Manager - Project Engineering

Role purpose

Project leadership and delivery

• Provide strategic, technical, operational, financial, and managerial leadership for successful project implementation.
• Ensure the program is technically sound, evidence-based, and consistent with funder and stakeholder priorities.
• Oversee project activities, outputs, outcomes, administration, reporting, budgets, financial transactions, project plans, and performance.
• Ensure annual work-plan results meet quality standards and timeline and budget parameters.
• Ensure progress follows contractual obligations and programmatic targets and deliverables.

People, budgets, and evaluation

• Select and train program staff, assign responsibilities, supervise, and manage performance.
• Direct budget pipeline development and monitoring, and conduct monthly reviews of activities and financial deliverables.
• Develop monitoring and evaluation plans for successive project phases.
• Authorize the function's financial budgeting process and direct, coordinate, and evaluate the function.

Stakeholders and management

• Act as the primary project contact and liaison.
• Advise general managers on program management, organizational development, education, training, capacity building, and partner collaboration.
• Carry out hiring, training, work assignment, performance appraisal, employee relations, problem resolution, and organizational structure responsibilities.

Safety and improvement

• Follow environmental, health, safety, and quality policies and promote a safety culture.
• Provide environmental, health, and safety leadership with a goal of zero incidents and environmental events.
• Develop operational excellence requirements, coach staff, and contribute to continuous improvement.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering.
• More than 10 years of total experience.
• More than 5 years of progressive experience leading Project Engineering activities.

Preferred qualification

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is preferred.