Lead Project Controller

The HVDC Project Controller is part of the Project Controls team, and his/her role is to plan, develop and manage the project schedule, planning aligning with all functions for HVDC 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 manage schedule and cost. The role works within a well-defined operations framework.

Key Responsibilities:

Key member of the HVDC project team providing schedule and cost status to the PM and to the Project Control Leader.

Schedule Control:

• Develops and maintains the project schedule by integrating inputs from all functions, units and third parties contributing to the project.
• Communicate about the schedule status to the Lead Project Controller, Project Manager, supplier and third parties.
• Provides schedule analysis to determine project schedule risks and opportunities then works with project team members to drive risk mitigation strategies.
• Provides look ahead, backlog reporting with prioritizations to clearly communicate potential and real risk and drive the project priorities.
• Provides regular status reporting with forecasting and analytics to project team members.
• Provides contractually required customer reporting and can communicate directly with customers on scheduling matters.
• Prepares critical path analysis and work with multiple critical and near critical paths.
• Generates what if scenarios to optimize execution and works with project teams to evaluate feasibility.

Cost Control:

• Aligns with 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.
• Load and manage resources into the project schedule.
• 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.
• Provide cost analytics using project information and analyzing cost and productivity trends.
• Own and drive the Budget Deviation Process with tools.
• Drives a regular cost operating rhythm to discussion risk and opportunities.
• Develops 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.
• Communicates cost status/forecasts/risk to functional cost owners and drives/supports risk mitigation.
• Presents all financial data in a transparent way, attends project and management review to present cost status and actions.
• Aligns with Finance Controller to ensure reconciliation takes place between approved project financial data and books.
• Provide time-based cost forecasts to support revenue recognition.
• Analyze all the risks and opportunities communicate clearly priorities and potential impacts.
• Support change order analysis & claim preparations.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Degree Level or equivalent in Engineering or equivalent knowledge or experience.
• 10+ 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)
• 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
• Willing to travel extensively within India and overseas for meetings for HQ team.
• Leadership to guide & coach project teams.

Desired Characteristics

• Strong oral and written communication skills. Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems. Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs. Established project management skills.