Define Stage Preparation Manager (Атырау 25/11/2020)

About the role

Lead the Define Stage Preparation Division, ensuring compliance with Project HSSE assurance requirements and audits in line with NDD project assurance processes. Build an HSSE culture to achieve Goal Zero. Oversee team building, leadership, and career development of staff following the Company's Competence Development Framework. Ensure delivery of Pre-FEED and FEED technical scopes, manage key execution plans, and drive construction performance through fabrication, installation, hook up, and commissioning.

Accountabilities

• Lead the Define Stage Preparation Division staffing process and make recommendations to the General Project Manager for staff appointments
• Ensure the Pre-FEED study works provide all necessary information for the Define stage
• Ensure delivery of FEED technical scope of work with all discipline inputs and obtain agreement from required Technical Assurance authorities
• Provide technical input and definition to cost estimating for FEED planning, including assisting in budgeting, cost control, and planning processes for development, revision, and monitoring of multiyear and annual work programs and budgets
• Ensure all lessons learnt and experience gained in previous studies are capitalised on, including all findings from Pacesetter IPA review
• Organize activities related to FEED tender: FEED contracting strategy workshop; FEED contracting strategy paper; FEED scope and CTR catalogue; FEED ITT package; FEED tender strategy paper and its approval by MCB and Technical Group of Authority; tender evaluations and approvals by MCB, TGA, CoV's and the Authority; FEED readiness review
• Organize activities related to project execution: constructability review and workshops; project execution review and workshops; project logistics review and workshops
• Ensure development of Pre-FEED stage deliverables related to project execution and provide support for IPR reviews and preparation of the relevant Decision Support Package
• Lead logistics and execution studies to ensure all engineering aspects are covered to minimize entire project delivery risks
• Deliver logistics and execution deliverables for IPR's at enough details to defend project cost and schedule, including offshore construction, onshore construction, modules/skids delivery from outside Caspian Sea, as well as all pre-commissioning support for all facilities
• Coordinate functionally the Technical Service Agreements placed for the project with CoV's for any other relevant directions: constructability, execution planning, execution logistics, EPC contractors capability surveys
• Ensure long term asset integrity with a focus on Technical Integrity aspects (design and construct) and delivery in line with Company project management process
• Define key execution plans for the project (e.g. major execution/contracting plans, local content plans)
• Manage multi-disciplined contractors in the Pre-FEED, Define and Execute stages, establishing relationships with Contractor senior leadership to create an environment delivering HSSE, quality, cost and production performance
• Implement systems/structure and an overall Project Execution Plan (and associated assurance activities) to ensure project execution progresses smoothly during the Pre-FEED, Define and Execute stages
• Accountable for delivering LLI procurement
• Accountable for EPC ITT, Tender evaluation and EPC Contract Packages for entire scope of the project, except rigs and wells
• Provide support to other project managers tasked with delivering specific functions within the project: resource management, assurance reviews & continuous project assurance activities, ad-hoc interventions
• Drive the broadening of the contracting community and drive the capability improvement of local contractors servicing the project
• Ensure efficient interface coordination and close cooperation between the Define Stage Preparation Division and Company functional directorates
• Ensure close engagement with Production Operations Directorate for smooth project to asset handover (facilities and information)
• Drive construction performance and quality through fabrication, installation, hook up and commissioning
• Accountable for the Risk and Opportunity Management for the project

Qualifications & Experience

• 15+ years' experience in the petroleum industry with substantial (10+ years) oil & gas project management experience
• University degree in engineering or project management and a recognised professional qualification
• Relevant business and planning experience in offshore, onshore and arctic environments
• Demonstrable HSSE leadership and HSSE performance delivery
• Passion for competency development, mentoring and local content/nationalization
• Commercial and contractual acumen: shaping execution & contracting strategies and post award contract experience (contract management, claim mitigation negotiation, contract close out)
• Experience of driving business improvement in projects
• Skill pool management experience

Required Competences

• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary, multi-cultural teams in all stages of project development
• Integrity, leadership and management, strong interpersonal, diplomatic, supervisory skills
• Ability to drive team members to high performance; committed to coaching and mentoring and motivating others to be successful
• Strong creativity and innovation: deliver multiple projects with different priorities and seek out the most efficient project delivery method
• Able to align different internal and external stakeholders at different levels and parts of the organisation to facilitate project delivery
• Personally resilient, flexible, self-confident, and assertive, especially in dealing with contractors
• Energetic person with drive and stamina who is solution-oriented, customer-focused and able to deal with a multitude of challenging interfaces
• Well proven interpersonal & communication skills, with the ability to present project status, risks, issues and required decisions to internal and external (including government agencies) parties
• Ability to manage multiple discipline functions and quickly establish relationships with practitioners to ensure project execution processes and standards are consistently applied
• Result oriented, problem solving
• Identify the critical issues quickly, acknowledges strengths and gaps in a study
• Change management, facilitates implementation of changes within the Project team (organization or SOW)

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