Heavy Lift Execution Specialist

Your responsibilities:

• Manages the transportation and logistics planning and execution and covers everything from the booking of the transportation to the final delivery at site.
• Demonstrates strong understanding of project management, the specifics of transporting heavy and "out-of-gauge" equipment in multimodal complex transportation and international logistics.
• Accountable for project risk management and that the projects are successful delivered in time, on budget and with the sufficient quality.
• Support the Heavy Lift Sourcing team on the project execution plan and delegated tasks during firm RfQ's.
• Supporting Heavy Lift Sourcing on domestic Transport Project Budgeting and firm RFQ's.
• Review all heavy lift projects to ensure a clear and accurate transport project budget.
• Ensure that all costs are aligned with the tariffs and agreements with forwarders.
• Propose and support implementation of cost savings initiatives and risk mitigation projects.
• Perform analysis of main cost slippages in the transportation projects to implement lesson learnt for future projects
• Secure safe operation for heavy lift transportation. Ensure safety of the teams and the equipment's by respecting health and safety regulations, in coordination with health and safety function and insurance company.
• Place orders for transportation and collect order acknowledgements.
• Track shipments from dispatch to delivery at site. Keep regular communication with freight forwarders, transportation companies, and the internal operation teams.
• Coordinate trade activities for heavy lift projects, including tracking and communication to all in-ternal and external stakeholders involved.
• Work closely with other factory function to generate projects and bring value on quality, cash, lead time, material availability and costs. When necessary, travel to the site or loading site to supervise loading/unloading activities and/or road surveys with suppliers.
• Ensure that forwarders, factories and service units are working in accordance to the Hitachi Energy standards, processes, roles and responsibilities.
• Living Hitachi Energy's core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

• Bachelor's' degree in Engineering, Supply chain management, Logistics or equivalent.
• Minimum of five years of experience in the field of project logistics, project management of heavy lift transportations.
• Experience in power transformer business is a plus.
• Capable of managing and prioritizing multiple time-sensitive tasks in a dynamic environment. Hands-on, hard working with good understanding of manufacturing operations.
• Familiarity with heavy lift transportation cost structures, terms, and conditions within the transport industry (such as Incoterms(R), surcharges, weight and volume conversion factors etc.)
• Knowledge of international supply chain and logistics.
• Team player, results-oriented with the ability to learn quickly. Ability to work under pressure, prioritize assignments to complete work in a timely manner with a sense of urgency.
• Customer oriented approach and ready to engage with users.
• Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.