Project Manager
Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom Full-time Posted 14 hours ago
Job Description
The Role
You will create delivery excellence across assigned project/portfolios, provide certainty and confidence to the customer/project sponsor and robust control of project scope, schedule, cost and risk.
Our Clients and Projects
Designing the future. Transforming the world.
Wood delivers project services through long-standing partnerships across a diverse portfolio of onshore and offshore energy assets, supporting major operators within the Oil & Gas sector. This work spans the full project lifecycle—from early studies and brownfield modifications through to detailed design, execution, and offshore delivery—across complex and safety-critical environments.
Working in close collaboration with our partners, Wood provides integrated, high-quality solutions that prioritise safety, reliability, and operational efficiency. By combining deep industry expertise with innovative technologies and data-driven approaches, we continue to advance smarter project delivery and enhance asset performance across both onshore facilities and offshore platforms.
At Wood, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We foster a collaborative and inclusive culture where individuals are empowered to contribute, grow, and make a real impact on critical energy infrastructure projects. You’ll be supported by experienced teams, benefit from structured development opportunities, and gain exposure to a wide range of challenging and rewarding work scopes.
Joining Wood means being part of a global organisation with a strong track record, a commitment to innovation, and a clear focus on the future of energy. Whether you’re looking to deepen your technical expertise or broaden your experience across projects and locations, we offer the platform, support, and opportunities to help you build a long-term and fulfilling career.
What We Can Offer
P & L responsibility with associated commercial and financial accountability including revenue delivery, margin and overhead management, budget and forecast determination and attainment, risk and opportunity reviews, cost controls, accounts payable/billing and cash collection
What makes you remarkable?
At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world’s most critical challenges.
Expected
Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 45 countries, employing around 25,000 people. www.woodplc.com
Diversity Statement
We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.
The Role
You will create delivery excellence across assigned project/portfolios, provide certainty and confidence to the customer/project sponsor and robust control of project scope, schedule, cost and risk.
Our Clients and Projects
Designing the future. Transforming the world.
Wood delivers project services through long-standing partnerships across a diverse portfolio of onshore and offshore energy assets, supporting major operators within the Oil & Gas sector. This work spans the full project lifecycle—from early studies and brownfield modifications through to detailed design, execution, and offshore delivery—across complex and safety-critical environments.
Working in close collaboration with our partners, Wood provides integrated, high-quality solutions that prioritise safety, reliability, and operational efficiency. By combining deep industry expertise with innovative technologies and data-driven approaches, we continue to advance smarter project delivery and enhance asset performance across both onshore facilities and offshore platforms.
At Wood, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We foster a collaborative and inclusive culture where individuals are empowered to contribute, grow, and make a real impact on critical energy infrastructure projects. You’ll be supported by experienced teams, benefit from structured development opportunities, and gain exposure to a wide range of challenging and rewarding work scopes.
Joining Wood means being part of a global organisation with a strong track record, a commitment to innovation, and a clear focus on the future of energy. Whether you’re looking to deepen your technical expertise or broaden your experience across projects and locations, we offer the platform, support, and opportunities to help you build a long-term and fulfilling career.
What We Can Offer
- Meaningful and interesting projects delivered to leaders of industry across renewables and emerging energy sectors
- Flexible working arrangements that balance client, team and individual needs offering hybrid and remote working where relevant –
- Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion; we are an organisation actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business with employee networks committed to giving all employees a voice
- Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market
- Flexible benefits package; inclusive of 33 days annual leave (including public holidays), generous contributory pension scheme, private medical cover, 4x base salary life insurance; all of these and more that can be adapted to suit your own lifestyle
- Commitment to continued professional development; development plans that are tailored to your individual needs and interests
- Global connections; join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our
P & L responsibility with associated commercial and financial accountability including revenue delivery, margin and overhead management, budget and forecast determination and attainment, risk and opportunity reviews, cost controls, accounts payable/billing and cash collection
- Contributes to and reviews the project proposal and plan to determine timeframe, procedures for accomplishing the project, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources to various phases of the project. Contributes to setting project evaluation parameters
- Negotiates changes to project scope or specification with the customer. Follows Change Management process to identify and approve modifications to scope, cost, schedule and quality
- Pursue and develop opportunities for innovation, such as digitalisation and technology use, work share and high value engineering centres, to bring value to Wood and customer
- Establishes project procedures and leads production of project execution plan including the scope of work, deliverables list, master schedule, budget, org charts, risk register etc.
- Regularly reports project progress to senior management and/or the customer
- Responsible for delivery of agreed schedule and financial performance, proactively intervening to avoid slippage
- Ensures competence of project team members to carry out assigned work Leads ongoing focus on risk identification and mitigation during project execution
- Responsible for the project HSSE leadership, ensures a program of initiatives and auditing schedule are established and that HSSE and quality management issues are proactively addressed
- Guides and directs a multidiscipline project team, which may include external specialists and involve staff from multiple offices and sites
- Responsible for ensuring project team members are competent to carry out assigned duties
- Promotes and sets up performance improvement culture and actions on complex projects and into their supply chains
What makes you remarkable?
At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world’s most critical challenges.
Expected
- University degree in relevant discipline.
- Project Management Professional (PMP), Associate in Project Management (APM) or equivalent certification is preferred
- Good level of experience in the related field, industry, and locations of the work
- Proven project management experience as well as a good understanding of business issues.
- Thorough understanding of project management techniques and practices
- Thorough understanding of project goals, drivers and strategies
- Experience of developing and implementing measures of success and benefits on several projects
- Knowledge of prioritising stakeholders and the development of stakeholder management plans
- Has interfaced with key stakeholders on projects to obtain, create and maintain requirements and acceptance criteria on several occasions
- Good knowledge of industry and company risk management processes. Well versed in qualitative assessment methods and some knowledge of quantitative assessment techniques.
- Able to use common estimating techniques to derive estimates and costs on standard projects
- Good knowledge of contract models, conditions, types and their suitability in different situations
- Able to deliver effective project initiation on multi-phase projects and produce project execution plans
- Well versed in international and company quality assurance standards
- Knowledge of commercial and contract conditions applicable to the procurement of various types of goods and services
- In-depth knowledge of scheduling techniques, their properties and uses
- Good knowledge and experience in project monitoring and forecasting
- Ability to manage change control process on project with several sub-contractors and interfaces
- In-depth knowledge of all types of project information (deliverables) and its uses and capable of managing information management project team
- Good knowledge of all handover and close-out activities required for customer, company and suppliers
- Understanding of Cash Flow management as well as projection/forecast of cost at completion
Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 45 countries, employing around 25,000 people. www.woodplc.com
Diversity Statement
We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.
