Senior Director Project Controls

Responsibilities

• Support and help achieve the overall business plan
• Provide support for all members of the project controls leadership team
• Drive values and vision for all project control teams
• Instill, demonstrate, and promote a “safety as a value” culture
• Participate in the development of the execution strategy for projects to improve operational effectiveness and project profitability
• Support the sales group as the project controls executive representative to clients
• Functional leadership to project controls staff assigned to areas and project teams and manage group budget
• Attend key client meetings such as kick-off meetings, major alignment meetings, client relationship functions, etc.
• Provide sponsorship for projects that will; provide a communication link between management and the client’s project controls leadership
• Strengthen and safeguard interests and long-term relationships with our clients
• Maintain a working knowledge of the company projects
• Actively participate in project estimates, estimate reviews, project execution approaches, proposal write-ups, and contract T&Cs during pre-contract
• Appropriately staff projects with project control resources in a timely and effective manner
• Direct responsibility and administrative head for all Project controls employees assigned to projects
• Work with Project management to set goals and objectives for Project Controls Managers and the Project controls team on each project
• Accountable for ensuring that project controls standards and best practices are maintained and implemented on projects
• Provide input and guidance for the development of the project control project execution plans
• Confirm that each project team has established the proper project controls tools to execute and manage the project from a cost, schedule, and progress perspective
• Assure that the change management, risk management, and contingency management processes are established and functioning on each project
• Confirm that trending and forecasting processes are established on each project
• Aid project teams with the execution of project control functions on the project
• Participate in project monthly forecast meetings to support the effort to determine the forecast at completion as early as possible in the project
• Actively participate in project review meetings
• Monitor and analyze project cost and schedule performance, and recommend corrective actions to the project management team to improve project performance
• Conduct analysis and present consolidated project control information at the area level, reporting trends and issues
• Maintain oversight of project closeout reports and analysis and work with estimating and sales to ensure that cost and productivity factors are recognized for use in future bids
• Actively participate in the lessons-learned process
• Take the lead to assure project controls are functional and process training is delivered to project teams
• Take the lead in providing business unit suggestions for improvement of the project controls tools, processes, and procedures to better execute projects
• Provide the leadership in developing project controls for employees while assigned to projects
• Help develop functional and management skills for all project controls employees to support career development

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of relevant experience
• Over 20 years within the energy industry through all phases of EPC project delivery
• Large or mega project experience in a minimum of one of the following sectors: oil, gas, LNG, power
• Experience in managing a project controls team in a lump-sum project environment
• Experience in managing a project controls team relating to cost, scheduling, and progress in a project environment
• Experience across all phases of a project engineering, procurement, and construction
• Experience in contracts and contract administration including its assessment and implementation at each phase of the project
• Strong technical knowledge of the construction work involved, including the ability to use cost, and estimating tools/methods/systems
• In-depth knowledge of critical path method (CPM) scheduling techniques and associated software
• Exceptional communication and negotiation skills
• Must be proficient in MS Office Applications