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JOB DESCRIPTION / ROLE

Employment: Full Time

Create delivery excellence across assigned project/portfolio, provide certainty and confidence to the customer/project sponsor, and robust control of project scope, schedule, cost and risk. As a project manager, manage the life cycle (proposal-initiation-execution/control-closeout) of Oil & Gas projects process utility design / build construction and demolition projects, we invite you to draw on your experience in engineering, procurement, and construction management. In order to maximize client service, quality, and financial responsibility, this involves managing activities relating to project scope, time, cost, cash flow, quality, communications, resources, and risk components. Experience with projects for ADNOC is preferred. Brownfield project experience on switchgear replacements projects is desirable.

RESPONSIBILITIES
- Participates in project scope development, estimating, proposal preparation, and client presentations
- Reviews assigned project(s) to define project scope, establish work procedures/sequences, and develop schedules, budgets, staffing requirements, vendor lists, and progress billing points
- Manage the technical issues with the team and client
- Manage a project team to ensure project safety, scope, schedule, and budgets are being tracked and implemented
- Interact with Client to proactively resolve issues and at project's completion to obtain final Client approvals
- Maintains a continuing business relationship with all Clients as part of ongoing business development efforts
- As needed manages design schedules and compliance of design efforts with established budgets, plans, specifications and Company standards of workmanship, quality and performance and with the terms and conditions of the contract
- Reviews and analyze the cost and cost control progress, financial and other site-generated data to evaluate job status and progress
- Travel may be required as needed to support project tasks or programs
- P & L responsibility with associated commercial and financial accountability including revenue delivery, margin and overhead management, budget and forecast determination and attainment, risk and opportunity reviews, cost controls, accounts payable/billing and cash collection
- Contributes to and reviews the project proposal and plan to determine timeframe, procedures for accomplishing the project, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources to various phases of the project. Contributes to setting project evaluation parameters
- Negotiates changes to project scope or specification with the customer. Follows Change Management process to identify and approve modifications to scope, cost, schedule and quality
- Establishes project procedures and leads production of project execution plan including the scope of work, deliverables list, master schedule, budget, org charts, risk register
- Regularly reports project progress to senior management and/or the customer
- Responsible for delivery of agreed schedule and financial performance, proactively intervening to avoid slippage
- Ensures competence of project team members to carry out assigned work
- Leads ongoing focus on risk identification and mitigation during project execution
- Responsible for the project HSSE leadership, ensures a program of initiatives and auditing schedule are established and that HSSE and quality management issues are proactively addressed
- Guides and directs a multidiscipline project team, which may include external specialists and involve staff from multiple offices and sites
- Responsible for ensuring project team members are competent to carry out assigned duties
- Promotes and sets up performance improvement culture and actions on complex projects and into their supply chains
- Facilitates the set up of information management systems / applications as applicable to suit various life phases of projects and manage information management project team
- Participate in assurance activities and peer reviews

Leadership
- Is a champion and role model for ethical behaviour and compliance with applicable laws and policies
- Oversees proposals and call-offs (may be individual projects) within delegation of authority, ensuring compliance with contracting policy and standards of ethical conduct
- Coaches, mentors and empowers others to make decisions within established parameters

Working Relationships

Internal:
- Provides the interface and maintains effective relationships with other contributors to the project
- Guides and directs project team and functional support teams as required
- Interfaces with high value engineering centres (HVEC) as required and manages scope across all offices involved
- Interface and coordinate with Operational and/or Contract Management to ensure delivery of operational goals

External:
- Primary point of contact for customer on assigned scope. Establishes and maintains a positive and effective customer relationship, ensuring payment terms are met, and communicating any delays
- Manage relationships with external suppliers and sub-contractors and resolves cost, schedule and quality issues
- Seeks out new avenues for building internal and external relationships
- Monitors existing relationships
- May act as company representative and play a role in contract negotiations
- Influences relationships at higher customer level

Level of influence & decision making authority
- Actions and decisions typically have a significant influence on the technical, operational and financial results of one or more small and medium-size projects
- Works under limited supervision
- Work is performed under general direction and is reviewed for conformance with policies and general efficiency
- Keeps manager informed of progress, potentially controversial matters and far-reaching implications
- Solves problems requiring an understanding of, financial and commercial implications
- Solves problems requiring understanding of social and political implications and international issues

Requirements:

- Engineering degree in any discipline is required
- Experience in high sour gas projects is preferred
- Experience working on ADNOC projects is preferred
- Good level of experience in the related field, industry, and locations of the work
- Proven project management experience as well as a good understanding of business issues
- Thorough understanding of project management techniques and practice
- Thorough understanding of project goals, drivers and strategies
- Experience of developing and implementing measures of success and benefits on several projects
- Knowledge of prioritizing stakeholders and the development of stakeholder management plans
- Has interfaced with key stakeholders on projects to obtain, create and maintain requirements and acceptance criteria on several occasions
- Good knowledge of industry and company risk management processes. Well versed in qualitative assessment methods and some knowledge of quantitative assessment techniques
- Able to use common estimating techniques to derive estimates and costs on standard projects
- Good knowledge of contract models, conditions, types and their suitability in different situations
- Able to deliver effective project initiation on multi-phase projects and produce project execution plans
- Well versed in international and company quality assurance standards
- Knowledge of commercial and contract conditions applicable to the procurement of various types of goods and services
- Good knowledge and experience in project monitoring and forecasting
- Ability to manage change control process on project with several sub-contractors and interfaces
- In-depth knowledge of all types of project information (deliverables) and its uses and capable of managing information management project team
- Good knowledge of all handover and close-out activities required for customer, company and suppliers
- Understanding of Cash Flow management as well as projection/forecast of cost at completion

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people.