Package Management Lead

The Package Management Lead is a senior leadership role within the PDMC team, responsible for the overall management, coordination, and performance of all project packages across a large-scale, complex infrastructure programme.

This role provides governance, direction, and oversight to all Package Managers, ensuring consistent delivery practices, robust interface coordination, and alignment with project-wide design integration, system interfaces, operational requirements, quality, and programme objectives.

Key Responsibilities

1. Leadership & Governance of Package Management

• Lead, manage, and supervise all Package Managers across the PDMC team, including assignment of packages, definition of responsibilities, and performance management

• Establish consistent working practices, delivery standards, and reporting requirements to ensure uniform execution across all contracts

• Drive strong delivery discipline across all packages in a highly regulated, safety-critical project environment

2. Package Delivery Oversight

• Take overall responsibility for package-level delivery performance, ensuring effective management of:

  • Design submissions and staged approvals

  • Design review cycles and multidisciplinary coordination

  • Comment resolution and traceability

  • Interface coordination across civil, E&M, and system-related packages

  • Compliance with statutory and client requirements

• Ensure deliverables support both construction and future operational readiness

3. Standardisation & Process Assurance

• Ensure consistent application of PDMC processes across all packages, including:

  • Design review and assurance workflows

  • Interface and systems coordination procedures

  • Quality assurance and compliance frameworks

  • Reporting, documentation, and audit requirements

• Promote a culture of quality, traceability, and compliance aligned with stringent authority expectations

4. Interface & Integration Management

• Coordinate across all packages to ensure seamless integration between contracts, disciplines, and systems, preventing siloed delivery

• Drive alignment with overarching design integration and system performance objectives

• Identify and manage cross-package dependencies, including those related to operational interfaces and staging constraints

5. Cross-Functional Coordination

• Work closely with Design, Interface, Quality, Programme, and System Integration teams to ensure:

  • Functional and operational requirements are clearly defined and embedded at package level

  • Inputs from all disciplines are coordinated and closed out effectively

  • Integration risks are identified early and mitigated

6. Performance Monitoring & Intervention

• Monitor package-level performance, including:

  • Submission progress and approval cycles

  • Design review turnaround times

  • Comment closure and compliance tracking

  • Interface coordination effectiveness

• Intervene proactively where performance gaps arise, implementing recovery plans to maintain programme commitments

7. Risk & Issue Management

• Identify, manage, and resolve cross-package issues, conflicts, and dependencies, including those affecting:

  • Design integration and constructability

  • Authority submissions and approvals

  • System interfaces and operational constraints

  • Quality assurance and compliance

• Escalate major delivery risks or systemic issues to the Project Manager with clear recommendations

8. Reporting & Data Governance

• Enforce discipline in documentation, configuration control, and traceability across all Package Managers

• Ensure audit-ready records in line with regulatory and client requirements

• Consolidate package-level delivery status, risks, and issues into structured inputs for:

  • Project reporting and dashboards

  • Senior management and client briefings

9. Project-Wide Coordination Support

• Support the Project Manager in maintaining overall coordination of the PDMC scope

• Ensure all packages are aligned with programme milestones, integration requirements, and client expectations

• Contribute to delivering a fully integrated, safe, and operationally ready asset

Key Requirements

Qualifications & Experience

• Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or related discipline

• Minimum 15 years’ experience in large-scale infrastructure or major capital projects, preferably involving complex, multi-system environments

• Proven experience managing multi-package, multi-contract project delivery

• Strong background in design management, interface coordination, and systems integration

Technical Capabilities

• Strong understanding of multidisciplinary coordination across civil, building services, and system elements

• Experience in managing projects with stringent safety, operational, and regulatory requirements

• Familiarity with Hong Kong statutory processes and engagement with approval authorities preferred

• Experience in BIM-based coordination and digital delivery environments

Leadership & Behavioural Competencies

• Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills in complex, high-pressure environments

• Highly structured, disciplined, and detail-oriented

• Proactive, solutions-driven with strong ownership of outcomes

• Ability to drive alignment across diverse teams and stakeholders