Senior Project Manager

Wood is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to coordinate the implementation and completion of various projects for our Systems Integration business located throughout the Americas.  This role will be based in Houston.

The Senior Project Manager creates delivery excellence across assigned project/portfolio, provides 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.

This role supports a hybrid work arrangement.

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

• 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.
• 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.
• Responsible 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

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