Principal Project Director, Engineering

NCS Group; Singapore; On-site; SGD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

NCS Group is looking for a Senior Project Manager based in Singapore. The successful candidate will oversee project lifecycles, manage stakeholder relationships, and lead a team towards delivering high-quality outcomes.

With over 15 years of experience, you will leverage your expertise in project management and your ability to build and maintain trusting relationships. This role demands a strong business acumen and a self-motivated approach to take on challenges.

Qualifications

• More than 15 years of project management experience, ideally in defense and homeland sectors.
• Self-motivated, creative with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to lead and develop trusting relationships.

Responsibilities

• Oversee project lifecycle and manage issues arising during project execution.
• Manage contracts and build long-term customer relationships.
• Identify opportunities for business development and participate in tenders.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Negotiation

Team leadership

Education

Degree in Engineering or Computer Science

Job description

NCS is a leading technology services firm that operates across the Asia Pacific region in over 20 cities, providing consulting, digital services, technology solutions, and more. We believe in harnessing the power of technology to achieve extraordinary things, creating lasting value and impact for our communities, partners, and people. Our diverse workforce of 15,000 has delivered large-scale, mission-critical, and multi-platform projects for governments and enterprises in Singapore and the APAC region.

NCS Engineering mandate is to deliver mission critical data driven and edge solutions which will impact sectors in Defence Homeland Security, Public Sector, Communication Media Technology, Aviation, Commercial and Transport.

Job Description

Project & Service Management

• Review the project lifecycle (initiation, plan, execution, completion)
• Review project schedules, quality plans, budgets, and communication and risk management plans
• Manage issues arising out of scope definition and disputes that impacted scope, schedule and cost
• Manage issues arising from integration of various components of the project, e.g. hardware, software installation, testing, business process review, redesign, application development, migration and data conversion etc
• Manage project financials, ensuring project cost/ revenue forecast is done accurately
• Oversee the implementation of the project with regard to schedules, budget, manpower and quality
• Resolve project overrun issues
• Monitor and report on project management progress to Senior Management and Customer
• Manage resources in terms of mobilising resources during different periods of time from team to team to maximise productivity or minimise wastage
• Lead the project and service team on smooth project transition to operation in accordance to customer requirement and processes.
• Manage project operation and ensure service level is maintained without financial penalty and security incident due to negligent or lack of awareness

Customer/Vendor/Stakeholder Management

• Manage contracts and subcontractors
• Effectively engaged stakeholders in project decisions and execution
• Build long-term customer relationships by anticipating and exceeding customer’s expectation
• Negotiate with customers on change control mechanism to meet schedules and prioritize changes based on business needs

Business Development

• Proactively identify opportunities for further expansion or improvement of services delivered to the customer and liaise with the Sales Manager(s) for development of that opportunity
• Participate in tenders and contribute to tender proposal, provide inputs in project delivery effort, risks and review compliance to tender requirement
• Be involved in pre-sale activities and provide leadership to the project team to ensure proposals/enhancements are fully analysed and evaluated for benefits and cost

Team Management

• Participate in leadership activities and providing performance feedback and developmental coaching
• Monitor and improve team performance, conduct team building, providing leadership, coaching, and performance management Build, lead and motivate a high performing team with innovative culture
• Lead, guide, manage and motivate the projects’ team members in delivering quality project works, manage project exceptions and delighting the customers
• Plan for optimal use of resources across teams comprising Project and Technical competencies
• Manage performance review of team and maintain open communication with team for feedback on continuous improvement
• Plan and develop team members to achieve their individual career development plan
• Ensure high individual and staff billability

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent
• More than 15 years of project management experience. Preferably to have experience in the defence and homeland industry
• Self-motivated with a positive “can-do” attitude, creative with excellent presentation, communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills including strong persuasive techniques
• Able to lead, develop and maintain respectful and trusting relationship
• Able to travel as and when required