Project Director

Wood are actively expanding our project delivery portfolio within the United Arab Emirates and as such are seeking additional experienced personnel for upcoming work.

One of the major projects we are seeking additional personnel for, is to manage the Design, Procurement, Construction Management, Commissioning Handover to Operations, for an EPCm portfolio of safety critical systems across multiple offshore assets.

The EPCm project is both very exciting and challenging, with a real focus on portfolio delivery to maximize efficiency and deliver the multiple project scopes safely with no impact on production. The project is due to commence in 2024 and has an estimated duration of three years, however this is a perfect opportunity for the right people to join the growing ‘Wood Team’ in the United Arab Emirates and forge long-lasting careers with great opportunities for growth and development.

Qualifications:

• In Engineering and / or MSc. in Project Management from an accredited university.
• Project Management Professional (PMP), Associate in Project Management (APM) or equivalent certification is preferred.
• Minimum of twenty five (25) years relevant experience in the oil & gas industry, including fifteen (15) years of outstanding project management experience for major Brownfield oil & gas offshore projects in excess of $50 Million.

Knowledge, skills and experience:

• Demonstrable ability to manage EPC and / or EPCM contracts for offshore Brownfield Oil & Gas projects for major Oil & Gas companies.
• Experience of managing large offshore projects containing marine spreads and materials movement and logistics as part of the scope.
• Specific experience in Middle East for renowned clients, preferred.
• Personality, ability, and experience to drive, manage, direct and guide the team to achieve contract objectives.
• High level of professional competence and management skills to motivate the team to achieve high quality performance during the execution of the portfolio of projects.
• Expert in stakeholder management with extensive experience in managing challenging stakeholders and able to coach and advise others in this area.
• Thorough knowledge of project success and benefits management.
• Demonstrable ability to drive cash flow management as well as projection / forecast of cost at completion.
• Demonstrable experience of commercial and technical risk management.
• Advanced knowledge of various forms of vendor contracts across many types of goods and services; able to create new appropriate contracting frameworks and negotiate to successful conclusion.
• Robust knowledge of supplier categorization and experienced in devising appropriate commercial acquisition strategies.
• Experienced in assembling and managing multi-phase project budgets, including risk contingencies.
• Experience of managing complex major project start-up, produce and communicate the Contract Execution Plan.
• Expert Practitioner in Risk Management processes, well versed in how risks are transposed into cost, time and contingency estimates and forecasts.
• Experience of implementing successful project performance improvement activities and techniques for recovering poor performance.
• Understands the needs of information management requirements in the project phases (operation), internal (contractual, statutory) and asset (customer) documentation.
• Expert understanding of both explicit and implicit dependencies and able to explain these and build into recommendations.
• Demonstrable ability to negotiate appropriate close-out terms with all key stakeholders.

Personal attributes:

• Safety focused with an uncompromising approach to risk management. Places the welfare of both internal and customer employees at the top of the agenda.
• Passionately and visibly pursues and supports, demonstrates, and embeds company values.
• Customer focused – develops sincere and open relationships with customers, constantly striving to exceed expectations and add value. Able to develop and maintain strong customer relationships, including ability to influence.
• Pragmatic in approach with a strong commercial bias and ability to balance commerciality with operational excellence.
• Entrepreneurial approach - ability to identify and pursue opportunities to add value to client and Wood.
• Able to motivate, engage and influence a diverse group of people, many without a direct reporting relationship.
• Strong team builder capable of identifying and adopting best practices, engendering a spirit of cooperation and energizing people towards optimum performance enabling cross functional best practice.
• Strong influencer, negotiator and mediator.
• Flexible to respond in agile ways to changing internal and external context and customer needs critical thinker, able to interpret complex data and with strong problem-solving abilities.