What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager position at John Wood Group?
Wood is recruiting for a Project Manager to join its Consulting business focusing on Technology & Products Service Line in Wood. This opportunity is Hybrid in Salt Lake City Office
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The Role
The Project Manager will be responsible for managing Studies, Process Design, and Basic Design Packages relating to Wood's proprietary Sulfur Recovery technology as well as miscellaneous engineering projects related to sour water stripping, tail gas treating, thermal treatment, and incineration.
Our Clients and Projects
Designing the future. Transforming the world.
Wood’s consulting business is comprised of 4,000 of the world’s foremost deep domain and technical experts, engineering specialists and industrial scientists, focused on advising and implementing solutions that drive real value for our clients at any stage of the asset life cycle.
What we can offer
- Meaningful and interesting projects delivered to leaders of industry across sour water stripping, tail gas treating, thermal treatment, and incineration.
- Flexible working arrangements that balance client, team and individual needs. This opportunity is Hybrid in Salt Lake City Office
- 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
- The Project manager applies knowledge of the organization’s work processes and business practices and a solid understanding of the roles and functions of assigned human resources to plan, organize, direct and control all activities on assigned project(s)
- Work closely and effectively with customers, vendors and subcontractors
- Responsible for design and supply of Wood’s proprietary burner on schedule and within Budget
- Responsible for ensuring QA/QC and FAT for Wood’s proprietary burner
- Pursue and develop opportunities for innovation, such as digitalization and technology use, workshare and high value engineering centers, to bring value to Wood and customer
- Ensure adherence to quality and safety standards
- Regularly reports project progress to senior management and/or the customer.
- Responsible for meeting or exceeding the as-sold financial objective, timely delivery and achieving a high degree of customer satisfaction
- Negotiates changes to project scope or specification with the customer. Follows Change Management process to identify and approve modifications to scope, cost, schedule and quality
- Use sound judgment concerning the need to consult with management and other experts
- Day-to-day supervision is administrative and consultative
- Leads ongoing focus on risk identification and mitigation during project execution
- Responsible for the project HSSE leadership, ensures a program of initiatives and auditing schedule are established and that HSSE and quality management issues are proactively addressed
- Facilitates the set-up of information management systems / applications as applicable to suit various life phases of projects and manage information management project team
- Participate in assurance activities and peer reviews
- Track, manage, and forecast the workload for the Salt Lake City personnel
- Contributes to and reviews the project proposal and plan to determine timeframe, procedures for accomplishing the project, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources to various phases of the project. Contributes to setting project evaluation parameters.
- While accepting responsibility for all phases of the project, recognizes that the various department managers have ultimate responsibility, through the assigned managing and lead project team members, for the technical adequacy of the work and may, therefore, monitor the work related to their discipline at any time
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:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, preferably Mechanical Engineering
- Professional Engineering license in UTAH, preferred to have PE in additional states
- 20 year of overall industry experience, including 10 years project management experience on a variety of engineering and equipment supply projects
- In-depth knowledge of sulfur related technologies
- Must be able to review and approve Burner Drawings for fabrication
- Must be able to deal with a variety of domestic and foreign clients and suppliers
- Well-versed in international and company quality assurance standards
- In-depth knowledge of US and international codes and standards (ASME, API, CE stamping, etc)
- Authorization to work lawfully in the US without sponsorship from Wood is required