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You have the opportunity to join our team as a Project Leader in Arica, Chile. The Project Leader position have full accountability to deliver business objectives for capital projects from Front-End Loading through Detailed Design & Construction, Commissioning, Return to Operations, Startup and project closeout.

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The Project Leader leads the Project Team in the use of the appropriate Core Project Delivery Process (Core PD) to implement the project.

Project Management and Project performance:

· Develop and ensure the Engineering Work Package is fully aligned with the Business Case and the project Technology Implementation Plan.

· Works with Functional Leaders, Capital Execution Leader, and the core project team to develop the appropriate project execution strategy.

· Leads the project team to meet the business & project objectives and deliverables as outlined in the Business Case, authorization documents & project gate reviews.

· Ensures the project process is followed consistent with the business needs, all required process deliverables are accomplished in a quality manner and leads the pre-Gates and Gate Reviews.

· Defines and analyzes Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) to ensure overall performance expectations for the project are met:

o Project spending/commit schedule





o Project costs versus estimate o Engineering and Procurement milestones and gate reviews o Construction Schedule o Commissioning and Start-up Plan

· Provides primary interface between the Project Team and key stakeholders. o Establishes effective communications within the Project Team to ensure alignment among business and project objectives.

o Develops a communication and review schedule with key stakeholders.

o Communicates project status, risks, deviations and other significant project developments to the key stakeholders.

· Ensures that the asset involved is engineered and constructed to meet the mandatory and recommended requirements of EHS&S; and Process Safety at start-up as well as ongoing business requirements.

· Ensures that field construction has the appropriate level of qualified support to be completed without incident or injury.

· Partners with the Asset Owner and/or the Commissioning and Start-up Leader to ensure a seamless transition from commissioning to start-up to normal operations.

· Responsible for the development and implementation of Project Quality Plans, including auditing work processes and deliverables for compliance, and for meeting agreed upon project quality requirements and expectations.

· Leads the development of the Procurement Plan,



engaging Procurement team timely to define the best approach to each project

· Ensures site personnel are staffed and preparing for commissioning and start-up of the new facilities, including training, procedure updates, maintenance PM records updates, etc.; ensures schedules are aligned with supply chain and operations/maintenance needs, such as TARs, to determine when outages are available if necessary.

· For large projects, leads the process of preparing site personnel to operate the facility including hiring, training personnel, and developing operations procedures, and preparing the operations to safely run the new unit.

· Enforces and applies when needed the Project Change Management process.

People Management (by influence):

· Assembles the Project Team and ensures the necessary roles and functions are represented. Manages project resources (both internal & contractors) as needed during the life of the project to meet the project objectives and execution strategy. Assesses team functional capability. Identifies and resolves expertise gaps.

· Provides leadership for an effective and cohesive team by ensuring roles and responsibilities are clearly understood, team member workloads are reasonable, cross-function communications are adequate, and personality conflicts are managed, for owner and contractor members. Engages outside consultants when needed to support the team.

Communication and documentation:

· Provides primary interface between the Project Team and key stakeholders. o Establishes effective communications within the Project Team to ensure alignment among business and project objectives.

o Develops a communication and review schedule with key stakehol

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