Projects & Modifications Manager

**Job Title: Project & Modifications Manager

Location: Aberdeen

Industry: Oil and Gas

Employment Type:   Contract

Client-Sided Role**

Brief job description:
Oversees a portfolio of projects, asset modification and repair scopes from initiation through to completion, ensuring robust governance, technical development, and approval processes. Operates at a senior level, managing complex CAPEX and asset modification projects along with their associated contracts. Brings credible technical expertise in EPC and front-end project development to support sound commercial and project management decisions. Demonstrates strong capability in building and maintaining effective relationships with both internal stakeholders and external partners, including regulators and international Tier-1 contractors. Provides technical leadership in shaping the overall programme execution strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manages the portfolio of projects across the company, as well as the portfolio of modification projects via the chose execution methodology
• Role models IFW mindset and culture throughout the project team.
• Selects, develops and manages multi-disciplinary project teams of company and contractor personnel ensuring outputs and outcomes are delivered to meet the agreed business case.
• In conjunction with the procurement team, agrees contracts for the provision of services, monitoring compliance and managing variances.
• Leads the project framing through preparation of the requirements of projects and determines the best means of satisfying requirements.
• Consolidates and documents the fundamental components of projects (scope, schedule, resource requirements, budgets, risks, opportunities and issues, and quality requirements) as part of project planning.
• Managing stakeholders, taking account of their levels of influence and particular interests.
• Identifies and manages project budgets, risks (threats and opportunities), planning and implementations including responses to them and responding to other issues that affect projects.
• Responsible for ensuring highly effective communication and reporting processes are in place and that all key contributors/parties involved in the project.
• Prepares, gains approval of, refining and updating business cases that justify the initiation and/or continuation of projects in terms of benefits, costs and risks.
• Prepares and maintains schedules for project activities and events, taking account of dependencies and resource requirements.
• Developing and agreeing budgets, controlling forecast and actual costs against them.
• Implement Management of Change to change the scope of projects, updating configuration documents as required
• Able and willing to travel and contribute to the success of offshore operations.
• Provides technical leadership for the projects and modifications portfolio for project development and delivery
• Proactively maintains their technical and interpersonal skills and competencies, ensuring capabilities are up to date and in line with industry/functional best practice and that behaviours are in line with Client's core Values. Understand the skills, competencies and behaviours required for their role.
• Collaborates effectively, adapting their behaviour and communication as needed to get the best from others. Effectively promotes ideas and opinions and is able to influence others in a constructive way. Maintains good relationships across all organisation levels.
• Presents and articulates ideas and arguments effectively, projects credibility and conviction, handles objection and incorporates others' ideas as appropriate.  Makes / proposes informed decisions having consulted widely.
• Is familiar with and adheres to people policies and procedures.
• Is accountable for their performance and delivery against objectives.  Agrees their objectives in a timely fashion, assertively expresses what they need from others to be successful, takes on feedback and learns from their failures.
• Lives the Values and is a strong advocate of the Client's culture - understands and role models the behaviours expected.
• Provides clear, honest and constructive feedback, both positive and developmental, to colleagues, team members and others when requested.  Be open to feedback received and incorporate into their development.
• Owns their development plan and discusses it regularly with their manager and L&D. Strives for continuous learning and development of their competencies, skills and behaviours
• Recognises bias, conscious or unconscious, and actively works to eliminate this from their approach to their work and colleagues.
• Eliminates the use of language that may leave others feeling excluded or discriminated against. Positively participates in discussion and collaboration on D&I in their teams and amongst peers, which persuades and brings positive change when needed.
• Treats all people equally and with consideration of protected characteristics and has an understanding of Client's ED&I policies

Required Expertise:

• Embeds Client's Values and associated behaviours into their everyday work and interactions, continuously learning and developing associated competencies and behaviours.
• Great communication skills that informs/shares knowledge clearly and unambiguously and also implements and embeds change. Builds rapport and is able to influence in a constructive way / skilled at influencing decision makers on complex topics.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively, within their team and across the organisation and externally as required.
• Networks effectively internally and externally, creating an immediate, positive and credible impression on others.  Leads other parties in conversations on the important issues and use persuasive contributions to influence change and action
• Technical competence to safely and efficiently manage subsea Diving and Wells Contractors with topsides operational interfaces.
• Competent to ECITB Intermediate or equivalent in the oil and gas industry, preferably with an operator and or Tier 1 contractor.
• Sound commercial awareness of supply chain management and have a clear understanding of project financing/cost control principles.
• Good communicator and influencer, able to present complex issues in a clear and concise manner.
• Degree qualified in Marine or Subsea engineering or relevant discipline.
• Direct experience of major decommissioning projects.
• Direct experience of working with both reimbursable and lump sum marine contractors.
• Offshore BOSEIT qualified