Senior Project Manager Rail O&M

Requisition ID: 272414

• Relocation Authorized: International - Single
• Grade: 29
• Position to be Panel Interviewed No
• Telework Type: N/A
• Work Location: Sharma
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Company Overview

Since 1898, we have helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place.

Differentiated by the quality of our people and our relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, we align our capabilities to our customers objectives to create a lasting positive impact.

We serve the Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy, and Mining & Metals markets. Our services span from initial planning and investment, through start-up and operations. Core to Bechtel are our values ethics, safety, quality, people, culture, relationships, innovation and sustainability, and our covenants integrity, respect, collaboration, trust, and delivery. They are what we believe, what customers can expect, and how we deliver.

Project Description

NEOM Project Summary: Saudi Arabian Bechtel Company will provide executive project management consultancy services (including technical, commercial, and construction management) for the development of certain defined aspects of the NEOM Infrastructure in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

NEOM is a planned cross-border city in the Tabuk Province of northwestern Saudi Arabia. The site is near the Red Sea and the borders of Egypt, Israel, and Jordan. It will cover a total area of26,500 km2 (10,200 sq. mi) and will extend 460 km along the coast of the Red Sea .

NEOM will be the home and workplace to more than a million residents from around the world. It will include towns and cities, ports and enterprise zones, research centers, sports and entertainment venues, and tourist destinations. As a hub for innovation, entrepreneurs, business leaders, and companies will come to research, incubate, and commercialize new technologies and enterprises in groundbreaking ways.

Position Summary

The Senior Project Manager Rail O&M will lead a multi-disciplinary team to provide continuous operation and maintenance input and supervision to the project through all phases of the project, giving leadership and direction to the designers and delivery teams managing the respective contractors. The SPM Rail O&M will report to the Rail Systems Director.

A key part of this role is the collaboration with the Contractors and Client. The Senior Project Manager Rail O&M shall hence, establish regular meetings with the consultants, contractors, various client sectors, and external stakeholders to ensure and maintain focus on the operating system, and maintenance thereof, manage expectations of operating performance and operational safety on the railway, including phased openings.

It is to ensure that the final designed and delivered product meets the Client's requirements and is a safe, efficient, and cost-effective railway.

Major Responsibilities

• Ensuring compliance with Employer's technical operating requirements.
• Ensuring complete and comprehensive design and subsequent implementation of contractors operation integration activities throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ensuring the complete and comprehensive design and subsequent delivery of both rail systems including the depot and termini.
• Ensuring contractor assurance documentation is delivered and completion certificates issued.
• Addressing interests of stakeholders or other interested third parties in their allocated area of responsibility; assuring compliance; managing undertakings and assurances and monitoring evidence of compliance.
• Communicating quality requirements and ensuring that proper processes are identified and implemented by contractors and subcontractors to achieve contractual self-assurance; conducts surveillances to document compliance.
• Inputting to scope and change management, value engineering and optimal contractor involvement efforts to refine scope to incorporate best value for the Client in line with their requirements.
• Provide technical oversight to activities relating to the development and delivery, by the contractors, of the O&M deliverables.
• Provide data and knowledge to quantify the expected performance of the railways in terms of RAM targets.
• Support the ongoing development of the NEOM O&M Strategy, O&M Plans as well as the Operational Concepts.
• Ensure and oversee that System and Operational safety requirements (contract & derived) are adequately developed, captured and addressed and verified.
• Communicating Safety & Health requirements in regard to intermediate and end-use operation, including identification of proper processes and implementation by contractors and subcontractors to achieve those requirements.
• Monitoring provision of the Contractor's hand over and completion documents more specifically Operations and Maintenance documentation and Health and Safety files
• Take care of self and others health and safety, including mental well-being.
• Report to the Rail Systems Director and work closely with Project Managers, Rail Systems design and delivery teams, Interface and Integration Team, Head of Rail Commissioning and Handover.
• Representing the Employer.
  
  

Qualifications And Skills

• Engineering Degree from an accredited university with 25+ years of relevant experience in Railway System Project Management.
• Significant experience in railway operations and the managing of its design/installation/ integration stages, both high speed and freight systems
• Proven track record of participating in the design and intermediate, partial and final handover and operation of large-scale projects.
• Technical familiarity of Rolling Stock and Rail Systems, Systems Integration, Logistics, Testing & Commissioning
• Ability to effectively manage staff a project team in a matrix organization.
• Knowledge of continuous improvement methodologies.
• Knowledge and experience in contracts/subcontracts formulation, risk analysis, negotiations
• Knowledge of cross functional work processes and interface knowledge, Quality management and the ability to manage the relationships/interfaces with management and functional groups.
• Accreditation and/or qualification in Project Management or demonstrated equivalent advanced skills in Project and Programme Management
• A professional license from a recognized licensing or registration board.
• Strong, proven leadership skills and experience of managing large, interdisciplinary teams in a multicultural environment.
• Excellent interpersonal, analytical and communication skills (oral and written).
• Willingness to relocate to the job site in Saudi Arabia.
• Proactive, supportive, questioning, challenging and result driven.
• Hard working and motivated with high self-initiative.
• Ability to manage multiple assignments, changing priorities and work with ambiguity.
• Team Player, help others and receive help from others in achieving goals.
• Willingness to mentor others.
• Promote the creation of a work environment, supported by leadership, which fosters openness, trust, communication, teamwork, empowerment, innovation, and satisfaction.
  
  

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