Associate Director - Project Management

Description

• Reviewing and providing recommendations to change orders requests and impact mitigation strategies throughout the project life cycle. This includes scope, cost, schedule control, and cost reduction initiatives.
• Promoting and following health, safety and environment (HSE) policies and regulations and be fully committed in enhancing site safety culture and initiatives throughout all phases of the project, demonstrating operational excellence on topics such as HSE, client excellence, and team performance.
• Review and provide quality recommendations and corrective actions. Review and provide feedback on project level quality assurance plans.
• Review program guidelines and protocols for cost reduction initiatives.
• Review and provide recommendations on project level safety recommendations and corrective actions.
• Overseeing and assessing all components of the project master schedule throughout the lifecycle of the project to ensure contractual obligations are met and to hold team members accountable to all expectations.
• Reviewing the claims resolutions recommendations and client relationship issues throughout project lifecycle.
• Ensuring that estimating, HSE and schedule impacts from change order requests, throughout the project life cycle, are continually reviewed and validated as and when new information becomes available.
• Review program level cost reduction recommendations.
• Participating on project risk assessments and escalates various risks to steering group and executive owner leadership to provide visibility, mitigate risk and create appropriate solutions.
• Serving as escalation point for all project, financial, business development, contractual and client relationship risks for the work program relative to contractual obligations.
• Review program level operability and maintainability recommendations.
• Review and maintain project manuals and construction management guidelines, policy, and procedures.
• Establish program phasing strategy.
• Participating in preconstruction discussions with clients at a leadership level. Leads internal team and collaborates with external partners to develop contractual obligations, such as estimates, schedules, staffing plan and business plan.
• Reviewing and providing feedback on the metrics and basis for progress reporting against the program, projects, and contracts. reporting shall include performance measurement, forecasting, trending, issues, actions, progress and overall status.
• Continuously monitor performance of Mace group staff to ensure that the client does not spend time mentoring or managing.
• Providing suggestions to solve escalated project, staffing, financial, schedule, contractual, subcontractor and client relationship issues throughout project lifecycle.
• Overseeing the integration of all projects multi-disciplines (owner's, a/e, contractors, procurement and supply chain) within the master program schedule. Developing the work plan that forms the program manual and program management plan (PMP).
• Reviewing and submitting for approval all program definition documents and capital funding requests.
• Support approval or revisions over value engineering and constructability review recommendations.
• Establishing value engineering and constructability review guidelines and protocols to be followed by A/E firms, general contractors and other 3rd party’s consultants or service suppliers.
• Review design, procurement and construction progress and provide recommendations for recovery plans.
• Collaborate with appropriate internal and external stakeholders to achieve consent. Review all beneficial use recommendations.
• Review and provide feedback on the program level framework for program quality control.
• Review project level operability and maintainability recommendations.
• Oversee design, procurement and construction progress and provide recommendations for recovery plans.
• Ensures owner rep staffing levels are sufficient, relative to contractual commitments, schedules, and constraints. Plans and adapts owner rep resource management as needed to ensure proper staffing levels and results.
• Review and provide feedback on the program level framework for construction quality control.
• Negotiating issue resolution including change orders, contingency expenditures, and appropriate fee enhancements.
• Serving as the key point of contact and primary client relationship executive at a leadership level, building and maintaining long-term relationships with clients and key consultants, suppliers and other 3rd parties working on the project.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience providing leadership of a team in an integrated project delivery organization.
• Demonstrated experience in negotiating multi-million-dollar contracts as part of a multi-dollar program.
• Minimum of (25) years of demonstrated capital program leadership experience in industrial manufacturing, natural resources and chemical sectors.
• Demonstrated experience in delivering major capital programs successfully (on budget, time, meeting safety and quality standards within approved scope).
• Proven track record of following through on commitments.
• Knowledge of multiple project delivery methods.
• Demonstrated excellent communications, presentation and written skills.
• Bachelor's degree (M.S. or MBA preferred).
• Proven track record of partnering and issues resolution.
• Experience managing an integrated team on large complex and multi-phase capital process consisting of multiple project elements.
• Proven track record of leading programs of $300 Million or greater.

Benefits

• Safety First - Going Home Safe And Well

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance