Pursuit Lead

7 months ago

Aberdeen, United Kingdom Wood Plc Full time

Overview / Responsibilities:
Wood is currently recruiting for a Senior Project Manager / Pursuit Lead with extensive experience in the oil and gas petrochemical industry.

Following recent contract successes, we have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Manager to join our Upstream pursuit team.

The successful applicant will fulfill the role of Pursuit Lead for one or more key opportunities, with the intention of transitioning onto successfully secured projects/contract.

The role requires an experienced PM who is familiar with brownfield modifications and project work. They should be dynamic, comfortable in customer facing roles, and will be required to lead the creation of compelling proposals and presentations.

This is an excellent developmental role for someone looking to gain exposure in business development, commercial awareness, and as a bridging opportunity into SPM/Contract Manager roles with P&L responsibility.

**Job Objective**:
Create delivery excellence across assigned project/portfolio, provide certainty and confidence to the client/project sponsor, and robust control of project scope, schedule, cost and risk.

Specifies and coordinates the implementation of a large or complex project or portfolio of small to mediumsized projects. This includes responsibility for safe delivery, ensuring that quality, schedule, and cost/budget targets are met and for managing the associated risk. Responsible for delivery of project to agreed specifications, for managing change and client relationships, and ensuring appropriate reporting and governance is in place.

Accountable for delivering projects across multiple phases, for delivery of project to agreed specifications,for managing change and client relationships.

**Project Execution**
- Contributes to and reviews the project proposal and plan to determine timeframe, procedures for accomplishing the project, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources to various phases of the project. Contributes to setting project evaluation parameters.
- P & L responsibility with associated commercial and financial accountability including revenue delivery, margin and overhead management, budget and forecast determination and attainment, risk and opportunity reviews, cost controls, accounts payable/billing and cash collection
- Negotiates changes to project scope or specification with the client. Follows Change Management process to identify and approve scope, budget specification and schedule modifications.
- Establishes project procedures and prepares project execution plan including the scope of work, deliverables list, master schedule, budget, org charts, risk register etc
- Identify, pursue and develop opportunities for innovation, such as digitalisation and technology use, work share and high value engineering centres, to bring value to Wood and customer
- Regularly reports project progress to senior management and/or the client.
- Responsible for delivery of agreed schedule and financial performance, proactively intervening to avoid slippage
- Leads ongoing focus on risk identification and mitigation during project execution
- Participate in assurance activities and peer reviews
- Responsible for the project HSSE leadership, ensures a program of initiatives and auditing schedule are established and that HSSE and quality management issues are proactively addressed
- Guides and directs a multidiscipline project team, which may include external specialists and involve staff from multiple offices and sites
- Responsible for ensuring project team members are competent to carry out assigned duties
- Promotes and sets up performance improvement culture and actions on complex projects and into their supply chains
- Assess the scope, complexity and financial risk associated with the project and involvement in the negotiation of the terms, visibility of project in local community, and attracting the required staff based on their credibility and experience

**Leadership**
- Passionately pursues and supports, demonstrates and embeds company values.
- Is a champion and role model for ethical behaviour and compliance with applicable laws and policies.
- Oversees proposals and call-offs (may be individual projects) within delegation of authority, ensuring compliance with contracting policy and standards of ethical conduct.
- Teaches and empowers others to make decisions within established parameters

Skills / Qualifications:
University degree in relevant discipline Project Management Professional (PMP), Associate in Project Management (APM) or equivalent certification is preferred

**Knowledge, skills and experience**:

- Extensive project management experience, mastering their area and knowledgeable about impacts on other areas.
- Strong technical skill as relevant to the project scope(s)
- Good level of experience in the related field, industry, and locations of the work
- Proven project management experience as well as a good understanding of busines

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