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

About Our Client

Our client is a business devoted to the baking industry, operating globally in both yeast and bakery ingredient production. Our client is truly global in yeast and bakery ingredients, supporting and enabling the world's bakers, both small and large, across craft/artisan and industrial.

Job Description

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

The Successful Applicant

What's on Offer

Contact: Pankaj Roshan

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

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Full time