Projects Management Excellence SME

Are you ready to elevate your career with a global leader in construction consulting? Hill International is seeking talented and motivated professionals to join our team! With projects spanning various sectors and locations, Hill International offers a dynamic and stimulating work environment where innovation, collaboration, and excellence are our core values.

Hill International provides comprehensive program, project, and construction management services for clients across diverse sectors undertaking major construction projects worldwide. Our expertise includes cost engineering and estimating, quality assurance, inspection, scheduling, risk management, and claims avoidance. To learn more about Hill International, please visit our website at www.hillintl.com.

We are committed to delivering exceptional project management services and solutions globally. Whether you are an experienced project manager, engineer, or a recent graduate eager to launch your career in the construction industry, we have opportunities that will both challenge and inspire you.
Join us and be part of a team that's shaping the future of the construction industry!

General Description of Role and Responsibilities:

• Partner with department and division leaders to lead implementation of large-scale change/transformations processes across the Commercial and Operations organization.
• Model and apply principles and methods to business processes using a variety of appropriate tools and techniques, such as Process Mapping and capability analysis, to analyze relevant targets and cost savings opportunities.
• Evaluate existing processes using interviews, workshops, document analysis, surveys, Kaizen Events, creating business cases and workflow analysis.
• Identify strengths and areas for process improvement, establishing shared goals between business strategies and improvement initiatives.
• Perform root cause analysis, analyse data for trends and provide recommendations for improvement.
• Meet with business and technical leaders to identify and scope opportunities, outline potential value and ROI, and identify risks and constraints.
• Capture the tactical and strategic business goals that provide traceability through the organization and map them to metrics that provide ongoing governance capability.
• Answer questions from team members about the content or strategy of project tasks.
• Define the data elements shared between the various business units in the enterprise and the relationships between those data elements and processes, people, systems, and other process elements.
• Recognize structural issues within the organization, functional interdependencies, and cross-silo redundancies such as role alignment, process gaps and overlaps, and business capability maturity gaps.
• Provide training and mentorship as required.
• Help project managers identify potential risks and troubleshoot issues related to their area of expertise.
• Communicate with project managers or stakeholders to recommend best practices or processes.
• Share in managing project risks, contingency and mitigation plans.
• Informs themselves of the relevant Quality, Environmental, Safety and Occupational Health Policies, Manuals and Procedures in place within Hill International, and ensures continued compliance with these requirements while employed by Hill.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the line manager/supervisor.

Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge and Skills:

• Bachelor of Engineering or relevant degree from accredited university.
• Minimum 25 years’ experience of direct professional oversight of the following functional areas: Project Controls (Cost, Schedule, Scope, Trends); Environment, Safety & Health; Risk Management; Contracts, Procurement; Financial management; Quality Assurance and Quality Control. Experience gained on large projects.
• Preferably with professional certification in change management.
• Expert knowledge of project process improvement, change management, leadership initiatives and managing change in the infrastructure industry environment with major government and/or semi-government projects (preference for Middle East and in KSA experience).
• Extensive experience in developing project management manuals.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Demonstrated ability to prepare and present effective oral and written reports.
• International Experience: Experience of working internationally (preference KSA experience).