Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

Wood is currently recruiting for a Project Manager to join its Iraq business unit focusing on creating delivery excellence across assigned project, provide certainty and confidence to the customer robust control of project scope, schedule, cost and risk. This is a full-time onsite position in Basra, Iraq, on 28*28 rotation, with travel requirement.

The role

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Project Manager to join our Iraq Business Unit.

Our Clients and Projects

Designing the future. Transforming the world. Wood is an integral part of operations in Iraq, and we are continuing to grow our footprint across the country. With a 90-year heritage, 10 major contracts and over 850 employees, we have the skills, expertise and asset knowledge to support clients to deliver energy security and decarbonisation ambitions. Wood excels in supporting our clients to deliver complex upstream and midstream oil and gas projects in Iraq delivering maintenance, modifications and engineering solutions. We are committed to decarbonising existing assets, producing cleaner energy and developing a sustainable national workforce, ensuring the long-term growth of the region.

What we can offer

• Meaningful and interesting projects
• Delivered to high profile clients and complex projects in Iraq
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion ; we are an organisation actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business with employee networks committed to giving all employees a voice
• Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market
• Medical Insurance: Ensures inpatient and outpatient medical care is available should you require treatment.
• Commitment to continued professional development; development plans that are tailored to your individual needs and interests
• Global connections : join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession

Job Objectives:

Create delivery excellence across assigned project, provide certainty and confidence to the customer robust control of project scope, schedule, cost and risk.

Specifies and coordinates the implementation and completion of the project. This includes responsibility for safe delivery, ensuring that quality, schedule, and cost targets are met and for managing the associated risk.

Responsible for delivery of project to agreed specifications, for managing change and customer relationships, and ensuring appropriate reporting and governance is adhered to and controlled.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities:

Project Execution

• Contributes to and reviews the project proposal and plan to determine timeframe, procedures for accomplishing the project, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources to various phases of the project.
• Contributes to setting project evaluation parameters.
• Negotiates changes to project scope or specification with the customer.
• Follows Change Management process to identify and approve modifications to scope, cost, schedule and quality.
• Pursue and develop opportunities for innovation, such as digitalisation and technology use, work share and high value engineering centres, to bring value to Wood and customer
• Establishes project procedures and leads production of project execution plan including the scope of work, deliverables list, master schedule, budget, org charts, risk register etc
• Regularly reports project progress to senior management and/or the customer.
• Reponsible for delivery of agreed schedule and financial performance, proactively intervening to avoid slippage
• Ensures competence of project team members to carry out assigned work
• Leads ongoing focus on risk identification and mitigation during project execution
• 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
• Guides and directs a multidiscipline project team, which may include external specialists and involve staff from multiple offices and sites
• Responsible for ensuring project team members are competent to carry out assigned duties
• Promotes and sets up performance improvement culture and actions on complex projects and into their supply chains.
• Facilitates the set up of information management systems / applications as applicable to suit various life phases of projects and manage information management project team
• Participate in assurance activities and peer reviews

Leadership

• Is a champion and role model for ethical behaviour and compliance with applicable laws and policies.
• Oversees proposals and call-offs (may be individual projects) within delegation of authority, ensuring compliance with contracting policy and standards of ethical conduct.
• Coaches, mentors and empowers others to make decisions within established parameters

Working Relationships:

Internal:

• Provides the interface and maintains effective relationships with other contributors to the project.
• Guides and directs project team and functional support teams as required
• Interfaces with high value engineering centres (HVEC) as required and manages scope across all offices involved
• Interface and coordinate with Operational and/or Contract Management to ensure delivery of operational goals

External:

• Primary point of contact for customer on assigned scope.
• Establishes and maintains a positive and effective customer relationship, ensuring payment terms are met, and communicating any delays
• Manage relationships with external suppliers and sub-contractors and resolves cost, schedule and quality issues
• Seeks out new avenues for building internal and external relationships
• Monitors existing relationships
• May act as company representative and play a role in contract negotiations,
• Influences relationships at higher customer level

Level of Influence and Decision-Making Authority:

• Actions and decisions typically have a significant influence on the technical, operational and financial results of one or more small and medium-size projects

Desired Candidate Profile

• University degree in relevant discipline
• Project Management Professional (PMP), Associate in Project Management (APM) or equivalent certification is preferred
• Minimum of 15 years experience in the Oil and Gas Industry
• Proven project management experience as well as a good understanding of business issues.
• Good understanding of technical work scopes and commercial aspects of projects required.
• Iraq or Middle East experience preferred but not essential.
• Good stakeholder management and able to coach and advise others in this area.

Personal Attributes:

• Safety focused with an uncompromising approach to risk management.
• Places the welfare of both internal and customer employees at the top of the agenda.
• Passionately and visibly pursues, supports, demonstrates, and embeds company values.
• A motivated self-starter, who can self-direct when required, able to use own initiative to make appropriate decisions but also know when escalation is required.
• Able to make decisions, lead execution, take initiative and seek out improvements
• Committed to drive projects to completion, taking ownership for all that occurs within it.
• Strong Team Builder- able to motivate, engage and influence a diverse group of people.
• Able to adapt to changing priorities.
• Strong planning, organising and execution skills.
• Good communicator both verbally and in written form.
• Customer focused develops sincere and open relationships with customers.