Senior Project Manager

Job summary

The project manager is responsible for all aspects of the project. The project manager has the authority to coordinate and execute the successful safe completion of construction on assigned projects, within schedule and budget and in accordance with engineering specifications, drawings, and contract requirements. He will recruit all necessary staff for projects, set strategies and execution plans in order to deliver the project within the agreed schedule and budget as well as ensuring that it functions as per an agreed performance specification. He will retain responsibility for the commissioning of the facilities and until handover to client.

Primary responsibilities

• Have total accountability for the management of all phases of the project from preliminary engineering, through detailed design, fabrication, integration, installation, and commissioning.
• Set up project team and all procedures necessary to manage the project both technically and commercially.
• Manage interfaces with client and other contractors.
• Participate and contribute to constructability reviews.
• Manage, motivate, and develop project team, with specific attention to developing staff.
• Ensure that the project team manages all technical and quality issues to deliver a quality product to client that fulfils its purpose.
• Develop strategies to deliver project on time and within budget.
• Retain responsibility until all facilities are fully functioning and all commercial issues are closed out satisfactorily.
• Ensure smooth transition and handover to operations.
• Make effective client, labor, and public relations.
• Manage a team of construction specialists that are responsible for the actual construction, field engineering, quality assurance, craft supervision, administration, material control, and project controls.
• Coordinate the preparation of and issuance of reports on the construction status of the project.
• Keep client informed of daily activities on the site.
• Make sure that each field staff member understands his or her role and responsibilities on the site and that entire staff functions as a team.
• Make sure that all plans and procedures for the project are implemented in the field and manage the activities accordingly. These include:
  
  • Safety programs
  • Project controls
  • Client relations
  • Administration
  • Quality assurance
  • Warehousing
  • Field engineering
  • Subcontracts
  • Field procurement
  • Craft supervision
  • Labor relations
• Train, develop, and appraise general superintendent, technical service manager, administrative manager, site QC manager, project controls manager, and project HSE manager.

Qualifications

Skills:

• PMC/EPC experience in downstream projects to produce liquefied natural gas, gasoline, heating oil, synthetic rubber, plastics, lubricants, antifreeze, fertilizers, and pesticides.
• Adaptable and able to work in international environments.
• Commercially astute with good knowledge of contract management economics.
• Good interpersonal skills with ability to achieve results in an environment where they may have to be achieved largely by influence.
• Good understanding of project financial drivers and management.
• High level of personnel drive and initiative.

Academic: Undergraduate degree in appropriate discipline.

Experience: 15-20 years professional experience. Proven track record of successfully managing EPC projects.