Contract: Construction Manager / USA

Construction Manager

Location: San Antonio, TX

Schedule: Standard 10-day fortnight

The construction manager will be required to lead and supervise roustabout crews, PSV and safety system testing crews, weed maintenance crews, crane operations, gas lift/wellhead compression commissioning, rod lift/pumping unit installations/maintenance, and general day to day field-level production activities.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide constructability input during front-end engineering to ensure safe, efficient designs with minimum impact on operations and to ensure realistic fabrication and installation schedules
• Assist in the identification, selection and contracting of all resources required for the execution and management of construction activities
• Establish rigorous processes for execution, monitoring and reporting of all work against established safety, cost, schedule and performance measures;
• Identify key risks to delivery and ensure adequate risk mitigation or contingency plans are in place; - Lead all construction and support commissioning activities, including handover to operations;
• By risk management lead to provide inputs for construction risk response planning
• By project development manager to provide inputs for performance targets (construction duration, cost estimate, etc.)
• Provide construction input to the project lead during design
• By project lead to endorse the single option selected
• By project lead to provide input into the construction delivery risks associated with the project
• By project manager to endorse procurement and contracting strategy
• By project lead to endorse project execution plan
• By project lead to provide input into the commissioning and S / U plan
• By project lead to endorse procurement and contracting strategy
• By project lead to prepare PMAC for construction in define stage
• Participate in the selection of and provide construction contractor performance management
• Provide construction input into the site specific PEP
• Execute the MoC process for any changes during construction
• By project lead to provide assistance as needed to execute VIPs
• By project lead to provide input for GoC, commissioning, and Start-up
• By project lead to provide construction input into schedule requirements
• By project lead to prepare PMAC for execute stage
• Endorse the final plan, then execute against it, monitor and intervene as required
• Provide challenge to any changes once design freeze has been executed and force all changes to be captured through the MoC process
• Use project baseline for look ahead planning during construction and intervene as required
• Execute the MoC process for any changes during construction
• Execute the Ops MoC process for any changes during construction
• Monitor and intervene with fabrication and construction contractors to meet established
• HSSE targets, project schedule, quality, and cost
• By PSCM for development of fabrication and construction contracts
• Provide selected contractors for fabrication and construction contracts to PSCM
• Review the PMAC report for construction activities per the agreed quantitative progress measurement plan and take necessary intervention as required
• Incorporate requirements of handover into construction activities and provide documentation to commissioning
• Ensure the proper construction QC has been executed according to the QA / QC plan
• Ensure construction contractor performance and relationship management is executed according to the plan established in the define stage
• Provide GOC documentation to the project lead
• Implement IM and CoW; - Provide input to capture lessons learned and enter them into the knowledge management / empirical databases / shared learning system at the conclusion of each stage of execute activity
• Coordinate the demobilization and placement of construction staff on new assignments.

Required Experience: To be considered for this role, applicants must have the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent
• Extensive experience in onshore oil and gas operations particularly around delivering field-level expertise with respect to day-to-day operations and construction/maintenance activities at on-shore oil and gas well pads.
• Experience with design-phase planning and construction
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 25% of the time in order to fulfill the responsibilities of this job
• Demonstrate high ethical conduct in areas of procurement, contracts, evaluation of contractors and all other areas associated with procurement