EOI - Project Director (Offshore)

Wood is accepting expressions of interest for a Project Director (Offshore) to join our team in Qatar. This role create delivery excellence across assigned project / program / portfolio of projects, provide certainty and confidence to the customer / project sponsor, and robust control of project scope, schedule, cost and risk.

Specifies and directs the implementation and completion of one or more major projects or programs, including responsibility for managing safety, scope, cost, schedule and risk, and ensuring appropriate reporting and governance is in place. Responsible for delivery of project(s) / program(s) / portfolio to agreed scope, specifications, schedule and budget, for managing change and customer relationships. Delivers project(s) / program(s) / portfolio which often involves a high level of complexity and risk with multiple workstreams and high financial risk. Oversight of multiple project managers.

• University degree (bachelors or masters) in Engineering
• Project Management Professional (PMP), Associate in Project Management (APM) or equivalent certification is preferred
• Typically requires more than 20 years of broad and extensive pertinent experience, including minimum 10 years 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.
• Requires strong technical skill as relevant to the project scope(s)
• Good level of experience in the related field, industry, and locations of the work
• Has thorough knowledge of project success and benefits management
• Expert in stakeholder management with extensive experience in managing challenging stakeholders and able to coach and advise others in this area
• Thorough understanding of requirements management from creation to monitoring to verification of complex project requirements and their linkage to business benefits.
• Knowledge of work flow management, established policies for engineering ownership, globalization of projects and request for tender process
• 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 project start-up, produce and communicate the project execution plan
• Expert understanding of both explicit and implicit dependencies and able to explain these and build into recommendations
• Experience of implementing successful project performance improvement activities and techniques for recovering poor performance
• Knowledge of supplier categorisation and experienced in devising appropriate commercial acquisition strategies
• Understands the needs of information management requirements in the project phases (operation), internal (contractual, statutory) and asset (customer) documentation.
• Able to negotiate appropriate close-out terms with all key stakeholders.
• Ability to effectively manage resources (personnel, equipment, materials etc)
• Sound practice and experience of commercial and technical risk management.
• Able to drive cash flow management as well as projection / forecast of cost at completion

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