Project Manager at Doheney Services Ltd

Responsibilities

• Participate in management meeting and acts as leader in the absence of Secretary of the Board of Trustee (BoT).
• Deliver the project to approved plan, to the appropriate level of quality, on time and within budget.
• Manage all the interdependencies.
• Manage the overall integrity and coherence of the project(s)
• Develop and maintain the right environment for the numerous projects to be successfully implemented (internal consistency).
• Run the project on a day-to-day basis.
• Interface between the project and the business area.
• Facilitate the planning and design the projects.
• Oversight and proactively monitor progress, resolve issues, and initiate appropriate corrective action(s).
• Define the project’s governance arrangements.
• Manage third party contributions to the programme.
• Manage communications with all stakeholders.
• Report progress on projects to the Secretary to the BoT as well as secretary to the HCMC at a defined frequency
• Initiate extra activities and other management interventions as may be required wherever gaps in the programme are identified or issues arise.
• Establish a good working relationship with the Secretary of the BoT and the Secretary MC.
• Manage project administration.
• Participate in project evaluation/ review to assess how well the project was managed.
• prepare any follow-on action recommendations.

Requirements

• The individual appointed as project manager must have the necessary seniority and credibility in the civil engineering profession to be able to take on the responsibilities associated with the role.
• The individual must have managed at least five direct reports from the broadest array of engineering skills.
• The balance of skills required of a project manager will change as the number and types of projects develop and change. It is therefore highly possible that at difference stages of, for example, a regional or strategic project, the person with the skills to adequately identify/ define that phase of the project may need to be engaged for the phase on a contractual basis and such engagement ends at conclusion of the phase or as may have been agreed for smooth implementation and transition to subsequent phase.

The project manager should have:

• effective leadership, interpersonal and communication skills
• the ability to command respect and to create a sense of community amongst the members of the project teams.
• good knowledge of techniques for planning, monitoring, and controlling projects.
• Sound business case development and approvals skills.
• good understanding of the procurement process.
• good knowledge and experience of project management methods and tools.
• good knowledge of budgeting and resource allocation procedures.
• ability to find ways of solving or pre-empting problems.
• ability to tailor expert knowledge to meet specific circumstances.
• ability to plan and manage deployment of physical and financial resources to meet project milestones.
• ability to build and sustain effective communications with other roles involved in the project.
• ability to apply quality management principles and processes.
• Ability to define, sequence, and estimate duration of activity, as well as develop and maintain a schedule.