Corporate Operations Director

Operations Management

• Provide leadership and management to an engineering and contracting company’s operations arm that mirrors the adopted mission and core values within.
• Drive the company to achieve and surpass; revenue, profitability, cash flow and business goals and objectives.
• Measure and make effective all processes internal and external. Provide timely, accurate and complete reports on the operating condition of the company to the COO.
• Spearhead the communication and implementation of effective growth strategies and processes.
• Collaborate with the management team to develop and implement plans for the operational infrastructure of systems, processes, and personnel designed to accommodate the rapid growth objectives of our organization.
• Motivate and lead a high-performance project management team; attract, recruit and retain required members of the operations team not currently in place; provide mentoring as a cornerstone to the management career development program. 
• Act as lead "client-care officer" through direct contact with every client and partner.
• Foster a goal-oriented environment as well as accountability within the operations.

Project Management

• Complete a 360-project management maturity review for the current portfolio highlighting areas of development such as but not limited to capability, process, governance and structural gaps
• Formulate and implement an action plan to address identified development areas to raise project management maturity level to an aspired best in class level
• Enhance accountability and transparency on the project as well as the operating sector level, delegating and monitoring ownership of project profitability and sound budget management whilst meeting project delivery schedules
• Streamline project operation responsibilities and communication between site locations and corporate functions
• Adopt digital tools and ERP utilization in operations management
• Enhance subcontractor management capabilities across portfolio in different sectors; Marine, Infrastructure & utilities, Bridges
• Enhance reporting structure and process to communicate operational updates clearly and periodically to the COO and executive team
• Build optimization systems to minimize operational waste across operations for high spend items such as steel
• Enhance facility standards and work environment quality across locations

Equipment

• Ensure solid documentation and tracking process across the company’s equipment fleet
• Review and optimize the company’s fleet, recommending investment decisions for equipment fleet between purchasing, renting, and overhauling equipment
• Enhance steel workshop operations and the company’s equipment repair workshop management capabilities
• Ensure maintenance plans and budgets are met, justifying and resolving any variances against plan, whilst fulfilling operational needs
• Define criteria of selection, purchase and rental for all equipment and tool needs to ensure streamlined operations

Inventory and Warehouses

• Build and maintain a capable team for running inventory operations
• Ensure proper standard operating procedures and reporting outputs are generated to serve operations as well as other core functions in the organization such as Project controls, finance and procurement
• Clear management process of asset-classified inventory to maintain and advise on purchase and rental needs
• Team management and coordination for periodic reports generation across sites and central locations