Project Manager - (Conventional power outage projects)
Wood PLC

JOB DESCRIPTION

Wood is currently recruiting for a Project Manager to support current and future Capital Project opportunities Conventional Power industry. It is preferred that the successful candidate be in the Fort Myers, FL area, but will consider qualified candidates in the region. This position will require up to 70% travel and will be required to travel to bid walks nationwide.

Job Objective:

• Create delivery excellence across assigned project/portfolio, provide certainty and confidence to the client/project sponsor, and robust control of project scope, schedule, cost and risk.
• Specifies and coordinates the implementation of a large or complex project or portfolio of small to medium sized projects. This includes responsibility for safe delivery, ensuring that quality, schedule, and cost/budget targets are met and for managing the associated risk. Responsible for delivery of project to agreed specifications, for managing change and client relationships, and ensuring appropriate reporting and governance is in place.
• Accountable for delivering projects across multiple phases, for delivery of project to agreed specifications, for managing change and client relationships.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Project Execution

• 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 client. Follows Change Management process to identify and approve scope, budget specification and schedule modifications.
• Establishes project procedures and prepares 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 client.
• Responsible for delivery of agreed schedule and financial performance, proactively intervening to avoid slippage.
• Lead and work my way ups ongoing focus on risk identification and mitigation during project execution
• Participate in assurance activities and peer reviews.
• 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.
• PMs expectations are to have client face to face interactions on a weekly base to build relationships.
• Facilitates the setup of information management systems / applications as applicable to suit various life phases of projects and manage information management project team.
• Assess the scope, complexity and financial risk associated with the project and involvement in the negotiation of the terms, visibility of project in local community, and attracting the required staff based on their credibility and experience.

Leadership

• Passionately pursues and supports, demonstrates, and embeds company values.
• Is a champion and role model for ethical behavior and compliance with applicable laws and policies.
• Proposals and call-offs (may be individual projects) within delegation of authority, ensuring compliance with contracting policy and standards of ethical conduct.
• Teaches and empowers others to make decisions within established parameters.

Working Relationships:

Internal:

• Guides and directs a large project team covering several specialties with staff from more than one office and work in several locations.
• Interfaces with high value engineering centers (HVEC) as required and manages scope across all offices involved.
• Monitor effectiveness of current relationships, and counsels' others to take actions, as needed.
• Interface and coordinate with Operational and/or Contract Management to ensure delivery of operational goals.

External:

• Represents the organization externally at the highest levels with the client, in the community and with contractors.
• Works with other leaders to identify relationship management strategies for developing and maintaining strong ties with key external contacts including clients, governments, community groups and competitors.
• Acts as senior company representative to the client, in the community and with contractors.
• Manage relationships with external stakeholders including interaction with suppliers and subcontractors to resolve budget, schedule and quality issues.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Requires 5+ years of experience managing capital construction projects in the Conventional Power Generation space. Ranging from $1mm to $8mm in revenue.
• 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
• 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

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