Processing Area Manager

Area Manager, Processing

Position Overview

The Area Manager, Processing is responsible for providing leadership, coordination, and oversight of the processing scope within a major project environment. As a key member of the Integrated Project Team (IPT), the incumbent will be accountable for delivering project objectives across the full project lifecycle, including engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning.

This role works closely with consultants, contractors, and cross-functional project teams to ensure scope is executed safely, efficiently, on schedule, and within budget while maintaining compliance with project procedures, policies, and governance requirements.

Key Responsibilities

General duties will include but are not limited to:

• As a key member of the IPT, carries clear responsibility and accountability for the delivery of the objectives for the processing scopes, and takes into consideration the full project lifecycle including engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning.

• Managing day to day operations within the designated area, ensuring activities are executed in accordance with the project plan.

• Coordinating with consultants, contractors and project team members to proactively identify and address issues in their area.

• Collaborates with functional teams (engineering, procurement, contracts and construction) to ensure that scope is executed to the appropriate standards within each project function.

• Coordinates, in conjunction with other area managers, between interfacing functional areas to ensure no aspects of the project are overlooked or lag in progress.

• Coordinates and monitors area team members in their performance and influences their activities as necessary to ensure project requirements are achieved.

• Minimizes interface problems and project delays by coordinating the different functions and recommending the order of work.

• Monitors and controls their area of the project inline with the detailed scope, cost and schedule control baselines and manages any project changes in terms of this agreed baseline.

• Exercises budgetary control to ensure costs are not exceeded without proper authority.

• Provide such information as is required by the Area Manager and Project Director to obtain additional authorization where necessary.

• Ensures governance on their project area, specifically compliance to project delegations of authority, procedures, and policies.