Project Manager Pdss

Austal USA is a global defense prime contractor and a designer and manufacturer of defense and commercial ships. For more than 27 years Austal has been a leader in the design, construction and maintenance of revolutionary ships for governments, navies and ferry operators around the world. More than 255 vessels have been delivered in that time.

POSITION: Project Manager-Singapore

REPORTS TO: General Manager
- Singapore

SUPERVISES: Assigned Project Leads, Project Coordinators & Contractors

Matrix Organizational Support Leads related to Singapore Homeport Operations

AUTHORITIES / RESPONSIBILITIES: Responsible for managing the Project Team consisting of Project Coordinators and matrix organization functional team to ensure efficient execution of CMAV & PMAV, other service and repair work per contract.
- Leads the development of an executable Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) with focus on logical sequence.
- Monitors work being executed against the baseline schedule and budgets
- Able to adapt to a dynamic environment, while simultaneously maintaining a cohesive schedule, integrity of activity links in IMS and established costs
- Identifies required team composition for Project Team as well as provides input to the Matrix functional support teams’ composition.
- Efficiently orchestrates all Austal and subcontractor labor to ensure schedule and cost expectations are met
- Assigns agreed labor and material costs to IMS activities which is used to develop appropriate labor and material planning and timing of expenditures for both.
- Works with prime contractor to ensure the Prime’s IMS as related to Austal activities is correctly and effectively incorporated to their schedule.
- Develops and monitors project specific labor and materials requirements and their availability in support of the IMS
- Ensures weekly status accurately depicts percent complete, remaining labor and material costs and that it is input into the Austal status tool for proper estimated at completion (EAC) costs
- Leads team to effectively identify services needed before task execution, in support of Austal related activities
- Maintains effective deck plate working relationships across the functional team, prime contractor, subcontractors, ships force and local communities.
- Creates and maintains project specific metrics and financial health data, identifying and communicating risk, areas of concern and steps being taken to mitigate negative impact, to the PM.
- Prepares and presents weekly Executive Review report which accurately portray project status, issues with mitigation plans, financial health, schedule compliance, risk and opportunity in addition to identifying areas where the Prime team indicates signs of risk to the program success.
- Prepares and presents Navy Brief weekly addressing metrics in support of the IMS, Austal responsible, design packages and materials and issues which pose risk to the schedule.
- Oversees the preparation of Scopes of Work and subsequent bidder selection under the governance of assigned procurement resources, along with appropriate make buy analysis using Austal labor and reviews with PM as directed.
- Establishes and maintains positive rapport with USN counterparts while practicing respectful assertiveness achieving Navy mission objectives and operating within Austal’s funded scope ensuring growth work is properly tasked and funded.
- Pursues and anticipates emergent work items and associated tasking
- Meets daily with the project team, Hull Lead meetings, to review open issues, actions required in support of cost and schedule, identifying and tracking items which may impact cost and or schedule, while maintaining the Daily Actions Log.
- Monitors housekeeping standards and assigns areas of responsibilities, Compliance to PPE requirements, safe behavior as appropriate to Austal responsible work items. Works with Prime contractor on areas outside of responsibilities to ensure a safe working environment for all.
- Maintains records of quality, OQE, TIPs etc. as evidence of task completion IAW the requirements.
- Able to function as Project Manager in the planning and support of the prime contractor role while also capable of performing duties as Project Manager with Austal as the prime contractor.
- Off-site travel is required and is estimated to potentially make up to 30% of work time. Project Manager / team support may be tasked by the government to support planned under way events as well. Some additional overseas travel is a possible although no travel to declared warzones is anticipated.
- Oversee the Contract Administration of the service and repair program for ships once they arrive in Singapore, maintaining strict cost and quality controls over the process.
- Create and disseminate Post Delivery information/lessons learned to the appropriate personnel allowing for real time corrections.
- Practices awareness of the bigger picture while reinforcing the meticulous execution of project specific i