Project Manager at WorleyParsons

Responsibilities

Primary objectives:

• To plan, co-ordinate and manage the design, procurement, construction and commissioning of assigned projects, including taking a leadership role in the preparation of proposals.
• To ensure clear agreement of client objectives and that these are met or exceeded.
• To achieve or better the budgeted gross margin.
• To provide strong HSE leadership

Team Management:

• Provide clear and focused leadership for the project team to create a vision for project success and a strategy to fit that vision.
• Define roles and responsibilities
• Focus team on achievement of milestones and other key project objectives.
• Listen to the team, discuss the issues, resolve problems and direct activities to remove roadblocks and achieve objectives.
• Provide mentoring and participate in staff performance evaluations.
• Identify and implement training requirements

Client Relationships:

• Identify, document and communicate the client requirements
• Effective management of multiple stakeholders
• Maintain and build healthy client relationships throughout the project and post completion.
• Proactively resolve performance, scope, cost and schedule issues with the Client as they arise.

Cost Control:

• Plan and prepare accurate project estimates and maintain overall CP budgets.
• Establish cost report for control of projects.
• Monitoring and control of all cost aspects of the project to forecast costs, obtain approvals, identify trends and take action to avoid cost overruns and take advantage of opportunities
• Assess performance of cost control system & personnel.

Design Management:

• Set clear objectives for the design team.
• Ensures design team aware of, and complying with, client's Basis of Design and applicable regulations and codes.
• Monitor design activities, inter-discipline data flow and communications.

Procurement/Subcontracts Management:

• Set clear objectives for the procurement and subcontracts team.
• Assess procurement process throughout the project to ensure goods meet specification, are delivered on time and are within budget.

Construction Management:

• Set clear objectives for the Construction team.
• Interface with Construction manager on day-day activities
• Monitor the Construction Management function to ensure safe delivery of the project within cost and schedule objectives.

Requirements

Education – Qualifications, Accreditation, Training:

• Mechanical, Chemical, or Civil  Engineering Degree (Bachelor Level, Graduate Level Desired)

Job Specific Knowledge: 

• Demonstrable commitment to HSE Management in a project environment
• Excellent leadership and communication skills
• High level of customer focus
• Proven ability in leading multidiscipline activities.
• Previous experience as a project manager on projects of up to US$100m+ total value

Industry Specific Experience:

• Broad knowledge of oil & gas practices, processes, and engineering toolkits
• 15 or more years of Facilities Engineering experience
• Functions as a technical specialist who has the capability to make decisions and recommendations that are authoritative and can have a far reaching impact on the overall engineering for the project
• Experience on Project Management Teams (PMT) reviewing and approving EPC contractor deliverables and providing specification clarifications
• Good organizational and strong technical judgement skills
• Strong leadership and coordination capability
• Demonstrated teamwork skills and experience working independently
• Demonstrated skills to influence Contractors positively
• Ability to be effective with minimal supervision
• Ability to adapt to tight deadlines, extremely heavy workloads, and frequent changes in priorities
• Ability to summarize very complex content/ideas to its core essence and then  articulate via written 
• Clear, concise, and persuasive communication for a variety of settings

HSE Capability:

• Safety – Responsible for personal safety and his/her staffs safe working practices for DA. Understand and follow HSE procedures.

IT Skills: 

• Proficient in MS Office suite of software programs, Lotus Notes, Outlook, etc.

People Skills:

• Effective communications with the project team.
• Documented communication requirements.
• Accurate, timely & effective progress reporting to the Client and internally to WorleyParsons management.
• Ongoing monitoring of the communication network between project staff, the client and third parties and introduction of changes where required.
•  High levels of enthusiasm, ability to self manage, strong analytical skills. Read, write, and speak fluent English, especially as it applies to technical and business communications

Other Requirements:

• Candidates should possess relevant qualifications with 15 or more years of Facilities Engineering experience
• Mechanical, Chemical, or Civil Engineering Degree (Bachelor Level, Graduate Level Desired)
• Previous experience as a project manager on projects of up to US$100m+ total value
• Experience on Project Management Teams (PMT) reviewing and approving EPC contractor deliverables and providing specification clarifications
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