Project Services Manager Job

Renaissance Africa Energy Company Limited is a leading integrated energy company committed to advancing energy security and industrialisation across Nigeria and the African continent through sustainable and innovative solutions.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Project Services Manager

Job Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers
Job type: Full-time

Job Purpose

• To provide positioning support services and control to all major engineering projects within Renaissance.
• Scope of services includes major pipeline construction, major facility construction/upgrade, field development projects, major flowline replacement activities, wells and seismic survey activities including litigation, oil spill survey response and continuous improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Deliver, align, and integrate a full suite of Project Services (PS) activities and deliverables i.e., Estimating, Cost Engineering, Planning Engineering, Risk Management, Benchmarking, and Project Services Management. The scope covers pre-DG3 and post-DG3 projects.
• Member of Renaissance Project Services Network. Collaborate with Project Services and other functions for standardization, tools calibration, data collection, benchmarking, continuous improvement, and Regional/Global support.
• Represent PS in the Project Leadership Team and participate in internal meetings, reviews, assurances, audits, and external engagements
• Supply accurate and verified data to the Business Opportunity Manager/Project Manager on which to base decisions.
• Present a credible and competitive outcome to Senior Leadership.
• Incorporate project complexity factors and local requirements into project planning, cost and risks and assemble key input data such as project objectives, value drivers, scopes, contracting strategy, execution strategy, and embed carbon reduction & abatement.
• Lead quality integrated-PS inputs into decision gates and into all PS deliverables.
• Ensure application of lessons learnt from ongoing and completed projects into PS activities/deliverables.
• Lead strategic planning for PS activities/deliverables and map out internal/external stakeholders.
• Establish, implement, monitor, and improve project controls process, system, and plan.
• Ensure that the contractors’ delivery is comprehensive and complimentary to PS requirement. Lead the development of project work breakdown structure, cost breakdown structure, estimates, activities, logic, resources, and progress of the integrated project schedule.
• Lead the development of Cost, Time and Resource sheets, validation of VOWD, payment milestones completion certificate, and Contractors invoices.
• Prepare reconciliations between earlier cost estimates and the current cost forecast, and similarly apply for schedule and risk.
• Review scope change requests for cost & schedule impact.
• Provide Business Opportunity Manager/ Project Manager with accurate overall monthly reports covering progress updates, forecast completions, together with the critical path and trend analyses for cost, planning and risk.
• Analyse the trends and provide early warning of any deviations.
• Ensure quality and timely submission of cost, schedule, and risk assessment into investment documentation, annual budget, and cash calling submissions.
• Develop contract pricing and administration instructions for alignment with the cost breakdown structure, bid evaluations and company counter estimates to support contract award recommendations.
• Develop the contract key dates, milestones and company plan dates for alignment with the overall integrated plan, in evaluating bid schedules and in reviewing contractor plans to support contract award recommendations.
• Apply probabilistic techniques to determine and communicate the possible range of cost and schedule outcomes for the project, interacting with partners whenever required to jointly conduct those risk analyses.
• Motivate, coach, and develop PS Engineers towards improving Project Services Management Functional Excellence, Project Delivery, HSSE, and Quality culture and behaviours.

Requirements

• A University Degree in Engineering or the Sciences (B. Sc., B Eng.), with a minimum 15 years of broad Oil and Gas experience
• At least 10 years of experience in Projects: Have significant experience in a role with direct responsibility for the management of Project Services/Project Engineering scope for post-DG3 projects.
• Demonstrate good team leadership capability. Significant experience in managing multi-discipline of engineers with ability to coach people. Proven interpersonal and relationships skills in complex environments with ability to collaborate with personnel of diverse backgrounds.
• Core competencies – possess skill level understanding of Project Services Management/Project Engineering, and knowledge level for Cost Estimating, Cost Engineering, Planning Engineering, Risk Management and Benchmarking principles.
• Demonstrate skill level understanding of local contracts & procurement requirements.