Project Delivery Director
Posted 25 days 14 hours ago by Jobtailor
Permanent
Full Time
Other
England, United Kingdom
Job Description
Responsibilities 
- Engineering project delivery for awarded work, ensuring day-to-day BAU activities are managed, controlled, and delivered to plan.
- Provide line management to projects and engineering delivery teams across pxE.
- Accountable for reporting weekly/monthly project updates and monthly performance to the pxE Managing Director and Leadership Team, including monthly metrics for Safety, Cost, Progress, Scope, Quality, Opportunity, and Risk.
- Oversee management, governance, and reporting of monthly deliverable performance, agreed metrics, on-time delivery, resource recoveries, load forecasting, quality, adherence to schedule and cost.
- Identify and support potential issues, provide analysis, and deliver solutions during LT review and meetings.
- Ensure compliance and governance with business policy and procedures.
- Monitor and control planned budgets, collaborating with the Financial Controller to manage risk and provide guidance to delivery teams and the leadership team.
- Oversee project execution from handover to sign-off and completion (cost, schedule, scope, quality, team) with lessons learned KPI's and metrics reported (PvA).
- Drive continuous improvement by proactively developing pxE project delivery processes to continuously enhance team outputs.
- More details can be found in the role profile.
- Degree qualified or equivalent in an engineering or business discipline.
- Significant experience in a leadership role and in managing teams.
- Strong experience in an engineering/projects biased senior leadership position.
- Strong experience of P&L management and managing budgets (cost centres).
- Able to mentor/lead management teams effectively.
- Demonstrable knowledge of the AACE International Estimate Classification System, based on design maturity, estimating methods, and accuracy to guide budget/funding (Class 5 to 1 frameworks).
- Experience and understanding of heavy engineering processes relating to studies, feeds and general engineering consulting.
Hard Skills
- project delivery
- budget management
- P&L management
- performance metrics
- risk management
- continuous improvement
- engineering processes
- AACE International Estimate Classification System
- cost estimation
- resource forecasting
Soft Skills
- leadership
- mentoring
- communication
- problem-solving
- team management
- analytical skills
- strategic thinking
- governance
- collaboration
- decision-making