Associate Project Manager, Al-Khobar

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This position reports to

Marketing & Sales Manager

Your role and responsibilities

Project Leadership

Leads the project team allocated to the project.

• Motivates and monitors internal and external resources to accomplish all tasks and milestones.
• Provides performance feedback for the resources allocated to projects.
  
  

Instructions and Guidelines

• Ensures compliance with standard ABB internal directives and procedures, relevant cybersecurity regulations, standards, and contractual requirements.
  
  

Project Execution and Control

• Ensures that the project follows execution best practices and ABB policies.
• Monitors and controls project progress effectively and efficient resource utilization.
• Monitors and controls project financials, overseeing project invoicing status, cost, expenses, and cash flow.
• Identifies, qualifies, quantifies, manages project risk, and ensures all opportunities are identified and
  
  

pursued.

• Captures, analyzes, and shares lessons learned throughout the project.
• Drives the formal acceptance of the project, contract close-out, and acknowledgment by the customer, all in accordance with the contract.
  
  

Contract and Claims/ & Procurement Management

• Ensures that the project consistently applies contract and claims management in accordance with ABB policies and contractual agreements.
• Coordinates with Supply Chain Management and successfully procures required services, materials, and equipment for the project from external and internal suppliers.
• Supports Procurement and Logistics in supplier negotiations, claims, and project changes.
  
  

Stakeholder Relations

• Acts as the key contact for the customer and an escalation point for project issues.
• Builds and maintains strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders and effectively
  
  

communicates with all stakeholders.

Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE)

• Ensures the project follows and complies with company HSE policies.
• Creates project HSE plans and ensures that common HSE policies and reporting are implemented across the project with all stakeholders, including collaboration/consortium partners and sub-suppliers.
• Demonstrates unique actions/initiatives to support site safety and ensures consistent HSE performance.
  
  

Project Recovery

• Applies immediate recovery actions for schedule delays and cost overruns, under guidance and coaching if required.
  
  

Planning and Scheduling

• Defines and applies basic project scheduling techniques to manage schedule risks proactively to avoid possible future schedule deviations with On Time Delivery (OTD) impact.
• Breaks down work packages into activities that provide a basis for estimating, scheduling, executing,
  
  

monitoring, and controlling the project work and develops project schedule based on scope, cost, and

resource constraints.

• Establishes a schedule baseline to manage the project schedule and monitor and document progress for all engineering, procurement, manufacturing, testing, site work, and other activities continuously.
• Tracks progress and updates schedules regularly to reflect project changes and work progress and escalates deviations according to local guidelines.
• Demonstrates an understanding of critical path theory and can calculate and explain its purpose and function.
  
  

Document Management

• Identifies and plans all document deliverables required by the contractual scope of work and incorporates this plan into the overall project plan/schedule.
• Tracks document progress and follows up on overdue comments from customer.
  
  

LICENSE TO OPERATE / CORE VALUES

• Demonstrates ABB’s core values and group safety and integrity standards and acts accordingly.
• Implements and ensures compliance with the ABB code of conduct, global and local standards, tools, policies, and processes related to project execution.
• Ensures adherence to all relevant internal and statutory regulations and policies.
• Ensures integrity and compliance with ABB values and ethics in all activities.
• Demonstrates an understanding of Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) terms, concept application,
  
  

reporting, and risks.

COLLABORATION / LEADERSHIP

• Ensures adherence to the collaboration objectives of the team to maximize results for ABB.
• Leads their development journey by seeking knowledge and learning opportunities within the team.
• Manages relationships with stakeholders in their own area of responsibility and ensures alignment.
  
  
  

Qualifications For The Role

• Bachelor in Engineering, preferably in Electrical
• with 8 to 10 years experience in relevant field
• Essential requirements in Project management experience preferable in Low Voltage systems projects, IEC standards understanding, T&C, Contracts Understanding, Problem solving attitude, Collaborative skills for efficient Coordination with factories.
• Preferred requirements - experience of handling ARAMCO, SABIC and similar COG and industrial projects.
• Fluent in English communication is required.
  
  

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