Senior Project Manager

**Purpose of the job**

The Senior Project Manager’s role is to plan and execute large greenfield/brownfield capital projects for the Aromatics business (with the PET plants as first projects in the pipeline). Provides oversight and coordination of contract resources for a variety of activities. This position is the single point of accountability for planning and delivering the project, budgeting, cost management, communicating and tracking progress, scheduling, leading the project team and ultimately overall project success.

**Environment/Context**

The Senior Project Manager will work in a global project team, with different cultures at different locations. This requires traveling regularly, possibly move temporarily to the location where the engineering will be done, and for sure move temporarily to where the project will be built.

In this role the project manager oversees the project scope development to meet project objectives and create maximum value, to deliver maximum return on investment. This involves

Internal:

- Coordination between various internal stakeholders
- Communications up-and-down the organization
- Resource management

External:

- Organizing contract engineering companies
- Organizing construction

**Accountabilities of the job**

This position is responsible for
- The development of a project team, project plan (including detailed schedule), resource plan and budget in line with the defined business goals and objectives
- Setting project performance targets (safety, operability, quality, cost and schedule) based on benchmarking and continuous improvement
- The development and execution of all project deliverables, incl control of scope and management of changes throughout design and execution
- Definition of the contracting strategy and related procurement processes, including contract negotiations
- Technical assurance of engineering deliverables, including appropriate design reviews, to ensure projects are designed to support safe and reliable installation and operation
- The development of and compliance to the quality plan in engineering, purchasing and assembly
- Safe and efficient execution of construction activities through planning, oversight and state-of-the-art contractor management. This includes process hazard analysis, updating of required drawings and records, final documentation of project changes, as well as technical resolution of all resulting recommendations from major unit HAZOP studies
- Identification of risks at appropriate project stages and management of those risks and opportunities throughout the project lifecycle
- Identification and communication of best practices and lessons learned throughout the project team, site, and / or organization, as appropriate
- Document control and record keeping throughout the project and completion of close-out processes and post-project assessments
- To manage interfaces with the operating unit as required to share resources, understand tie-ins, permitting and ongoing interfaces post start up

**Dimensions**
- Project TIC (Number or amount in $): 350-500 m$
- Site 1: Cooper River
- Site 2: Merak
- Direct number of staff: up to 20 INEOS or INEOS representatives
- Indirect number of staff: up to 500 contractors

**Main contacts**

Operations director
- Frequency of contact: weekly
- Role contacts: consulted, informed
- Purpose of contact: strategic direction, issue resolution, reporting

Project steering team
- Frequency of contact: issue based/weekly
- Role contacts: responsible, consulted, informed
- Purpose of contact: Strategic Direction, Issue Resolution, Technical Support, Systems development, Reporting, Auditing

Site director
- Frequency of contact: issue based/weekly
- Role contacts: responsible, accountable, consulted, informed
- Purpose of contact: Issue Resolution, Technical Support, Interfaces

Project team members
- Frequency of contact: daily
- Role contacts: responsible, accountable
- Purpose of contact: Issue Resolution, Technical Support

Licensors
- Frequency of contact: daily
- Role contacts: responsible, accountable
- Purpose of contact: Issue Resolution, Technical Support

Engineering contractor
- Frequency of contact: daily
- Role contacts: responsible, accountable
- Purpose of contact: Issue Resolution, Technical Support

Construction contractors
- Frequency of contact: daily
- Role contacts: responsible, accountable
- Purpose of contact: Issue Resolution, Technical Support

INEOS technology team
- Frequency of contact: issue based/weekly
- Role contacts: responsible, accountable, consulted, informed
- Purpose of contact: Issue Resolution, Technical Support

**Required profile**

Level of education & Experience in general
- Educational background: University degree in Engineering
- 20+ years project management experience preferred
- Large capital project experience preferred

Technical skills
- Substantial experience in project engineering and project management is a key tool for job execution
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