About the Role
This role involves providing strong HSSE leadership and fostering a culture of safety, integrity, and operational excellence within the organization. You will lead the planning, execution, and delivery of complex Oil & Gas projects, ensuring alignment with project objectives and business goals. This position requires strategic leadership and direction for multidisciplinary project teams throughout the project lifecycle, including engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and operations.
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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 complex Oil & Gas projects to achieve project objectives and business goals.
- Provide strategic 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 stakeholders.
Specific Accountabilities
- Lead all phases of project execution from initiation through engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover.
- Manage project scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, and risk to ensure successful project delivery.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary project teams and ensure effective communication across all project functions.
- Monitor 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.
- Provide leadership in resource planning, utilization, and performance management.
- Ensure compliance with project procedures, contractual obligations, governance requirements, and quality standards.
- Support commercial management activities including change management, claims resolution, and contract administration.
- Prepare and present project progress reports, forecasts, and strategic recommendations to senior management and stakeholders.
- Promote continuous improvement and sharing of project delivery best practices across the organization.
Essential Skills and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or equivalent.
- Minimum 20 years of engineering and project management experience.
- Minimum 15 years of experience in the Oil & Gas industry within EPCM project environments.
- Proven track record of successfully delivering complex, multidisciplinary projects.
- Demonstrated commitment to HSSE leadership and management.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills.
- Comprehensive understanding of technical, commercial, contractual, 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.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering and project delivery teams.
- Strong analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Proven experience in interface management and stakeholder coordination.
- Effective risk management and project resource management skills.
- Understanding of local content and value creation requirements within project environments.
- Experience managing resources within multicultural and diverse work environments.
- Experience managing EPCM projects.
Moving Forward Together
We are committed to creating a values-inspired culture that unlocks brilliance through belonging, connection, and innovation. We aim to build a diverse, inclusive, and respectful workplace where everyone feels they belong and their viewpoints are valued.
We are actively reskilling our people, embracing transferable skills, and supporting the transition towards expertise in low carbon energy infrastructure and technology. There are numerous career paths available to you here, free from barriers to potential success. Join us to broaden your horizons, explore diverse opportunities, and contribute to sustainable change.
