Project Manager

(I) Job Responsibilities

1. Take overall charge of the organization, management, coordination and decision-making of the project during post-award contract execution, and assume full responsibility for the safety, quality, schedule and cost of the works.
2. Lead all stages of the project life cycle, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and closure, ensuring that project schedule, quality and scope comply with contractual requirements.
3. Take overall responsibility for customer management, commercial and contractual/legal affairs, and subcontractor management.
4. Execute the project in accordance with the contract and the company's process and quality standards (on time, within budget, to specification), ensuring project success and customer satisfaction.
5. Lead the EPC project team and oversee project execution in detail, and report project status as required, including schedule, cost, budget, issues and risks.
6. Manage all equipment supply matters related to the project, including preparation of the supply list and delivery plan (covering subcontractors), progress monitoring, factory acceptance, incoming inspection, equipment installation and commissioning.
7. Manage and control project schedule, including developing the level-2 project plan based on the owner's level-1 plan, coordinating functional managers to develop level-3 plans, driving plan execution, monitoring plan status, and managing schedule risks.
8. Perform duties in accordance with configuration management requirements.
9. Control internal and external loss costs arising from project management.
10. Manage consistency-coordination parties (if applicable).
11. Take overall responsibility for subcontractor management, including supervising nonconformities in subcontractor performance, urging subcontractors to carry out rectification, and organizing subcontractor service evaluations.
12. Manage risks arising from external disciplines that may affect project execution.
13. Serve as the first responsible person for construction methods and construction quality management.
14. As the first person accountable for safety production, the Project Manager assumes overall responsibility for project safety and discharges all safety-production duties; the Deputy Project Manager supports the Project Manager in these duties.
15. Undertake selected market-development duties in the project location, including market intelligence gathering (tender pipeline, decision-making chain, competitor information) and customer relationship maintenance.
16. As the first responsible person for project safety, oversee that the project identifies the company's site safety-management requirements and communicates them to all site personnel (including subcontractor personnel), and ensure their implementation; supervise the signing and execution of site safety agreements with relevant parties; oversee the development of emergency response plans (site contingency plans) and their required drills; supervise the development of safety training and education plans, organize training and assessments as planned, and maintain training records; and organize and assess safety training activities of construction subcontractors.

(2) Requirements

1. Bachelor's degree or above in telecommunications, signaling, electronic engineering, computer science or a related discipline.
2. Minimum 8 years of relevant working experience.
3. Thorough knowledge of project management control processes.
4. Sound understanding of signaling-system business and related technical knowledge.
5. Familiarity with international engineering project management processes, as well as risk and opportunity management.
6. In-depth expertise in the railway signaling technology field, with knowledge of relevant international signaling standards.
7. Excellent technical-coordination and overall-planning skills.
8. Ability to identify environmental aspects and risks associated with the role.
9. Ability to identify job-site hazards and risks associated with the role.
10. Strong team-orientation and a high standard of professional conduct.
11. Good English proficiency in reading, writing and verbal communication.
12. PMP or PRINCE2 certification preferred.