Responsibilities:

Project Management

• Always ensure full compliance to CDE’s and our customers’ health & safety requirements within the region ensuring you and those you work alongside get ‘Home Safe Every Day’.  

• Ensure compliance with CDE continuous improvement culture 'Do It Right'.   

• Learn about the project phases that exist within CDE from Concept through to Commissioning and the challenges that can arise within each.

• Develop the skill set to ensure that you can approach each of these project phases with competence and confidence.

• Become comfortable and familiar with the documentation that exists for each phase of a customer project.

• Understand the importance of live and accurate information and the presentation of facts to the customer.

• Ensure that good relationships are fostered internally and that real time communication is free flowing and accurate.

• To operate in line with the CDE Project Management framework.

• To develop working knowledge of project management best practice. 

Customer Relations

• To develop awareness of contractual arrangements for each assigned project.

• Spend time with CDE Legal and finance teams to understand the commercial and contractual arrangements that exist within projects.

• Visit customers on site and attend internal customer visits.

• Spend time with our internal customers and collaborators to understand stakeholder roles and responsibilities.

Timeline & Budget Management

• Develop cognisance of the concept and planning phases of each project and the planning outputs from these.

• Understand that having an adaptable response is often required and how to ensure that as changes arise they are communicated and the system is updated promptly and fully. Become familiar with the SCR process.

• Become familiar with the project forecasting initiative for budget control.

• Assist when necessary to keep projects on time and be aware of formal notification documentation that need to be submitted to customers when we encounter delays that affect timelines

• Be aware of payment milestones, the invoicing process and the conversations that can arise when trying to seek payment.

• Understand the escalation process that ensures that no equipment leaves CDE without payment – unless approved by the Financial Controller

Communications & Reporting

• Develop and understanding of the monitoring and control reports and data that are ustilised within the department to deliver projects and to drive business improvements.

• Understand the performance management that is in place and use to measure both individual and team levels.

• Become familiar with the reports and documents that are utilised to inform internal and external stakeholders about project progess

Key to progression:

·       Show a desire and passion for Project Management and a willingness to learn.

·       Demonstrate the ability to show discernment with regards to the information that will help the project and that which may potentially create ambiguity.

·       Operate with a spirit of transparency and trust. Provide constructive challenge when necessary.

·       Visit customer sites with PM and attend PM team meetings

·       Conduct rotations within CDE departments