Projects Specialist

Job description / Role

Leadership and Management
- Manage individual departments and project leaders through aligning them with approved project implementation philosophy and stage gate process.
- Guide project leaders and department managers to focus on quality of project deliverable and implementation successful criteria other than concentrating only on project implementation plan.

Projects Implementation Control & Management
- Support individual project leaders to prepare stage gate processes forms for critical projects and projects below $2.6M.
- Manage Minor and Major Project boards agendas and meetings.
- Coordinate with all concerned parties to issue a project code and assign approved amount for any approved project.
- Provide individual project implementation details (Plan Vs Actual) to all key stakeholders including business planning team, project leaders, department managers, function heads, the CEO and the board.
- Continuously improve project management capabilities, processes, procedures, practices and systems.
- Reinforce project management culture throughout the organisation.
- Highlight program structural and initiative specific issues/risks and recommend corrective actions.
- Develop and implement a methodology to ensure all projects progress are verified and crossed checked with department managers and function heads.
- Provide monthly progress forecasting/outlook of approved projects.
- Support project leaders to capitalize assets related to the project on financial systems.
- Work with other departments to support preparations of business planning and support PMO Manager to leasing with executive team to execute challenging meetings through minor and major project boards.
- Support departments and project leaders during accrual process.
- Provide consolidated projects progress. Monitor implementation performance versus planed. Identify and compile areas of unsatisfactory performance and potential areas of performance improvement.
- In conjunction with business planning department; support the delivery of annual projects business plan cycle by all leaders using best practices, standard tools and methodologies.

Quality Audits
- Conduct quality audit to identify ineffective and insufficient activities or processes used on the project or its financial transactions.
- Identification of Quality improvements if and when possible.
- Implementation of approved change requests, corrective actions, and preventive actions are implemented.

Record Systems
- Maintain all projects documents and information on a centralised location, which is accessible by all key stakeholders.

Stage Gate Process
- Ensure all assigned projects go through approved stage gate process.
- Support all functions to endorse stage gate process.

Safety, Quality, Security and Environment
- Ensure compliance to all relevant safety, quality, security and environmental management procedures and controls across PMO to guarantee employee safety, security, legislative compliance, delivery of high quality products/service and a responsible environmental attitude.

Requirements

- Minimum qualification required is a Bachelors degree in Engineering.
- Certification in Project Management is an advantage.
- Minimum experience required is 5-6 years of which 2-3 years specifically in oil Industries management.
- Project management experience and proven record in delivering projects expectations on quality, time and budget, general knowledge of refining and petrochemical industry and processes.
- The most important qualifications are personal attributes this is a position for young, intelligent, hardworking and high potential Omanis who can quickly gain an overview of the whole of Orpic activities.

About the Company

Orpic is one of Oman’s largest and most rapidly growing businesses in the Middle East oil industry. Orpic’s refineries in Suhar and Muscat, as well as the aromatics and polypropylene production plants in Suhar, provide fuel, chemicals, plastics and other petroleum products, to Oman and the world.

Owned by the Government of the Sultanate of Oman and Oman Oil Company SAOC, Orpic’s impressive integration of refinery and plant operations coupled with its ambitious growth plans, has cemented its position as one of the industry’s most forward-thinking companies. The company currently recruits around 2,600 employees who work towards the common goal of an integrated Omani refining and petrochemicals business expected to increase to 3,000 by 2020.

Orpic is committed to operating safely and reliably, while paying due care to the environment and the communities within which it operates. The company strongly believes in serving Oman with pride.