Job Title: Head of Managed Projects
Reporting
To: Director of Projects
Location: Seadrill Americas,
Houston, Texas, USA
ABOUT SEADRILL
Seadrill is one of the world’s
most modern offshore integrated drilling companies. Using world leading
technology, we operate in 15 countries across 5 continents, employing
some 4,000 people representing 65 nationalities.
Our vision is to Set the
Standard in Drilling. It’s ambitious and we all play our part in
achieving this.
We recognise that our people are key to
helping us to achieve our vision so we have fostered a culture that
encourages, supports and celebrates diversity of all kinds. It fuels our
innovation and connects us closer to our customers and the communities we
operate in.
Help us to keep innovating, improving and
maintaining the highest safety records and service delivery. In return we
will provide support and development opportunities that help you unlock
your full potential.
JOB SUMMARY
The Head of Projects is a leadership position responsible for
overseeing and managing all aspects of project management within an
organization. This role involves leading and coordinating project teams,
developing project plans, monitoring progress, and ensuring successful
project delivery. The Head of Projects is responsible for setting project
objectives, allocating resources, managing budgets, and ensuring that
projects are completed on time and within scope. Additionally, this role
involves collaborating with stakeholders, managing risks, and
implementing best practices in project management. Strong leadership,
communication, and problem-solving skills are essential for success in
this role.
Reporting to the Project Director, this role will implement
project execution processes and ensure methodologies and processes are
captured for future reference across the fleet.
JOB SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES
Main Job Responsibilities
- Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) management according to corporate standards
- Optimal resource management (e.g., balanced across cost, quality, capability, productivity)
- Ensuring project planning and status reporting is performed to corporate standards.
- Ensuring project execution and cost control is maintained to corporate standards.
- Inform stakeholders of project status based on project specific milestones and deliverables.
- Overall visibility and reporting on upcoming and ongoing projects within the organization.
- Summary guidance and reporting across all Projects, as required.
- Authority in the field of managed projects to include that Seadrill directives and procedures are in compliance with company and industry standards
- AFE Responsibility, from cost build through close out
- Support the Director of Projects with budget and forecast submissions relative to their discipline for head count, department cost, research and development
- Provide leadership and guidance to the project HSE Manager to implement a system of safe working practice that is consistent across all project worksites. Sponsor and support a culture of safety awareness within the project team, vendors, and shipyard workforce. Facilitate and conduct regular all-party HSE meetings. Provide Corporate management and client with regular HSE reports complete with historical incident data and trend analysis. Conduct frequent site audits to ensure that all agreed safety management processes and systems are implemented and effective.
- Review shipyard activities daily with the Shipyard and the Project Managers, ensure alignment with the project scope, schedule and budgets. Conduct forward analysis of future activities to identify latent efficiencies and areas where there may be potential for schedule acceleration.
- Direct the Project Managers and project personnel to support the operations, project planning and execution, maintenance, and other operational outcomes within the discipline
- Provide guidance to the support team to define and prepare overall work scopes for projects
- Review and analyze project budgets and administration requirements, planning and scheduling project work and coordinating with project teams
- Ensure team and individual goals and objectives are clearly defined that support the overall department and company strategic initiatives as it relates to the improvement of the discipline
- To review the project Risk Register, conduct regular reviews, prepare mitigation plans to ensure that they are complete and effective.
- Review, author and issue status reports to senior management
- Coordinate the definition and preparation of the overall work scopes for projects
- Ensure resource planning and allocation is in place for ongoing and future projects and assist Project Managers and rigs with planning of specific SPS, reactivation and other special projects
- Perform review and approvals of the project status based on the following milestones:
- Initial project milestone plan and budget
- Review equipment assessment scope
- Review detailed SPS/equipment repair execution scope and schedule together with SPS management to incorporate work scope in project as required
- Review close out report, Lesson Learned and improvement actions
- Ensure development of standard SPS scope and standard scope for main equipment overhaul.
- Ensure development of corporate driven standard project information library
- Provide technical guidance to support marketing and other company initiatives
- Cultivate and maintain effective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including Project Controls, Supply Chain and Commercial teams during project planning, scheduling, execution and close out of projects
- Maintain a robust process through the stage gate process, to facilitate the estimating and scheduling for commercial tenders, in preparation for project execution
- Resource allocation reporting to Stakeholders
- Review and sign off on execution plans, schedules and scopes of work.
- Corporate reports (Project proposals and audit reports)
- High level fleet status and cost reporting relating to areas of responsibility
- Continuous and tangible efficiency efforts relating to project optimization
- Accountability for project delivery to budget and schedule
- Fully accepted rig to operations
SAFETY AT SEADRILL
Our goal is to ensure that ‘nobody gets hurt’ whilst performing
their job. Everyone at Seadrill has a part to play in meeting our safety
commitment.
Through strong leadership and personal
responsibility from all employees, we take a systematic approach to
identifying, managing and preventing the hazards involved in our day to
day operations. Nothing is more important to us than the health, safety
and security of our workforce and the communities in which we operate and
behaving responsibly towards our shared environment. We are vigilant,
disciplined and always looking out for one another. We have developed and
embedded a strong safety culture onshore and offshore, fostered by all
employees, who each have a personal responsibility and the authority to
put an immediate stop to the job if they believe it to be unsafe.
Everyone at Seadrill is accountable for helping to build this culture of
care.
SEADRILL BEHAVIORAL FRAMEWORK
In Seadrill, setting the standard is not just about what we
deliver, but how we deliver it.
We co-created our Behavioural Framework
with our employees, where we identified four key competencies that define
our culture and help us to live our values. Our behaviours are embedded
in the way we work and support and guide us day to day:
- Drive & Ownership
- Change & Forward Thinking
- Communication & Collaboration
- Service Delivery
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Min 10 years’ experience in respective discipline at supervisory and management level
Desired
- Advanced level of knowledge relating to typical equipment and systems onboard offshore drilling rigs
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum Requirements
- Relevant engineering degree or equivalent technical
qualification
- High level relevant project management experience
- Relative level of knowledge relating to equipment
and systems onboard rigs
- Ability to liaise at high level with drilling units’
technical teams and unit management
- Flexible to travel offshore and overseas as
situations dictates
JOIN SEADRILL
We value our people and want to retain
them, so we offer a competitive package built around an attractive base
salary and a range of benefits tailored to your location.
Join Seadrill. Own the Opportunity.