Project Manager

Job description / Role

Overview / Responsibilities
Wood is currently inviting expressions of interest for a Project Manager role to be based in Abu Dhabi.

Please be advised that at this stage this position is subject to project award.

Job Objective

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. As a project manager, manage the life cycle (proposal-initiation-execution/control-closeout) of Oil & Gas projects process utility design / build construction and demolition projects, we invite you to draw on your experience in engineering, procurement, and construction management. In order to maximize client service, quality, and financial responsibility, this involves managing activities relating to project scope, time, cost, cash flow, quality, communications, resources, and risk components. Experience with projects for ADNOC, Shell, Exxon, and BP are preferred.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

Project Deliverables
- 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 a project team to ensure project safety, scope, schedule, and budgets are being tracked and implemented per Ramboll and client standards
- 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
- Routinely conducts field inspection of work in progress
- Reviews and analyze the cost and cost control progress, financial and other site-generated data to evaluate job status and progress
- Coordinates and monitor subcontractors work activities
- Responsible for safe execution of the construction projects.
- 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
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.
Reponsible for delivery of agreed schedule and financial performance, proactively intervening to
avoid slippage
- Ensures competence of project team members to carry out assigned wor
- 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

Leadership
- Is a champion and role model for ethical behaviour and compliance with applicable laws and
policies
- Oversees proposals and call-offs (may be individual projects) within delegation of authority,
ensuring compliance with contracting policy and standards of ethical conduct
- Coaches, mentors and empowers others to make decisions within established parameters

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

Level of influence & decision making authority
- Actions and decisions typically have a significant influence on the technical, operational and
financial results of one or more small and medium-size projects
- Works under limited supervision
- Work is performed under general direction and is reviewed for conformance with policies and
general efficiency
- Keeps manager informed of progress, potentially controversial matters and far-reaching
implications
- Solves problems requiring an understanding of, financial and commercial implications
- Solves problems requiring understanding of social and political implications and international
issues

Requirements

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
- Minimum 15 years' relevant 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 practice
- 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

Personal Attributes:
- Safety focused with an uncompromising approach to risk management. Places the welfare of
both internal and customer employees at the top of the agenda
- Passionately pursues and supports, demonstrates and embeds company values
- Able to motivate, engage and influence a diverse group of people, many without a direct
reporting relationship
- Customer focused - develops sincere and open relationships with customers, current and
potential; constantly striving to exceed expectations and add value. Able to develop and
maintain strong customer relationships, including ability to influence
- Ability to effectively manage resources (personnel, equipment, materials etc)
- Exceptional negotiation skills and ability to handle sensitive communications
- Excellent verbal, written and presentational communication skills
- Strong influencer, negotiator and mediator
- Flexible to respond and adapt to changing internal and external context
- Decisive, with ability to make decisions and follow through, ensuring learnings are captured
- Strong team builder capable of identifying and adopting best practices, engendering a spirit of
cooperation and energising people towards optimum performance enabling cross functional best
practice
- Pragmatic in approach with a strong commercial bias and ability to balance commerciality with
operational excellence
- Entrepreneurial approach - ability to identify opportunities
- Flexible to respond in agile ways to changing customer needs
- A motivated self starter, who can self-direct when required, able to use own initiative and
have autonomy to make appropriate decisions but also know when escalation is required
- Critical thinker with problem solving abilities

Company Overview
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.

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.

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.