Job Description

Job Description:

Client is seeking a Senior Project Manager to support our growing North America FACTS and Substation business (GPQSS). The GPQSS team provides solutions which help enhance the safety, reliability and efficiency of power networks while minimizing environmental impact. The Project Director is responsible for the successful conclusion of EPC project. This key role oversees project teams, who coordinate activities to ensure that work is completed on time and within budget, to a high standard. As well as provide leadership to strategically manage risk, monitor finances and ensure each phase of work is started or completed on time. Ensure the project follows and complies with company health, safety, and environmental policies. If you have a proven track record and passion for driving large complex EPC projects, we want to hear from you!

Responsibilities:

Your background:

A Bachelor's/Master's degree in an engineering/project management/ construction management field and a minimum 12 years of experience in large multi-faceted electrical projects. Demonstrated experience in project management of large or mega projects. Experience managing projects under different contractual models (FIDIC). Good computer skills including SAP, Microsoft Office & MS Project, Outlook etc. Proactive and highly organized, experience in coordinating multiple teams in remote locations. Sufficient financial knowledge and commercial skills to manage the project.

Ensuring the core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions whilst caring for your colleagues and the business Ensures customer collaboration and satisfaction Effectively plan, schedule, monitor and control activities necessary for predictable fulfilment of planned activities with efficient utilization of available resources. Manages the risk that effective planning and scheduling techniques would uncover and mitigate that risk accordingly. Monitor and control project financials to maintain or improve contract margins, cash flow and cash generation. Understands and uses the tools to control and track project cost and cash flow. Understands legal and contractual requirements to manage projects within given boundaries. Understand and manage the supply chain processes to ensure best value for the project is attained. Have a drive to positively impact project performance and work with peers, partners to achieve this. Collect customer feedback and prompts the submission of customer satisfaction survey. Communicates appropriate information to the customer and other stakeholders in a timely manner and to achieve desired understanding. Forthrightly presents an account of project status/issue in project reviews. Reports status/progress to customer and other stake holders with appropriate detail. Raises potential project issues to relevant stakeholders. Manage scope including the collection and management of all project issues, whether just a question, a change, or a claim, with associated negotiations and approvals. Identify, contain, and reduce risk, and ensure that all opportunities for Customer Satisfaction, Gross Margin improvement and/or Project Growth are captured and acted upon.

. Candidate shall be able to demonstrate the following:

Technical FACTs and Substation Experience

• Support proposal efforts by introducing and promoting innovation, cost saving ideas, risk mitigation strategies, and value-added solutions to the overall system design concept.

• On-site assessment and evaluation of existing equipment, steel structures, foundations, etc., in so called “brown field” substation projects

• Providing expertise and support to the proposal and project teams in validating sub-contractor bids, and in negotiating sub-contracts for electrical substation and switchyard projects

• Conform client’s Bid packages with Customer Project Documents:

• Review customer Request for Proposals / Quotations (RFPs / RFQs), and client’s proposals to ensure conformance with the bid package by:

• Identifying and clarifying technical ambiguities and conflicts in the documents

• Identifying potential or probable risk during construction and installation

• Developing mitigation strategies for identified risks

• Work with the proposal team to ensure that the sub-contractor scope of work is clearly defined, that contract Terms & Conditions include appropriate flow downs, and that risks are properly allocated between client and the sub-contractors

• Validate Sub-Contractor Bids:

• Analyze sub-contractor bid responses for inconsistencies, oversights and mistakes

• Lead sub-contractor bid reviews to resolves bid response inconsistencies, oversights and mistakes

• Provide cost recommendations to the proposal team based on the bid review analysis

• Support the development of single-line diagrams, layout drawings, civil foundation drawings, raceway systems, grounding systems, station service, auxiliary systems, and BOMs for substation/FACTs design packages.

• Perform technical, cost savings, and constructability reviews of design packages from internal engineering, outsourced sub-contractor engineering and equipment factories.

• Generate equipment specifications, monitor vendor technical compliance and witness factory acceptance testing.

• Experience in HV Gas-Insulated Switchgear up to 550 kV.

• Experience in MV Gas-Insulated Switchgear.

• Experience in hybrid PASS Gas-Insulated equipment.

• Experience in Civil Design Requirements for a Substation/FACTs projects

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Recruiter Details:

Name: Sridhar Tiwari

Email: [email protected]

Internal Id: 25-50764

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