General Manager – Infrastructure Development

at Kenya Pipeline
Location Nairobi, Kenya
Date Posted July 10, 2020
Category Management
Operations
Job Type Full-time
Currency KES

Description

 

  • Reporting to the Managing Director, the role is responsible for provision of leadership to heads of
    departments with directorate mandate for Projects Research Planning & Design as well as Projects
    Construction departments.
  • The job holder will guide the delivery of the entire spectrum of the respective departmental strategies.
  • A key part of this role will be to provide leadership in projects management

    Key Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for projects research, planning, design, construction and civil works.
  • Responsible for commissioning and projects take-over to ensure that the company funds are
    efficiently utilized during all stages of the projects and that they are implemented in accordance
    with the contracts to guarantee efficiency, cost effectiveness and timely completion.
  • Carry out continuous monitoring and evaluation and provide technical advice.
  • Promote quality achievement and performance improvement throughout the organization by
    ensuring compliance with national and internal standards and legislation.
  • Provide technical leadership to multidisciplinary teams to enable them to develop, implement and evaluate strategic corporate plans and budgets aimed at improving performance standards
    and operational efficiencies.
  • Writing and submitting project charters and/or business cases in order to secure resource
    commitments (e.g. Budgets, personnel and business systems) from the Board and Executive
    that will enable execution of initiatives.

    Key Qualifications and Experience

    To be appointed to this role, the successful candidate must be a Kenyan citizen and have;

  • Master’s Degree from a recognized institution
  • Bachelor of Science in any Engineering field from a recognized university
  • Be a Registered Professional Engineer with ERB with a current valid practicing license
  • Minimum of twelve (12) years relevant experience five (5) of which should be at senior
    management level in a large and

    busy organization.

  • Corporate Member to relevant professional body – IEK.
  • Fulfils the requirements of Chapter Six of the Constitution of Kenya

    Key Competencies

  • Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of industry requirements including broad knowledge of international trends in Oil and gas Industry and/or engineering.
  • Strong well-developed interpersonal skills including ability to prepare relevant reports.
  • Flexibility and responsiveness in handling and determining engineering issues, sound analytical
    skills and the ability to identify with precision the critical factors of a problem in an impartial
    and objective way.
  • Demonstrate technical expertise in risk management, project management, quality assurance
    as well as monitoring and evaluation.
  • Ability to deliver articulated vision for change, create a sense of urgency around change and
    motivate staff to join change efforts.
  • Ability to establish flexible multidisciplinary teams in an environment conducive to continuous
    learning, creativity and innovation.
  • Ability to empower staff through coaching and counselling by emphasizing accountability and
    results oriented management.
  • Demonstrated ability to deal patiently and sympathetically with people from diverse
    backgrounds and to develop practical solutions to problems.
  • Ability to handle an Emergency Response situation and Team as well as handling safety
    oversight roles.

 

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