Senior Project Manager

Wood; Aberdeen City; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm is seeking a Senior Project Manager in Aberdeen, responsible for driving excellence across critical projects. This role requires extensive experience in project management within heavy industry and proven leadership skills. The position is hybrid, providing flexibility with travel to site as needed. Join a team committed to meaningful projects in the energy sector.

Benefits

Competitive remuneration package

Flexible working arrangements

Generous contributory pension scheme

Private medical cover

33 days annual leave plus flex days

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in project management within heavy industry.
• Experience working on EPC/EPCm roles in Infrastructure, Oil & Gas, Nuclear or Power.
• Proven leadership skills and safety-focused approach.

Responsibilities

• Drive delivery excellence across critical projects for high profile clients.
• Manage a multi-discipline project team for resource allocation.
• Support PMO Leadership team in delivery of project strategy.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Commercial acumen

Leadership

Education

University degree in Engineering or related field

Job description

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Remarkable people, trusted by clients to design and advance the world.

Wood is recruiting for a Senior Project Manager to drive the performance, delivery and ensure best practise standards across a complex critical project as part of a portfolio for a high profile client with in our Systems Intergration business.

Due to the location of the project in the Northeast of Scotland our preference is for the position to be based on a hybrid basis out of our Aberdeen office, with the ability to travel to site as required.

Please note applicants must be able to pass HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) check.

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The Role

As the Senior Project Manager (SPM) you will be responsible for driving delivery excellence across critical projects for high profile clients within the SI EMEA business, providing certainty and confidence to the customer, and robust control of project scope, schedule, cost and risk. Key to this will be full responsibility for delivery of the project to agreed specifications, for managing change and customer relationships, and ensuring appropriate reporting and governance is adhered to and controlled.

As an experienced Project Leader you will manage a multi-discipline project team; responsible for resource allocation, development, recruitment and retention.

In addition you will have the opportunity to support the PMO Leadership team in the delivery of the PMO strategy for the Project portfolio.

This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced Project Management professional who is delivery and customer focused, with exceptional stakeholder management skills, proven commercial acumen with specific working knowledge of delivering against NEC4 contracts, who is driven by working in a fast-paced environment with the anticipated levels of high-performance associated with a job profile of this nature.

Our Clients and Projects

Designing the future. Transforming the world.

Our Systems Integration (SI) team, work with a variety of high-profile clients across the energy sector. Delivering bespoke essential automation and control solutions that enable a safer and more efficient operation.

Within SI, we are architecting our clients' digital ecosystems to be inherently safe, cybersecure and operable. Within our teams we integrate client source systems across their IT, Operational Technology (OT) environments, securely pushing OT data into IT systems as a foundation for transformation.

We design and integrate operational technology to achieve business, production and operational goals.

Visit our web page to find out more about the exciting work we do:

What we can offer

• We have a pipeline of work, which offers long term careers and continuity of work, in a variety of industry sectors
• Challenging and variety of scopes of work, with an emerging Middle East Profile
• Meaningful and interesting projectsdelivered to high profile clients across the Energy Sector
• Flexible working arrangementsthat balance client, team and individual needs offering hybrid and remote working where relevant
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion;we are an organisation actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business
• Competitive remuneration packagewith regular reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market
• Flexible benefits packageinclusive of 33 days annual leave (including public holidays), plus the potential for one additional ‘flex day’ per month. Further benefits include a generous contributory pension scheme, private medical cover, 4x base salary life insurance; all of these and more that can be adapted to suit your own lifestyle
• Commitment to continued professional development;development plans that are tailored to your individual needs and interests
• Global connections; join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession

What makes you remarkable?

At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world’s most critical challenges.

Expected:

• University degree in Engineering or relatable project management discipline
• Extensive previous experience in a Project management role within heavy industry
• Previous experience working on EPC / EPCm roles within Infrastructure, O&G, Nuclear or Power and utilities
• Must have high level of commercial acumen with specific experience in managing NEC 4 contract delivery
• Proven track record of effectively managing complex projects for high profile clients
• Detailed knowledge and experience of stakeholder and requirements management
• Proven leadership skills with the ability to manage and influence at all levels of the business both internally and externally
• Safety focused with an uncompromising approach to risk management. Places the welfare of both internal and customer employees at the top of the agenda
• Project Management Professional (PMP), Associate in Project Management (APM) or equivalent certification is preferred