Project Manager - Senior I - EOI

Job description / Role

Overview

Wood is actively seeking expressions of interest for the Project Manager role to support future growth in our expanding business in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia.

Responsibilities

• Project Deliverables:
  • Contributes to the Project Execution Plan, Discipline Design Instruction, and contract requisitions; prepares project plans and multi-discipline documents such as basis of design and subcontract scopes of work.
  • Able to manage and coordinate engineering multidiscipline inputs and deliverables across multiple execution centers including workshare and high value engineering centers.
• Quality, HSE and Assurance:
  • Understands and works to quality system; monitors and acts on deficiencies.
  • Checks Health, Safety, Environment, and Security (HSES) issues are identified and addressed in design, manufacture, construction, commissioning, and operations.
  • Develops project-specific procedures.
  • Ensures that the engineering disciplines comply strictly with the contract and scope of work in completing project activities.
  • Responsible for assuring quality of engineering deliverables before issue to customer.
  • Chairs technical meetings with third parties and manages particular technical issues through to completion.
• Development and Management of Schedule:
  • Plans individual work activities and manages time; liaises with disciplines to ensure timely receipt of comments.
  • Inputs to work plan, sets targets, and holds regular reviews.
  • Expedites engineers to deliver to schedule, fully understands reasons for delay, and drives development of recovery plans.
  • Resolves most delays or changes and escalates only the most serious issues.
• Change Management:
  • Highlights and quantifies changes that impact work.
  • Able to effect change when approved.
• People Management:
  • Supervises work of technical professionals in the delivery of engineering deliverables including checking work.
  • Coordinates medium-sized interdisciplinary team (typically 10-50).
  • Communicates to facilitate work effort; motivates team; maintains a strong, positive, and proactive attitude in solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's (minimum) degree or Master's (preferred) in an engineering discipline.
• Minimum of 10 years' experience in project engineering in a PMC or EPC environment on oil and gas or petrochemical projects.
• Experience of managing projects for offshore platforms and facilities is mandatory.
• Professional Engineer or engineering chartership preferred.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent qualification preferred.
• Background and experience in either process, piping, mechanical, structural, or electrical and controls preferred.
• Saudi Aramco project delivery experience is preferred.
• Proven track record in delivery.
• Knowledge, Skills, and Experience:
  • Incumbents typically require 10 years' experience in project engineering in an EPC/PMC environment on oil and gas or petrochemical projects.
  • Must have recorded experience on project engineering for offshore projects, preferably within Saudi Arabia.
  • Proven knowledge and experience in using project engineering practices, design details, and international codes and standards, project scheduling, and cost control.
  • Proven experience in multidiscipline engineering management within engineering and procurement projects.
  • Fully understands technical work scopes including commercial aspects and has working knowledge of specifications and standards.
  • Coordinates well with engineering disciplines, lead engineers/task force groups to ensure on-time work activities and implementation of project control procedures.
  • Completely familiar with project contractual and commercial requirements and able to communicate these to less experienced project engineers.
  • Fully conversant with project scopes and work carried out by all engineering disciplines and various interface and inter-discipline coordination requirements among the various disciplines including procurement and construction, and able to communicate those to less experienced project engineers.
  • Understands the concept of customer satisfaction and is able to deliver to internal customers, including other engineering disciplines.
  • Understands and knows how to apply the procedures and work practices which define and govern engineering management and project engineering deliverables.
  • Understands the importance of project engineering deliverables documents and the need for accuracy and timely issue.
  • Commercially astute and able to implement change control.
  • Has a good knowledge of standards, procedures, and work practices; follows project execution flow chart; possesses good skills in project and technical execution.
  • Able to lead project engineering team; able to manage between engineering discipline groups.
  • Competent at managing technical matters and interfaces with third parties.

Personal Attributes

• Focus on customer satisfaction for both internal and external customers; actively seeks feedback.
• Able to drive project area to completion, taking ownership for all that occurs within it.
• Actively looks to develop skills; monitors work done by others and provides positive feedback to improve.
• Good communicator in leading work effort; motivates team; maintains a positive and proactive attitude in solutions.
• Able to adapt to changing priorities.
• Good communicator verbally and in written form.
• Strong planning, organizing, and execution skills.
• Strong problem-solving ability.
• Works effectively as a member of a team.
• Thinks strategically, able to plan and lead change.
• Builds collaboration and influences others to collaborate.
• Empowers people, leads by example, recognizes and rewards good performance.
• Able to make decisions, lead execution, take initiative, and seek out improvements.

About the Company

Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people.