Senior Project Manager

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Project Manager

Reporting to: Hub Operations Manager

Grade: PM3

Department: Hub Operations

Location: Dublin, Ireland

Purpose of the Job:

Senior Project Manager takes full responsibility for the successful and safe execution of a group of Linxon projects to budget and program.

Key Areas of Responsibility (KARs):

HSE and Quality:

• Ensures Safety, Health and Environmental requirements are implemented to the highest standards and are aligned to local legislation, Linxon’s, and our customers, governance/requirements.
• Embrace and promote a “Work Safe, Home Safe, Zero Harm” safety culture within project teams. Ensure project compliance with Linxon’s business management systems.

Leadership:

• Manage project team members and provide support and guidance to ensure the safe, efficient, and timely execution of project scope in line with budget.
• Ensure positive engagement of all stakeholders and facilitate clear and concise communication channels both within Linxon and with our customers.
• Support the tendering team (when appropriate) and provide project management direction in the order pursuit process (helping to develop capture and execute strategy) - achieve clarity of expectation throughout the demand and supply chain.

Project lifecycle:

• Secures required resources and uses formal processes and tools to manage resources, budgets, risks and changes.
• Effectively manage changes in the scope (and the associated commercial aspects) driven by client, internally or the supply chain to maximize Linxon’s contractual position.
• Ensure all procedures and processes are rigorously adhered to.
• Review all project programmes to ensure milestone delivery is maintained.
• Produce and update all internal and contractual reporting in line with Linxon requirements.

Stakeholder Management:

• Acts as the senior customer interface for allocated projects, ensuring the voice of the customer is heard and customer expectations are exceeded.
• Manages all subcontractor administration, commercial, programme, change.
• Recognize customer requirements and manage their expectations at all times to ensure customer satisfaction at point of delivery/enquiry.

Risk Management:

• Manages risks to avoid project delays, cost variances or reputational damage.
• Opportunity management, both towards customers and the contracted supply chain partners / sub-contractors.
• Ensure robust commercial and financial forecasting and status, risks and opportunity of all projects is robust and accurately reported including cash flow forecasting.

Position Parameters:

Budget responsibility: Project Value

Typical KPIs

• effectiveness and sustainability of advice provided
• on target delivery of objectives
• quality of work
• safety at the site
• customer satisfaction - management, employees, customers
• alignment with company business strategy
• effective synergies

Other Position-Specific Characteristics:

• Travel in EU (approximately twice a month)
• Working in an office and on a construction site
   

Experience Required:

• Experience in electrical transmission/distribution projects, including Civil Construction.
• Experience in risk mitigation & opportunity management.
• Demonstrable knowledge/experience of project management principles.
• Experience of developing, leading and motivating a multi-disciplinary project team
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills.

Competencies/ Skills Required:

• Demonstrate experience delivering complex projects in the transmission/distribution environment.
• Business mindset in order to reach project and business goals.
• Strong leadership and negotiating skills with an excellent ability to resolve issues, lead teams and work constructively to build positive customer relationships.
• Strong organizational skills, ability to develop and manage effective processes.
• Strong problem solving, and analytical skills combined with ability to deliver practical, effective and sustainable solutions in a continuously changing environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with staff at all levels, ability to get communicate in a coherent and clear way, leading project teams with confidence.
• Ability to take initiative and apply both creativity and perseverance whilst remaining compliant with of Linxon’s Code of Conduct.

Education:

• Project Management Certification, or a PMP certification advantage.
• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Construction Management or a related discipline or an equivalent technical degree.
• A minimum of 7 years’ experience as a senior project manager or project manager in the High Voltage transmission sector, preferably with some of that time spent executing projects in Ireland.
• Computer literacy – Minimum Microsoft Office applications, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Recognized Health, Safety and Environmental qualification, IOSH, NEBOSH or similar.
• A relevant professional membership with a recognized association (preferably but not limited to Engineers Ireland, SCSI, RIAI, CIOB) an advantage.
• Knowledge of Irish Contract Legislation and Building Regulations.

Personal Qualities Required:

• Resilient and flexible achiever
• Driven by value added and business sustainability
• Calm under pressure in a constantly changing environment
• Assertive, decisive, confident
• Excellent listener
• Proactive and self-disciplined
• Leading by example, with strong values
• Team player
• Passionate to succeed
• Willingness to learn

About Linxon

Shaping energy solutions to empower sustainable connectivity.

We combine SNC-Lavalin’s project management expertise and ABB’s deep technological knowledge to create a company dedicated to substations – we are Linxon.

Linxon’s vision is to deliver the best market offering for turnkey substation projects through world-class power technologies and delivering the highest level of competence in managing infrastructure projects.

As a leading engineering company, we help our customers with turnkey substation solutions in the field of power transmission, renewable energy and transportation.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to be part of a new company as it evolves and help shape it for the future. If you like new challenges, have an entrepreneurial spirit and are interested in working with other motivated professionals with expertise in the Substations EPC business, then this is the new opportunity for you.

To know more about the Linxon please click on the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CB3IKbcxbs

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