Description
Wood is presently looking to hire qualified and competent candidates for the role of a Project Manager in Abu Dhabi. The successful candidate will be responsible to 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. The incumbent will also manage the life cycle (proposal-initiation-execution/control-closeout) of Oil & Gas projects process utility design / build construction and demolition projects. If you’re interested in this role submit your applications now. The job ID for this vacancy is 1403.
Responsibilities of A Project Manager
• 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.
What You’ll Do More
• 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 scopeo f 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 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.
Requirements for Role of Project Manager
The eligibility requirements of role of a Project Manager are as under:
• Electrical engineering background with minimum of 20 years of experience.
• Brownfield experience in replacement of switchgears in oil and gas industry.
• Experience working on ADNOC brownfield projects is preferred.
• Have worked as a project engineering manager on the electrical projects.
• 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.
• Experience of developing and implementing measures of success and benefits on several projects.
Knowledge & Skills Desired
• Thorough understanding of project management techniques and practice.
• Thorough understanding of project goals, drivers and strategies.
• 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.
• 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.
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