Project Manager

Responsibilities

• The Senior Project Manager has the overall responsibility for the successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure of a major expansion project in both the FEED and EPCM phases.
• The Senior Project Manager, therefore, must have the full package of project management skills, including the people skills to build a strong team, and also be able to ask intrusive questions, detect unstated assumptions and resolve conflicts.
• Provide strategic direction to the project team, according to best project management practices in a petro-chemical industry setting. She/he has a strong focus on delivering according to the project targets.
• Identify, recommend and implement capital effectiveness best practices, e.g. front end loading, team alignment, target setting, project controls, rate of change, value improving practices, leading technology, constructability, planning for startup.
• Safeguard the delivery of technically high quality engineering & design output, based on best industry practices.
• Lead the project team, provide mentorship, coaching and development. Also, she/he has strong communication skills to align with other stakeholders in the organization.
• Work with and manage engineering firms across all engineering disciplines and promote an integrated project team philosophy.
• Be the single point of authority & accountability towards the execution of the project and reports to the Manager Projects and a project Steering Committee.
• Safety/health/environment, ethics and teamwork,
• Scope and change management,
• Planning and reporting on the status of the work,
• Engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction,
• Project budget and cost control,
• Managing internal and external interfaces and stakeholders,
• Risk management,
• Team building and teams alignment,
• Commissioning and handover.

Requirements

• At least 20 years’ experience in main processing industries (oil & gas, chemicals, power).
• At least 10 years’ experience as Project Manager in major capex projects.
• Strong brown field experience, project execution and commissioning.
• Master’s degree in engineering/science (civil, mechanical, chemistry, electrical) or equivalent through experience.
• Large experience with project execution of 25 – 75 million euros capex projects, with large brown field scope.
• Experience working within an EPCm contractor as Project Manager and as Engineering Manager;
• Managing multi-discipline engineering teams,
• Managing the overall EPCm process (including project controls).
• Large experience with managing FEED / BDEP phases of major capex projects.
• Strong communications, leadership and teambuilder.
• Self-starter, result oriented (via managing through people), stress resistant, flexible.
• Capability to build and maintain the project management team from internal and external resources.
• Fluent in Dutch and English language.