PMC Interface Manager – Portfolio

Wood is currently recruiting for PMC Interface Manager – Portfolio to support our ADNOC offshore project in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

• Oversees a team of project engineers to coordinate a complex series of activities performed by engineers, designers and others from multiple engineering disciplines or departments
• Schedule oversight, planning and resource forecasting for engineering activities relating to the project
• Ensures accurate and timely delivery of work, to the satisfaction of both internal and external customers
• Alerts Project Manager in the event of potential delays or change; identifies and implements change
• Coordinates and assures technical excellence of interdisciplinary project deliverables
• Coordinates, guides and mentors other Project Engineers in the management of work scope
• Manages interfaces between engineering disciplines to ensure the successful delivery of assigned work
• Takes a lead role in planning engineering work, verification of design, and assuring compliance with quality and HSE requirements

Project Deliverables

• Oversees a team which manages and coordinates engineering multidiscipline inputs and deliverables across multiple execution centres including workshare / high value engineering centres
• Appraises the Project Engineering team of the key execution principles and the contractual basis of the project
• Prepares Discipline Design Instruction; prepares and checks Project Engineering Manpower Plans; prepares multidiscipline contract requisition scopes
• Prepares and checks Project Engineering Manpower Plans
• Interfaces with discipline managers for resources
• Prepares multidiscipline contract requisition scopes
• Creates and implements work plan for discipline and inter-discipline interfaces; identifies key dates, milestones and deliverables, drives for completion; manages forecasts
• Creates work share plan

HSE, Quality and Assurance

• Checks compliance with Project Quality System; able to audit projects; proactively drives team
• Ensures Health, Safety, Environment and Security (HSES) reviews are planned and implemented; supports initiatives
• Manages the development of project specific procedures
• Responsible for assuring quality of engineering deliverables before issue to customer

Development and management of schedule

• Creates and implements work plan for discipline and inter-discipline interfaces; identifies key dates, milestones and deliverables, drives for completion; manages forecasts
• Resolves escalated delays and changes, ensures recovery plans are implemented and reviewed
• Creates work share plan.

Design Verification

• Drives and participates in Design Verification; drives others to complete; Understands risk and mitigation requirements

Change Management

• Uses knowledge of conditions of contract to support decisions on schedules, key milestones and change management
• Understands customer needs and able to deliver customer satisfaction; actively monitors and supports initiative
• Quantifies effects of change project wide; develops mitigation plans against change and drives change management

People Management

• Supervises work of technical professionals in the delivery of engineering deliverables including checking work
• Coordinates and manages inputs from large interdisciplinary team (typically 50+).
• Provides communication to project team; good at public speaking; strong in leading people to participate and contribute.

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering
• Minimum 20 years’ relevant experience, majority in the offshore oil and gas projects
• Deep understanding of technical work scopes and commercial aspects of projects
• Able to use conditions of contract to support decisions on schedules, key milestones and change management
• Has good working and application knowledge of specifications and standards
• Extensive experience in delivering to internal customers, including other Engineering disciplines
• Familiar with change management practices and able to robustly manage change
• Has an expert knowledge of standards, procedures and work practices; follows project execution flow chart; developing skills in project and technical execution
• Expert ability in application of the procedures and work practices which define and govern Engineering Management and Project Engineering deliverables
• Able to lead Project Engineering team; able to manage between Engineering Discipline Groups
• Good communicator in leading work effort; motivates team; strong positive and active in solutions and proactive attitude
• Competent at managing technical matters and interfaces with Third Parties
• Able to manage and enhance performance and build effective teams

Personal Attributes:

• Deep understanding of technical work scopes and commercial aspects of projects
• Able to use conditions of contract to support decisions on schedules, key milestones and change management
• Has good working and application knowledge of specifications and standards
• Extensive experience in delivering to internal customers, including other Engineering disciplines
• Familiar with change management practices and able to robustly manage change
• Has an expert knowledge of standards, procedures and work practices; follows project execution flow chart; developing skills in project and technical execution
• Expert ability in application of the procedures and work practices which define and govern Engineering Management and Project Engineering deliverables
• Able to lead Project Engineering team; able to manage between Engineering Discipline Groups
• Good communicator in leading work effort; motivates team; strong positive and active in solutions and proactive attitude
• Competent at managing technical matters and interfaces with Third Parties
• Able to manage and enhance performance and build effective teams
• Strong problem-solving ability
• Works effectively as a member of a team
• Thinks strategically, able to plan and lead change • Builds collaboration and influences others to collaborate
• Empowers people, leads by example, recognises and rewards good performance
• Able to make decisions, lead execution, take initiative and seek out improvements
• Good at public speaking; strong in motivating people to participate and contribute
• Strong planning, organising and execution skills
• Strong problem-solving ability
• Works effectively as a member of a team
• Thinks strategically, able to plan and lead change
• Builds collaboration and influences others to collaborate
• Empowers people, leads by example, recognises and rewards good performance
• Able to make decisions, lead execution, take initiative and seek out improvements
• Good at public speaking; strong in motivating people to participate and contribute