Interface and Risk Lead Services at IOTA Group - Nigeria

Purpose

• Accountable for the integrated management of technical, organizational, schedule, and stakeholder interface and for the identification, assessment, mitigation, and monitoring of project risks and opportunities across all IMA Packages.
• Ensures that cross-package and external interfaces are proactively managed, risks are transparently escalated and controlled, and that interface and risk-related threats do not compromise safety, schedule, cost, quality, and operability of the IMA Project deliverables.

Activities

• Establish and maintain IMA Project Interface Management Plan covering all internal and external interfaces.
• Identify, define, and manage the Interface Battery Limits across the IMA Project packages.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive Interface Register, ensuring clear ownership, responsibilities, and closure criteria.
• Facilitate regular interface coordination meetings with Package Managers, EPC Contractors, and external stakeholders.
• Ensure timely identification, escalation, resolution, and closure of interface issues impacting safety, schedule, cost, or operability.
• Develop and maintain the IMA Project Risk and Opportunity Management Plan
• Lead the structured risk identification workshops across all packages and project execution phases.
• Maintain the IMA Risk Register, ensuring that risks are clearly defines, quantified as applicable, assigned to accountable owners, and actively mitigated and monitored.
• Identify and promote opportunities to improve project cost, schedule, safety, or operability.
• Provide regular interface and risk status reports to IMA PMT, highlighting trend analysis, emerging risks, and areas requiring management interventions.

Accountabilities:

• All critical interfaces are identified and assigned to accountable owners for closure.
• All high-risk interfaces are closed before commissioning and start-up of IMA packages.
• All major risks have approved mitigation plans.
• Measurable reduction of overall project risk to acceptable levels over the IMA project execution phase.
• Accurate, timely, and decision-focused interface and risk reporting.

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering, Project Management, or related discipline. Professional Experience (number of years): 10 – 15 years in the oil and gas industry Experience within project: (number of years): proven experience managing interfaces and risks on multi-package EPC projects.