My Engineering client based in Hamilton is recruiting for a highly driven, self-motivated and self-confident Project Manager to demonstrate leadership and coordinate the actions of peers.
The Project Manager, based in Hamilton, will have a positive 'can do' attitude, and be capable of influencing and co-ordinating both the action of peers and discussions with the supply chain.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide overall management of projects through engineering, procurement and construction/fabrication phases
- Ensure that the project works are executed safely and efficiently, with quality, programme and cost objectives achieved to the mutual satisfaction of the Customer
- Ensure all appropriate Health & Safety procedures are applied at all project locations
- Ensure that the project team operates to procedures and any other specific requirements of the contract
- Issue the Project Execution Strategy and Execution Plan, identifying any changesto procedures and any project specific requirements which are necessitated by the contract.
- Delegate appropriate tasks and responsibilities to project team members, extending intelligent trust for monitoring and follow-up
- Identify and manage risk and opportunity to project delivery utilising systems and procedures
- Utilise and champion change control systems
- Hold internal progress review meetings as necessary
- Ensure, in conjunction with departmental heads, that adequate resources and facilities are available to the project team at the right time
- Act as the focal point for all project communications with customers, financial authorities, agents, consortium partners and sites
- Establish and maintain a good working relationship with customers, such that customers would wish to place future business
- Report regularly to the customer on project progress, areas of concern, risks and mitigations
- Visit customers, consortium partners, suppliers, sub-contractors and sites as necessary
- Prepare project budget and agree target with senior management
- Provide accurate and timely management information, reporting progress,
- financial forecasting and risk & opportunity to senior management
- Attend senior management progress review meetings
- Establish set up of project administration systems including the filing system
- Prepare a project close-out report and archive the project records
- Capture lessons learned and review operations to identify and implement efficiencies and identify and manage risk and exploit opportunities
- Use up to date project methodology and process to implement and improve current project management procedures across the company
- Provide commitment to innovation by proposing, facilitating and delivering innovation projects
- Provide assistance to the Tendering Dept. in the preparation and submission of Tenders
- Ensure that company values are adopted, adhered to and communicated such that the integrity of the company is upheld to the highest level
- Provide leadership, motivation and inspiration to the team and create a positive culture throughout all departments
- Demonstrate confidence to lead /coordinate a team in complex multi-disciplinaryprojects with multiple interfaces and stakeholders
- Establish a strong and cohesive project team
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders such as client, fabricators and suppliers to enable smooth delivery of a project
- Strong negotiation and influencing skills to deliver effective relationship-building at all levels
- Strong presentational and verbal communication skills
- Provide supplementary assessment reports for project personnel as requested by department line managers to support performance management
- Recommend future training for project personnel
- Recommend project personnel for succession planning
Knowledge, Skills & Experiences:
- Degree qualified in a relevant Engineering discipline or Quantity Surveying
- Turnkey process plant contracting required
- Minimum of 10 years relevant experience required
- Previous experience of managing and leading large, complex projects of a lump-sum nature within heavy industries
- Experience of dealing with overseas fabricators and customers