Senior Project Manager

Wood is pipelining for new upcoming projects in all disciplines. Locations are US and Alaska. Please complete an application for priority consideration.

“Authorization to work lawfully in the US without sponsorship from Wood is required”

PRIMARY FUNCTIONS: 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.

KEY OBJECTIVES OF THE JOB: 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.

CRITICAL SAFETY RESPONSIBILITIES: Accountable for delivering projects across multiple phases, for delivery of project to agreed specifications, for managing change and client relationships.

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
• P & L responsibility with associated commercial and financial accountability 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
• 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.
• Identify, 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
• Regularly reports project progress to senior management and/or the client
• Reponsible for delivery of agreed schedule and financial performance, proactively intervening to avoid slippage
• Leads 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
• 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
• Oversees 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

QUALIFICATIONS: 

• University degree in relevant discipline
• Project Management Professional (PMP), Associate's in Project Management (APM) or equivalent
  certification is preferred

Knowledge, skills, and experience:

• Typically requires 10-15 years of pertinent experience including minimum 10 years project management experience, mastering their area and knowledgeable about impacts on other areas
• Strong technical skill as relevant to the project scope(s)
• Good level of experience in the related field, industry, and locations of the w