Sr. Project Manager - Engineering

Sr. Project Manager - Engineering

The Project Manager is responsible for all aspects of the project. The Project Manager has the authority to coordinate and execute the successful safe completion of construction on assigned projects, within schedule and budget and in accordance with engineering specifications, drawings and contract requirements. The Project Manager will recruit all necessary staff for projects, set strategies and execution plans in order to deliver the project within the agreed schedule and budget as well as ensuring that it functions as per an agreed performance specification. The Project Manager will retain responsibility for the commissioning or the facilities and until handover to the client.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Have total accountability for the management of all phases of the project from preliminary engineering, through detailed design, fabrication, integration, installation, and commissioning.
• Set up the project team and all procedures necessary to manage the project both technically and commercially.
• Manage interfaces with the client, and other contractors.
• Participates and contributes to constructability reviews.
• Manage, motivate, and develop the project team, with specific attention to developing national staff.
• Ensure that the project team manages all technical and quality issues to deliver a quality product to the client that fulfills its purpose.
• Develop strategies to deliver the project on time and within budget.
• Retain responsibility until all facilities are fully functioning and all commercial issues closed out satisfactorily.
• Ensure smooth transition and handover to operations.
• Makes effective client, labor, and public relations.
• Manages a team of construction specialists that are responsible for the actual construction, field engineering, quality assurance, craft supervision, administration, material control, and project controls.
• Coordinates the preparation of and issuance of reports on the construction status of the project.
• Keeps the client informed of daily activities on the site.
• Makes sure that each field staff member understands his/her role and responsibilities on the site and that entire staff functions as a team.
• Makes sure that all plans and procedures for the project are implemented in the field and manages the activities accordingly. These include:

Safety Programs, Project Controls, Client Relations, Administration, Quality Assurance, Warehousing, Field Engineering, Subcontracts, Field Procurement, Craft Supervision, and Labor Relations.

Trains, develops, and appraises the General Superintendent, Technical Service Manager, Administrative Manager, Site QC Manager, Project Controls Manager, and Project HSE Manager.

Qualifications:

• PMC/EPC experience downstream projects to produce liquefied natural gas, gasoline, heating oil, synthetic rubber, plastics, lubricants, antifreeze, fertilizers, and pesticides.
• Adaptable and able to work in international environments.
• Commercially astute with good knowledge of contract management economics.
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to achieve results in an environment where they may have to be achieved largely by influence.
• Good understanding of project financial drivers and management.
• High level of personnel drive and initiative.

Undergraduate degree in an appropriate discipline.

15-20 years professional experience. Proven track record of successfully managing EPC projects.