Senior Project Manager - Fleet Asset Management

Job Responsibilities

• Build and Maintain Excellent Customer Relationships per the following: o Understand the Customer, installed equipment base, operating profile, long and short-term asset plans for major maintenance requirements, outage scheduling, and future changes to operating profiles and potential upgrades and modifications. o Listen to your Customers to understand their pains and problems to be addressed and the core business drivers and goals that make them and their businesses successful. o Maintain a consistent communication rhythm by phone, email, and in-person contact with Customers on regular basis, particularly with face-to-face visits, to establish and maintain excellent working relationships. o Coordinate and lead Customer fleet asset management reviews at an appropriate frequency to drive communication for planning, continuous improvement, changes to Customer operations, NPI programs, or any other Customer relationship initiatives. o Optimize product penetration with a view towards increasing customer relationships at all levels of their organization. o Facilitate close business relationships with Customers’ and EthosEnergy senior personnel and management teams to ensure an understanding of Customer business objectives and to align our delivery requirements / standards with Customer expectations. Manage technical deliverables by planning, contracting, and coordinating the activities required for successful delivery of EthosEnergy contracted services. This includes but is not limited to internal and external contracting of field labor activities, parts repairs, parts replacement, and facility upgrades. o Ensure EthosEnergy meets its contractual obligations to the customer and does so safely, with high quality, within budget, and on schedule. o Act as single point of contact for customer ensuring that customer is kept informed, and that all technical and commercial needs are met in accordance with the customer Critical To Quality (CTQ) scope expectations. o Facilitate and prepare pre-activity/outage project planning. o Lead project life cycle outage meetings and drive action items. o Solicit quotations, negotiate commercially with internal and external providers, approve purchase orders (within established budget and DOA). o Manage scope change, authorizing or limiting services providers accordingly in accordance with their contracted services. o Prepare, Submit, and manage contract deliverables including but not limited to planning documents, schedules, reports, notices, and invoices o Identify out of scope customer requests and negotiate resolution with the customer o Use project lessons learned to more efficiently manage projects going forward Manage all internal requirements for contract management, including performing the following: o Identify problems and risks that could compromise contract deliverables and elevate to proper level of management as required to ensure problems are resolved in a timely and efficient manner. o Prepare budgets and schedules for approval. o Prepare, analyze and report on project performance using project control techniques for cost, labor hours, scope, and schedule. o Lead periodic performance and margin reviews with stakeholders. o Search for and implement mid-term and long-term cost reduction and life extension strategies to maximize the project profitability. o Prepare and submit weekly, monthly and quarterly reports as defined for projects. o Participate in and lead business level process standardization and continuous improvement projects.

Required Skills / Knowledge

• Clear and demonstrated proficiency in establishing and maintaining excellent customer relationships.
• In depth knowledge and delivery of best practices in Project Management systems, policies and procedures including but not limited to: Planning, Quality Management, Risk Assessment, Schedule creation and maintenance, cost management and variance reporting, change control, commercial understanding of contracts, and customer relationship management.
• In depth knowledge and experience in the aftermarket for industrial gas turbine and steam turbine equipment.
• Strong ability to analyze contract scope and objectives and translate to efficient project execution.
• Proven track record in managing conflict in projects to a positive resolution
• Demonstrated track record in motivating and inspiring internal and external project team members to cultivate and build collaborative relationships with colleagues & customers
• Demonstrated track record of successful goal achievement with the ability to think on a strategic level as well as a tactical level is required to drive solutions within a matrix organization.
• Preference will be given to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in gas turbine or steam turbine power plants or similar environment.
• Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Experience

• A minimum of 15 year's relevant experience, with a minimum of eight (8) years in a project management position.
• Ideal candidates will have strong power generation or industrial process industry experience and will have successfully managed contracts, budgets, and people. Strong commercial and project management skills are essential as are excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Education Requirements

• Engineering degree is preferred, or combination of a business degree
• Recognized and accredited professional project management training and certification, PMI, PMP, or equivalent a plus.

Physical Requirements

• General office environment
• Moderate travel (subject to project requirements)