WOOD KSS LLP is currently recruiting for a Project Manager with extensive experience in the oil and gas petrochemical industry to join our team in Atyrau.

Responsibilities:

• Participates in the development of project management plan, creates project documentation
• Ensures projects development and execution
• Maintains the required documentation by project phases/stages
• Coordinates changes with project sponsors
• Participates in project execution and project progress monitoring
• Controls the quality of project works
• Coordinates the work of project team members
• Initiates planning and conducting of meetings on the matters related to the approved project execution;
• Complies with confidential information handling procedure
• Ensure work pack and material delivery aligns with construction mobilisation
• Provide construction expertise during FEED, Detail Design, in the form of constructability reviews, scope minimisation and ensuring safest and most efficient construction methods adopted
• Actively engages with the other contractors / sub-contractors to ensure seamless delivery at site(s)
• Engages with individual project teams to ensure correct level and sequence of Work Breakdown Structure adopted at project kick off
• Ensure all Site activities are performed in a safe, environmentally responsible manner with integrity and quality delivering HS&E targets
• Oversight of home office team to ensure quality construction input to the integrated engineering and planning processes
• Delivery of site teams to meet Client’s business schedules
• Delivery of reduced costs at site by continual review of performances and improvements by the site teams
• Ensure the site construction and commissioning process with regard to the provision and use of corporate and project specific procedures, processes and systems
• Monitor the competency and training requirements of all construction/commissioning personnel
• Ensure safety, quality and environmental responsibilities and accountabilities have been defined and communicated to workers engaged within their area(s) of control
• Ensure all workers within their area(s) of control receive appropriate training to perform their work in a safe, legal and competent manner including any Health and Safety and site-specific inductions
• Manages and controls project cost and schedule of assigned discipline / subset of onsite construction
• Utilise Commercial processes to capture variations effectively
• Works with engineering in the design phases to influence the design for optimum constructability
• For proactive support and compliance with LLP Life Saving rules
• For work within the LLP core values framework at all times driving safety as our top priority
• For contribution to delivery of the planned work scopes in an efficient and timely manner
• Responsible for all aspects of construction management project of large size and complexity
• Accountable for the overall contract construction effort and commissioning strategy; including safety, planning, cost and delivery of all field works on the Contract
• Accountable for supervising, organising and co-ordinating head office, site construction and commissioning teams to provide high quality support in accordance with the Contract
• Responsible for ensuring full construction integration to project delivery by encouraging regular engineering, procurement and construction interface meetings

Skills/Qualifications

• Higher (technical) education
• Work experience in the respective position no less than 10 years
• Appropriate level of field construction experience in a relevant industry
• Exposure to working within a technical environment
• Experience of people management in a construction context, good standard of general computer literacy
• Onshore oil & gas related design experience
• Competent in writing reports
• Ability to provide guidance and direction to project team, managing, motivating and mentoring professional engineering specialists
• Ability to discover issues and recommend solutions to technical and commercial issues uncovered during course of performing assignments
• Proficient user of relevant software and calculation templates
• Professional level of ability in the application of standards, processes and procedures and how they are used in work execution
• Technically competent in own discipline, pursues continuous professional development of skills and knowledge according to standards
• Maintains own knowledge of relevant regulatory framework, legislation changes, initiatives and industry technology developments and promotes to direct reports
• Demonstrated ability to apply advanced laws, principles, mathematics or industry knowledge in the improvement and development of designs
• Demonstrated skills in persuasion, negotiation, motivation and communication
• Demonstrated proficiency in project planning
• Possess a working knowledge of the various Business Units, Functions, Sectors and services offered within business area, and general understanding of other LLP business offerings
• Requires mature professional knowledge in planning and conducting assignments having scope for co-ordination of difficult tasks