Gradiant - Head - Projects

Job Role: Head of Projects

Location: Chennai

Reporting to: MD

Company Description:

Gradiant Corporation, the flagship company, was founded at Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) in 2013. The company is a leading global end-to-end cleantech water treatment solutions provider and projects developer. It develops and delivers advanced water and wastewater treatment facilities around the world, with a primary focus in the rapidly growing Asia Pacific region. Gradiant Corporation headquartered in Boston, USA, with its regional headquarters and R&D centre in Singapore. The company's subsidiaries include Gradiant International Holdings Pte Ltd (Singapore) Gradiant India (Chennai), Gradiant China (Shanghai, Ningbo), Sigma Water (Malaysia), Gradiant Australia (Sydney), Gradiant Energy Services (Houston and Midland, Texas, USA) and Gradiant Middle

East (Saudi Arabia).

The group specializes in water and waste water management catering to the industrial water segment and treatment of municipal waste and has over 200 patents and is currently working on 100s of projects of value US $ 700 million internationally. Suite of technologies includes Conventional Membranes, Thermal Process Carrier Gas Extraction (CGE), and the Counter Flow Reverse Osmosis (CFRO) technology.

The company has recently raised over USD 100 Mn in new funding for cleantech water growth.

Core responsibilities:

1. Client Relationship Management

2. Contract compliance and fulfilment

3. Project delivery as per client requirement

4. Achieve or exceed gross profit target and budgetary cost set for the projects

5. Forecast revenue plans and align project deliverables accordingly

6. Manage cashflow

7. Accountable for all engineering and technical disciplines

8. Develop reliable, efficient, and competitive sub-contractors at various locations to carry out projects

9. Develop and maintain up to date cost book for various components

10. Responsible for schedule, plan, forecast, resource and manage all technical and non-technical aspects of project completion

11. Manage multiple concurrent projects of small, medium and large size

12. Ensure completion of projects on time as per the scope defined and within budget

Requirements:

1. Outstanding communication skills and customer focus

2. Strong business acumen and commercial, analytical skills

3. Decision making ability and Leadership skills

4. Project Management and Supervision skills

5. Time management and organisation skills

6. Familiarity with rules, regulations and best practices and performance standards

7. Problem solving and negotiation skills

8. People management

Qualifications:

Education:

- Bachelors degree in Chemistry, Biology, Environmental Science, Environmental Engg. And/or equivalent

- Experience with products that involve industrial automation, data science and/or machine learning