Director, Project Management

About the role

The Director, Project Management provides strategic and operational leadership for the project management function within Major Projects & Engineering Services. The position leads Project Managers responsible for a portfolio of complex engineered equipment and EPC projects and is accountable for consistent project governance, customer delivery, financial performance, risk management, and organizational capability. The Director serves as a senior escalation point, aligns project execution with business objectives, and partners with Engineering, Project Controls, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, HSE, Finance, Legal, Commercial, and regional teams to deliver safe, compliant, predictable, and profitable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Leadership & People Development: Lead, coach, and develop the Project Management organization, including workforce planning, recruiting, onboarding, performance management, succession planning, and retention. Establish clear accountabilities, decision rights, escalation paths, and operating rhythms for Project Managers and assigned project teams. Build project leadership capability through mentoring, training, lessons learned, and consistent application of project management standards and tools.
• Portfolio Governance & Execution: Provide governance and executive oversight for a portfolio of complex, high-value, high-risk, and multi-product projects from handover through closeout. Ensure project teams integrate scope, schedule, cost, quality, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, commissioning, risk, change, and stakeholder requirements into executable plans. Chair or support project reviews, portfolio reviews, risk reviews, and recovery-plan reviews; drive timely decisions and verify closure of corrective actions. Promote disciplined use of Project Execution Plans, project charters, risk registers, change controls, schedules, cost forecasts, action logs, and closeout documentation.
• Financial & Commercial Performance: Own portfolio-level visibility and accountability for margin protection, cash flow, billing milestones, forecast accuracy, cost performance, contingency, and change-order recovery. Review project financial trends and variances, challenge assumptions, and direct corrective or recovery actions in partnership with Project Controls and Finance. Support negotiation and resolution of significant commercial issues, claims, variations, supplier matters, and customer disputes in coordination with Legal and authorized leadership.
• Customer & Stakeholder Leadership: Serve as the senior escalation point for key customers and internal stakeholders and support executive-level communication on project