EMS Lead Project Manager

Since its creation in 2014, Harbour has grown to become one of the world’s largest and most geographically diverse independent oil and gas companies.  Today, Harbour is producing between 475,000 and 485,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day with significant production in Norway, the UK, Germany, Argentina and North Africa. Harbour benefits from competitive operating costs and resilient margins, and a broad set of growth options including near-infrastructure opportunities in Norway, unconventional scalable opportunities in Argentina and conventional offshore projects in Mexico and Indonesia. With low GHG emissions intensity and a leading CO2 storage position in Europe, Harbour remains committed to producing oil and gas safely and responsibly to help meet the world’s energy needs. Harbour is headquartered in London with approximately 5,000 staff and contractors across its operations and offices. 

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Purpose of Role:

• The EMS Senior Project Manager is responsible to support the EMS Delivery and Transformation Programme Manager, be a delegate for the EMS Delivery & Transformation Manager and supporting governance, development, delivery and day-today management of the EMS programme 
  
• Expected to support, coach and mentor less senior EMS Project Managers and demonstrate and promote project processes
  
• Responsible for the successful planning, coordination, and implementation of technical and business change within our EMS ecosystem (comprising our digital core, interfaces and associated peripheral applications)
  
• This role generally oversees larger and higher-priority projects within the EMS portfolio, ensuring their delivery meets exceptional standards through a consistent and standardised approach, and aligns with Harbour Energy’s project delivery framework and IT architecture standards.
  
• Responsible for building and maintaining strong relationships with business stakeholders, cross functional teams and supplier resources in the EMS space.

Critical Responsibilities:

Ensure that all activities are carried out in a safe manner, complying with all regulatory requirements, legislation and Harbour Energy HSEQ procedures 

Ethics and Compliance Responsibilities:

Ensure that all activities and behaviours are carried out in accordance with Harbour Energy’s Ethics and Compliance Policies and Procedures, and to complete any compulsory compliance training as required. 

Areas of Accountability, Responsibility and Competence:

• Is responsible for leading and coordinating activities related to the EMS Programme within the IS Portfolio, acting as the delegate for the EMS Delivery and Transformation Programme Manager when required.
  
• Working largely independently of the EMS Delivery & Transformation Manager, support the leadership, development, delivery and day-today management of the EMS Programme 
  
• Supports, coaches and mentors less senior EMS Project Managers on their tasks and projects, including ensuring adherence to the IS project delivery framework & ensuring governance is consistently maintained 
  
• Demonstrates and promotes EMS project processes, to the wider EMS project team, as well as to the business all Business Units. Acts as a marketer of IS strategy as well as IS project delivery framework & governance practices 
  
• Under minimal direction, leads own project planning, scheduling, monitoring, and reporting activities for EMS projects, which will typically be the more significant and business critical projects within the EMs portfolio.
  
• Works closely with business stakeholders and technical teams to ensure scope and requirements are accurate and captured in the appropriate project deliverables
  
• Determines, monitors, and reviews all project economics to include costs, operational budgets, resourcing requirements, and risks
• Contributes to project estimation process for budget and resourcing across Harbour Energy suppliers and technical teams
  
• Monitors and reports the progress and status of their EMS project activities, including supplier performance
  
• Proactively ensures adherence to regulatory and company standards, in particular ensuring changes delivered within our EMS ecosystem support Harbour Energy’s governance, risk and controls framework
  
• Proactively controls project risks and issues taking appropriate steps to escalate challenges with the appropriate IS and business stakeholders
  
• Ensures technical change is implemented following Harbour Energy’s change control process, supported with high quality change communications
  
• Supports the Portfolio and Demand team in their execution of the annual demand request process
  
• Maintains a very good level of awareness on emerging EMS technologies, solutions and services

Critical Skills, Qualifications, Experience, etc.:

• Significant experience of successfully managing EMS related projects
  
• Demonstrable experience of managing IS technical and supplier teams in a cross functional organisation
  
• Very strong leadership skills, with the ability to develop and communicate the project objectives, inspire and motivate staff, and maintain alignment with IS and business strategy
  
• Strong and effectual verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain and “sell” the programme goals and objectives to the stakeholders and to technical leadership
  
• Strong business acumen, including industry and domain-specific knowledge of the organisation and its business units. Familiarity with industry trends and innovation, and how other organisations are using them to drive digital business
  
• Effective conflict resolution, influencing and negotiation experience and skills in an environment with high competition for resources
  
• Strong project planning and execution skills with the ability to develop projects and deliver them successfully against financial and resource constraints
  
• Proven track record with the use of reporting tools to monitor project activities and analyse programme performance
  
• In depth knowledge of project management principles including Waterfall and Agile 

Qualifications in one of the following project delivery methodology or frameworks and experience of others, such as:

• PMI standards
  
• PMP
  
• PRINCE2
  
• Agile
  
• Managing Successful Programmes (MSP)

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