Manager Package Management

**Job Overview**:
Subsea Package Manager utilizes their technical acumen, commercial acumen, management skills, and leadership skills to oversee all aspects of delivering a package from the RFQ to site handover. Their core responsibility is ensuring the package is delivered on budget and on schedule while abiding by Quality, Health, Safety, Environment, and Security (QHSES) and project requirements. A successful Package Manager identifies risks and opportunities and sets up mitigation and capture plans accordingly. This entails developing a strategic outlook for the package and ensuring that all matters are resolved with the involvement of the right stakeholders and in a timely fashion. Package Manager must report status and outlook at an executive level to the Project Management team and, at times, Corporate Management.

Our ingenuity fuels daily life. Together, we’ve forged some of the most trusted partnerships across the energy value chain to make what was once just an idea a reality: laying subsea infrastructure thousands of feet below sea level, installing platforms hundreds of miles from shore, using our expertise to design and build offshore wind infrastructure, and reshaping the onshore landscape to deliver the energy products the world needs safely and sustainably.

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**Key Tasks and Responsibilities**:

- Deliver a package (purchase orders and subcontracts) on budget and schedule, and abide by QHSES and project requirements; complexity, criticality, and value of packages typically vary and are assigned and adjusted at the discretion of the function and project
- Maintain a clear and thorough dialogue with the Project Management Team, and provide accurate and periodic status updates as well as both short and long-term outlooks
- Identify risks and opportunities, and maintain a strategic outlook throughout the execution of the package; such discussion is held periodically with the Project Management team for buy-in
- Maintain an accurate account of the package cost, commitments, changes, and forecast
- Provide inputs and ensure alignment with Project Controls on current and forecasted cost and schedule
- Maintain an accurate account of the package cost, commitments, changes, and forecast
- Analyze ROS dates with the schedulers to identify priorities and, if applicable, Installation Work Packages and Advance Work Packages to be set up and implemented
- Track cost and schedule bid basis against actuals
- Interface with all stakeholders to achieve package goals; Stakeholders include but are not limited to the Supplier/Subcontractor, Engineering, Supply Chain, QHSES, Construction, Installation (if applicable), Commissioning, Joint Venture Partners, and, as needed, the client
- Arrange and attend periodic status meetings with suppliers and clients as required
- Manage formal correspondence with suppliers, clients, and other involved parties
- Attend key meetings such as the progress meeting, kick-off meeting, pre-inspection meeting, and others
- Oversee and enforce all day-to-day applicable processes involved and interface across various functions to identify and resolve any technical or commercial matters, and if unavoidable, then resolve any bottlenecks
- Enforce the Management of Change process and Project Change Notices
- Oversee the documentation process and manage priorities to ensure the most effective delivery from a cost and schedule aspect; this conversation must be coordinated between the suppliers, McDermott, and the client as applicable
- Review key documents such as the Technical Bid Evaluations, Commercial Bid Evaluations, Purchase Orders, and supplier data
- Work with the end user to ensure alignment and expectations are met
- Ensure that the prime contract flow-downs are correctly administered, including variations
- Oversee the planning, performance, and resource allocation of their team throughout the project
- Could potentially report to the Package Manager or Senior Package Manager on a project
- Develop and maintain contingency planning and lessons learned
- Own and lead the implementation, enforcement, and verification of compliance with all McDermott policies and procedures
- Ensure employees understand their responsibility and authority to effectively implement the requirements of all McDermott policies and procedures
- Ensure the timely completion of all mandatory training by themselves and their teams

**Essential Qualifications and Education**:

- Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent) in Engineering or Supply Chain Management (or a relevant discipline)
- 10 years of relevant experience (ideally in Engineering, Project/Package Management, Manufacturing, or similar)
- General Management experience is a plus
- Strong negotiation skills
- Technical knowledge of all phases of an Engineering, Procurement, Construc