Project Director (PUMA)

Bilfinger UK is a leading engineering and maintenance provider, supporting customers across the chemical & petrochemical, nuclear, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals & biopharma, power & energy, utilities, renewables and food & beverage markets. We enhance the efficiency of assets, ensuring a high level of availability and reducing maintenance costs. We have extensive experience in offshore and onshore facilities; specialising in asset management services throughout all life cycle phases from consulting, engineering, manufacturing, assembly, operations, maintenance, and decommissioning. This commitment is delivered by an experienced and highly competent workforce of over 4,500 employees operating from 14 offices in strategic industrial hubs, upholding the highest standards of safety, compliance and quality.

The Role

As Project Director, you will be responsible for a project from inception to fruition; will lead on HSE, Quality standards and customer satisfaction. In addition to following the Vice President's strategic direction and taking full accountability and responsibility for the safe completion of the project's whole life cycle (CAPEX/OPEX), you will also ensure the project is completed on schedule and within budget. You will provide leadership and mentoring to direct reports and engineers in your team, share knowledge, best practice utilising previous experience.

Key Activities

• Safety of people and the environment is first and foremost in all we do and must deliver to the highest standards to ensure compliance at all times to our BMS.
• Working with the design, construction & commercial teams to ensure our deliverables are translated into coherent and competitive submissions.
• Key milestones are established and delivered to satisfy client & business requirements, whilst ensuring scope, time and cost are appropriately considered, monitored and actions are taken to maintain expected outcomes.
• Ensure resources and materials are suitably placed to meet and exceed customer expectations.
• Delivery is to the highest standard and comply with appropriate regulations.
• Contingencies are put in place to deal with changes and maintain customer satisfaction.
• Operates with the governance and guidelines within the companies BMS.
• Ownership of project review meetings with the team to ensure full project transparency and accurate dissemination of information (internal/external).
• Operates within the contract guidelines.

Lead, support and develop the service by:

• Effectively placing resources to deliver projects strategy/objectives whilst ensuring clarity surrounding individual roles and responsibilities.
• Providing opportunities for personal growth and development and recognising talent and embracing a continuous learning environment.
• Stepping down in the role and helping the team deliver.
• Understanding and translating to others the entire business service offering whilst leveraging business services across the full contract scope.
• Applying, monitoring and driving improvement in norm performance across the business services and demonstrating performance through project control tools/dashboards.
• Identifying, managing and removing waste across the entire service provision.
• Growing, applying, sharing expertise.

Support a strategy to evolve the business by:

• Supports new business pursuits right through the Sales process in support of new business growth and/or contract growth.
• Assisting in the analysis of customer needs and delivering in line with the contract objectives and conditions.
• Ensuring that you operate within the companies governance structure and guidelines at all times.
• Translating knowledge and developing skill pool within the service provision.
• Developing the service provision through close customer relationships.
• Monitoring of performance and customer feedback and ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction.
• Closing out Active actions and ensuring your team is doing the same.
• Proactively leads effort to improve competitiveness through better technical and commercial offering for the clients.
• Acts as subject matter expert in chosen area and develop and coaching of talent within team.

Experience Required

• Experience of managing MEICA Projects under people, time and money constraints.
• Experience of managing multi-disciplined Engineers and Project Managers.
• Experience of delivering Fixed price and/or target cost work packages involving multiple discipline trade interfaces.
• Experience of successfully managing change in a term contract environment.
• Exposure to complex commercial frameworks and successful delivery of agreed targets.
• Wide exposure to feed and construction activities across a diverse customer portfolio.
• Management of multiple customer relationships within defence environment.

Qualifications

• APM PMQ Qualified or equivalent.
• SMSTS.
• CSCS.
• HND Engineering.
• NEC 3 & 4 contracts / IChemE.
• Primavera 6 experience.

Desirable

• Chartered Project Professional.
• BEng, HND, IOSH, CDM.

If you wish to speak to a member of the recruitment team, please contact 01224 246246 or leo.taylor@bilfinger.com.