Director, Project Management

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Worley is a global company of energy, chemicals and resources experts headquartered in Australia. We partner with our customers to deliver projects and create value across the life of their assets. We specialize in consulting, engineering, procurement and construction across the project lifecycle, with services extending through to operations and decommissioning. Leveraging extensive experience and AI-enabled delivery, we support customers in navigating complexity as they meet today's needs and transition to more sustainable solutions.

Job Tit le : Director de admistracion de proyectos

Provides leadership, governance and technical direction for project delivery across the location portfolio in local market and GID projects delivery from Colombia. The role leads and develops the Project Management function, including Portfolio Managers who oversee groups of projects, and the Project Managers and Project Engineers responsible for individual project delivery for local market and GID projects delivery from Colombia. It ensures projects and portfolios are safely, consistently and effectively delivered in accordance with customer commitments, Worley requirements and the location business plan.

Responsibilities :

Accountable for project management capability, resourcing, assignment, performance, development and succession, as well as portfolio-level visibility of safety, commercial, schedule, quality, customer and risk performance.

Safety, health and wellbeing leadership:

- Provide visible leadership and ensure projects and portfolios comply with Worley HSE requirements, Life and applicable project safety obligations.
- Work through Portfolio Managers, Project Managers and Project Engineers to identify systemic risks, implement proactive initiatives and close performance gaps.

Portfolio governance and delivery assurance:

- Establish a consistent governance cadence across the location portfolio, including regular project and portfolio reviews, escalation and recovery planning.
- Ensure projects are established and executed using approved Worley methodologies, processes, systems, work breakdown structures and reporting requirements.Maintain an integrated view of portfolio health, major milestones, cross-project risks, opportunities, dependencies and resource constraints.
- Ensure material issues receive early intervention and are escalated to the Location Director and relevant functional leaders.

Performance and commercial management:

- Lead performance oversight across HSE, scope, quality, schedule, cost, gross margin, cash flow, change management, customer satisfaction and risk/opportunity management.
- Ensure accurate, standardized and timely reporting at project, portfolio and location level, with clear owners and recovery actions.
- Monitor trends across projects and require early remedial action where performance or forecast outcomes are at risk.
- Oversee project management departmental planning and budget in line with approved business plans and controls.

Project Management function leadership:

- Lead Portfolio Managers, Project Managers and provide functional leadership to Project Managers, Project Engineers and Project Engineering Coordinators across the location.
- Clarify accountabilities, decision rights, performance expectations and interfaces between portfolio, project and functional leadership.
- Create a connected Project Management community that shares lessons learned, good practice and improvement priorities.
- Ensure appropriate coverage and continuity when leaders or team members transition between assignments.

Resource and capability management:

- Own demand, supply and assignment planning for Project Management resources across secured and prospective work.
- Lead or support identification, selection, hiring, onboarding and deployment of suitably qualified Portfolio Managers, Project Managers and Project Engineers.
- Balance workload, capability, development needs and succession requirements when assigning people to portfolios and projects.
- Ensure competency assessment, mentoring, formal learning, workshare exposure and experiential development are embedded in capability plans.

People leadership and talent development:

- Set clear goals and development expectations and ensure effective performance, feedback and development processes are completed.
- Coach leaders, address performance gaps and recognize strong contribution in line with company processes.
- Build succession pipelines for critical portfolio and project leadership roles and support career mobility across projects, locations and regions.
- Foster an inclusive, high-performing environment based on trust, accountability, collaboration and respect.

Customer and stakeholder relationships:

- Ensure customer requirements, contractual commitments and stakeholder expectations are understood and managed across the portfolio.
- Support Portfolio Managers and Project Managers in strategic customer engagement, issue resolution and reputation management.
- Build effective relationships across Operations, Engineering, Project Controls, Commercial, HSE, Quality, Supply Chain, Digital and People teams.

Quality, systems and continuous improvement:

- Champion consistent use of the Worley Management System and applicable Project Management processes, tools and controls.
- Promote assurance, peer review, mini-audits, lessons learned and cross-project sharing as practical mechanisms for capability and performance improvement.
- Identify systemic improvement opportunities and lead implementation of changes that strengthen delivery effectiveness and scalability.

Business development and strategy execution:

- Support proposals and pursuits through project execution strategy, delivery model, resourcing, risk, schedule, cost and customer input.
- Align Project Management priorities and capability plans with the location strategy, pipeline and broader organizational objectives.
- Contribute to negotiations, strategic alliances, workshare planning and customer presentations where required.

Decision-making and authority:

- Makes independent recommendations and decisions within delegated authority for Project Management operations, resource assignments, capability actions and project interventions.
- May have direct and indirect reports and contributes to selection, assignment, development, performance evaluation and reward decisions in accordance with company policy and delegation of authority.
- Operates with broad administrative direction from the Location Director and collaborates with regional and global Project Management leadership.

Key success measures:

- Safe and compliant delivery across the location portfolio.
- Reliable portfolio forecasting and early visibility of risks, opportunities and recovery actions.
- Project performance against customer, schedule, cost, margin, cash, quality and risk commitments.
- Appropriate capability and capacity for secured work and the forward pipeline.
- Customer confidence, effective stakeholder relationships and disciplined issue resolution.
- Improvement in Project Management capability, succession strength, mobility and retention.

What you will bring:

- Minimum Education Required: Bachelor’s Degree / Postgraduate Degree
Minimum Experience Required: 10+ years
- Demonstrated experience leading medium and large projects and overseeing multiple projects or portfolios with moderate to high risk elements.
- Experience leading project management professionals directly and through other leaders.
- Strong understanding of project governance, commercial performance, project controls, risk, quality, workshare and multidisciplinary delivery.
- Experience in multicultural and multinational environments
- Project management certification from a globally recognized organization such as IPMA, APM, PMI or AIPM.
- Experience supporting proposals, customer negotiations, portfolio governance and business planning.
- Experience with engineering, procurement and field or construction support interfaces.
- English C1

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