design budget and final execution designs for zero deviation at site
• Create project budget based upon quotes and bids as also track project costs
• Monitoring site progress and clearly bringing out the risks involved, and support required
• Develop strong cross functional teams that can manage cross functional conflicts
• ROW (concocted and real) Issues Management
• Brainstorming sessions with the project, design and inventory Team to give product improvement feedback and align compliance
• Organize on the job training for technical manpower to build a competitive and quality driven team
• Regular interaction with Project/Finance/Inventory/Logistics Team at HO to ensure that the requisite support and resources are in place and the Site EPC Heads don’t have to look over their shoulders
• Ensure own manpower and other workers on site strictly follow safety protocols and always wear PPE
• Ensure right quality the very first time to avoid/reduce the cost of rework
• Standardize storage and handling for sensitive and critical equipment

Requirements:

Essential:

• Experience and understanding of distributed generation solar projects
• PV Installation professional certification preferred
• Solid understanding of project management process
• High degree of problem solving and system architecture capabilities.
• Tech savvy and focus on scalability rather than conventional methods of project monitoring.
• Good record keeping and organizational skills.
• 10-14 years’ experience in the energy sector, particularly in solar Industry with previous similar management assignments.
• B.Tech / M. Tech - Any Specialization (Electrical /Mechanical/Civil/ Electronics Engineering).

This role is based in Patna and requires quarterly travel to Nigeria.

If Interested share the updated resume to careers_ind@huskpowersystems.com or apeksha_rede@huskpowersystems.com.