General Manager (Infrastructure Development) at Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) Limited

Job Summary

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

GRADE KPC 2

JOB REF: KPC/ADVT/06/2020

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.
• Fulfills 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.