Principal Package Management Spec

Role overview

Package delivery and controls

• Deliver packages to budget, schedule, QHSES, and project requirements; package complexity, criticality, and value may vary.
• Maintain regular Project Management Team dialogue and accurate status updates and outlooks.
• Identify risks and opportunities, develop mitigation or capture plans, and maintain a strategic package outlook.
• Track costs, commitments, changes, forecasts, and bid basis against actuals; align forecasts with Project Controls.
• Analyze ROS dates with schedulers and establish priorities; create Installation Work Packages and Advance Work Packages where applicable.

Stakeholders, contracts, and documentation

• Coordinate suppliers, subcontractors, engineering, supply chain, QHSES, construction, installation, commissioning, joint venture partners, and clients.
• Arrange and attend supplier/client status meetings, progress and kick-off meetings, PIMs, and other key meetings; manage formal correspondence.
• Resolve technical and commercial matters and bottlenecks across functions; enforce Management of Change and Project Change Notice processes.
• Oversee documentation and delivery priorities with suppliers and clients; review technical and commercial bid evaluations, purchase orders, and supplier data.
• Work with end users to align expectations and administer prime-contract flow-downs and variations.

Team and continuous improvement

• Oversee team planning, performance, and resource allocation throughout the project.
• Develop contingency plans and maintain lessons learned.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or a relevant discipline.
• 8–12 years of relevant experience, ideally in Engineering, Project/Package Management, Manufacturing, or similar.
• EPCI project-phase knowledge and package-domain knowledge are preferred.
• Commercial knowledge of contracts, purchase orders, and supply chain disciplines such as proposals, purchasing, expediting, logistics, and material management.
• Strong understanding of QHSES requirements and the ability to ensure compliance.
• Understand requisitioning from bid and clarifications through purchase order award, execution, receiving, and sometimes commissioning.

Additional qualifications

• Proactive approach to risks and opportunities involving quality, safety, budget, and schedule; effective written, verbal, and public speaking skills.
• Willingness to travel to shops, supplier offices, headquarters, job sites, labs, and other locations; extended supplier or job-site deployment may be required.
• PMP and/or PE is a plus.