The Contract Engineering Manager has the responsibility to ensure delivery of all (or part of) the engineering, procurement, manufacturing, construction, and commissioning activities for the life cycle of the contract or work package in accordance with the overall Project schedule. To ensure planning and delivery is in accordance with all safety, quality, time, and cost parameters to meet the needs of the Project. Reports directly to a Senior Project Manager and is responsible for the direction of activities associated with the full life cycle delivery of a contract or work package assigned to them.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Assist in securing the required resources to meet their project requirements, ensuring the maintenance of SQEP for any assigned resource and promptly identifying any personnel shortfalls or issues within their project team
• Assist the Senior Project Manager to develop and implement strategies and plans in line with the overall programme execution plan (PEP), setting out how the programme of work will be managed, organised, and executed.
• Maintain effective communications with all stakeholders and executing the project or PEP strategies within their contract or package of work
• Drive the delivery of the contract or package activities to ensure they are delivered safely on time, to budget, meeting business & technical requirements. Monitor and manage the progress of the programme - track progress against milestones, deadlines, budget and provide key stakeholders with reports on these matters  
• Anticipate, manage, and resolve issues within the contact or package. Identify risks and facilitate the resolution of all issues raised, develop, and update the programme budget
• Ensure schedules are developed and maintained for the contract or package of work. Ensure such schedules are consistent with overall Project schedules and escalate any discrepancies
• Ensure that lessons-learnt and knowledge-capture are practiced as business as usual.
• Interface with other programmes to ensure a high-level view of how the total project is progressing and to identify and adopt the use of best practice
• Ensure that contract or package contractual requirements are fulfilled

The nature of the role is to independently deliver activities in the designated contracts, while recognising and managing the impacts of the programme on the wider Project.

The Contract Engineering Manager will apply a project management approach to activities relating to design principles and system design to ensure all activities are delivered safely, to quality, budget, and schedule.

The Contract Engineering Manager is responsible for the delivery of a specific set of activities to time, cost, safety, and quality including the day-to-day management of specific contracts and the Level 3 and Level 4 schedule (Detailed Control Schedules) which provide detailed weekly and monthly work execution sequences.

The Contract Engineering Manager will be required to lead diverse project team members to deliver activities within their programme, being responsible for independently setting up and managing a near term work plan to drive the delivery of work on a week by week basis, setting up and compliance with a budget for their areas of activity; development and operation of a risk log– challenging any increase in costs and developing options to reduce cost, establishing and managing the interfaces between their work scope and the work of the other project managers, setting up and operating the quality plan and the change control for their contracts.