Reporting to: Local Operations Manager
Grade: PM3
Department: Local Operations
Location: United Kingdom

Purpose of the Job:
Project Director has overall responsible for safely managing projects, both strategically and operationally, to ensure the appropriate use of technical and human resources to achieve on-time completion according to specifications and within budgeted costs. The role acts as the senior leader interface to customers whilst planning, monitoring, managing and reporting engineering and construction projects from initiation through completion.

Key Areas of Responsibility (KARs):

HSE and Quality

  • Ensures Safety, Health and Environmental requirements are implemented to the highest standards and are aligned to Linxon’s, and our customers, governance / requirements.
  • Ensures permits and legal papers are secured ahead of the project
  • Ensures the highest quality standards are upheld throughout the project’s life cycle,
  • Ensures project quality plans have been developed and implemented

P&L

  • Holds the overall responsibility for the management of large-scale, multimillion-pound projects, including commercial, technical & site construction responsibilities that achieve, or exceed performance targets
  • Devises cost-effective plans to enable effective project completion
  • Monitors building progress, oversees finance and ensures project quality

Leadership

  • Manages project resource allocations, including recruitment and individual performance challenges if they arise.
  • Manages project managers and enables them to supervise and manage their own teams to delivery or exceed to overall project outcomes
  • Resolves project and resource conflicts focusing on the bigger picture.

Project lifecycle

  • Secures required resources and uses formal processes and tools to manage resources, budgets, risks and changes.
  • Understands the context of the organization in a broader perspective and all the changes that take place outside the realm of the operational area and the project and have the project approach, timing, and impact all aligned properly.
  • Makes strategic decisions and provides leadership and direction to project managers to implement those decisions
  • Supports future order capture by providing advice, input and knowledge to the sales and tendering teams.

Stakeholder Management

  • Acts as the senior customer interface for allocated projects, ensuring the voice of the customer is heard and customer expectations are exceeded.
  • Co-responsible (together with the support of the Supply Chain Function) for the selection of subcontracted activities, plant and services, including negotiating the contract terms and conditions.
  • Meets regularly with clients, stakeholders and project managers to report on project progress
  • Liaises with clients and builds strong working relationships

Market Knowledge

  • Takes keen interest in finding out and sharing knowledge about new developments, market trends, construction practices (offshore), public known competitors’ products and activities.

Risk Management

  • Implementation of regular risk and opportunity reviews within the project.
  • Manages risks to avoid delays, cost increases or reputational damage
  • Opportunity management, both towards customers and the contracted supply chain partners / sub-contractors, including program optimization.

Position Parameters:
Budget responsibility:
Project Budgets – spend approvals in line with Linxon levels of authority.

Typical KPIs

  • Safety Performance – leading and lagging
  • Sustainability & Environmental impacts.
  • Quality and NCR’s
  • On target delivery of project key Milestones.
  • Project P & L performance
  • Customer satisfaction.
  • Effective synergies – cost reductions

Other Position-Specific Characteristics:

  • Project Travel as required
  • Primarily site based, travel to UK business offices when required (Stoke on Trent or Birmingham)

Experience Required:

  • Experience in Electrical Offshore Wind Projects, including major onshore Civil construction.
  • Held similar roles in the past 5 years (Offshore Oil & Gas, HVDC, Transmission)
  • Experience in risk mitigation & opportunity management.
  • Proven track record of management of large-scale, multimillion-pound / dollar projects

Competencies/ Skills Required:

  • Business mindset in order to reach the project’s goals & 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 the message across in a coherent and clear way and lead projects with great confidence at its most difficult and challenging times.
  • Ability to relate to and to manage multiple stakeholders
  • Ability to take initiative and apply both creativity and perseverance whilst remaining compliant with of Linxon’s Code of Conduct.
  • Ability to stay calm, even if unforeseen events threaten to disrupt projects.

Education:

Master or Bachelor’s degree in an engineering or construction disciplines or business administration or ability to demonstrate experience delivering complex projects in the offshore or transmission market.

Project Management Certification, or a PMP certification is preferred.

8. 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 Hitachi ABB Power Grids deep technological knowledge and SNC-Lavalin’s project management expertise 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.

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Worker Type
Employee

Job Type
Regular

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