A Day in the Life of an HSE Project Manager: Roles in the Project

26 October 2023 🇷🇺 Original: русский 1 min read

Project Roles

Based on our company's Leadership model, at a certain point, there was a need for a clear distribution of roles within the team:

Project Initiator

Position: CEO, for example

● Searching for a Sponsor, Customer

● Project Request Form

● Coordinating the Request with the Sponsor, the Single Accountable Person (SAP), and other stakeholders (if any)

Project Sponsor / Steering Committee

Position/Collective Body:

Functional HSE Head

● Setting goals, defining results, benefits, and project priorities

● Appointing the SAP

● Acceptance of intermediate and final project results

● Approval of key project documents

● Strategic project management, including decisions on successful transitions to the next project phase

● Approval of change requests

● Decision-making on controversial issues that cannot be resolved at the SAP level

● Providing the project with resources (human, financial)

● Providing necessary administrative support to the project and its participants

● Reviewing project reporting, periodic monitoring of project progress and the actions of the SAP and/or Project Manager, initiating corrective actions

Single Accountable Person (SAP) / Operations Board

Position/Collective Body:

Department Director, Head of Division

● Achieving project goals and results within the required timeframe, budget, and quality standards

● Forming the project team, including deciding on the involvement of a Project Manager

● Identifying key project stakeholders, determining integration paths with other projects and programs

● Organizing the preparation and approval of key project documents – the project request and the final project report

● Ensuring communication between the project team and stakeholders

● Ensuring integration between the project and other projects and programs, participating in integration meetings

● Participating in the acceptance of project results from consultants

● Organizing the preparation of project reporting for the Project Committee (PC), preliminary approval of this reporting

● Continuous monitoring of project progress, reviewing operational project reporting and documents, periodic monitoring of the Project Manager's actions, initiating necessary corrective actions

● Preliminary approval of all project change requests

● Participating in Steering Committee meetings (if any), participating in PC meetings where project issues are discussed

● Making operational decisions to respond to problems, risks, and open project issues within their authority

● Timely informing the Project Sponsor of risks, problems, and open project issues beyond their competence.

This is the structure we came up with 😊

To be continued in the next article.

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