Position Objective:

- Head of Projects (DGM/Associate Director/Director level) will be responsible for managing the strategic initiatives of the Project and Construction organization.

- They will be building a team capable of developing detailed project plans, ensuring resource availability, partnerships to deliver every project on time within budget and as per the defined quality standards.

- They will be responsible to manage the people and processes to ensure that projects and will be the go-to person for everything involving a project's organization.

Key Responsibilities Include:

- Manage the project organization in terms of processes and people to build an organization that can manage over 600 projects being executed globally in a year.

- Maintain and manage working relationships with discoms dealing with electricity transmission & distribution for regulatory approvals.

- Development of tools and systems to effectively and efficiently manage the projects.

- Organization of resources (men, material and machines) to ensure delivery as per plan.

- Build digital systems that can help scale project management and provide real time feedback of status on ground.

- Monitor & follow-up the project cost and productivity to achieve / exceed target profitability.

- Support cash-flow by ensuring timely delivery and proper invoicing.

- Deliver project as per man-month schedule and milestones.

- Build partnerships with contract management for EPC for scaling projects to the tune of 30-50 site per month.

- Preparation of project plan in accordance with the budget.

- Coordinate with engineering to develop preliminary design budget and final execution designs for zero deviation at site.

- Create project budget based upon quotes and bids as also track project costs.

- Monitoring site progress and clearly bringing out the risks involved, and support required.

- Develop strong cross functional teams that can manage cross functional conflicts.

- ROW (concocted and real) Issues Management.

- Brainstorming sessions with the project, design and inventory Team to give product improvement feedback and align compliance.

- Organize on the job training for technical manpower to build a competitive and quality driven team.

- Regular interaction with Project/Finance/Inventory/Logistics Team at HO to ensure that the requisite support and resources are in place and the Site EPC Heads don't have to look over their shoulders.

- Ensure own manpower and other workers on site strictly follow safety protocols and always wear PPE.

- Ensure right quality the very first time to avoid/reduce the cost of rework.

- Standardize storage and handling for sensitive and critical equipment.

Requirements:

Essential:

- This role is based in Patna and requires frequent travel to project site locations.

- Experience and understanding of distributed generation solar projects.

- PV Installation professional certification preferred.

- Solid understanding of project management process.

- High degree of problem solving and system architecting capabilities.

- Tech savvy and focus on scalability rather than conventional methods of project monitoring.

- Good record keeping and organizational skills.

- 10-14 years' experience in the energy sector, particularly in solar Industry with previous similar management assignments.