Head of Project

Job Description

Title: Head of Project

Company Name: Baraka Power Limited

Vacancy: 1

Age: Na

Job Location: Chattogram (Fatikchhari)

Salary: Negotiable

Experience: --

Published: 2026-08-23

Application Deadline: 2026-09-15

Education:

Requirements: --

Skills Required:

Additional Requirements:

Responsibilities & Context:

Project Leadership, Governance & Delivery

• Assume full accountability for project delivery from Development NTP through COD and all contractual milestones, including Financial Close, RFC, Provisional and Final Acceptance.

• Develop and implement project execution strategy, governance, stage-gate processes, reporting, decision-making, escalation, and management controls.

• Ensure alignment with shareholder requirements, financing agreements, Board resolutions, budgets, contracts, and project schedule, cost, quality, HSE, risk, and operational objectives.

• Lead project reviews and report KPIs, status, critical risks, and recovery plans to the Managing Director, Board, shareholders, and lenders.

Stakeholder, Lender & Project Development

• Lead engagement with lenders, DFIs, banks, ECAs, investment funds, financial advisors, and technical, legal, insurance, E&S, and other advisors.

• Support fundraising, due diligence, Financial Close, and ongoing compliance with financing agreements, lender covenants, reserve requirements, and reporting obligations.

• Manage relationships with government, regulators, utilities, grid operators, off-takers, local authorities, landowners, and communities on approvals, grid connection, dispatch, and operations.

• Oversee development activities, land acquisition, site readiness, permitting, environmental, water, grid, and statutory approvals, resolving constraints affecting financing or schedule.

Technical & Commercial Management

• Lead technical execution and manage the OE, design consultants, engineering advisors, and technical specialists.

• Review key engineering deliverables, specifications, design changes, and value engineering, ensuring compliance with EPC, lender, industry, grid, and regulatory requirements.

• Manage technical reviews and interfaces among EPC contractors, OEMs, OE, utilities, grid operators, and lenders’ technical consultants.

• Administer EPC, OE, land, transmission, insurance, and major vendor contracts, managing compliance, claims, variations, EOTs, disputes, and contractor KPIs.

• Approve procurement strategies and monitor critical/long-lead equipment, LCs, POs, logistics, delivery, and supply-chain risk mitigation.

Risk, HSES & Financial Management

• Establish project risk management and controls covering risk registers, mitigation, contingency, recovery, schedule, cost, progress, forecasting, and executive escalation.

• Lead HSES performance and safety culture, ensuring compliance with company standards, regulations, IFC Performance Standards, ESIA commitments, and lender ESG requirements.

• Lead incident investigations, corrective actions, and lessons learned, driving zero fatalities, zero major environmental incidents, and minimum lost-time injuries.

• Manage CAPEX/OPEX budgets, forecasts, contingencies, cash flow, earned value, cost-to-complete, payments, and lender drawdowns, ensuring financial discipline.

Construction, Operations & Team Leadership

• Direct construction through commissioning of PV, substations, transmission, SCADA, and balance-of-plant facilities, ensuring schedule, productivity, quality, resources, testing, energization, synchronization, and performance guarantees.

• Lead transition to commercial operations, establish O&M and asset management systems, and assume Plant Head responsibilities after COD to achieve generation, availability, PR, efficiency, reliability, compliance, and asset value targets.

• Build and lead a high-performing multidisciplinary team, developing succession and talent plans while fostering accountability, collaboration, integrity, continuous improvement, and effective stakeholder communication.