Senior Project Manager
ABB
Senior Project Manager
At ABB, we are dedicated to addressing global challenges. Our core values: care, courage, curiosity, and collaboration - combined with a focus on diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities - are key drivers in our aim to empower everyone to create sustainable solutions. Write the next chapter of your ABB story.
This position reports to
Service Manager
Your role and responsibilities
In this role, you will have the opportunity to lead the execution of medium-size and/or complex to large projects and ensure that all related activities are performed in accordance with ABB policy, relevant cyber security regulations and standards, contractual agreements, quality standards, health, safety & environment requirements, financial targets, and schedule commitments. May support the local management in overseeing team development and process improvement to continually increase the effectiveness of project execution, especially in smaller units. May carry accountability for a portfolio of projects. The work model for the role is: Onsite You will be mainly accountable for: Project leadership • Leads the project team, establishes the project execution approach, and oversees project hand-over, execution planning, and monitoring and control activities for both internal and external resources in order to accomplish all project goals. • Provides performance feedback regarding allocated resources working on projects. Project portfolio • If taking accountability for a portfolio of projects, ensures that the portfolio is managed consistently, based on best practices and ABB Policies. • Focuses on delivering at or above target. Instructions and guidelines • Provides leadership and active involvement in continuous improvement and simplification. • Takes ownership in overlooking and supporting in improving guidelines, tools, and templates. • Ensures compliance to relevant cyber security regulations, standards, and contractual requirements. Budget, sales, and operations planning • Supports local Sales and Tendering through early involvement in tenders. • Takes appropriate actions for successful future execution of the projects. Project execution and control • Ensures that the project follows execution best practices and ABB policies. • Effectively monitors and controls project progress and efficient resource utilization. • Monitors and controls project financials, overseeing project invoicing status, cost, expenses, and cash flow. • Identifies, qualifies, quantifies, and manages project risks and ensures that all opportunities are identified and pursued. • Captures, analyses and shares lessons learned throughout the project. • Drives the formal acceptance of the project, contract close-out and acknowledgement by the customer, all in accordance with the contract. Contract and claims/ & Procurement Management • Ensures that the project consistently applies contract and claims management in accordance with ABB policies and contractual agreements. • Ensures that required procurement activities for services, materials, and equipment for the project from external and internal suppliers are performed by the assigned re-sources. • Is involved and closely interacts and collaborates with respective functions. • Supports Procurement and Logistics in supplier negotiations, claims and project changes. Stakeholder relations • Acts as the key contact for the customer and an escalation point for project issues. • Builds and maintains strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders and effectively communicates with all stakeholders. Health, safety, and environment (HSE) • Ensures the project follows and complies with company health, safety, and environmental policies. • Creates project HSE Plans and ensures that common HSE policies and reporting are implemented across the project with all stakeholders, including collaboration/consortium partners and sub-suppliers. • Demonstrates unique actions/initiatives to support site safety and ensures consistent HSE performance. People leadership and development • Coaches and provides feedback for project staff and takes ownership for own development by lifelong learning and gaining and/or maintain qualification credentials (Certification). • Leads the project team members to achieve project requirements, delivery of contracted deliverables and meeting the committed project result. Project Recovery • Drives any required project recovery efforts and turnaround of troubled projects. • Provides support to less experienced Project Managers with the recovery of troubled projects by assessment of the situation and making specific recommendations based on experience. Planning and scheduling • Defines and applies advanced project scheduling techniques to manage schedule risks proactively to avoid possible future schedule deviations with OTD impact. • Applies earned value method to manage critical path and project float to optimize the schedule. • Accurately forecasts schedule to determine if the project is still within defined tolerance ranges and identifies any necessary change requests to drive the closure. • Plans and tracks all project activities, establishes scheduling risks and opportunities in order to deliver projects on time according to commitments to the customer and ABB. • Continuously drives improvement in planning and/or scheduling techniques and collecting and sharing data and lessons learned from previous projects. • Demonstrates ability to guide and collaborate with a project planning and control specialist. Document Management • Identifies and plans all document deliverables required by the contractual scope of work and incorporates this plan into the overall project plan/schedule. • Tracks document progress and follows-up on overdue comments from customer. • Travelling to some sites. Challenges for Position • Dealing with High demand customers • Managing other PM's • Dealing with ABB factories
Qualifications for the role
More about us
We value people from different backgrounds. Apply today for your next career step within ABB and visit www.abb.com to learn about the impact of our solutions across the globe. #MyABBStory
At ABB, we are dedicated to addressing global challenges. Our core values: care, courage, curiosity, and collaboration - combined with a focus on diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities - are key drivers in our aim to empower everyone to create sustainable solutions. Write the next chapter of your ABB story.
This position reports to
Service Manager
Your role and responsibilities
In this role, you will have the opportunity to lead the execution of medium-size and/or complex to large projects and ensure that all related activities are performed in accordance with ABB policy, relevant cyber security regulations and standards, contractual agreements, quality standards, health, safety & environment requirements, financial targets, and schedule commitments. May support the local management in overseeing team development and process improvement to continually increase the effectiveness of project execution, especially in smaller units. May carry accountability for a portfolio of projects. The work model for the role is: Onsite You will be mainly accountable for: Project leadership • Leads the project team, establishes the project execution approach, and oversees project hand-over, execution planning, and monitoring and control activities for both internal and external resources in order to accomplish all project goals. • Provides performance feedback regarding allocated resources working on projects. Project portfolio • If taking accountability for a portfolio of projects, ensures that the portfolio is managed consistently, based on best practices and ABB Policies. • Focuses on delivering at or above target. Instructions and guidelines • Provides leadership and active involvement in continuous improvement and simplification. • Takes ownership in overlooking and supporting in improving guidelines, tools, and templates. • Ensures compliance to relevant cyber security regulations, standards, and contractual requirements. Budget, sales, and operations planning • Supports local Sales and Tendering through early involvement in tenders. • Takes appropriate actions for successful future execution of the projects. Project execution and control • Ensures that the project follows execution best practices and ABB policies. • Effectively monitors and controls project progress and efficient resource utilization. • Monitors and controls project financials, overseeing project invoicing status, cost, expenses, and cash flow. • Identifies, qualifies, quantifies, and manages project risks and ensures that all opportunities are identified and pursued. • Captures, analyses and shares lessons learned throughout the project. • Drives the formal acceptance of the project, contract close-out and acknowledgement by the customer, all in accordance with the contract. Contract and claims/ & Procurement Management • Ensures that the project consistently applies contract and claims management in accordance with ABB policies and contractual agreements. • Ensures that required procurement activities for services, materials, and equipment for the project from external and internal suppliers are performed by the assigned re-sources. • Is involved and closely interacts and collaborates with respective functions. • Supports Procurement and Logistics in supplier negotiations, claims and project changes. Stakeholder relations • Acts as the key contact for the customer and an escalation point for project issues. • Builds and maintains strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders and effectively communicates with all stakeholders. Health, safety, and environment (HSE) • Ensures the project follows and complies with company health, safety, and environmental policies. • Creates project HSE Plans and ensures that common HSE policies and reporting are implemented across the project with all stakeholders, including collaboration/consortium partners and sub-suppliers. • Demonstrates unique actions/initiatives to support site safety and ensures consistent HSE performance. People leadership and development • Coaches and provides feedback for project staff and takes ownership for own development by lifelong learning and gaining and/or maintain qualification credentials (Certification). • Leads the project team members to achieve project requirements, delivery of contracted deliverables and meeting the committed project result. Project Recovery • Drives any required project recovery efforts and turnaround of troubled projects. • Provides support to less experienced Project Managers with the recovery of troubled projects by assessment of the situation and making specific recommendations based on experience. Planning and scheduling • Defines and applies advanced project scheduling techniques to manage schedule risks proactively to avoid possible future schedule deviations with OTD impact. • Applies earned value method to manage critical path and project float to optimize the schedule. • Accurately forecasts schedule to determine if the project is still within defined tolerance ranges and identifies any necessary change requests to drive the closure. • Plans and tracks all project activities, establishes scheduling risks and opportunities in order to deliver projects on time according to commitments to the customer and ABB. • Continuously drives improvement in planning and/or scheduling techniques and collecting and sharing data and lessons learned from previous projects. • Demonstrates ability to guide and collaborate with a project planning and control specialist. Document Management • Identifies and plans all document deliverables required by the contractual scope of work and incorporates this plan into the overall project plan/schedule. • Tracks document progress and follows-up on overdue comments from customer. • Travelling to some sites. Challenges for Position • Dealing with High demand customers • Managing other PM's • Dealing with ABB factories
Qualifications for the role
- PMP and Electrical qualification (Trade, diploma or Degree)
- 10 years or more MV and LV experience
- Manage team of Associated PM's and PM's
- Reference to large complex projects
- Dealing with customers SLA's
- Good safety record
More about us
We value people from different backgrounds. Apply today for your next career step within ABB and visit www.abb.com to learn about the impact of our solutions across the globe. #MyABBStory
JOB SUMMARY
Senior Project ManagerABB
Cape Town
11 days ago
N/A
Full-time