Project Manager- Resource

Responsibilities

• Ensure all exploration projects are executed with the highest commitment to health, safety, environmental stewardship, and regulatory compliance.
• Champion Ormat’s safety culture by integrating safety and compliance considerations into planning, execution, and project closeout.
• Lead and coordinate multiple geothermal exploration programs worldwide, including drilling campaigns, well testing, and field development activities.
• Manage exploration projects from early-stage scoping and permitting through execution and turnover for plant construction.
• Apply Ormat’s well delivery process to ensure drilling campaigns and well flow tests meet technical, safety, and quality standards.
• Develop, maintain, and track project schedules, ensuring alignment with program goals and milestones.
• Proactively identify project risks, develop mitigation strategies, and communicate potential impacts to stakeholders.
• Manage project changes and uncertainties while maintaining focus on outcomes and value creation.
• Serve as an interface between permitting, transmission/interconnection, land, resource science, and engineering teams.
• Align objectives and priorities across departments to ensure coordinated and successful exploration outcomes.
• Support special projects requiring project management within the Resource, Drilling, and EGS departments, including drilling campaigns at operating power plants.
• Work closely with the PMO, adopting and contributing to company standards, procedures, and policies.
• Develop and refine frameworks, processes, and tools to strengthen project delivery as the company grows.
• Support continuous improvement by documenting lessons learned and promoting best practices across exploration and drilling projects.
• Proactively identify and resolve challenges between technical groups, ensuring alignment with corporate goals and project value maximization.
• Drive outcomes in a matrixed organization by fostering collaboration, accountability, and proactive engagement.
• Manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment while ensuring budgets, schedules, and deliverables are consistently met.
• Develop, monitor, and manage project budgets.
• Cook up procurement of goods and services in collaboration with relevant departments.
• Identify contracted services and manage 3rd party contracts as needed.
• Conduct field site visits to monitor constructability, progress, and safety.
• Provide project reporting, documentation, and stakeholder updates throughout the project lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Experience leading and coordinating geothermal exploration programs worldwide.
• Strong understanding of health, safety, environmental stewardship, and regulatory compliance.
• Proven ability to integrate safety and compliance considerations into project planning and execution.
• Experience managing project schedules and aligning them with program goals and milestones.
• Proven risk identification and mitigation skills.
• Experience interfacing with permitting, transmission/interconnection, land, resource science, and engineering teams.
• Experience supporting special projects within the Resource, Drilling, and EGS departments.
• Experience working closely with the PMO and contributing to company standards, procedures, and policies.
• Experience developing, refining, and implementing frameworks, processes, and tools to strengthen project delivery.
• Experience supporting continuous improvement efforts, including documenting lessons learned and promoting best practices.
• Experience resolving challenges between technical groups and aligning with corporate goals and project value maximization.
• Experience managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience developing, monitoring, and managing project budgets.
• Experience conducting field site visits to monitor constructability, progress, and safety.
• Experience providing project reporting, documentation, and stakeholder updates throughout the project lifecycle.