Job Title: Manager of Projects for Sub Saharan Africa
Req. #: 22140
Location: Angola, Nigeria, and South Africa
Company: WorleyParsons
Primary Objectives:
• To provide support and direction to the project and location teams within the region to ensure successful execution of the projects
• To assist in the formulation of the pursuit strategies for major opportunities within the region to improve both the success in winning the key pursuits and also providing a sound strategy for successful execution.
Key Responsibilities:
• Provide leadership in the region in the effective execution of projects
• To monitor the health of projects in the region and to intervene where required to ensure problems are addressed
• To assist locations in establishing effective delivery organisation to deliver their planned portfolio of work
• To champion the application of WorleyParsons global processes for project delivery
• To provide leadership in HSE in project delivery and the application of OneWay on our projects
• To ensure there is an effective assurance programme on all our projects and to personally participate in these assurance activities for the mega and location/Customer critical projects
• To identify areas of support required and to co-ordinate this support through the sub regional managers of projects and the regional managers of engineering, procurement, construction, projects controls, estimating and quality assurance.
• To identify where support is required in project initiation and to ensure this support is delivered and effective
• To provide hands on support, where required, to recover projects that are failing to deliver against their objectives
Specific Activities:
• Project Monthly Reviews
• Lead Peer Reviews
• Reporting on Regional Project Performance
• Bid reviews (EPR's, Red & Green team reviews)
• Review and approval of execution plans for mega projects and pursuits
• Assistance with recruitment of key project personnel
• To be the regional Business Process Owner for WorleyParsons project management processes
• To champion and monitor regional training programmes in project delivery
• Project sponsorship/Steering committees
• Leadership and establish effective network of direct reports
• Performance reviews of direct reports
Attributes and skills:
• Strong track record in project delivery leadership across all phases and including full EPCM or EPC
• Willing to be hands on where required
• Credibility across the range of industries
• Good presentation skills with customers
• Good people skills
• Energetic
• Willing to travel
Application Link: WorleyParsons Nigeria Job Application Portal (http://u.theinfostrides.com/hOhIl)
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