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

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