Senior Manager Operations

Job Description

Job Overview:

The Senior Manager Operations is tasked with developing departmental plans, including business, production, and organizational priorities. The role requires multi-disciplinary expertise and the ability to understand the industry to achieve financial and operational objectives. The Senior Manager Operations manages multiple related teams, sets organizational priorities, and allocates the appropriate resources. They must identify and resolve complex technical, operational, and organizational problems. The Senior Manager Operations directly impacts business results by supporting and function-specific projects, products, services, and technologies and developing policies and plans.

Responsibilities

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Global vessel pipeline operations management
• Personnel and rotational planning
• Welder training and assessing capabilities
• Offshore structural fabrication oversight
• Management of Firing Line subcontractors
• Expertise in welding, AUT, and coating processes
• Act as a professional specialist for the organization in the application of related rules, regulations, requirements, concepts, principles, and processes
• Assist the Regional Director / Vice President of Operations in the development of short and long-term business plans and budgets
• Manage day-to-day business to achieve business plan objectives, budget goals, and compliance of business performance indicators with corporate targets
• Provide input to the workload forecast and planning process
• Oversee project execution activities as determined by Regional Director / Vice President of Operations
• Assist in the reporting of labor utilization, the status of billings, and revenue forecast
• Assist in the management of regional operations to meet client’s requirements, scheduling, staffing, and completion of assignments
• Resolve work-related client issues, including the scope of work, service quality, and billing
• Keep abreast of market opportunities, competitive threats, and needs for improvement in technology, services, and staffing
• Actively promote the organization’s services and capabilities to customers
• Ensure that assigned positions are organized and staffed and that the assigned personnel (employees and outside contractors) are trained and administered appropriately to carry out the work by technical standards and procedures
• Appraise performance and recommend compensation adjustments, advancements, and changes in staffing
• Monitor both employees and contractors to ensure that they are performing their work per policies, including the Company’s Code of Ethics
• Assist the Regional Director / VP, Operations in managing personnel compensation, purchases, leases, capital expenditures, and accounts receivable per the Company’s Delegation of authority, established targets, policies, and procedures
• Assist the Regional Director / VP of Operations to ensure that activities, employee directions, customer relations, registration, payment of taxes, and other financial decisions comply with the laws of the Country
• Assist the Regional Director / VP of Operations to ensure that the company’s Quality System requirements about work within the country are implemented and ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and OHSAS 18001 certifications are maintained
• Monitor performance on an ongoing basis and strive for continuous improvement
• Own and lead the implementation, enforcement, and verification of compliance with all McDermott policies and procedures
• Ensure employees understand their responsibility and authority to effectively implement the requirements of all McDermott policies and procedures
• Ensure the timely completion of all mandatory training by themselves and their teams
  
  

Qualifications

Essential Qualifications and Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related quantitative subject such as Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics
• 12+ years of experience within the EPC or Construction industry
• 10-15 years in offshore pipeline pre-commissioning projects with tier-1 contractors in the Middle East for NOC companies
• Five plus (5+) years of leadership role or similar role
• Knowledge and ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, concerning technical issues
• Proven management skills to organize, plan, and direct work activities of professional employees and to handle multiple ongoing projects
• Proven management skills in hiring, training, and developing staff
• Experienced administrator, specifically in the areas of cost reporting, client billing, and revenue forecasting
• Knowledge of the country’s employment laws and regulations
• Working knowledge of Health, Safety, Quality, and Environmental Management Systems
  
  

About Us

Our ingenuity fuels daily life. Together, we’ve forged some of the most trusted partnerships across the energy value chain to make what was once just an idea a reality: laying subsea infrastructure thousands of feet below sea level, installing platforms hundreds of miles from shore, using our expertise to design and build offshore wind infrastructure, and reshaping the onshore landscape to deliver the energy products the world needs safely and sustainably.

For more than 100 years, we've been making the impossible possible. Today, we're driving the energy transition with more than 30,000 of the brightest minds across 54 countries.

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