Description:
The Operations Readiness Lead will play a key role in ensuring the development of a comprehensive, coherent and integrated expansion project plan and its successful management and will work side by side with site functional workstreams leaders & Project Managers associated with Project Delivery, reporting through site operations with a strong focus on integration of multiple project workstream deliverables
The Operations Readiness Lead will ensure clear and structured communications between our client's project team, Ops, TSMS, QA, QCL, Maintenance, Logistics, IT, Auto, understand and work through complex linkages related to overall project scope aiming for, right first time facility start-up and successful Process Validation
Responsibiities
- Be a key interface point between the client project and end users to ensure the right priorities are communicated & understood across multiple stakeholders
- Forecasting resource needs across the integrated plan and anticipating and resolving any projected resource issues before they impact project delivery
- Leading a cross functional team, creating and implementing an integrated plan.
- With input from all cross functional stakeholders, identify all the relevant pre manufacturing program elements necessary to be in place to support overall facility operational readiness
- Work with clients project team and site functional representatives to develop an integrated start up plan reflective of key linkages, interdependencies, durations, resource requirements etc.
- Partnering with relevant stakeholders to ensure clear scope alignment and resulting goals and timelines for the project are met.
- Facilitate decision making within the team under tight deadlines.
- Effectively communicating and managing internal and external stakeholders.
- Proactively managing issues, proposing and implementing plans to resolve as needed.
- Provide relevant metrics to appropriate Governance Forums.
Requirements
- Hons Degree or Higher preferably in Engineering or Scientificfield.
- 5+ years Large Scale Capital Project Deliveries experience highly desirable
- Demonstrated project management and delivery of medium to large cross-functional initiatives.
- Demonstrated ability to input and influence decision making for complex technical issues
- Demonstrated ability to manage in a dynamic environment.
- Flexibility to adjust quickly and effectively to frequent change and altered priorities.
- Excellent self-management/organizational skills; manage workload, set team priorities and adjust.
- Ability to interact with multiple functions - Technical Services, Engineering, Quality, QC, IT, Operations and combine work streams into an integrated schedule.
- Demonstrated ability to influence peers and business partners.
- Demonstrated strong communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to identify and prioritize issues, develop and implement solutions.
- High learning agility and flexibility & ability to deal with ambiguity, uncertainty.
- Demonstrated ability to establish key relationships with internal and external contacts.
- Demonstrated ability to understand/influence integration points with business areas/functions
- Strong interpersonal and team building skills; able to develop effective teamwork between team members with diverse interpersonal styles.