Project Manager (Solar/Wind)

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Job details

Company overview

Our Client is a multi-national solar power producer.

Responsibilities

Main responsibilities:

• The Project Manager will work in parallel on two or three projects and be responsible to: 
  • Manage or support the permitting and approval process for assigned projects
  • Build and maintain strong working relationships with key stakeholders (includes landowners, associations, government officers, EPC contractors, and others)
  • Support negotiation of EPC and related contracts and monitor contractual obligations
  • Facilitate review and approval of engineering deliverables
  • Supervise and report on construction status and witness testing and commissioning protocols
  • Approve contractor requests for payments, schedule updates, and contract changes
  • Review and approve contractor documentation for the completed plants
  • Monitor, analyze, and report regularly on plant performance and incidents during operation
  • Identify and analyze plant issues and improvement opportunities, develop and drive actions
  • Ensure insurance policies are implemented and maintained and claims are properly managed
  • Ensure timely reporting per requirements, including from government, utilities, and lenders
  • Conduct regular visits to projects and complete site visit reports
  • Manage timely completion of assigned tasks and follow company document control procedures
  • Ensure cross-functional teams are informed in a timely manner of all project information necessary for them to effectively perform their duties
  • Retain all project-related documentation in an organized manner per company procedures

Requirements

Minimum requirements:

• Degree in engineering, project management, construction management, or equivalent
• Multiple years of professional experience in project management
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Project
• Successful track record of negotiating with external parties
• Good analytical and critical thinking skills
• Solid ability to create and deliver presentations
• Renewable energy plant or related experience, ideally as a project or asset manager
• Strong in understanding regulations and contracts
• Solid negotiation skill
• Positive energy towards project challenges as well as learning and adapting to business dynamics
• Owner’s mentality in taking responsibility for deliverables
• One team approach working constructively with domestic and international counterparties
• Do the right thing to support the company in becoming more competitive and achieving results
• High attention to detail with excellent analytical skills
• Self-motivated, well organized, and able to work with minimal supervision
• Proactive relationship builder with an open and honest communication style
• Willingness to travel frequently within Japan and to stay on site, averaging up to 80% of work time
• Licensed to drive in Japan and willingness to travel
• Written and spoken Japanese fluency, able to converse and write in English
• Able to manage, control and deliver against multiple projects and work requests in a timely manner

The appeal

The Company provides equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment, free from artificial considerations based on any status or condition protected by law in the relevant jurisdiction, such as race, sex, gender origin, marital status, family situation or pregnancy, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, political opinion or disability.The company explicitly states that it does not prevent employees from associating freely. Only those qualifications and skills that are important to the job will form the selection criteria for recruitment and promotion.

Salary

10 - 12 million yen

Location

Tokyo