Upstream Our Client in Saudi Arabia is looking for a Project Manager for their Groundwater project.
Note: Minimum experience requirement: 15 years. This is a mandatory screening criterion.
Role Summary
We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to hold overall responsibility for the delivery, integration and governance of the complete groundwater rising-level management program. The program runs over 36 months and comprises five interdependent tasks: an integrated groundwater monitoring program, an interactive GIS database library, assessment and update of the design package, a city-wide water-balance study, and groundwater modeling with a Master Plan to 2050.
The Project Manager is the single point of accountability to the client, leading the multidisciplinary team, owning the contract and its commercial terms, and ensuring every task is completed on time, to specification, and to the client’s acceptance. The role integrates all five tasks into one coherent program and represents SLB in all client and stakeholder matters.
Core Responsibilities
Overall Program Leadership & Integration
Hold overall responsibility for the completion and integration of all activities across the five tasks and for the timely submission of every report in accordance with the Scope of Services.
Represent our Client in all matters, including meetings with the client and all stakeholders, and act as primary end client contact.
Prepare a work plan for each team member, coordinate the work of the whole team, and set performance targets governing both progress and quality of submissions.
Ensure the active involvement of stakeholders (client, municipality, national water company, geological survey, ministry, civic bodies) throughout the program, and lead the required stakeholder and upper-management workshops.
Ensure the requirements of the Scope of Services for each specialty are fulfilled in a timely manner and to the client’s satisfaction.
Accountability
The Project Manager is the single point of accountability for the whole program: for integrating the five tasks, for the quality and timeliness of every deliverable, for contractual and commercial compliance, for quality and HSE governance, and for a clean handover of all systems, models and training to the client at program close.
Program Milestones the Role Governs
The Project Manager is accountable for on-time delivery of each task’s milestone deliverables across the 36-month term:
A – Inception report; monthly monitoring; damage & early-warning report; task completion. Term to M36
B – Inception report; GIS database library for as-built networks; task completion. Term to M18
C – Inception report; tender-document templates & updated package; urgent tender packages; task completion. Term to M12
D – Inception report; water-balance report; water-reuse report; reuse pilot design; task completion. Term to M30
E – Inception report; detailed model & real-time modeling; model assessment; Master Plan; task completion. Term to M33
All – Monthly progress reports; final program report. Term M1 – M36
Task Delivery Oversight (Tasks A–E)
Task A — Monitoring: oversee the integrated groundwater, wadi and drain monitoring program, telemetry roll-out, damage surveys and the early-warning system report.
Task B — Database Library: oversee delivery of the interactive GIS/database library for as-built groundwater networks, including the hydrological information system and dashboard.
Task C — Design Package: oversee assessment and update of design criteria, methodology, specifications and tender packages, including urgent-project designs on client request.
Task D — Water Balance: oversee the city-wide water-balance study, water-reuse study and reuse pilot design across the defined sub-basins.
Task E — Modeling & Master Plan: oversee the groundwater model, scenario and reliability analysis, the 2050 Master Plan and the decision-support tool handed to the client.
Planning, Scheduling & Reporting
- Submit and maintain a detailed program schedule covering all sub-tasks, updated monthly and whenever required.
- Prepare weekly and monthly progress reports (activities, status, progress vs. plan, delays and mitigation, cash flow, team status, deliverables and submittals) and the final program report.
- Maintain the Contract Master Deliverables List and manage all submittals through the mandated electronic document management system.
- Track milestone deliverables against the contractual submission schedule and safeguard on-time delivery of each task inception, interim and completion report.
Contract & Commercial Management
- Own the contract and ensure compliance with all legal and contractual requirements across every task.
- Manage statements/invoicing on the basis of completed, individually-priced deliverables, and administer contractual retention, variations, extensions of time and partial withdrawal provisions.
- Proactively manage delay and deficiency exposure, recognizing the contractual penalty regime (delay penalties scaling to 20%, deficiency penalties scaling to 20% on performance shortfalls) and driving corrective action to avoid them.
- Manage changes, technical-dispute resolution and corrective-action processes in line with the contract’s execution-of-services provisions.
Quality, HSE & Governance
- Ensure a Project Quality Plan (ISO 9001 / ISO 10005) is produced within 30 days of commencement and that a dedicated, independent Quality Manager is appointed with direct senior-level reporting.
- Ensure an HSE Plan and dedicated HSE Manager/Leader are in place, independent of the project organization, and that all applicable Kingdom and client safety, health and environmental standards are met.
- Carry out quality assurance of all reports submitted to the client and ensure non-conformities and complaints are resolved within contractual timeframes.
- Safeguard client-supplied property and ensure any damage is reported within 24 hours, per contract.
- Provide and direct a complete multidisciplinary team (design, geotechnical, modeling, hydrogeology, procurement, remote sensing, GIS, QA/QC, HSE, document control) with key personnel based in Riyadh
- Secure client approval before any change of key personnel and scale the team at clients cost where needed to meet program requirements.
- Ensure client staff are trained on all delivered systems (monitoring, telemetry, database/GIS, models) and that all software, models and equipment are installed, tested and handed over at program close.
- Supervise the analysis and assessment of all data collected through the history of the groundwater program.
Team, Resources & Handover
- Provide and direct a complete multidisciplinary team (design, geotechnical, modeling, hydrogeology, procurement, remote sensing, GIS, QA/QC, HSE, document control) with key personnel based in Riyadh.
- Secure client approval before any change of key personnel and scale the team at SLB’s cost where needed to meet program requirements.
- Ensure client staff are trained on all delivered systems (monitoring, telemetry, database/GIS, models) and that all software, models and equipment are installed, tested and handed over at program close.
- Supervise the analysis and assessment of all data collected through the history of the groundwater program.
Key Competencies
Program leadership – Directs concurrent multidisciplinary workstreams and integrates them into one coherent, on-time program.
Contract & commercial – Command of statements, retention, variations, EOT and penalty exposure; protects SLB’s commercial position.
Client & stakeholders – Confident primary contact; leads workshops and manages government and regulatory interfaces.
Quality & HSE – Embeds ISO 9001 quality and HSE governance with independent QM and HSE leads.
Planning & control – Rigorous scheduling, progress tracking and reporting against contractual milestones.
Delivery assurance – Drives corrective action early to avoid delay and deficiency penalties and secure client acceptance.
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