Project Manager - PMO

Job description

Leads and coordinates dedicated project teams to deliver projects, including sales, engineering, procurement, quality, customers and OEMs. Performs project risk evaluation throughout the lifecycle, identifies early issues and initiates corrective actions. Coordinates resolution of technical or commercial conflicts. Acts as the single point of contact for post-order activities through delivery and resolves post‑delivery issues. Maintains communication channels with the client. Ensures contract fulfillment within deadlines, cost and objectives while closely monitoring budgets. Creates and maintains detailed execution schedules for each major project in the portfolio. Agrees on communication channels with the customer for all project aspects. Manages timely and effective communication with regional stakeholders. Regularly communicates with involved parties and updates senior‑level project management. Attends clarification/kick‑off meetings and prepares activity reports. Works with global and local procurement to secure long‑lead items, manage inventory and ensure supplier performance. In conjunction with manufacturing, ensures project completion per agreed schedule and budget, developing solutions when issues arise. Records project milestones, maintains correspondence, and produces close‑out summaries with cost analysis. Supports coordination of customer change requests for optimal solutions. Leads frequent team calls to support execution. Provides monthly status reports. Manages quality incidents via eQMS, working with incident managers to close them and provide RCA/8D where applicable. Supports process‑streamlining, ISO IQM compliance and SES initiatives. Performs other project delivery tasks as assigned.

Requirements

• Degree in a technical discipline, preferably Electrical, Mechanical or Chemical Engineering
• Minimum 10 years experience in project management, preferably in Oil & Gas or Petrochemical projects
• Ability to read, interpret and explain complex project specifications
• Ability to achieve agreed goals by focusing on priorities
• Excellent verbal and written communication, negotiation and presentation skills
• Basic finance understanding
• Strong facilitation skills and experience working in a matrix environment, quickly reaching solutions and building consensus under tight deadlines
• PMI PMP certification or comparable credential preferred
• Experience with Lean Six Sigma methodologies preferred
• Good knowledge of Microsoft suite including MS Project, preferred experience with PLM tools such as Teamcenter
• High cultural awareness and adaptability
• Fluent in English
• Travel up to 15%

Skills