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:

- 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.

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

- B.Tech / M. Tech - Any Specialization (Electrical /Mechanical/Civil/ Electronics Engineering).

- This role is based in Patna and requires quarterly travel to Nigeria.