Project Director I

Overview / Responsibilities:
Wood is currently seeking a Project Director to be based in our Khobar office.

**Responsibilities**:

- 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
- Contributes to and reviews the project proposal and plan to establish timeframe, procedures for accomplishing the project, resource requirements, and allotment of available resources to various phases of the project
- Ensures adherence to corporate policy and best practice, and sets project evaluation parameters
- Negotiates changes to project scope with the customer
- Follows Change Management process to identify and approve modifications to scope, cost, schedule, and quality
- Pursues and develop opportunities for innovation, such as digitalization and technology use, work share and high value engineering centres, to bring value to Wood and customer
- Approves project procedures and project execution plan including the scope of work, deliverables list, master schedule, budget, org charts, risk register etc
- Ensures competence of project team members to carry out assigned work
- Oversees proposals and call-offs (may be single projects) within delegation of authority, ensuring compliance with contracting policy and standards of ethical conduct
- Monitors adherence to schedule, cost and quality and proactively intervenes to avoid slippage
- Ensures that the required project management software systems are established for the project and the supporting training is completed
- Ensure the project assurance protocol and schedule are established
- Involved in establishing terms and conditions, and wider scope and larger size of projects may require more visibility in the community as well as activity in attracting project staff
- 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
- Drives good practices, including corporate initiatives, across projects and programs

Skills / Qualifications:

- University degree (bachelors or masters) in relevant discipline or equivalent combination of qualifications and experience
- Project Management Professional (PMP), associate in project management (APM) or equivalent certification is preferred
- Typically requires more than 20 years of broad and extensive pertinent experience, including minimum 10 years project management experience, mastering their area and knowledgeable about impacts on other areas; of which substantial experience successfully managing major / complex international or remote location projects
- Requires strong technical skill as relevant to the project scope(s)
- Good level of experience in the related field, industry, and locations of the work
- Has thorough knowledge of project success and benefits management
- Expert in stakeholder management with extensive experience in managing challenging stakeholders and able to coach and advise others in this area
- Thorough understanding of requirements management from creation to monitoring to verification of complex project requirements and their linkage to business benefits
- Knowledge of workflow management, established policies for engineering ownership, globalization of projects and request for tender process
- Experienced in assembling and managing multi-phase project budgets, including risk contingency
- Expert Practitioner in Risk Management processes, well versed in how risks are transposed into cost, time and contingency estimates and forecasts

Company Overview:
Diversity Statement:
We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.