Site Construction Director
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About the Role
Wood is seeking a Site Construction Director with extensive experience in managing complex oil and gas construction projects. The role involves leading the construction phase of EPCm projects, managing budgets, schedules, and teams, and ensuring compliance with quality and safety standards.
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Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the construction phase of the EPCm project, ensuring alignment with project goals and objectives.
- Oversee the project budget, ensuring cost control measures are in place and adhered to.
- Develop and maintain the project schedule, ensuring timely completion of all construction activities.
- Implement and enforce quality control procedures to ensure all work meets the required standards and specifications.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for all construction related matters, maintaining effective communication with clients, subcontractors, and other stakeholders.
- Lead and mentor the construction team, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment.
- Identify and mitigate potential risks to the project, ensuring proactive measures are in place.
- Ensure all construction activities comply with local, state, and federal regulations.
Requirements
- Degree qualified or equivalent in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field
- Minimum of 15 years of experience in construction management, with at least 10 years in a leadership role on large scale EPC and EPCm projects in the gas sector
- Extensive track record managing field engineering activities within the Oil and Gas sector
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Strong leadership and team management skills
- Strong problem solving skills and the ability to make decisions under pressure
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Job Description
- Wood is looking for a Site Construction Director with extensive experience in managing complex construction projects within the oil and gas, energy sector, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.
Responsibilities
- Project Leadership: Lead and manage the construction phase of the EPCm project, ensuring alignment with project goals and objectives.
- Budget Management: Oversee the project budget, ensuring cost control measures are in place and adhered to.
- Schedule Management: Develop and maintain the project schedule, ensuring timely completion of all construction activities.
- Quality Assurance: Implement and enforce quality control procedures to ensure all work meets the required standards and specifications.
- Stakeholder Communication: Serve as the primary point of contact for all construction related matters, maintaining effective communication with clients, subcontractors, and other stakeholders.
- Team Management: Lead and mentor the construction team, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment.
- Risk Management: Identify and mitigate potential risks to the project, ensuring proactive measures are in place.
- Compliance: Ensure all construction activities comply with local, state, and federal regulations.
Specific Responsibilities
- Be the primary contact with the Project Director for all Projects matters arisen in field.
- Supervise that Contractors provide that Construction activities be completed in accordance with good construction practice, in accordance with the Project Schedule, that safety prescriptions and rules are fully applied, that all contractual obligations are fulfilled and advice the Client accordingly
- Together with the Field Project Control Manager, review and monitor the construction program and ensure that EPC Contractor prepares detail construction schedules for all areas and erection activities.
- Support the Project Director in discussing with Contractors the Project changes proposed.
- In absence of Project Director / Manager in field is entitled to issue correspondence to the Client CM and to the Contractors under his/her signature for subject related to Project matters arisen in field.
- Receive and distribute to the field Discipline Engineers, under his control, information from the Client and from the Contractors.
- Expedite from the Engineering Manager and from the other people assigned under his/her control all the information requested for a proper supervision of Construction activities.
- Administer industrial relations and safety policies to maintain proper discipline for Wood Team.
- Conduct weekly meetings with Contractors and field staff in order to verify weekly progress, safety and construction aspects, availability of documents, materials, manpower.
- Ensure with Contractors representatives that their activities are in accordance with the Master Project Schedule.
- Immediately advise the Client and Project Director of any factors adversely affecting the project.
- Coordinate as necessary with the Engineer Manager and his/her staff on all engineering matters.
Qualifications
- Degree qualified or equivalent in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience: Minimum of 15 years of experience in construction management, with at least 10 years in a leadership role on large scale EPC and EPCm projects in the gas sector.
- Extensive track record managing field engineering activities within the Oil and Gas sector.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Strong leadership and team management skills.
- Strong problem solving skills and the ability to make decisions under pressure.
- High level of integrity and professionalism.
- Commitment to continuous improvement and innovation in construction practices.
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