Head of PMO, Energy Division

**About the Role**:
**Head of PMO, Energy Division**

**Permanent, Full Time**

**Location: Flexible, Travel will be required**

**About**

Accountable for providing functional leadership to the Energy Division Project Management Office including all Product Line Project Management resources. Responsible for ensuring all projects and services are delivered in compliance with the group PMO governance framework, adopting best practice. Responsible for leading portfolio management for the division, providing visibility and enabling informed decision-making by divisional and group leadership across a portfolio of current and pipeline projects and programmes.

To oversee and successfully implement best practice Project and Service Delivery processes and systems across all Energy Division Product Lines. Delivering Functional Management of all Product Line PMO resources, providing coaching and best practice guidance on PMO governance including process development, performance monitoring and procedural compliance in collaboration with Group Business Excellence. Owning and overseeing the PMO competency frameworks including professional development and training requirements for all PMO resources across the division.

**Role Responsibilities**
- Leadership of the PMO resources including functional responsibilities for all divisional project and service delivery managers.
- Ensure effective delivery of projects and programmes in compliance with Group procedures, providing coaching, direction and intervention to address performance issues.
- Track, monitor and maximise utilisation of all divisional PMO resource within the constraint that resources, as a base case, are allocated to individual Product Lines.
- Oversee the re-allocation of project managers during periods of Product Line underutilisation or planned career development.
- Monitor PMO resources competence, including competency mapping and specialised divisional requirements to ensure correct allocation of PMO resources to Product Line, projects and services.
- Coaching and developing the PMO resource pool knowledge and awareness of project Profit & Loss, Risk & Opportunity and Contingency management.
- Oversee the continual development and training of PMO resources in accordance with business requirements, including the development of training and competency frameworks for all resources within this function.
- In collaboration with other group functions including HSSEQ, Supply Chain, Legal and Finance & Commercial, oversee and assure implementation of relevant James Fisher processes. Aid development of common processes wherever applicable by product line type (projects/services/rentals/manufacturing).
- Generate and manage PMO functional capability ensuring competent resource is allocated to projects, services, programmes and portfolio, enabling divisional and group leadership to have continuous visibility of performance.
- Identify and address any PMO resource performance issues.
- In collaboration with Business Excellence and Group Business Systems, support internal projects such as system implementation and software across the Product Lines where appropriate.
- Champion the JFS Cost of Poor Quality and Lessons Learned process, monitoring its implementation, gather, analyse and report data each quarter.
- Work in conjunction with the divisional Commercial & Tendering teams to ensure awareness, and actively participate and support tenders that require Investment Committee approval.
- Participation and contribution to project kick off meetings involving contract awards that required Investment Committee approval
- Attend project status report “PSR” monthly meetings for high value / strategically important or high complexity projects including those projects that required Investment Committee approval.
- Ensure visibility of key financial data, including project budgets, commercial risks, and resource allocation across the division.

**Qualifications & Experience**
- A degree or equivalent relevant industry experience in Business, Operations, Engineering or a related field.
- Demonstrated management experience
- Comprehensive knowledge of project management finance, commercial risk & opportunity management, and project profit & loss administration experience.
- Strong written and verbal interpersonal communication skills
- Excellent organisational skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills

**Desirable**
- A Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification (highly desirable)
- Continuous Improvement qualification
- Experience and knowledge of the Offshore / Energy sectors (highly desirable)
- International business experience (highly desirable)
- Ensure full compliance with JFS PMO Governance Framework including PL specific iterations
- Ensure effective management and delivery of competent PMO function able to deliver Divisional PMO operational requirements

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