R&D Project Manager - Control & Protection Platform

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As a RnD Project Manager in the Control & Protection Platform area of HVDC and FACTS, you will manage your RnD team. You will be responsible for delivery in time and budget of the required deliveries. You are also responsible to coordinate the resource management, the requirements management with your different stakeholders and to represent the values of the RnD to an upper Management.

• Planning, managing, and controlling project and product quality requirements in order to meet stakeholders� objectives. Apply frequent quality and review steps built in throughout the project; tailor the processes when appropriate to meet the project objectives.
  
• Ensure that the project team and equipment assigned and allocated to the project are available as planned
  
• Develop and post project artifacts (Communication management plan, Risks management plan, Iteration Schedule document etc.) in a transparent fashion, and hold regular team and stakeholder reviews.
  
• Be primarily responsible for coordinating activities and daily communications with the project team and client (internal), making sure that clients expectations regarding project results are achieved.
  
• Identify the people, groups, or organizations that could impact or be impacted by the project, analyze stakeholder expectations and their impact on the project, and apply appropriate management strategies for effectively engaging stakeholders in project decisions and execution.
  
• Conduct regular interactions with the stakeholder community throughout the project to mitigate risks, build trust, and support adjustments earlier in the project cycle
  
• Use short cycles to undertake work, review the results, and adapt as necessary. Approach iterative scheduling and on-demand, pull-based scheduling etc.
  
• Monitor and measure the iteration's progress, compare actual iteration/project performance against the project management plan/the baselines. Ensure that cost expenditures do not exceed the authorized funding
  
• Perform recurring retrospectives and Lessons Learnt to check on the effectiveness of the processes and to improve the team competencies
  
• Identify, analyze and manage Risks during each iteration. Check the status of project risks
  
• Perform frequent reviews of incremental work products and project teams to accelerate knowledge sharing and ensure that risk is understood and managed
  
• Build a collaborative decision-making environment and ensure the team has the ability to respond to changes
  
• Ensure that all new requirements (scope; team capacity; timelines) are acted on in a timely manner and actual changes are managed as they occur
  
• Inform appropriate stakeholders of all approved changes and associated costs
  
• Define and refine scope/Product backlog throughout the project within Iterations
  

• You successfully completed a degree in Computer Science, Engineering or comparable.
  
• You have more than 5 years of project management experience in solution development projects, managing medium size teams (up to 10 people)
  
• It would be desirable to have experience in commissioning a HVDC or FACTS system.
  
• You have a good experience of project management areas in accordance with Agile Practice Guide
  
• Experience of 2-3 years leading a group of team members in Software, Hardware or Solution Development in Agile Environment
  
• Experience of practical usage Agile development methodology (Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile etc)
  
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills
  
• You have the abiltiy to manage multiple projects in a changing environment
  
• Ability to work effectively as a project team leader
  
• Flexibility, self-motivation, result focus
  

We’ve got quite a lot to offer. How about you?

This role is based in Gurgaon/Chennai where you’ll get the chance to work with teams impacting entire cities, countries – and the shape of things to come.

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