Project Manager I

Overview

Job Description Remarkable people, trusted by clients to design and advance the world. Wood is currently looking for Project Manager I to support our Projects business in Al Khobar. Create delivery excellence across assigned project / portfolio, provide certainty and confidence to the customer / project sponsor, and robust control of project scope, schedule, cost and risk. Specifies and coordinates the implementation and completion of a moderate sized project, portfolio of small projects, or a major component of a large project. This includes responsibility for safe delivery, ensuring that quality, schedule, and cost targets are met and for managing the associated risk. Responsible for delivery of project to agreed specifications, for managing change and customer relationships, and ensuring appropriate reporting and governance is adhered to and controlled.

Responsibilities Contributes to and reviews the project proposal and plan to determine timeframe, procedures for accomplishing the project, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources to various phases of the project. Contributes to setting project evaluation parameters

Negotiates changes to project scope or specification with the customer. Follows Change Management process to identify and approve modifications to scope, cost, schedule and quality

Pursue and develop opportunities for innovation, such as digitalization and technology use, work share and high value engineering centers, to bring value to Wood and customer

Establishes project procedures and leads production of project execution plan including the scope of work, deliverables list, master schedule, budget, org charts, risk register etc.

Regularly reports project progress to senior management and / or the customer

Responsible for delivery of agreed schedule and financial performance, proactively intervening to avoid slippage

Ensures competence of project team members to carry out assigned work

Leads ongoing focus on risk identification and mitigation during project execution

Responsible for the project HSSE leadership, ensures a program of initiatives and auditing schedule are established and that HSSE and quality management issues are proactively addressed

Guides and directs a multidiscipline project team, which may include external specialists and involve staff from multiple offices and sites

Responsible for ensuring project team members are competent to carry out assigned duties

Promotes and sets up performance improvement culture and actions on complex projects and into their supply chains

Facilitates the setup of information management systems / applications as applicable to suit various life phases of projects and manage information management project team

Participate in assurance activities and peer reviews

Leadership Is a champion and role model for ethical behavior and compliance with applicable laws and policies

Oversees proposals and call-offs (may be individual projects) within delegation of authority, ensuring compliance with contracting policy and standards of ethical conduct

Coaches, mentors and empowers others to make decisions within established parameters

Qualifications

What makes you remarkable? At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don\u2019t match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world\u2019s most critical challenges. Qualifications :

University degree in relevant discipline

Project Management Professional (PMP), associate in project management (APM) or equivalent certification is preferred

Knowledge, skills and experience :

Typically requires more than 7 years of pertinent experience including minimum 2-3 years\' experience managing projects or part of projects, mastering their area and knowledgeable about impacts on other areas

Good level of experience in the related field, industry, and locations of the work

Proven project management experience as well as a good understanding of business issues

Thorough understanding of project management techniques and practices

Thorough understanding of project goals, drivers and strategies

Experience of developing and implementing measures of success and benefits on several projects

Knowledge of prioritizing stakeholders and the development of stakeholder management plans

Has interfaced with key stakeholders on projects to obtain, create and maintain requirements and acceptance criteria on several occasions

Good knowledge of industry and company risk management processes. Well versed in qualitative assessment methods and some knowledge of quantitative assessment techniques

Able to use common estimating techniques to derive estimates and costs on standard projects

Good knowledge of contract models, conditions, types and their suitability in different situations

Able to deliver effective project initiation on multi-phase projects and produce project execution plans

Well versed in international and company quality assurance standards

Knowledge of commercial and contract conditions applicable to the procurement of various types of goods and services

In-depth knowledge of scheduling techniques, their properties and uses

Good knowledge and experience in project monitoring and forecasting

Ability to manage change control process on project with several sub-contractors and interfaces

In-depth knowledge of all types of project information (deliverables) and its uses and capable of managing information management project team

Good knowledge of all handover and close-out activities required for customer, company and suppliers

Understanding of Cash Flow management as well as projection / forecast of cost at completion

Personal attributes :

Safety focused with an uncompromising approach to risk management. Places the welfare of both internal and customer employees at the top of the agenda

Passionately pursues and supports, demonstrates and embeds company values

Able to motivate, engage and influence a diverse group of people, many without a direct reporting relationship

Customer focused - develops sincere and open relationships with customers, current and potential; constantly striving to exceed expectations and add value. Able to develop and maintain strong customer relationships, including ability to influence

Ability to effectively manage resources (personnel, equipment, materials etc)

Exceptional negotiation skills and ability to handle sensitive communications

Excellent verbal, written and presentational communication skills

Strong influencer, negotiator and mediator

Flexible to respond and adapt to changing internal and external context

Decisive, with ability to make decisions and follow through, ensuring learnings are captured

Strong team builder capable of identifying and adopting best practices, engendering a spirit of cooperation and energizing people towards optimum performance enabling cross functional best practice

Pragmatic in approach with a strong commercial bias and ability to balance commerciality with operational excellence

Entrepreneurial approach - ability to identify opportunities

Flexible to respond in agile ways to changing customer needs

A motivated self-starter, who can self-direct when required, able to use own initiative and have autonomy to make appropriate decisions but also know when escalation is required

Critical thinker with problem solving abilities

About Us

Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people. Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list) : race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.

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