About the Role
This position offers an opportunity to provide strong HSSE leadership and cultivate a culture of safety, integrity, and operational excellence within Oil & Gas projects. You will lead the planning, execution, and delivery of projects to achieve both project objectives and broader business goals. With a focus on collaboration and stakeholder engagement, you will guide multidisciplinary project teams through the project lifecycle while ensuring alignment across all project stakeholders.
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Primary Objectives / Responsibilities
- Provide strong HSSE leadership and promote a culture of safety, integrity, and operational excellence.
- Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of Oil & Gas projects to achieve project objectives and business goals.
- Provide leadership and direction to multidisciplinary project teams throughout the project lifecycle.
- Ensure projects are delivered in accordance with approved scope, schedule, budget, quality, and performance requirements.
- Foster collaboration across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and operations teams to ensure successful project outcomes.
- Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships and ensure alignment of project objectives across all project stakeholders.
Specific Accountabilities
- Manage all phases of project execution from initiation through engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover.
- Monitor project scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, and risks to ensure successful project delivery.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary project teams and ensure effective communication across all project functions.
- Track project performance against approved baselines and implement corrective actions where required.
- Ensure effective management of project interfaces between internal and external stakeholders.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and opportunities throughout the project lifecycle.
- Manage project resources and ensure effective utilization of personnel to meet project objectives.
- Ensure compliance with project procedures, contractual obligations, governance requirements, and quality standards.
- Support commercial management activities, including change management, contract administration, and claims resolution.
- Prepare and present project progress reports, forecasts, and recommendations to project leadership and stakeholders.
- Promote continuous improvement and implementation of project delivery best practices.
Essential Skills and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or equivalent.
- Minimum 15 years of engineering and project management experience.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in Construction Management/site supervision of power generation projects, plus prior site-based experience on at least one utility-scale Wind or Solar project.
- Proven track record of successfully delivering complex projects.
- Demonstrated commitment to HSSE leadership and management.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills.
- Comprehensive understanding of the technical, commercial, and execution risks associated with Oil & Gas projects.
- Proven capability in managing project cost, schedule, resources, and overall project performance.
- Strong understanding of engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and project execution activities.
- Demonstrated capability in leading multidisciplinary engineering and project delivery teams.
- Strong analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
- Proven experience in interface management and stakeholder coordination.
- Effective risk management and project resource management capabilities.
- Understanding of local content and value creation requirements within project environments.
- Experience managing resources within multicultural and diverse work environments.
Benefits and Culture
We are dedicated to energizing and empowering our employees to drive sustainable impact. Our values-inspired culture unlocks brilliance through belonging, connection, and innovation. We strive to create a diverse, inclusive, and respectful workplace where everyone feels they belong, can be themselves, and are heard.
We are committed to reskilling our people, leveraging transferable skills, and supporting the transition of our workforce to become experts in today's low carbon energy infrastructure and technology. Whatever your ambition, there is a path for you here, and we are eager to help you broaden your horizons, explore diverse opportunities, and be part of delivering sustainable change.
