Project Control Manager at Michael Stevens Consulting

Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers

Job Responsibilities

• Project Control Manager oversees and directs all design engineers, drafters, and technical engineers working on specific projects.
• Manages the development, implementation, and evaluation of complex designs.
• Oversees product construction and testing in order to ensure completion of projects as efficiently and effectively as possible.
• Evaluates and approves changes that substantially impact the scope, budget, or schedule of a project. Additionally, Project Controls Manager monitors progress and performance against the project plan.
• Ensuring all project progress metrics are defined and maintained to provide the Project’s management team with accurate performance information.
• Interpreting and challenging supplier performance metrics (schedules, risk registers, change requests, EVM reporting etc).
• Monitor the project’s budget and Forecast Cost to Complete information.
• Maintaining the overall integrated project schedule, scope and change management, in compliance with shareholder’s standards.
• Leading and supporting the development of high level ‘what-if’ scenario planning in support of project decision-making.
• Supporting the integration, including managing the resolution of issues, between the building of the asset and the corresponding business.
• Ensuring project risk management and change management processes are in place and being followed, including project’s compliance with APMT gate review requirements.
• Participating in technical deep-dive reviews and project audits as required.
• Coordination and participation on cross functional workgroups within the project as well as within the exsisting business organization

Requirements
candidate who has:

• Project management certification (e.g. APM, Prince2, MSP etc).
• Degree qualified in a technical or project management-based discipline is desired.

Experience:

• Minimum 15 years of relevant project delivery experience, preferable in large complex multi-stakeholder projects.
• Minimum 5years of specific project controls multi-disciplined experience (scheduling, Work breakdown Structure management, risk management at quantive and qualitative levels, cost engineering, document management and change and variation management).
• English language fluency
• Earned Value Management implementation and management experience is an advantage.
• Preferably contractor management experience.
• Systems Knowledge
• Scheduling software experience (ideally Primavera P6)
• MS Office
• SharePoint
• PMWeb (or similar contract management software)

Skills:

• Organisational agility and a situational approach
• Strong personality – able to work with and comfortable in challenging all personnel at all levels within organisations.
• Technically minded – able to comprehend technical approaches and concepts and to articulate these to a wider audience.
• Strong planning skills and high analytical capability with a high sense for detail
• Disciplined and structured approach
• Strong communicator with a profound situational and cultural awareness
• Complex information analysis and presentation to non-project audiences
• Team player with a collaborative management style