Principal Package Management Spec

Role Overview

Principal Package Management Specialist at McDermott. Location not specified in source.

Role Purpose

Oversee all aspects of package delivery from inception to completion, ensuring on-budget and on-schedule execution while maintaining compliance with Quality, Health, Safety, Environment, and Security (QHSES) and project requirements. Identify risks and opportunities, develop strategic outlook, and resolve matters with appropriate stakeholder involvement.

Key Responsibilities

Package Delivery & Cost Management

• Deliver packages (purchase orders and subcontracts) on budget and schedule while abiding by QHSES and project requirements.
• Maintain an accurate account of package cost, commitments, changes, and forecast.
• Track cost and schedule bid basis against actuals.
• Provide inputs and ensure alignment with Project Controls on current and forecasted cost and schedule.

Strategic Planning & Risk Management

• Identify risks and opportunities throughout package execution.
• Maintain a strategic outlook and discuss periodically with the Project Management team for buy-in.
• Develop and maintain contingency planning and lessons learned.
• Demonstrate a proactive attitude in determining opportunities and risks, particularly those attributed to Quality, Safety, Budget, and Schedule.

Stakeholder Communication & Coordination

• Maintain clear and thorough dialogue with the Project Management Team and provide accurate and periodic status updates as well as both short and long-term outlooks.
• Interface with all stakeholders to achieve package goals, including Supplier/Subcontractor, Engineering, Supply Chain, QHSES, Construction, Installation, Commissioning, Joint Venture Partners, and the client.
• Arrange and attend periodic status meetings with suppliers and clients as required.
• Manage formal correspondence with suppliers, clients, and other involved parties.
• Work with the end user to ensure alignment and expectations are met.
• Report status and outlook at an executive level to the Project Management team and, at times, Corporate Management.

Schedule & Work Package Management

• Analyze ROS dates with schedulers to identify priorities.
• Set up and implement Installation Work Packages and Advance Work Packages as applicable.

Process & Compliance Oversight

• Oversee and enforce all day-to-day applicable processes involved.
• Interface across various functions to identify and resolve any technical or commercial matters and bottlenecks.
• Enforce the Management of Change process and Project Change Notices.
• Ensure that the prime contract flow downs are correctly administered, including variations.
• Ensure strong understanding and adherence to QHSES requirements and compliance.

Documentation & Review

• Oversee the documentation process and manage priorities to ensure the most effective delivery from a cost and schedule aspect.
• Coordinate documentation conversation between suppliers, McDermott, and the client as applicable.
• Review key documents such as Technical Bid Evaluations, Commercial Bid Evaluations, Purchase Orders, and supplier data.

Meetings & Team Leadership

• Attend key meetings such as progress meeting, kick-off meeting, and PIM.
• Oversee the planning, performance, and resource allocation of their team throughout the project.
• Could potentially report to the Package Manager or Senior Package Manager on a project.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent) in Engineering or Supply Chain Management, or a relevant discipline.
• 8–12 years of relevant experience ideally in Engineering, Project/Package Management, Manufacturing, or similar.
• Technical knowledge of all phases of an Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Installation (EPCI) project.
• Specific knowledge in the domain of the proposed packages is preferred.
• Commercial knowledge of contracts, purchase orders, and relevant disciplines within the Supply Chain function, such as proposals, purchasing, expediting, logistics, and material management.
• Understanding of the requisitioning process from the bid stage through clarifications until Purchase Order award and post-award activities such as execution, receiving, and at times commissioning.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong understanding and adherence to QHSES requirements and ability to ensure compliance.
• Leadership characteristics that naturally relate to all members of the team, from the floor to the project team and executive management.
• Effective communicator with strong written, verbal, and public speaking skills.
• PMP and/or PE certification is a plus.

Additional Information

• Willing to travel to various locations such as shops, supplier offices, headquarters, job sites, labs, and other relevant locations as needed.
• At times, there may be a requirement for extended deployment at a supplier's location or the job site.
• Complexity, criticality, and value of packages typically vary and are assigned and adjusted at the discretion of the function and project.