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Project Director - Integrated & Solutions

Job TypeFull Time

QualificationBA/BSc/HND

Experience10 years

LocationNairobi

Job FieldProject Management

As a Project Director - Integrated & Solutions, you will be responsible for:

• Oversight of all projects in operations and planning/mobilization.
• Act to support and advise for commercial build ups from a pricing, risk, and organizational perspective for new business opportunities.
• Directly manage multiple project managers operating on projects across Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Ensure appropriate alignment exists across product lines, account managers, technical teams, logistics, and project management organization.
• Responsible for total regional revenue and P&L management.
• Responsible for providing guidance and handling escalations from ongoing projects. Client management is a key function of the role.
• Advise and look for opportunities and risk on existing and new contracts and subcontracts.

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have a bachelor’s degree in engineering or scientific discipline from an accredited university or relevant industry experience.
• Have a minimum of 10+ years of experience in relevant industry (wellbore construction, completions, wellbore intervention, P&A etc.) with a minimum of 5 years as a project manager. Well Control awareness is required. Well Control Certification would be an advantage
• Experience working on turnkey projects where Service Company provides end-to-end drilling, completion, logistics, and rig management services.
• Ability to forecast project costs, schedule, and inventory stock and report same to client Wells Delivery Manager.
• Experience managing contracts written under English law
• Must be experienced managing change and assessing risk and financial implications of change, inclusive of managing Variation Requests.
• Having a good leadership, excellent interpersonal, influencing and planning skills will be considered necessary for this position.
• Have an excellent English oral and written communications skills, including ability to organize meetings and distributing accurate and succinct minutes of meetings.
• Be experienced needs to include managing multiple product line P&L (Profit and Loss management) and experience managing multiple simultaneous rig/site operations.
• Be skilled in functional use of MS Office Suite, with MS Project familiarity is required.
• Ability to manage, develop, coach and mentor high level teams across organizational boundaries is required.
• PMP (Project Management Professional) certification would be considered an advantage.
• Proven personnel development skills will be required in this role

• Oversight of all projects in operations and planning/mobilization.
• Act to support and advise for commercial build ups from a pricing, risk, and organizational perspective for new business opportunities.
• Directly manage multiple project managers operating on projects across Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Ensure appropriate alignment exists across product lines, account managers, technical teams, logistics, and project management organization.
• Responsible for total regional revenue and P&L management.
• Responsible for providing guidance and handling escalations from ongoing projects. Client management is a key function of the role.
• Advise and look for opportunities and risk on existing and new contracts and subcontracts.

• Good leadership
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Influencing skills
• Planning skills
• Excellent English oral and written communications skills
• Ability to organize meetings and distributing accurate and succinct minutes of meetings
• Functional use of MS Office Suite
• MS Project familiarity
• Ability to manage, develop, coach and mentor high level teams across organizational boundaries
• Proven personnel development skills

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or scientific discipline from an accredited university or relevant industry experience.
• Minimum of 10+ years of experience in relevant industry (wellbore construction, completions, wellbore intervention, P&A etc.)
• Minimum of 5 years as a project manager.
• Well Control awareness is required.
• Experience working on turnkey projects where Service Company provides end-to-end drilling, completion, logistics, and rig management services.
• Ability to forecast project costs, schedule, and inventory stock and report same to client Wells Delivery Manager.
• Experience managing contracts written under English law
• Experienced managing change and assessing risk and financial implications of change, inclusive of managing Variation Requests.
• Experience managing multiple product line P&L (Profit and Loss management)
• Experience managing multiple simultaneous rig/site operations.
• PMP (Project Management Professional) certification would be considered an advantage.
• Well Control Certification would be an advantage