Principal Package Management Spec

Job overview

Key tasks and responsibilities

• Deliver purchase order and/or subcontract packages on budget and schedule, observing QHSES and project requirements.
• Provide the Project Management Team with periodic status updates and short- and long-term outlooks.
• Identify risks and opportunities and maintain a strategic outlook throughout package execution.
• Track package cost, commitments, changes, forecasts, and bid basis against actuals; align cost and schedule forecasts with Project Controls.
• Analyze ROS dates with schedulers and establish installation or advance work packages where applicable.
• Coordinate with suppliers, subcontractors, engineering, supply chain, QHSES, construction, installation, commissioning, joint venture partners, and clients as applicable.
• Arrange and attend supplier and client status meetings, progress meetings, kick-offs, PIMs, and other key meetings; manage formal correspondence.
• Oversee day-to-day processes and cross-functional resolution of technical or commercial matters and bottlenecks.
• Enforce Management of Change and Project Change Notice processes; oversee documentation and priorities for effective cost and schedule delivery.
• Review technical and commercial bid evaluations, purchase orders, and supplier data; administer prime-contract flow-downs and variations.
• Work with end users to align expectations; oversee team planning, performance, and resource allocation.
• Maintain contingency plans and lessons learned.

Essential qualifications and education

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or a relevant discipline.
• 8–12 years of relevant experience, ideally in Engineering, Project or Package Management, Manufacturing, or similar.
• Technical knowledge of EPCI project phases and the relevant package domain is preferred.
• Commercial knowledge of contracts, purchase orders, and supply chain disciplines including proposals, purchasing, expediting, logistics, and material management.
• Strong understanding of QHSES requirements and ability to ensure compliance.
• Knowledge of requisitioning from bid and clarifications through purchase order award, execution, receiving, and possible commissioning.
• Proactive risk and opportunity identification, leadership qualities, and effective written, verbal, and public-speaking skills.
• Willingness to travel to shops, supplier offices, headquarters, job sites, labs, and other relevant locations; extended deployment may be required.
• PMP and/or PE is a plus.

About McDermott

Travel and work locations

• Travel to supplier and project locations is required as needed, with possible extended deployment at a supplier location or job site.