Project Planner

Senior Project Planner

Embrace Diversity and Innovation!

Hitachi Energy's Grid & Power Quality Solutions and Service global product group is a world-leading provider of grid connections and power quality solutions that enable our customers to build a more sustainable, flexible and secure energy system. We leverage our long-standing technology leadership, vast integration expertise, huge installed base and global footprint to provide our customers with life-cycle value solutions at the lowest risk. Our customers are in the utility, renewables, industry, transportation, data centers and infrastructure sectors. Our business in Europe has more than 1,000 skilled professionals focused on critical areas of expertise and is present in 16 countries.

At Grid & Power Quality Solutions and Service business in Europe (HBUEU), diversity drives our culture of innovation and collaboration. Our leading technology and strong market position enable us to achieve growth targets in the energy transition across current and growing market segments such as hydrogen, data centers and e-mobility.

Join Our Team!

The opportunity

We are looking for you - an experienced Senior Project Planner - to join our Nordic Cluster organization and do your magic in Sweden. Our main office is in lovely Västerås and living somewhere close by will help you in hybrid work model we use.

In this role, you will be in the driving seat to ensure the projects have robust, dynamic, and well-structured schedules that meet contractual objectives and provide clear roadmaps for the execution phase. You will be working in close collaboration with many stakeholders making sure project schedules are used for work coordination, predictable lookaheads, risk management, cost management, resource management, and of course, team alignment. You will also conduct schedule and resource analysis and prepare schedule progress reporting materials both for external and internal purposes.

• Creating, maintaining, and analyzing projects, current and forecasted schedule, including costs, resources and risks in close collaboration with Project Managers and project team members
• When needed, you will be the one who draws the attention of Project Managers and the project team on schedule deviations, problems and solutions that may arise
• Active role in communicating schedule information to stakeholders
• Active role in developing solution options to handle delays together with the project team
• Following up the projects you are working on, preparing reports and analyses (S-curves, CPA, Resource Histograms, On-Time-Delivery Milestones)
• Promoting the importance of planning and scheduling in the organization and acting as a role model
• Driving the implementation and use of planning and scheduling methodologies and tools

• M.Sc. or B.Sc. in relevant field
• Good written and spoken communication skills in Swedish is a must
• Strong teamwork skills and ability to motivate and inspire colleagues around you
• Experience in planning and scheduling with use of Primavera P6 is a must. (5 Years)
• Ability to prepare and maintain high quality, dynamic project schedules together with the project team
• Self-driven person who takes personal responsibility
• Goal oriented and structured way of working
• Project Management Certificate (PMP® and/or PMI-SP®) is seen as an advantage