Description

Position Summary

The Manager of Onshore Wind Project Management is fully responsible for the execution of assigned onshore wind project(s) in Japan. The primary objective is to successfully deliver the projects within the approved timeline, fixed budget, required quality and safety standards, as well as within the defined CAPEX and DEVEX parameters.

The Onshore Wind Project Manager will coordinate all relevant internal departments and external stakeholders, including local communities and financial institutions.

This role reports to the General Manager of EPC Onshore Wind and is based in Tokyo, Japan. The position will require regular travel to onshore wind power plant sites across the region.

Key Responsibilities

Contract Management

• Understand contract structure of the projects and scope of responsibilities.

• Implement strategical consideration in TSA, LTSA, BoP contract, and so on when dealing with relevant stakeholder.

• Manage contract complexity aligning with the legal team to guide its stakeholders towards our needs.

• Input / update the project information inputting in our management system.

• Issue certificates, reports, NTP and so on that are required (or common sense) as per contract.

Schedule Management

• Create a detailed work schedule plan which identifies activities needed to successfully be completed to reach project success.

• Follow up of progress of the works and comparison with the planned schedule.

• Avoiding any impact to the schedule aligning with the internal stakeholders and/or external stakeholders.

Cost Management

• Prepare estimation of costs and benefit according to the project schedule.

• Make RFQ collaborating with the Technical Service team.

• Define and follow up incomes and expenses (Cash Flow) expected for the project.

• Work closely with Legal department and Finance department to check contents of contract are in line with CF (Cash Flow) expectation and relative regulations.

• Monitor expenses and compare with expected CF (Cash Flow).

• Monitor CF (Cash Flow) projections and report actual cash flow and variance.

• Prepare financial reports together with investment, financial and commercial department.

• Evaluation of economic results (final Cash Flow and deviations compared with expected.

Risk (and opportunity) Management

• Sort out all the risks foreseen associated with cost, occurrence probability, and implement its countermeasure to eliminate (or reduce) such risk.

• List up all the opportunities foreseen associated with amount and achievement conditions.

Technical Management

• Arrange a periodical meeting inviting technical service and 3rd parties to align.

• Ensure that the actual construction fulfills all the requirements stipulated in Construction plan.

• Lead Technical due diligence aligning with the Investment / technical service team for lender submission.

• Support the technical service team and procurement on Class NK related documents

Communication Management

• Define protocols of communication (reports templates, communication system and organization chart, etc.) with subcontractor and/or customer.

• Lead the weekly and monthly meetings with all the subcontractors on site.

• Lead the weekly meeting inviting the project team.

Stakeholder Management

• Follow up daily works activities and prepare required reports together with contractor and site people.

• Write reports on the project for senior management.

• Manage any conflicts happened.

Quality Management

• Establish quality minimum requirements together with Quality Department to ensure that project meets the initial plan.

Others (but not limited to)

• Ensure that project completion is done on time, within budget and required quality level.

• Raise CTR (Commercial Task Request) in the system collaborating with Commercial.

• Implement all the NDAs with all supplies in relation to EPC Wind.

• Support General Manager and/or Project Manager to work on area other than the above when requested.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 2-5 years' work experience in renewable energy project management
• Deep understanding of Project Management (Preferable to hold a certification as Project Management Professional or
  
  IPMA Level C or above)
• Wind and EPC understanding and its management
• Deep understanding of Project Management (Preferable to hold a certification as Project Management Professional or IPMA Level C or above)
• Fluent (including writing and listening) in English and Japanese is a nice-to-have
• Political negotiation skill
• Capability to manage multiple projects and priorities

Are you ready to engineer a greener future?