Project Director

Essential Functions

• Clarify the goals, deliverables, and outcomes of the project
• Participate in Business Development activities from conception, proposal, project success, and client relationship management
• Contribute to risk reviews and BRMF
• Involved in FEED phase or equivalent, producing detailed control-level execution plans, budgets, and schedules
• Oversee detailed design and procurement, managing overall project scope, schedule, budget, and forecasts (including subcontracts)
• Oversee commissioning (field phase), including managing overall commissioning/turnover scope, schedule, budget, and forecasts
• Oversee project close-out turning over project close-out reports, including historical data for future reference
• Responsible for the Project Services function, including Document Control, Scheduling, and Cost Management
• Identify potential project risks and develop contingency plans to minimize the impact of such risks
• Continually monitor risks throughout project lifecycle
• Responsible for the cost and schedule of the project to include tracking and reporting of budget vs actuals and implementing strategies to execute the project on plan
• Accurately predict costs for various phases of project
• Ensure all project deliverables have been completed as per the contract
• Facilitate final delivery of project to the client

Other Skills And Abilities

• Strong commercial acumen to include understanding of key clients and their industry; market influences, financial cycles and product applications etc.
• Detailed understanding of different business frameworks including joint ventures and consortiums, and their respective risk, profit, loss and governance
• Experienced working within different contract agreements from lump sum, reimbursable, G-max etc.
• Demonstrated understanding of local conditions, environment, climate, labor posture and availability
• Demonstrated ability to work with local contractors and vendors and to maintain good community relations
• Good understanding of the impact of local laws, regulations, prices, exchange rates, taxation issues, import and export criteria, logistics, etc.
• Active engagement with external organizations to include professional associations, education institutes, community partners and industry trade associations
• Strong understanding of engineering principles, construction processes and project management methodologies
• Excellent leadership, communication and negotiation skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously
• Proficiency in project management software tools such as MS Project, Primavera or similar
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Risk Management capabilities
• Financial management and resource optimization

Minimum Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university in Engineering, Construction Management or a related field
• 15 to 25+ years of related project experience
• Experience in a project leadership role for a lump sum EPC project of more than $150MM or a Reimbursable project of more than $500MM
• Strong understanding and working knowledge of Project Controls
• The ability to foster and build strong relationships with clients, internal stakeholders and engineers
• Demonstrated leadership skills to support a project from cradle to grave