Project Director

Date: 17 Sept 2025

Location: Kolkata, WB, IN, 700106

Company: tatacons02

About Us

Tata Consulting Engineers Limited (TCE) is the largest Indian private sector engineering and project consultancy and an emerging global leader in integrated engineering solutions. With more than 60 years of engineering excellence, TCE has a presence in over 64 countries and over 12000 completed projects, the company operates in 3 core Industry segments -Infrastructure (Water, Environment, Urban Development, Buildings, Manufacturing Facilities, Ports and Harbours, Transportation), Power (Thermal, Hydro, Nuclear, Renewable, Transmission and Distribution) and Resources - Hydrocarbons and Chemicals (Oil, Gas and Refineries, Chemicals, Petrochemicals, Fertilizers, Speciality Chemicals, Pulp and Paper, Cement, Food, Pharmaceuticals and Beverages, Tyre, Glass) as well as Mining and Metallurgy (Mining, Geology, Beneficiation, Steel, Non-ferrous). TCE serves domestic as well as international markets and is known for several first-of-its-kind projects offering Engineering Studies, Design Engineering Services, Project Management Consultancy Services, OPEX and IIOT across all three verticals. A part of Tata Group - India's most respected group, TCE is a 100 percent subsidiary of Tata Sons Limited Design your Future with us At TCE, you will experience a supportive environment that empowers you to excel, whether you are based in our offices or at a client site. We embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion, fostering a workplace where every individual can thrive by contributing their unique skills and perspectives to deliver exceptional results for our clients. Our comprehensive compensation and benefits packages are designed to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families, complemented by a robust global well-being program. As a leading global infrastructure firm, we are committed to your growth and success, offering access to cutting-edge technology and impactful projects that offer flexibility and significant professional opportunities. Join us and become part of a global company that values your potential and supports your career development.

Purpose & Scope of Position

The Project Director is responsible for the comprehensive management, coordination, and administration of projects along the Project lifecycle across phases of FEL, Detail Engineering and Execution. This includes ensuring the Project Objectives with effective governance starting from project setup, execution, monitoring, control, and closeout, aligned with TCE's scope as the EPCM (Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management) partner in the project. Project Director will remain accountable for delivering projects within scope, budget, and schedule, while adhering to stringent safety, quality, and environmental standards. The work will also be aligned with TCE's business objectives including contract compliance, revenue, receivables, and profitability.

Experience

• Minimum 22 years in managing projects and at least 5 years as Program Manager in a large multi-location/country
• Must have knowledge of client groups and/or issues related to the program area

Qualification

• Minimum Bachelor's degree in engineering with Master's Degree or equivalent in Business Management is preferred
• Minimum Project management Professional (PMP, USA), Program Management Professional (PgMP) is preferred

Key Responsibilities

• Displays and actively promotes behavior aligned to TCE's goal of achieving a total safety culture.
• Develops and obtains sign-off from client on Project Execution Plan (PEP) and Client's Requirement Specification.
• Develops and resources an appropriate organization structure, and ensures that the entire project team has the required resources for the work.
• Provides leadership to the project and creates a highly committed and aligned team environment with all who can influence the project's outcomes.
• Ensures governance on the project, specifically compliance to TCE and client delegations of authority, procedures and policies. Authorizes all commitments of expenditure on the project.
• Ensure a detailed scope, cost and schedule control baseline is developed and maintained by project manager.
• Carries clear accountability for delivery of the project goals as per agreed scope. Coordinates major correspondence between TCE and the client and maintains working relationships at all levels throughout the period of the project.
• Ensures all contractual commitments to assure that all work is being performed in accordance with the specifications, scopes, terms of the contract and client expectations.
• Conducts regular project progress and client meetings to review the progress and issues in all disciplines of the project.
• Establishes and manages processes for the early identification of any potential changes to the TCE contract and ensure that those changes are identified to the Client. Ensures that appropriate contractual changes are formally authorized by the Client.
• Ensure that TCE's internal governance practices are followed such as governance meetings, change management, proper MIS, document control management, etc.
• Directs and ensures all discipline functions throughout the project lifecycle and ensures that the discipline leads actively manage best practices within each of their fields
• Ensures that the TCE Project Manager follows required business and workplace integration activities, specifically, project documentation (contractual, engineering, and change related) is managed (received, reviewed, comments incorporated, responded and incorporated in records).
• Ensure client's acceptance of the work and sign-off for the completed project.
• Establishes and ensures the invoicing process with the Client maintaining optimum Locked Working Capital

Competencies

Financial Acumen

Collaborates

Drives Results

Instills Trust

Plans and Aligns

Builds Effective Teams

Develops Talent

Manages Complexity

Being Resilient

Tech Savvy