About the Role
Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex water Distributed Control Systems (DCS) and automation projects, ensuring the successful integration of control systems, software, hardware, and third-party packages. Ensure projects are delivered safely and in accordance with contractual requirements, approved budgets, schedules, quality standards, profitability targets, and customer expectations.
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Functional Responsibilities
Project Delivery Management
- Lead projects from contract handover through engineering, procurement, production, integration, testing, commissioning, acceptance, and warranty support.
- Establish execution plans, schedules, responsibilities, governance, and performance targets.
- Ensure projects meet approved scope, schedule, budget, quality, safety, profitability, and cash objectives across multiple sites and teams.
DCS & Automation Solution Delivery
- Oversee the delivery and integration of DCS, SCADA, PLC, RTU, communication systems, control panels, instrumentation, and third-party packages.
- Manage brownfield requirements, including legacy migration, phased cutover, redundancy, minimum downtime, and operational continuity.
- Ensure delivered solutions are reliable, maintainable, and compliant with customer and operational requirements.
Commercial & Contractual Management
- Monitor project revenue, costs, profitability, billing, cash collection, and financial forecasts.
- Manage contractual obligations, variations, claims, change orders, and commercial risks.
- Protect the company's commercial position and report project performance, risks, and opportunities.
Customer & Stakeholder Management
- Act as the senior interface with customers, consultants, operators, and other key stakeholders.
- Lead progress meetings, steering committees, risk reviews, and action tracking.
- Manage expectations, escalations, design changes, acceptance requirements, and customer satisfaction.
Cross-Functional & Partner Management
- Lead coordination across Engineering, Procurement, Planning, Production, Quality, Finance, Project Controls, Testing, and Commissioning.
- Manage technology partners, system integrators, subcontractors, suppliers, and site-service providers.
- Define responsibilities and interfaces, monitor performance, and ensure timely resolution of delivery issues.
Risk, Quality & Compliance
- Manage technical, operational, commercial, contractual, quality, and HSE risks throughout the project lifecycle.
- Ensure compliance with customer specifications, contractual requirements, applicable standards, and internal governance.
- Maintain accurate project documentation, risk registers, progress reports, and management updates.
Testing, Commissioning & Handover
- Oversee FAT, SAT, integrated testing, commissioning, and system-performance verification.
- Ensure technical issues, punch-list items, and customer observations are closed within agreed timelines.
- Coordinate training, documentation, spare parts, customer acceptance, and transition to warranty and after-sales support.
General Responsibilities
HR Proficiency:
- Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers.
- Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
- Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.
Responsibility:
- Must take full responsibility for operations, anticipating problems, and making proactive steps to prevent them.
- Ability to take timely decisions.
Delivery:
- Deliver results in a timely manner with required quality and cost.
Business Planning and Performance:
- Transform corporate goals into business plans and monitor performance to strengthen results.
- Responsible for budgeting and expense control.
Organizational Development:
- Develop organizational structure according to current and future requirements.
- Ensure availability of job descriptions for all roles.
Business Process Improvements:
- Develop and coordinate systems, policies, and procedures while seeking automation opportunities.
- Promote automated systems within the organization.
Quality:
- Maintain quality as a competitive advantage, acting accordingly as a manager.
Adaptation:
- Adapt to new techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.
Health, Safety and Environment:
- Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per standard regulations.
Qualification
- Bachelor in Electrical Engineering or any relevant field.
Experience
Skills
- Project Control
- Project Change Management
- Project Engineering
- Project Management
