Project Manager

Your role

To perform this role successfully, the individual will be responsible for but not limited to the following:

• Accountable for all aspects of the project and to lead all team members who are performing duties to ensure that the work progresses meeting all safety, quality, schedule, cost, and contractual requirements.

• Working with all internal stakeholders, partners, taking responsibility for planning, coordinating and managing the delivery of projects within your portfolio.

• Direct and demonstrable experience of applying a range of project management principles and skills to deliver successful project outcomes on a diverse range of engineering/technical projects.

• Apply appropriate key performance indicators to monitor project health and performance and establish rigorous reporting protocols that meet all requirements of the contract, corporate standards and project-specific oversight as established by senior management or customer.

• Ensure that all project activities are performed in accordance with corporate standards of ethical compliance, cyber-security, import-export regulations, intellectual property protections and security clearance protocols.

• Develop and implement project execution strategies, working with the client to ensure all project commercial and technical scope is effectively addressed within the project execution plan, whilst ensuring compliance with the prime contract.

• Ensure that all formal approvals for project bids, changes and settlements are prepared and approved in accordance with corporate Level of Authority (LoA) procedures.

• Approval of hours of work (e.g. timesheet approvals, overtime approvals, vacation authorization) for assigned scope/projects in accordance with company policies, project policies and any applicable collective agreements.

• Approval of Purchase Orders and Project Change Orders within the company or project tiered limits of authority – frequently one of several required approvals.

• Authorized to represent Company to client or suppliers with respect to project work and has signing authority for project correspondence, invoices, work orders etc., subject to company limits of authority.

• Communicate with all levels of management, engineering, procurement, quality, and project representatives on the progress of the project milestones /deliverables.

• Facilitate and participate in resolution of unanticipated or unplanned activities to bring projects back on plan.

• Manage, track and monitor project activity and performance, (schedule & budget), actively managing and reporting any deviations.

• Initiate and assist with processing of client invoices and manage invoice aging.

• Provide weekly/monthly project status reports as required to customers, internal and external.

• Provide input to continuously improve performance of the project operations through process improvements and manage relationships with key stakeholders to support the growth of this business.

• Provides feedback and effective recommendations into functional performance review processes.

• Provides feedback and effective recommendations into functional hire/fire/discipline processes.

• Makes effective decision/recommendation (or responsible for) with respect to resourcing requirements on the project (i.e. hiring and firing within the project).

• Direct experience of taking full responsibility for project delivery, demonstrating accountability for quality, time, cost and technical performance parameters agreed with client.

• Responsible for supporting the proposal process for similar new work incl. helping drive proposal deadlines, championing the proposal with the client through internal review processes.

• Actively supports the proposals team with the necessary project knowledge and technical expertise to ensure the competitiveness of the proposals.

• Performance driven and able to motivate self and teams and create a strong project delivery culture.

• A strong element of client relationship management and people leadership.