Project Manager / Project Lead Full Time NEW

Wood is Looking to hire a Project Lead / Project Manager to join its operations in Kirkuk, Iraq.

Iraq Nationals are Encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

• As an integral member of the project leadership team, support the Project Lead in creating delivery excellence across assigned portfolio of major projects.
• Stand-in for Project Lead when required. Provide certainty and confidence to the management and robust control of project scope, schedule, cost and risk.
• Specifies and coordinates the implementation and completion of Operation Center.
• Oversee and aware of related projects execution and coordinate related functions for the required sources for PROJECT implementation.
• This includes responsibility for safe delivery, ensuring that quality, schedule, and cost targets are met and for managing the associated risk.
• Responsible for delivery of project to agreed specifications, for managing change and abidance of policies, and ensuring appropriate reporting and governance is adhered to and controlled.

Accountabilities

• Responsible associated commercial and financial accountability including margin and overhead management, budget and forecast determination and attainment, risk and opportunity reviews, cost controls, invoicing and cost recovery.
• Contributes to and reviews the Operation Center SOW 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.
• Negotiates changes to project scope or specification with the customer. Follows Change Management process to identify and approve modifications to scope, cost, schedule and quality.
• Pursue and develop opportunities for innovation, such as digitalization and technology use, work share and high value engineering centers
• Establishes project procedures and leads production of project execution plan including the scope of work, deliverables list, master schedule, budget, org charts, risk register etc.
• Regularly reports project progress to senior management and/or the customer.
• Responsible for delivery of agreed schedule and financial performance, proactively intervening to avoid slippage
• Ensures competence of project team members to carry out assigned work
• Leads ongoing focus on risk identification and mitigation during project execution
• 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

Qualifications

EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum 10 years project management experience on major Capital Projects or Operations Contracts
• Experience in similar Oil Field infrastructure projects
• Middle East Onshore Brownfield Experience, especially Kirkuk, Iraq, would be an advantage

JOB-SPECIFIC SKILLS:

• A solid understanding of project controls and project management tools and practices
• Able to consistently apply WOOD & Client standards, processes, and procedures, including contract start-up process
• Excellent leadership and people skills; culturally aware for regional working.
• Energy, drive and, resourcefulness to get the job done
• Mobile and willing to spend time away from the home-office location
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and ability to mentor
• High level of technical/management skills for construction project as well as knowledge of IT technology and environmentally friendly projects
• Good understanding of finance and strong commercial sense

Personal Attributes

• Networker and relationship builder – connect and establish effective, cross-cultural working relationships with all levels of the organization and externally
• Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrable strength in communication skills.
• Influencer – high level of personal skills is required to deal effectively with a wide range of stakeholder groups
• Able to balance humility and self-confidence
• Creates an environment that encourages open discussion and feedback
• Initiator – anticipates the environment, is forward-thinking and able to see the big picture Creative flair and strong strategic and analytical capability
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Leadership, energy, and focus – takes the lead and makes it happen. Results orientated and focused on the execution of predefined objectives
• Authentic – ability to be open, transparent, and driven by the success of the enterprise, rather than by personal ambition