Project Director - Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Wood

    Wood background
    Full time
    Description

    Wood is currently recruiting for a highly experienced and ambitious Project Director to manage a high profile $100m per year contract during a period of substantial growth in Dubai, UAE

    The Project Director will be accountable for delivering a portfolio of projects to the agreed scope, specification, schedule and budget, and for managing change and customer relationships. He/She will be responsible for developing and leading a high performing team of up to 500 people both in Dubai and Iraq

  • Accountable for the Contract HSSE leadership, ensures a program of initiatives and auditing schedule are established, and that HSSE and quality management issues are proactively addressed at the top priority for the business.
  • P & L accountability with associated full commercial and financial responsibility including revenue delivery, margin and overhead management, budget and forecast determination and attainment, risk and opportunity reviews, cost controls, accounts payable/billing and cash collection
  • Contributes to and reviews contract and project proposals and plans to establish timeframe, procedures for accomplishing the project, resource requirements, and allotment of available resources to various phases of the project. Ensures adherence to corporate policy and best practice, and sets contract evaluation parameters.
  • Negotiates changes to contract scope with the customer. Follows Change Management process to identify and approve modifications to scope, cost, schedule and quality
  • Pursues and develop opportunities for innovation, such as digitalisation and technology use, work
    share and high value engineering centres, to bring value to Wood and customer
  • Approves Contract procedures and Contract execution plan including the scope of work, deliverables list, master schedule, budget, org charts, risk register etc
  • Ensures competence of contract and project team members to carry out assigned work
  • Oversees proposals and call-offs (may be single projects) within delegation of authority, ensuring
    compliance with contracting policy and standards of ethical conduct.
  • Monitors adherence to schedule, cost and quality and proactively intervenes to avoid slippage
  • Ensures that the required project management software systems are established for the project and the supporting training is completed
  • Ensure the project assurance protocol and schedule are established
  • Involved in establishing terms and conditions, and wider scope and larger size of projects may
    require more visibility in the community as well as activity in attracting project staff
  • University degree (bachelors or masters) in relevant discipline or equivalent combination of
    qualifications and experience
  • Project Management Professional (PMP), Associate in Project Management (APM) or equivalent
    certification is preferred
  • Minimum of 15 years experience in the Oil & Gas Industry
  • Extensive experience in EPCm contract execution is highly desirable.
  • Typically requires broad and extensive pertinent experience, including
    senior project management experience, mastering their area and knowledgeable
    about impacts on other areas; of which substantial experience successfully managing
    major/complex international or remote location projects.
  • Good level of experience in the related field, industry, and locations of the work
  • Expert in stakeholder management with extensive experience in managing challenging customer and stakeholders and able to coach and advise others in this area
  • Has built, developed and led a team managing a portfolio of projects
  • Must have ability to clearly focus on key issues within contract and drive to resolution
  • Has excellent interpersonal skills and communicates well at all levels of the organization
  • Proven strategic thinker who has the vision and drive to grow the contract with the customer
  • Requires strong technical skill as relevant to the contract and project scope(s)
  • Has thorough knowledge of project success and benefits management
  • Experienced in assembling and managing multi-phase project budgets, including risk
    contingencies
  • Expert Practitioner in Risk Management processes, well versed in how risks are transposed into
    cost, time and contingency estimates and forecasts
  • Advanced knowledge of various forms of vendor contracts across many types of goods and
    services; able to create new appropriate contracting frameworks and negotiate to successful
    conclusion.
  • Able to manage complex major contract start-up, produce and communicate the project
    execution plan
  • Experience of implementing successful contract performance improvement activities and techniques for recovering poor performance