Senior Hvdc Project Controller

**Job Description Summary**: Become part of a winning team and help to deliver the Green Energy transition.

We are looking for an experienced Planning professional to join our Project Controls team delivering a HVDC project.

In Project Controls, our goal is to provide the right insights and recommendations to influence the execution of the projects and maximise value to both our customer and GE. This requires the right rigor around schedule and cost management processes to deliver projects on-time and within budget.

You will engage with all functions, be exposed to the leadership, act proactively to make things happen. With focus and rigor around tools, processes, operating rhythm, and people, here you shall have the opportunity to learn, contribute and excel in one of the best Project controls functions in the industry.

Surrounded by committed, loyal colleagues, if you can dare to bring your ingenuity and desire to make an impact, you’ll be exposed to game-changing, diverse projects that truly allow you to play your part in the energy transition.

Role Summary
- You will be comfortable in leading a medium size Project Controls team.
- You shall have an overarching view of the project controls impact in the execution of large projects and influence major decisions on those projects.
- Your technical background and HVDC experience supports strategic orientations aiming at delivering such complex project on time and in budget, despite the various external factors and risks.

**Responsibilities & Accountabilities**
- Leads the Project Controls team on large and complex HVDC projects, and ensures efficiency and effectiveness of that team.
- Builds the project baseline gaining approval of client and internal stakeholders.
- Maintains project schedule with periodic updates, including resource forecasts throughout the project lifecycles.
- Identifies activities prerequisites and help anticipate blockers with wider project team and third parties
- Drive and challenge progress, agree forecast and develop mitigations / catch up plans.
- Ensure schedule analysis through various means (schedule movements, S curve, commodity curve, OTD, Say/Do ratio, overplanning, resource loading, productivity ) to determine project schedule trends and related risks & opportunities then work with project team members to drive mitigation strategies. Provides comprehensive dashboard and evidence to PD for subsequent decision/escalation.
- Leads collaboration with functional task and resource owners to find strategies to optimize durations and manhours.
- Ensures that forecast task durations and logic are understood and committed by the task owners.
- Presents all time schedule data in a transparent way, attends project and management reviews to present schedule status, describe trends and forecasts/landing, make proposals and influence strategic decisions.
- Produces and communicates internal project reporting of project status.
- Produces contractually required customer reporting and is able to communicate directly with customers on scheduling matters.
- Leads collaboration with 3rd parties on project schedule interfaces including maintenance of an interface register.
- Maintains a register of potential schedule and cost risks in collaboration with the Risk Manager.
- Provides time related calculations to ensure change order schedule / cost estimates are accurate.
- Aligns with Cost Controller to ensure reconciliation between P6 schedule and approved cost phasing.
- Generates “what if” scenarios to optimize execution and works with project teams to evaluate feasibility.
- Support disputes and analysis of EOT claims, develop forensic analysis.
- Takes full responsibility for the Project Controls output for the assigned HVDC project in close coordination with his Project Director.

**Educational & Experience**
- Degree qualified either in engineering or project management with demonstrated and significant experience in planning management, including advanced experience with electrical substations.
- Robust experience in Primavera P6 user (Essential).
- Extensive experience in planning large turnkey projects, in international and multicultural environment.
- Experience managing small teams within a large project.
- Experience of cost control function and interface with schedule.
- Excellent interpersonal skills for cross functional and leadership interaction / good communicator / anticipation and problem-solving aptitude / team spirit / resilient.
- Analytical / contributes to the decision making.
- Provides solutions and alternatives.
- Autonomous and reliable.
- Customer focus.
- Previous experience in building complex, integrated schedules for tenders and in HVDC technology is a plus.
- Knowledge of risk management processes and tools, quantitative risk analysis is a plus.

**Grid Solutions**

Grid Solutions, a GE Vernova business, serves customers globally with over 13,000 employees. We provide power utilities and industries worldw