Project Manager - Greenfield Plant Setup

• To effectively and efficiently deliver projects within agreed internal targets
• Verify that the project produces the required deliverables of quality & cost

• Critical Path management:

• Full management and updating of the critical path with live interdependencies, ensuring there is a controlled approach to ensuring that the critical steps/milestones are delivered without workstream clashes that could impact the project delivery.
• Set and continually manage project and program expectations while delegating and managing deliverable with team members and stakeholders
• Monitor, track and control outcomes to resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies and critical path deliverables
• Critical Steps/Milestones management:

• Full project life cycle ownership: successful project delivery will include full implementation ensuring that all key workstream owners are delivering their requirements within the project to achieve the critical steps/milestones aligned to the critical path
• Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel
• Project Risk Management:

• Ensure full compliance to the AB Mauri stage gate management process and Engineering Capital Project Management policy to establish a strong governance and compliance standard within the project development and implementation.
• Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation, and excellence.
• Understand interdependencies between technology, operations, and business needs
• Participate and/or drive feasibility studies, vendor selections and proposals for evaluation by appropriate key stakeholders
• Act as an internal quality control check for the project
• Manage ongoing quality control and participate in quality issue resolution
• Define success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project and program life cycle
• Ensure that projects and programs are proceeding according to scope, schedule, budget and quality standards
• Ensure any new technologies/processes being proposed/implemented within the project are resources and managed within a framework to maximise successful integration.
• Effective Contractor control:

• Provide on-site leadership for project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones
• Assist in dispute, negotiation, arbitration, or litigation, as needed
• Support formal/informal schedules with support of procurement and legal teams to manage the engagement contract
• Define the Statement of Work and Specifications for the requested goods and services
• Effective Change/Issue control

• Demonstrate a functional acumen to support how solutions will address the business goals while maintaining alignment with industry best practices
• Manage project scope and changes
• Effective Financial acumen/management on project cost controls

• Prepare estimates and detailed project plan for all phases of the project
• Establish plan to procure adequate resources, where necessary, to achieve project objectives in planned timeframes and execute plan through stakeholder approval.
• Effective Communications (verbal, steering meetings, update reports, performance review meetings, etc)

• Report on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management activities.
• Manage the day-to-day project activities and resources and chairs the project management team meetings, as required in team structure.
• Monitor staff performance and complete performance reviews as required
• Develop, Manage and Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks, change requests and issues, communicating across leadership team as per business communications framework (Steering Meetings, Escalation reporting, Executive summaries, etc)
• Ability to apply and contribute to improving ABM Ways of Working (ECPM stage gate management/procedures, etc)

• Within the boundaries of RN Engineering project, be open to participate in the Engineering Capital Project Management maturity programme "PRICE", establishing practices, templates, policies, tools and partnerships to expand and mature these capabilities for the organization.
• Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project and programme team where added value/learnings are identified

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical/Electrical/Civil
• 12-15 years of experience in leading large Projects (15-20 M USD) in Food/distillery/sugar/Chemical/Pharmaceutical industry
• Experience in Greenfield projects
• Recognised Project Management qualification, e.g. CAPM. PMP, PRINCE2, PMI Certified

• Opportunity to head Project management at a greenfield project
• Career growth and leadership development in a fast growing industry

Michael Page