Technical Director - Trinidad

Massy Wood is recruiting for a Technical Director to direct and guide delivery performance across the Company's portfolio of work, supporting the delivery of strategy and risk management.

Overview / Responsibilites

The Technical Director will be accountable for safety, technical and delivery performance across portfolio, demonstrating clear safety leadership; achieving monthly and annual delivery targets and embedding company values.

Provide guidance and direction to contract teams in the day-to-day management of delivery, ensuring appropriate controls and governance are in place and ensuring Massy Wood is working to the highest possible standards of integrity, safety, quality and operational excellence.

Produce solutions to complex, contractual, technical, commercial, operational and personnel related challenges which impact on customer service and performance. 

Operational Delivery

• Oversee identification and implementation of innovations and best practices to enhance efficiency and optimize performance.
• Provide guidance and direction during project interventions to assist with issue resolution and remediation planning

• Deliver performance management objectives, agreed business plans, budget and targets and report on both opportunities and risks impacting delivery.
• Provides mid-term direction to operational management team(s) in order to meet business plan goals.
• Work with business grouping leadership teams and operational managers to improve delivery performance and maximise delivery opportunities throughout Country/Region and wider business where required.
• Ensures robust Management of Change and builds a learning culture.
• Maintain operational integrity and excellence, ensuring robust governance, subcontractor management, and performance reporting.
• Tracks risks and opportunities via registers and mitigation of current or emerging risks across country/Region to maximise performance.
• Ensures financial, safety, and quality controls and compliance to company policies in project delivery.
• Establish and implement policies and ensure appropriate governance mechanisms for continuous monitoring of their proper implementation.
• Ensures robust business continuity and disaster recovery plans are in place and takes lead role in their activation and implementation as required.
• Participate in technical audits and peer reviews.
• Support resolution of any legal claims in collaboration with legal and other relevant functions.
• Ensures HSSE&S values are delivered and adhered to at all times, proactively and demonstrating safety behaviors.

Business Growth

• Deliver growth in the areas of responsibility through close collaboration with Business Development. Develop and own business plan, and drive sales, bid and tender activity.

• In support of continued growth, ensure that the organisation develops responsive, dependable and cost-effective services, servicing target markets, collaborating across business units and business groupings, and actively leveraging Massy Wood solutions to address customer needs
• Foster and enhance customer relationships with open, honest and effective communications. Work with customer-facing teams to improve scope of work/offering, understand and deliver customer required level of services.
• Oversees proposals and call-offs (may be individual projects) within delegation of authority, ensuring compliance with contracting policy and standards of ethical conduct.

Leadership

• Is a champion and role model for ethical behaviour and compliance with applicable laws and policies.
• Ensure operations maintain a continued alignment with overall corporate policy, strategy and direction.
• Responsive to customer needs whilst ensuring the Company operates with the utmost integrity, in line with Code of Conduct, Company values and all applicable laws and policies.
• Facilitate open and effective communication to optimise delivery of objectives, maximise team performance and achieve continuous performance improvement, working closely with other areas of operation out with assigned country/region to promote and enhance collaboration.
• Generate team spirit, enthusiasm and passion and pursue the eradication of unproductive practices and negative mind-sets to create a vibrant culture of positive thinking and attitudes.
• Overall accountability for effective recruitment, selection and retention of talent within assigned area
• Identify and support development of talent, effective performance and capability management of teams and direct reports, dealing with underperformance in a prompt, professional manner
• Responsible for ensuring employees within remit are competent to carry out assigned duties.
• Passionately pursue and support, demonstrate and embed company values.
• Perform all other related job functions as required.