Project Director

Overview

Your Job Functions (Duties & Responsibilities)

• Oversee plant construction to ensure compliance with quality, schedule, and budget agreements with Contractors and WTA.
• Manage HSSE implementation onsite and offsite, maintaining a strong HSSE culture.
• Coordinate activities of the Owner's Engineer, local contractors, local authorities, interface partners, and Contractors.
• Monitor and enforce EPC Contractor's compliance with Saudi Aramco IKTVA and Saudization targets.
• Act as the primary link between the off-taker, Owner's Engineer, EPC Contractor, third party, the Phase 1 Operator, --etc to align battery limits and tie-ins.
• Align technical and schedule interfaces between different contractors, ensuring contract conformity and project needs.
• Monitor Engineering & Procurement, ensure the EPC Contractor issuing the engineering packages and deliver procurement items ahead of construction needs.
• Organize and lead construction and progress management meetings with all stakeholders.
• Identify, assess, and escalate technical deviations, construction risks, and non-conformities to the Project Company CEO, proposing effective mitigation and recovery measures.
• Manage contractual, commercial, and technical matters arising under the EPC Contract and WTA, in coordination with legal and commercial teams.
• Review, evaluate, and provide recommendations on change orders, variations, and claims submitted by contractors and service providers.
• Lead resolution meetings for technical and construction issues encountered on-site and off-site during execution.
• Lead QA/QC oversight by managing the Owner s Engineer site engineering team to witness, verify, and document key inspections and tests in accordance with the approved Inspection and Test Plans (ITPs) and project requirements.
• Lead risk assessment and risk identification workshops with the EPC Contractor and Owner s Engineer, ensuring all project risks are identified, formally recorded in the risk register periodically, and supported by clear mitigation and action plans.
• Interact with Sponsors, Lender's Engineer, Insurance Advisers, and O&M teams.
• Issue progress reports and technical memoranda as required.
• Supervise milestone completion certificates, invoices, and mechanical completion certificates.
• Facilitate the handover of the Project to the O&M Team.
• Host visitors at the site and manage communications with stakeholders.

Contractual/Commercial

• Familiarity with PPP/BOT project structures, project finance documents, EPC contracts, and WTA.
• Timely reporting of contractual/commercial variances and proposing mitigation or alternative solutions.
• Assist in writing contractual letters to stakeholders.
• Identify and anticipate deliverables to relevant parties.
• Coordinate progress of commissioning and testing with Off-taker and Dispatch Control Centre.
• Assist in claims management with Contractors and Service Providers.