Head, Capital Projects Delivery at Egbin Power Plc

Egbin Power Plc. Lagos is one of the biggest additions to the electricity industry in Nigeria. Often seen as the biggest single generating power station in Sub-Saharan Africa, it was built to meet the every rising demand for electricity in Lagos and its environs.

Following the nation’s privatization exercise, Sahara, through its power division, Sahara Power Group and sundry affiliations, acquired the 1320 MW installed capacity Egbin Power Plant. We are working towards deploying a minimum of 5,000 MW of electricity generation over the next five years.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head, Capital Projects Delivery

Job Identification: 353
Location: Ikorodu, Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Job Category: Technical

Job Summary

• The Head Capital Project Delivery (HCPD) is responsible for leading teams to deliver projects that span across multiple portfolios aligned with business strategic objectives.
• The HCPD is responsible for understanding, articulating and prioritizing business risks, strategies and objectives, to translate these business elements into project portfolios that achieve these business objectives.
• The HCPD interfaces with business and functional leadership to understand priorities and relate these to the multidisciplinary project teams for planning and execution of the project portfolio.
• The HCPD manages human, expert, intellectual and financial resources to deliver objectives via the project maturation cycle.
• This also includes managing multifunctional issues, understanding enterprise and project risks and ensuring closure of mitigation actions as well as making project change decisions to ensure successful and on-time project delivery.
• The HCPD ensures continuous process improvement initiatives related to improving project delivery.
• The HCPD has the authority to give strategic direction to the multidisciplinary project portfolio teams that typically include the project team, subject matter experts from maintenance, asset owners from operations, buyers from procurement and support systems like stores and finance.
• Ensures that the portfolios deliver the desired business outcomes, including quality, within the specified time and cost constraints and to achieve the benefits defined in the business case.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Strategic direction for capital project portfolios that span one or multiple functions within the enterprise.
• Provide leadership for project teams by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones.
• Full project maturation life cycle ownership: successful project delivery will include full implementation from business priorities to initiation, then deployment, and project portfolios.
• Manage all aspects of multifunctional projects to ensure the overall portfolio aligns to and directly achieves the strategic objectives.
• Report on capital project portfolio success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management activities
• Work strategically, creatively and analytically in solving problems and making decisions to ensure achievement of objectives.
• Participate in establishing practices, templates, policies, tools and partnerships to expand and mature these capabilities for the organization.
• Ensure the preparation of business cases, estimates and detailed project execution strategies for projects in the portfolios.
• Ensure the adequate availability and/or procurement of resources to achieve project portfolio objectives in planned timeframes.
• Manage the day-to-day project activities and resources and chair the project management team meetings
• Monitor CPD staff performance and complete performance reviews.
• Provide strategic level communication on project portfolios across business leadership.
• Provide leadership support (project viewpoint) during cases of dispute, negotiation, arbitration or litigation, as needed
• Provide leadership support (project viewpoint) for formal/informal schedules to manage the engagement contract
• Set and continually manage project portfolio expectations in alignment with business objectives while delegating and managing deliverables with multifunctional team members and stakeholders
• Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel
• Ensures delivery of periodic strategic level progress reports, proposals, and outcomes presentations to various audiences, especially sponsors, key stakeholders, the CEO and business leadership 
• Coach, mentor, motivate and manage project portfolio teams
• Ensure that project portfolios are proceeding in alignment with expected outcomes, including - scope, schedule, budget and quality standards
• Ensure success in providing leadership for portfolio teams by building and motivating team members to meet portfolio objectives, adhering to their responsibilities and deliverables
• Performance reviews and staff development
• Monitor the performance of staff and the Talent management
• Establish practices, templates, policies, tools and partnerships to expand and mature these capabilities for the organization
• Other duties as assigned by the CEO and/or Executive Leadership
• Ensure awareness of the Integrated Management System (ISO 9001:2015, 14001:2015 &45001:2018) and implications of not conforming with the requirements.

Education & Work Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in appropriate field of study. An engineering degree and experience in utilities and industrial environment is a plus.
• 5+ years of project management experience, including managing complex projects. Portfolio management is a plus.
• 4+ years of management experience working with business stakeholders and/or leadership within a cross-functional matrix environment
• 3+ years of experience with project maturation processes, with understanding from business priorities as well as business case till asset lifecycle and learning and continuous improvement.
• 2+ years of previous experience with gathering requirements from the clients, users, business leaders and documentation
• Technically competent with various software programs, including but not limited to Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) with experience presenting to stakeholders and/or Senior Leadership. Proficiency in Microsoft Projects or any other project management tool is a plus.
• Proven ability to demonstrate a drive for results and accountability of business needs. Decisiveness in resolving business problems, making decisions and identifying priorities
• Proven ability to work in an ambiguous environment and collaborate across multiple areas to achieve a common business objective
• Interpersonal skills to influence and spur change, facilitate and enhance performance within a cross-functional environment.
• Strong leadership, diplomatic and motivational skills, including the ability to lead up, across and down multiple disciplines and functions within the business.
• Proven ability to work strategically, creatively and analytically in a problem-solving and dynamic environment, demonstrating teamwork, direction and excellence.
• Build and maintain relationships by engaging business leaders to establish credibility, solve problems, build consensus and achieve objectives.
• Self-motivated, decisive, with the ability to adapt to change and competing demands.
• Research best practices within and outside the organization to establish benchmark data and use continuous process improvement disciplines to achieve results.
• Exposure to MS Project, Excel, Word and PowerPoint. Ability to use tools to aid execution of duties
• Experience negotiating project elements in vendor contracts.
• Experience understanding and reviewing budget proposals and recommending subsequent budget changes where necessary.
• Experience in successfully leading a portfolio to on-time, on-schedule and within budget close.
• Experience leading, motivating and managing various portfolio team sizes, including internal and external resources, while holding the team accountable for performance.
• Ability to present to executive sponsors/leadership and demonstrated communication skills; both written and oral with technical and non-technical staff, all levels of management.
• Experience influencing and gaining buy-in from executive sponsors, team members, stakeholders and peers
• Team-building skills with technical and non-technical staff.
• Experience working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Flexible with proven ability to conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Adept at understanding project-related issues, seeking solutions and making decisions to achieve the solutions.

Key Skills and Competencies:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Business acumen, Organizational, time management and decision-making skills.
• Understanding and developing Budgets
• Coaching
• Leadership
• Staffing
• Project Management and engineering
• Management
• Process Improvement
• Planning
• Performance Management
• Attention to Detail
• Understanding business priorities
• Solution driven and result oriented.

Application Closing Date
29th June, 2025; 10:59 PM.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online