Project Director, Balance of Plant

Your role

• Accountable for all aspects of the project and to lead all team members who are performing duties to ensure that the work progresses with safety, quality, schedule, cost, and contractual requirements.
• Assemble a project team through recruiting, interviewing and/or selecting staff with appropriate skills and establishing training and development programs suitable for the work.
• This generally requires close coordination with functional managers from various functions (engineering, project controls, safety, quality etc.).
• Responsible for developing project scope and deliverable definition in compliance with the governing contract documents, quality requirements for the project and any additional customer requirements.
• Responsible for all contract management including scope & change control, requirements management, subcontractor and supplier management and governance for any flow-down requirements from the parent contract to subs and vendors.
• Accountable for all aspects of nuclear and industrial safety including adherence with corporate and customer safety programs, development and enforcement of necessary training and requirements, adherence to corrective action programs and enforcement of performance standards for all of the above.
• Apply appropriate key performance indicators to monitor project health and performance and establish rigorous reporting protocols that meet all requirements of the contract, corporate standards and project-specific oversight as established by senior management or customer.
• Ensure that all project activities are performed in accordance with corporate standards of ethical compliance, cyber-security, import-export regulations, intellectual property protections and security clearance protocols.
• Ensure that project procurement and subcontract management including subcontractor and supplier oversight, invoicing, accruals and supply chain strategies are aligned with risk management, quality requirements, schedule and budget considerations and overall performance standards commensurate with the project and customer requirements.
• Accountable for project controls methodology with respect to planning and scheduling, baseline management, cost control, budgeting, cash flow, invoicing, cost and revenue forecasting and resource management.
• Develop and implement detailed project execution plans and monitor their execution through comprehensive reporting to clients and senior management.
• Accountable for rigorous risk analysis in accordance with corporate standards and application of industry best practice including Monte Carlo methodology and contingency draw-down curves.
• Form and maintain relationships with clients, partners, suppliers and project stakeholders.
• Ensure that all formal approvals for project bids, changes and settlements are prepared and approved in accordance with corporate Level of Authority (LoA) procedures.
• Approval of hours of work (e.g., timesheet approvals, overtime approvals, vacation authorization) for assigned scope/project in accordance with company policies, project policies and any applicable collective agreements.
• Approval of Purchase Orders and Project Change Orders within the company or project tiered limits of authority – frequently one of several required approvals.
• Authorized to represent Company to clients or suppliers with respect to project work and has signing authority for project correspondence, invoices, work orders, etc., subject to company limits of authority.
• Preparing and managing budgets and accountability for assigned scope/project performance.
• Responsible for regular formal reporting to senior internal and client management stakeholders.
• Provides feedback and effective recommendations into functional performance review processes.
• Provides feedback and effective recommendations into functional hire/fire/discipline processes.
• Makes effective decisions/recommendations (or responsible for) with respect to resourcing requirements on the project (i.e. hiring and firing within the project).
• Makes effective decisions/recommendations on (or responsible for) human resource issues and effectively manages and resolves work performance problems as they relate to the project.
• Provides day-to-day interpretation and application of the negotiated agreements with bargaining agents as they affect the rights, obligations, and working conditions of employees.
• Responsible for supporting the proposal process for similar new work, including helping drive proposal deadlines, championing the proposal with the client and through internal review processes.
• Provide clear expectations and performance measures, meaningful feedback, and recognize and reward achievements.