Project Director

Job Description

• Develop and manage a suite of governance, communication and management control systems for the proper conduct and assured delivery of the client’s essential services and works. 
• Monitor overall team performance and initiate any required safety or performance improvement measures and methodologies. 
• Monitor and audit compliance with the requirements of the management systems and report as required. 
• Continually identify any project risks, actively assign and manage mitigations as appropriate. 
• Initiate and conduct weekly technical and progress meetings relating to the services and works. 
• Manage any client stage gateway reviews and attainment of conditions precedent to such approvals. 
• Manage the attainment of design stage deliverables to schedule and quality that may be concurrent with any fast-track works package procurements and associated permitting and approvals requirements. 
• Produce formal reports on project progress measured against the baseline and milestone dates and agreed project wide KPI’s. 
• Prepare weekly, monthly and ad-hoc reports on project progress for the Employer’s representative, prepare and conduct presentations as required. 
• Manage and administer the relevant contracts affording appropriate protection of the client’s interests. 
• Leading cross-discipline teams of project controls professionals to deliver effective, consistent, assured and value-adding project controls services to our clients across diverse and complex programmes to support and drive delivery. 
• Driving continuous improvement in project controls processes to create efficiency and increasing benefits to our clients.   
• Defining and implementing project controls approaches across the project, programme and portfolio levels allowing effective decision making at all levels.   
• Defining and implementing effective governance and assurance processes around project controls products. 
• Working with clients to develop relevant breakdown structure and support scope definitions.   
• Defining scaled, tailored, and integrated approaches for project controls and documenting these (for example in a Project Control System Definition).  
• Defining the scope through the identification and management of exclusions, assumptions, interfaces, and dependencies, and coordinate the scope’s decomposition. 
• Working with the Integrated Project Team to establish a robust, accurate Performance Measurement Baseline and manage the change control process. 
• Working with Project and Commercial Management to establish the Supplier Project Controls contract requirements, and then collaborating with suppliers to integrate and analyze their performance data. 
• Ensuring scope, cost, risk and schedule integration and alignment, and analyze performance data to provide delivery insight and facilitate delivery decisions.  

Corporate objectives 

• Develop and implement business development strategies, pursuing key project opportunities, new business targets, and clients. 
• Develop and implement project set-up and delivery strategies. 
• Providing oversight, assurance and problem solving on projects as required. 
• Building our proposition and delivery capability 
• Developing and maintaining senior / executive level relationships with clients and industry peers 
• Project execution assurance 
• Work closely with, and oversee the performance of, existing operational Project and Cost Management teams. 
• Coordinate with project team leaders on project negotiations and execution. 
• Assuring the quality, accuracy, and integrity of the Project Controls Team’s output.    

Leadership 

• Undertaking line management activities including career development and performance management.   

Qualifications

• Degree or Post-graduate qualification in relevant field 
• 10 years of relevant Project Management working experience