Overview / Responsibilities
Wood Process and Energy Europe and Africa have an exciting opportunity for an EPC Manager with extensive experience in the oil and gas, petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries.
This is a permanent role, based on a client site in Ware, Herfordshire, and requires demonstrable experience in a similar EPC role.
This candidate must understand and fully comply with all company policies and procedures, specifically safety (Injury and Incident Free) and Corporate Code of Conduct. You must understand and have the ability to effectively plan and schedule, project life-cycle events and general sequence of events and process for engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and project management project tasks.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Contract implementation & effectively and pro-actively manage project change
- Preparation of the Project Execution Plan and development of critical issue action plans
- Development of Project co-ordination procedure
- Responsible for the Document Distribution Matrix (DDM) to define the document requirements of the project team including the client
- Development of Risk Management Plan
- Establish innovation / value engineering reviews
- Early activities associated with planning and preparing for project completion and acceptance by the client
- Preparation of monthly reports to the client
- Manage projects with technical teams to deliver them on schedule and budget, and meeting the technical needs of clients and regulatory agencies, as applicable
- Liaise regularly with client project managers / Directors, technical teams, internal accounting teams, and external clients financial teams.
- Work with internal and external stakeholders to plan projects (scope, schedule and budget)
- Assemble and use project monitoring systems, including available financial tools and reports
- Develop and implement project support plans (health and safety, quality, risk management, communication, documentation, and financial)
- Understand and adhere to project and contractual terms and conditions
- Act as primary client contact
Skills / Qualifications
- Approproate Degree / HNC in Engineering or Construction Management is prefferred
- Project Management Professional (PMP) designation or equivalent accreditation in project management (e.g., PRINCE2, Agile, Six Sigma)
- Minimum 10 years of overall experience managing mid to large scale projects, for EPCm and Construction Management areas including managing sub-contractors.
- Demonstrable experience and proven ability to lead EPC project teams to produce quality deliverables safely, on time and within budget
- Ability to manage multiple project phases, from initial proposal, project definition and cost estimate to project delivery
- Strong client interface skills and the ability to work well in an EPCm environment
- Ability to set up and manage a project control system
- Must be able to demonstrate direct responsibility of construction and completions commissioning
- Experience at managing Trade Unions and successfully managing a Blue Collar workforce
- Strong understanding of the importance of health and safety in projects
- Demonstrated experience with project financial tracking, and change management related to scopes of work; strong knowledge of Project Management Systems
- Experience in identifying project risks and assisting with developing and maintaining risk registers
- Skills related to project planning, numerical tracking and analysis (e.g., using MS Excel or similar programs)
- Highly organized, adaptable, a developing leader, and calm under pressure
Company Overview
Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering across energy and the built environment, helping to unlock solutions to some of the world’s most critical challenges. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in more than 60 countries, employing around 40,000 people. www.woodplc.com
Diversity Statement
We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.
