IT Lead

**Petrofac is a leading international service provider to the energy industry, with a diverse client portfolio including many of the world’s leading energy companies.**

We design, build, manage and maintain infrastructure for our clients. We recruit, reward, and develop our people based on merit regardless of race, nationality, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, marital status or disability. We value our people and treat everyone who works for or with Petrofac fairly and without discrimination.

The world is re-thinking its energy supply and energy security needs; planning for a phased transition to alternative energy sources. We are here to help our clients meet these evolving energy needs.

This is an exciting time to join us on this journey.

We support flexible working requests and have adopted a hybrid approach for most of our office-based roles. We ask employees to be present in the office at least three days per week.

**_Are you ready to bring the right energy to Petrofac and help us deliver a better future for everyone?_**

**JOB TITLE: IT LEAD - DIGITAL PROGRAMMES**

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Coordinating with cross discipline team members to make sure that all parties are on track with project requirements, deadlines, and schedules.
- Meeting with project team members to identify and resolve issues.
- Establishing effective project communication plans and ensuring their execution.
- Facilitating change requests to ensure that all parties are informed of the impacts on schedule and budget.
- Coordinating the development of user manuals, training materials and other documents as needed to enable successful implementation and turnover of the process or system to the clients.
- Obtaining customer acceptance of project deliverables.
- Managing customer satisfaction within project transition period.
- Conducting post project evaluation and identifying successful and unsuccessful project elements.
- Perform cost-benefit and business case analysis to identify and execute projects to drive out cost and/or improve profitability.
- Quickly learn new technologies and remain apprised of industry trends to assess emerging trends to solve Petrofac challenges.
- Able to balance and execute multiple projects and demonstrate a sense of urgency to deliver on-time and on-budget.
- Define, scope, and lead applicable Digital projects, undertaking all aspects of the planning process and maintain plus manage detailed plans throughout the project lifecycle, taking account of dependencies and resource requirements.
- Work with all stakeholders, contributors and suppliers to ensure project deliverables are met to plan and to budget.
- Create the necessary project lifecycle documentation, ensuring all project documents are complete, accurate, current and stored appropriately.
- Work with other IT specialist areas to establish and assess the impact of possible solutions on related systems and processes.
- Investigate business challenges and co-ordinate the selection, design and implementation of the most appropriate solution.
- Capture and translate business requirements effectively, acting as liaison conduit to more technical partners.
- Ensure that the programs and portfolios are aligned to operational and strategic objectives.

**ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS**:

- B.Sc. or M.Sc. IT / Engineering degree (or equivalent) and professional background in IT augmented by considerable Digital/IT Project Management experience.
- Professional project management certifications - PMP or Prince 2 Practitioner.
- Familiar with and able to adhere to project management methodologies and tools.
- Experience in process improvement methods: Example: Lean or Process re-engineering.
- Experience in creating cost benefit analysis and business cases.
- Experience in our core technologies is a must (example: Azure, AI/ML, Oracle products, broader Microsoft technologies) and a curiosity to learn about new technology.
- 10+ years managing complex IT programs.
- 5+ years managing Digital programs.
- Program Management experience.
- Exceptional stakeholder analysis & communication skills.
- Problem solving and decision making.
- Business planning and management.
- Customer relationship building.
- Time management
- Accurate and timely reporting.
- Negotiation and convincing skills.
- Track record of managing business and technical projects of strategic significance via third party suppliers.
- Track record of managing AI/ML, Big Data, IoT enterprise digital projects.
- A proven ability to work in a collaborative style, building and developing effective customer and service provider relationships.
- Natural communicator and presenter with proven ability to manage, influence and coach internal stakeholders, steering them towards agreed outcomes.
- Self-starter with strong critical thinking skills, and the ability to solve complex problems in a methodical way.
- Strong organizational skills; ability to scope, plan, and execute mult