Overview / Responsibilities
Wood Process & Energy are seeking an experienced Project Manager with extensive EPC and EPCm experience to join us as we expand on a diverse range of projects covering O&G, Petrochemical and Chemicals. The role will be based in our Darlington office.
You will create delivery excellence across assigned project/portfolios, provide certainty and confidence to the customer/project sponsor and robust control of project scope, schedule, cost and risk.
Job Duties/Responsibilities:
- 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.
- Pursue and develop opportunities for innovation, such as digitalisation and technology use, work share and high value engineering centres, to bring value to Wood and customer.
- Establishes project procedures and leads production of project execution plan including the scope of work, deliverables list, master schedule, budget, org charts, risk register etc.
- 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 workLeads 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.
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.
Skills / Qualifications
- University degree in relevant discipline.
- Project Management Professional (PMP), Associate in Project Management (APM) or equivalent certification is preferred but not essential
Knowledge, skills and experience:
- 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 practices
- Thorough understanding of project goals, drivers and strategies
- Experience of developing and implementing measures of success and benefits on several projects.
- Knowledge of prioritising 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.
- In-depth knowledge of scheduling techniques, their properties and uses.
- 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
Company Overview
Wood is a global leader in engineering and consultancy 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.
