Contract Manager II

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

Wood is recruiting for a Contract Manager II to join its Operations Americas business focusing on Offshore Brownfield Engineering. This opportunity is onsite in Metairie, LA.

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The Role

Wood is currently seeking a highly skilled and motivated Contract Manager II to join our dynamic team based on Metairie, LA. The successful candidate will provide guidance and direction to a team in the operational and commercial delivery of long-term customer contracts, which may include production operations, maintenance, upgrades, and brownfield modifications. They will ensure the highest standards of safety, quality, and operational excellence, while driving business growth and maximizing long-term customer relationships and commercial returns.

Our Clients and Projects

Designing the future. Transforming the world.

Wood’s Operations business delivers solutions to an ever-broadening range of clients across the energy and materials industries globally. We deliver operations, maintenance, modifications, brownfield engineering, asset optimization and management, supporting our clients through the asset lifecycle. We are focused on developing strategic relationships with our clients, providing solutions that deliver efficiency, integrity and reliability.

What we can offer

• Meaningful and interesting projects delivered to leaders of industry across Operations Americas sector
• Flexible working arrangements that balance client, team and individual needs. Offering onsite working.
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion across our business with employee networks committed to giving all employees a voice
• Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market.
• Flexible benefits package that can be adapted to suit your lifestyle
• Commitment to continued professional development through development plans tailored to individual needs and interests
• Global connections with leading industry experts around the world who are shaping the standards of our profession

Typical responsibilities

• Accountable for delivery of contract performance directly focusing on assigned customer/contract(s)
• P & L responsibility with associated commercial and financial accountability including revenue delivery, margin and overhead management, budget and forecast determination and attainment, risk and opportunity reviews, cost controls and accounts payable/billing
• Accountable for maintaining positive customer relationship, fostering and enhancing relationship management with open, honest and effective communications
• Negotiates changes to contract scope or terms with the customer. Follows Change Management process to identify and approve scope, cost and schedule and manages risks
• Maintain operational integrity and excellence, ensuring robust governance, subcontractor management, and performance reporting
• Work with leadership and peers to improve delivery performance and maximize delivery opportunities throughout wider business where required
• Pursue and develop opportunities for innovation, such as digitalization and technology use, work share and high value engineering centers, to bring value to Wood and customer
• Develop and implement a focused strategy at Contract level, support bid and tender activity as required and assume responsibility for positioning and new growth opportunities
• Understand customer needs beyond the immediate scope and introducing other Wood Service Lines to the Customer to grow the overall scope for Wood and add value to the Customer/Asset
• Ownership of HSSEA matters across Contract: ensure HSSEA values are delivered and always adhered, continuously influencing and personally role modelling safety behavioral values. Focus the team to attain all HSE plans, ensuring all contracts have HSSEA plans in place, supporting continuous improvement and ensuring legislative compliance
• Is a champion and role model for ethical behavior and compliance with applicable laws and policies.
• Oversees proposals and call-offs (may be individual projects) within delegation of authority, ensuring compliance with contracting policy and standards of ethical conduct
• Responsible for the development and growth of the contract team including supporting and allowing development opportunities outside of their contract
• Accountability for recruitment, selection and development of talent, ensuring effective performance and capability management, acting as a coach/mentor and encouraging and supporting open and effective communication to optimize delivery of objectives, maximize team performance and achieve continuous performance improvement
• Develops and delivers a robust business plan, whilst driving and supporting corporate initiatives, ensuring company values are at the core of all activities, and participates in peer reviews as required

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:

• Degree qualification in Engineering, Scientific Discipline, or related technical field OR degree qualified in a commercial/business discipline with significant experience in a technical organization
• Considerable Operations / Contract management experience, typically minimum of 5 years for smaller/less complex contracts and 15 years for largest/most complex contracts/portfolios
• Track record of successful delivery within relevant industry sector
• Broad understanding of the industry and networking capability
• Experience of customer / contractor facing communication / negotiation
• Relevant technical expertise as applicable to the scope
• Ability to balance commerciality with operational excellence
• Knowledge of current HSSEA and other legislation as applied to the industry
• Evidence of continuing professional development and knowledge
• Ability to steer and implement change programs

Critical Capabilities

• Safety focused with an uncompromising approach to risk management. Places the welfare of both internal and customer employees at the top of the agenda
• Passionately pursues and supports, demonstrates and embeds company values
• Strong influencer, negotiator and mediator
• Decisive, with ability to make decisions and follow through, ensuring learnings are captured
• Exceptional communicator both verbally and written
• Pragmatic in approach with a strong commercial bias and ability to balance commerciality with operational excellence
• Customer focused – develops sincere and open relationships with customers, current and potential; listens to customer needs and constantly striving to exceed expectations and add value
• Entrepreneurial approach - ability to identify opportunities

Adaptability Skills

• Flexible to respond and adapt to changing internal and external context
• Flexible to respond in agile ways to changing customer needs

Leadership Skills

• Strong team builder listens to needs of team, and capable of identifying and adopting best practices to engender a spirit of cooperation and energize people towards optimum performance
• A motivated self-starter, who can self-direct when required, able to use own initiative and have autonomy to make appropriate decisions but also know when escalation is required

Critical Thinking Skills

• Critical thinker with problem solving abilities