- A Project Director (PD) will have overall responsibility for the successful planning, execution, monitoring, control and closure of a project. They must have a combination of skills including an ability to ask penetrating questions, detect unstated assumptions and resolve conflicts, as well as more general management skills.
- Co-ordinates all project activities to ensures that corporate policies, processes and procedures and adhered to.
- Proactively resolves performance, scope, schedule and cost issues with the customer.
- Achieves milestone payments by the customer and ensures that the right systems are in place so that the staff are competent, committed and fully utilised.
- Ensures all statutory requirements are met and co-ordinates bids and feasibility study activities.
- Monitors overall performance and continuously analyses performance to detect and avoid problems and to seize improvement opportunities.
- Monitors and maintains a balanced approach to contractor rates and liaises with client on this issue.
- Provides regular reports to Senior Management on Project Performance and highlights only problem areas.
- Presents monthly reports to client and presents progress reports to Clients Board.
- Liaises regularly with the customer and Joint Venture partner to ensure all parties are kept up-to-date throughout all stages of the project.
- Manages all cost and schedule aspects of the project and ensure prompt identification and resolution of change orders for cost and schedule with the client.
- Liaises with commercial teams to ensure competitive bids are received that match technical and commercial requirements and deals with development of contract terms and conditions.
- Ensure 100% integrity and transparency is maintained at all time.
- Provide visible HSE leadership and allocate sufficient resources for HSE.
- Ensure HSE training needs and skills for Project Team are identified, conduct formal/informal site visits, inspections and risk assessments, regularly monitor and review HSE issues and performance of project and implement corrective action and report and communicate on project HSE issues/incidents.
- Assure accountability of project line managers and supervisors.
- Ensure the Project Team are provided with and have a clear understanding of the associated Standard Operating Procedures.
- Ensure that an integrated team culture exists and that the project team / taskforce personnel fully understand the scope and execution strategy.
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