Company Overview:
Our client are a privately owned Electrical & Instrumentation services company with a strong focus on quality, efficiency, and customer satisfaction who aim to be at the forefront of the electrical industry.
Being specialist Electrical & Instrumentation services contractors they provide Engineering, Construction, Commissioning and Maintenance services covering a broad range of sectors such as Oil & Gas, Power & Infrastructure, Industrial and Commercial.
Job Purpose:
Are you passionate about shaping the future of the energy sector and eager to play a key role in our HV Operations? They are seeking a HV Operations Manager / Director to drive the development and market presence of our client’s HV Operations. This role is your opportunity to become a recognised leader in a critical and extremely busy and competitive market.
Responsibilities:
* Develops business opportunities with existing clients and review pipeline plans
* Lead all early project discussions with clients on a design and delivery point of view
* Work closely with BD team on developing business opportunities with new clients
* Escalation point for Clients and ensures client satisfaction during project lifecycle
* Negotiate any potential Variations with clients that project team may be struggling with. Ensuring any EOT’s or Escalations are handled correctly with the clients and can be done with a collaborative approach.
* Ensuring clients are kept informed during tender stage or during validation periods to ensure that they are not surprised by any cost uplifts, program or major lead time issues.
* Working closely with clients at LOI/LNTP stage to ensure future project dates can be met and managing their expectations on project deliverables.
* Leads a team of one or more project managers, commercial managers and lead engineers.
* Receives regular reports from the project manager, commercial manager, lead engineer and/or team leads in order to monitor project performance
* Has authority to make changes to project program and resources
* Attends all major project and principals meetings with clients, attends Monthly internal project meeting and ensures project team are carrying out appropriate level of internal meetings. Attends all weekly review meetings as much as possible.
* Ensures project team is working efficiently with the supporting departments, safety, procurement, quality, planning.
* Reports project performance to Managing Director
* Manages project risks with project teams
* Escalate any site issues to Operations director or regional Operations Manager
* Ensuring project commercials are accurate and processes are being followed
* Involved heavily at sub-contractor appointment stage to ensure no scope gaps
* Review all contract documentation prior to contract signing (program is correct, milestone schedule is correct, Scope of work is clear and risk register is up to date from estimating team)
* Assists Operations Director/Manager in ensuring adequate labour is on project and suitable project team is in place for the duration of the job
* Has Overall accountability for their projects success alongside his respective Project Manager.
Key Skills/Attributes & Experience:
* Degree in engineering, business, or a related discipline, or equivalent operational/technical expertise.
* Minimum of three years’ experience HV operations, with a background in HV Operations.
* Comprehensive knowledge of HV Operations’ inspection and monitoring practices, technologies, and client needs.
* Proven experience in leading innovation.
* Leadership experience in HV Operations.
* Strong relationship-building skills, with the ability to engage effectively with industry peers and clients.
* A proactive, curious, and courageous approach to exploring new opportunities and delivering solutions.
* Cable pull-in Services
* Experience in EHV/HV/LV Installation, Termination & testing up to 235KV