Senior Package Management Spec

Role Overview

Senior Package Management Specialist at McDermott. The position oversees all aspects of package delivery from initiation through completion, ensuring delivery on budget and schedule while maintaining compliance with Quality, Health, Safety, Environment, and Security (QHSES) and project requirements.

Role Purpose

To utilize technical acumen, commercial knowledge, management skills, and leadership capability to deliver packages as complete, on-budget, on-schedule projects that meet all QHSES and project standards, while identifying and mitigating risks and capturing opportunities throughout the package lifecycle.

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.

Risk & Opportunity Management

• Identify risks and opportunities while maintaining a strategic outlook throughout package execution.
• Maintain periodic discussion with the Project Management team for buy-in on risks and opportunities.
• 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 Engagement & Communication

• Maintain clear and thorough dialogue with the Project Management Team while providing accurate and periodic status updates and 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.

Documentation & Process Management

• 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.
• Enforce the Management of Change process and Project Change Notices.
• Ensure that prime contract flow downs are correctly administered, including variations.
• Manage day-to-day applicable processes and interface across various functions to identify and resolve technical or commercial matters.
• Resolve bottlenecks as needed.

Scheduling & Planning

• Analyze Remain on Site (ROS) dates with schedulers to identify priorities.
• Set up and implement Installation Work Packages and Advance Work Packages as applicable.
• Attend key meetings such as progress meetings, kick-off meetings, and pre-inspection meetings.
• Oversee the planning, performance, and resource allocation of their team throughout the project.

Team & Resource Leadership

• Demonstrate characteristics of a leader that naturally relates to all members of the team, from the floor to the project team and executive management.
• 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, Supply Chain Management, or a relevant discipline.
• 6 to 10 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 and specific knowledge in the domain of the proposed packages.
• 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.
• PMP and/or PE certification is a plus.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong understanding and adherence to QHSES requirements and ability to ensure compliance.
• Effective communicator with strong written, verbal, and public speaking skills.
• Proactive attitude in identifying and managing opportunities and risks.
• Strategic outlook and ability to set up mitigation and capture plans.
• Ability to coordinate across multiple functions and resolve conflicts.

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 job site.