Job Description

The Service Project Manager provides oversight and direction on Service-related projects and is accountable for planning, managing, and monitoring the project lifecycle to ensure projects are executed within their scope, schedule, budget, quality level, and targeted benefit realization - the project lifecycle includes, from the requirement phase through project retirement closeout.

Duties of the role include:

• Driving a positive customer experience during project execution
• Providing consultation on proposal development as required
• Ensuring integration of the project activities to meet project cost, schedule, deliverables, and manages scope changes to achieve customer requirements
• Communicates contract requirements to the project team to ensure each team member is aware of his/her obligations
• Acts as the key point of contact for all communications between Powell and the customer and responsible for progress reporting.
• Develops and manages the project schedule with input from various departments to ensure alignment with both internal and contractual delivery commitments
• Conducts project-specific meetings with project stakeholders and ensures project alignment between customer requirements and company objectives to maximize benefit realization
• Commercial and contract management, including revenue budgets, costs and forecasts to ensure the P&L Objectives are realized.
• Proactively manages risk (threats and opportunities) and regularly communicates to stakeholders to ensure timely and transparent information flow.
• Responsible for the adherence to project and company quality levels

Essential Qualifications and Experience required:

• Bachelor Degree in Business or related field and ideally certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) or certification from the Association of Project Management (APM).
• Previous experience of project management within a relevant industry such as oil & gas and/or power distribution.
• Experience of project management methodologies and systems such as MS Project, Primavera (P6), ERP, Agile.
• Demonstrated business acumen (business strategy, contract management, negotiations, budgeting and costing).
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to influence and effectively communicate with a wide range of stakeholders.