Project Manager- Power Reliability

Location: Dammam, Eastern Region, Saudi Arabia

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This position reports to

Operations Manager - BL Excitation(AMEA)

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Job Description Summary

Leads the execution of medium-size projects and ensures that all related activities are performed in accordance with ABB policy, relevant cybersecurity regulations and standards, contractual agreements, quality standards, Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) requirements, financial targets, and schedule commitments.

Role: Project Manager

Core Responsibilities

Project Leadership

• o Leads the project team, establishes the project execution approach, and oversees project hand-over, execution planning, and monitoring and control activities for internal and external resources to accomplish all project goals.
• o Provides performance feedback for the resources allocated to projects.
• Instructions and Guidelines
• o Involves in continuous improvement and simplification.
• o Supports in improving guidelines, tools, and templates.
• o Ensures compliance with relevant cybersecurity regulations, standards, and contractual requirements.
• Budget, Sales, and Operations Planning
• o Supports local Sales and Tendering through early involvement in tenders.=
• Project Execution and Control
• o Ensures that the project follows execution best practices and ABB policies.
• o Monitors and controls project progress effectively and efficient resource utilization.
• o Monitors and controls project financials, overseeing project invoicing status, cost, expenses, and cash flow.
• o Identifies, qualifies, quantifies, manages project risks, and ensures all opportunities are identified and pursued.
• o Captures, analyzes, and shares lessons learned throughout the project.
• o Drives the formal acceptance of the project, contract close-out, and acknowledgment by the customer, all in accordance with the contract.
• Contract and Claims/ & Procurement Management
• o Ensures that the project consistently applies contract and claims management in accordance with ABB policies and contractual agreements.
• o Coordinates with Supply Chain Management and successfully procures required services, materials, and equipment for the project from external and internal suppliers.
• o Supports Procurement and Logistics in supplier negotiations, claims, and project changes.

Stakeholder Relations

• o Acts as the key contact for the customer and an escalation point for project issues.
• o Builds and maintains strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders and effectively communicates with all stakeholders.
• Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE)
• o Ensures the project follows and complies with company HSE policies.
• o Creates project HSE plans and ensures that common HSE policies and reporting are implemented across the project with all stakeholders, including collaboration/consortium partners and sub-suppliers.
• o Demonstrates unique actions/initiatives to support site safety and ensures consistent HSE performance.
• People Leadership and Development
• o Leads the project team members to achieve project requirements, deliver contracted deliverables, and meet the committed project result.

Project Recovery

• o Demonstrates and proactively applies immediate recovery actions to mitigate schedule delays and cost overruns.
• Planning and Scheduling
• o Defines and applies project scheduling techniques to manage schedule risks proactively to avoid possible future schedule deviations with On Time Delivery (OTD) impact.
• o Applies earned value method to manage the critical path and project float to optimize the schedule.
• o Forecasts schedule to determine if the project is still within defined tolerance ranges and identifies any necessary change requests to drive the closure.
• o Plans and tracks all project activities, establishes scheduling risks and opportunities to deliver projects on time according to commitments to the customer and ABB.
• o Demonstrates ability to guide and collaborate with a Project Planning and Control Specialist.

Document Management

• o Identifies and plans all document deliverables required by the contractual scope of work and incorporates this plan into the overall project plan/schedule.
• o Tracks document progress and follows up on overdue comments from customer.
• License to Operate / Core Values
• o Ensures all staff (under scope) understand ABB’s core values and group safety and integrity standards and act accordingly.
• o Implements and ensures compliance with the ABB code of conduct, global and local standards, tools, policies, and processes related to project execution.
• o Ensures adherence to all internal and statutory regulations and policies pertaining to the teams in scope.
• o Ensures integrity and compliance with ABB values and ethics in all activities across all teams in scope.
• o Accountable for the health and safety of all employees and contractors for the teams in scope, and continuous improvement in Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) processes and integrity performance.

Collaboration / Leadership

• o Promotes and enables collaboration in the division, across divisions, business areas, and teams to maximize results for ABB.
• o Provides guidance to the teams and seeks knowledge for their own development and coaching/mentoring of the teams.
• o Manages relationships with stakeholders in their own area of responsibility and ensures alignment.
• o Ensures that their own area of responsibility is properly organized, staffed, skilled, and directed.
• o Inspires, guides, motivates, and develops direct and indirect reports within HR policies.
• o Builds effective, competent, and high-performing teams.
• o Reviews organizational effectiveness and performs competence assessments and continuous skill upgrades
• This role is contributing to the Energy Industries Division /Power Reliability Business Line in Saudi Arabia.

You will be mainly accountable for

• Leading the project team, establishing the project execution approach, and overseeing planning, monitoring and control activities for internal and external resources to accomplish all project goals.
• Monitoring and controlling project progress, efficient resource utilization, and project financials.
• Identifying, qualifying, quantifying, managing project risk, and ensuring all opportunities are identified and pursued.
• Driving the formal acceptance of the project, contract close-out, and acknowledgment by the customer, all in accordance with the contract.

Qualifications for the role

• Electrical Engineer/Electronics Engineer or equivalent.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in project management role, working as Project Manager within the oil & Gas, utilities, and other industrial market.
• PM certification – PMP or equivalent PM certification from large MNC companies like ABB.
• Knowledge of using Microsoft projects, SAP, and PR+ will be added advantage or having used similar enterprise resource & data management system for PM process implementation.
• A collaborative, solution-focused approach, and strong written and spoken communication skills.
• Project execution experiences with Saudi Arabia local regulations standards shall be an Add-on
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