Executive Project Director

4 days ago

Rustenburg Local Municipality, South Africa ABB Schweiz AG Full time
Job Description

In this leadership role, you will be responsible for overseeing the execution of medium-size and/or complex to large projects. Each day, you will ensure that all related activities are performed in accordance with procedures, regulations, standards, specifications, and targets.

You will showcase your expertise by supporting the oversight of team development and process improvement to continually increase the effectiveness of project execution.

The work model for this role is Hybrid. You will be mainly accountable for:

  1. Leading the project team, establishing the project execution approach, and overseeing project hand-over, execution planning, and monitoring and control activities for both internal and external resources in order to accomplish all project goals.
  2. Providing performance feedback regarding allocated resources working on projects.
  3. Ensuring that the portfolio of projects is managed consistently, based on best practices and ABB.
  4. Focusing on delivering at or above target.
  5. Providing leadership and active involvement in continuous improvement and simplification.
  6. Taking ownership in overlooking and supporting in improving guidelines, tools, and templates.
  7. Ensuring compliance to relevant cyber security regulations, standards, and contractual requirements.
  8. Supporting local Sales and Tendering through early involvement in tenders.
  9. Taking appropriate actions for successful future execution of the projects.
  10. Ensuring that the project follows execution best practices and ABB policies.
  11. Effectively monitoring and controlling project progress and efficient resource utilization.
  12. Monitoring and controlling project financials, overseeing project invoicing status, cost, expenses, and cash flow.
  13. Identifying, qualifying, quantifying, and managing project risks and ensuring that all opportunities are identified and pursued.
  14. Capturing, analyzing and sharing lessons learned throughout the project.
  15. Driving the formal acceptance of the project, contract close-out and acknowledgement by the customer, all in accordance with the contract.
  16. Ensuring that the project consistently applies contract and claims management in accordance with ABB policies and contractual agreements.
  17. Ensuring that required procurement activities for services, materials, and equipment for the project from external and internal suppliers are performed by the assigned resources.
  18. Acting as the key contact for the customer and an escalation point for project issues.
  19. Building and maintaining strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders and effectively communicating with all stakeholders.
  20. Ensuring the project follows and complies with company health, safety, and environmental policies.
  21. Creating project HSE Plans and ensuring that common HSE policies and reporting are implemented across the project with all stakeholders, including collaboration/consortium partners and sub-suppliers.
  22. Coaching and providing feedback for project staff and taking ownership for own development by lifelong learning and gaining and/or maintaining qualification credentials (Certification).
  23. Leading the project team members to achieve project requirements, delivery of contracted deliverables and meeting the committed project result.
  24. Driving any required project recovery efforts and turnaround of troubled projects.
  25. Providing support to less experienced Project Managers with the recovery of troubled projects by assessment of the situation and making specific recommendations based on experience.
  26. Defining and applying advanced project scheduling techniques to manage schedule risks proactively to avoid possible future schedule deviations with OTD impact.
  27. Applying earned value method to manage critical path and project float to optimize the schedule.
  28. Accurately forecasting schedule to determine if the project is still within defined tolerance ranges and identifying any necessary change requests to drive the closure.
  29. Planning and tracking all project activities, establishing scheduling risks and opportunities in order to deliver projects on time according to commitments to the customer and ABB.
  30. Continuously driving improvement in planning and/or scheduling techniques and collecting and sharing data and lessons learned from previous projects.
  31. Identifying and planning all document deliverables required by the contractual scope of work and incorporating this plan into the overall project plan/schedule.
  32. Tracking document progress and following-up on overdue comments from customer.

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