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BRL-LDR-02 · Leadership & Board
Chief Operating Officer – Projects
Power Generation Pune + project travel · Hybrid 20–25 years · Leadership Board track
Lead delivery of every BARREL project from notice to proceed to commercial operation, across generation, storage and transmission. The COO – Projects owns safety, schedule, cost and quality on all sites and is accountable for turning the development pipeline into operating capacity.
Scope of work
- Own the group project portfolio, its master schedule and the resource plan to deliver it.
- Lead project directors and EPC teams across solar, wind, hybrid, storage, hydro and transmission projects.
- Set project controls standards: baseline schedules, earned value, cost reporting and risk registers.
- Drive HSE leadership on every site, with personal visibility and accountability for incidents.
- Lead contractor strategy: self-perform, EPC, or split packages, and the selection of key contractors.
- Resolve major interface, claims and variation issues with clients, contractors and suppliers.
- Ensure smooth handover to O&M with complete documentation, punch lists closed and warranties in place.
- Use the Project Manager app and PIP to give leadership a live view of every project.
- Build the projects organisation, including planners, cost engineers, quality and construction managers.
- Represent BARREL to clients, lenders' engineers and authorities on project delivery.
Technical description
- EPC contract structures, including FIDIC Red, Yellow and Silver Book principles, and Indian adaptations.
- Project controls using Primavera P6, earned value management and critical path analysis.
- Commissioning and grid synchronisation requirements under CEA regulations and the Grid Code.
- Construction safety under the OSH Code and BOCW rules, and ISO 45001 management systems.
- Quality systems to ISO 9001 and the inspection and test plans used for major equipment.
- Delay analysis and claims management methods, including time impact analysis.
- Scheduled commercial operation date obligations and liquidated damages under PPAs and transmission service agreements.
Commercial description
- Accountable for the capex budget of all projects in construction and for delivering within the sanctioned cost.
- Protects revenue by achieving commercial operation on time and avoiding liquidated damages.
- Negotiates the largest EPC, BoP and construction contracts with procurement and legal.
- Measured on safety record, on-time commissioning, cost variance, quality and claims closed.
- Manages relationships with clients, DISCOMs, transmission utilities, lenders' engineers and district authorities.
Skills required
- Leadership of multi-gigawatt or large-value infrastructure project portfolios.
- Deep construction and commissioning experience in power projects.
- Commercial command of EPC contracts and claims.
- Building and leading large, distributed site teams.
- Making fast, sound decisions with incomplete information.
- Driving a safety culture from the top.
- Using data and dashboards to manage many projects at once.
- Senior stakeholder management with clients and authorities.
- Coaching project directors into future executives.
Talent we look for
- Relentless about delivery and personally present on sites.
- Treats every injury as unacceptable.
- Direct and fair with contractors and teams.
- Learns from each project and makes the next one better.
- Steady under pressure from clients, lenders and deadlines.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in civil, electrical or mechanical engineering; an MBA or project management qualification is welcome.
- Twenty or more years in power project delivery, with at least seven leading a portfolio of projects.
- Proven record of commissioning large renewable, thermal, hydro or transmission projects in India.
- PMP or an equivalent project management certification is an advantage.