Project Management

6 days ago

Modderfontein, South Africa Hitachi Full time

**Location**:
Modderfontein, Gauteng, South Africa

**Job ID**:
R0104081

**Date Posted**:
2025-09-10

**Company Name**:
HITACHI ENERGY SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTD

**Profession (Job Category)**:
Project/Program Management

**Job Schedule**:
Full time

**Remote**:
No

**The opportunity**

We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Project Manager Transformers to join our team. In this role you will be responsible for multiple projects for all projects stages. You will be leading the project team, establishing 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.

**How you’ll make an impact**
- 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 projects invoicing status, cost, expenses and cash flow.
- Identify, qualify, quantify and manage project risks.
- Ensuring that the project is formally closed out as contractually agreed.
- Coaching and providing feedback for project staff.
- Organizing customer acceptance of transformers and working 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.
- You will be 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 or master’s degree in electrical/energy engineering.
- The PMP Certificate is an advantage.
- More than 5 - 10 years of experience in Project Management or Project Controlling in a transformer manufacturing industry.
- Experience with project management in the energy sector/Substations.
- Knowledge of MS Office and MS Project.
- Basic knowledge of SAP is beneficial.
- Ability to read technical drawings and documentations.
- Proactive, result-oriented individual with excellent interpersonal and teamwork skill as well as reliability and ability to work under pressure
- You are a real organizational talent, you have an analytical attitude, and you have good communication skills commercial insight and negotiation skills
- No objection to occasional travel abroad.
- Knowledge of various contracts (NEC3, FIDIC, etc)
- Proficiency in both spoken & written English is required.

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