Project Operations Manager

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This Position reports to:

Business Manager - Operations

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to lead the local management of all project execution activities in the area of responsibility. Each day, you will ensure operations are executed in accordance with procedures, regulations, standards, specifications and targets. You will also showcase your expertise by coordinating and overseeing team development and standardized process development to continually improve the effectiveness of Project Execution teams.

In this role, you’ll help run what runs the world, by taking on meaningful work that drives real impact.

The work model for the role is: #Li-Onsite

This role is contributing to the Electrification business in Distribution Solution division at Nashik, India.

You will be mainly accountable for:

- Preparing detailed project plans, milestones, schedules, and risk assessments.
- Monitoring and ensuring delivery timelines, quality standards, and cost targets.
- Tracking project KPIs, order backlog, revenue forecast, and ensure margin retention (EBITDA).
- Managing global clients and export documentation for overseas orders
- Guiding cross-functional teams and subcontractors to optimize resources and deliverables.
- Having exposure to digital tools for reporting, automation, and engineering design such as Power BI, Power Automate, and ePlan—will have an added advantage
- Identifying cost-saving opportunities and support margin improvement strategies.

Our team dynamics
Our teams support each other, collaborate, and never stop learning. Everyone brings something unique, and together we push ideas forward to solve real problems. Being part of our team means your work matters - because the progress we make here creates real impact out there.

Qualifications for the role

- You are immersed in project management function in switchgear industry
- You have 15 to 20 years of experience in Order Handling and Execution
- You have hands on experience in Order Booking, Drawing Preparation and Customer Approval, Customer Coordination for Inspection, Dispatch Clearance and Payment collection, Claim Management, Cost Savings and Driving Digitalization Initiatives
- Possess an enhanced knowledge of MV Switchgear Products
- You are passionate about ePlan and Power Bi
- Degree in Electrical engineering
- You are at ease communicating in English

More about us

ABB's Distribution Solutions Division facilitates the efficient and reliable distribution, protection and control of power by improving electric power quality while strengthening the resilience of the grid. The Division offers segment-specific products and solutions that largely serve utilities, industry and infrastructure segments, often providing the requisite medium-voltage link between high-voltage transmission systems and low-voltage users. With ABB Ability™ enabled connected solutions at its core, the offering includes medium-voltage air- and gas-insulated switchgear (1 to 66 kilovolts), indoor and outdoor circuit breakers, reclosers, fuses, contactors, relays, instrument transformers, sensors, motor control centers, as well as low-voltage switchgear for the ANSI standard markets.

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