Regional Project Management Manager - Singapore

Are you looking to work for a global organization that has a positive impact on the environment? Would you like to work for a multi-cultural team? As part of the Fluence Corporation family, you can play a pivotal role in the success of the company. Our mission at Fluence is to provide communities and businesses with cutting-edge solutions for treating water and wastewater, helping improve our customers’ sustainability, resiliency, and operational success.

We’re committed to reshaping the future of water treatment on a global scale with our innovative technologies. We offer solutions that produce clean water for drinking or industrial use, as well as products for effectively treating wastewater so it can be safely returned to the environment or reused, with the potential to generate energy in the process. In addition to customized solutions, Fluence leads the global charge in decentralized treatment with advanced, quickly deployable packed plants.

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Regional Project Management Lead will lead the Asia regional project management function and directly manage a team of approximately 3–5 project management professionals.

The role has overall responsibility for project execution governance across the Asia region, ensuring projects are delivered safely, on time, within budget, and in accordance with contractual and technical requirements.

The Regional PM Lead will establish consistent project management standards, assign and balance project resources across the portfolio, develop the capability of the regional PM team, and provide hands-on leadership for major, complex, or high-risk projects.

A key objective of the role is to protect and improve project margins from contract handover through final completion, while proactively managing commercial, contractual, technical, schedule, supply chain, and customer-related risks.

This role will support the continued growth of the Asia business by building a scalable, accountable, and commercially focused regional project execution team.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Team Leadership & People Management

• Set clear roles, responsibilities, objectives, and performance expectations for each team member.
• Assign Project Managers to projects based on project complexity, workload, experience, and business priorities.
• Balance project workload and resources across countries and projects within the Asia region.
• Conduct regular one-to-one meetings, project performance reviews, and team development discussions.
• Establish annual objectives and KPIs for direct reports and provide regular performance feedback.
• Coach and develop Project Managers to improve their technical, commercial, contractual, and leadership capabilities.
• Build succession and capability plans to support future regional business growth.
• Identify competency gaps and develop appropriate training, mentoring, and development plans.
• Promote a team culture based on ownership, accountability, transparency, collaboration, and early escalation.
• Support recruitment and onboarding of additional project management resources as the regional project portfolio grows.
• Develop the team from primarily project coordination toward stronger end-to-end project ownership and commercial accountability.

Regional Project Portfolio Leadership

• Take overall leadership and governance responsibility for projects executed across the Asia region.
• Maintain visibility of the complete regional project portfolio, including project status, schedule, cost, margin, cash flow, risks, claims, and key customer issues.
• Allocate projects and responsibilities across the regional PM team.
• Monitor team capacity and identify resource constraints before they affect project delivery.
• Conduct regular portfolio and individual project reviews with Project Managers.
• Provide coaching and direction to Project Managers on critical execution issues.
• Personally lead or provide senior oversight for major, complex, strategic, or high-risk projects.
• Ensure consistent project management standards are applied across all projects and countries.
• Provide Regional Management with accurate project forecasts and early visibility of material risks and opportunities

Project Execution & Delivery

• Ensure projects are delivered in accordance with contractual requirements, approved budgets, schedules, technical specifications, and quality standards.
• Hold individual Project Managers accountable for project performance and agreed deliverables.
• Ensure clear project execution plans are established at the beginning of each project.
• Drive effective coordination among Engineering, Procurement, Manufacturing, Logistics, Site, Commissioning, Finance, and Customer teams.
• Ensure project milestones, deliverables, and customer obligations are actively tracked and managed.
• Support Project Managers in resolving critical execution issues and removing delivery bottlenecks.
• Intervene directly when projects face material commercial, contractual, technical, schedule, or customer risks.

Margin Protection & Improvement

• Take ownership of execution margin performance across the regional project portfolio.
• Establish project cost baselines and ensure disciplined tracking of actual and forecast costs.
• Hold Project Managers accountable for project budget, cost-to-complete, and margin performance.
• Identify opportunities to improve project profitability through procurement savings, design optimization, execution efficiency, scope management, and commercial recovery.
• Prevent margin leakage caused by uncontrolled scope changes, rework, delays, poor coordination, or unrecorded customer requests.
• Drive early identification and realization of project upside opportunities.
• Work closely with Finance and individual Project Managers to maintain accurate cost-to-complete and margin forecasts.

Contract & Commercial Management

• Develop the commercial and contractual awareness of the regional PM team.
• Ensure Project Managers understand key contractual obligations, milestones, payment terms, acceptance criteria, liquidated damages, warranties, and liability exposures.
• Establish disciplined management of variations, change orders, claims, extensions of time, and customer-driven scope changes.
• Ensure no material additional work is performed without appropriate documentation and commercial approval.
• Maintain proper project records to support contractual positions and claims.
• Support Project Managers in commercial negotiations with customers, partners, EPC contractors, and suppliers.
• Personally lead or support negotiations involving significant commercial or contractual exposure.

CORE COMEPETENCIES:

• Leadership & People Development – Ability to lead a professional team of 3–5 people, set clear goals, provide ongoing feedback, and enhance team members' technical, commercial, and leadership capabilities through coaching and training.
• Commercial & Financial Acumen – Demonstrates sharp commercial judgment, with the ability to protect and improve project margins from contract handover through final completion, and understands the impact of cash flow, cost control, and contract terms on business performance.
• Contractual & Risk Management – Familiar with EPC/engineering project contract management, capable of identifying, assessing, and proactively managing commercial, contractual, technical, schedule, supply chain, and customer-related risks, ensuring timely escalation and effective mitigation actions.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration – Able to effectively coordinate across Engineering, Procurement, Manufacturing, Logistics, Site, Commissioning, Finance, and Customer teams, driving cross-functional collaboration to achieve project objectives.
• Strategic Portfolio Thinking – Possesses a big-picture perspective, capable of balancing resource allocation across multiple projects and countries in a complex environment, ensuring the overall health of the regional project portfolio.
• Problem Solving & Decision Making – Able to quickly identify root causes of issues when facing complex or high-risk projects, make decisive judgments, and personally intervene when necessary to bring projects back on track.
• Cross-Cultural Communication – Able to communicate effectively across diverse Asian cultural contexts, build trust, and drive team collaboration.
• Process Orientation & Governance – Able to establish and continuously improve project management processes and stage-gate governance mechanisms, ensuring consistency and compliance in execution.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Bachelor's degree or above in Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Project Management, or related discipline.
• Master's degree or MBA is preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of project management experience, with at least 5 years in project lead or team management capacity.
• Proven experience in municipal or industrial wastewater treatment, water supply, or related water infrastructure projects.
• Demonstrated experience in EPC, design-build, or turnkey project delivery models.
• Experience working in a multi-country, cross-cultural environment within the Asia region, with specific familiarity with Southeast Asian markets and project practices is highly preferred.
• Proven track record in project budget management, cost control, and cash flow forecasting.
• Strong knowledge of contract terms, variation management, and claims processes.
• Basic understanding of wastewater treatment processes, mechanical and electrical equipment, SCADA systems, and plant commissioning is preferred.
• Fluent in English (both written and spoken) as the primary working language.
• Willingness and ability to travel frequently within the Asia region (approximately 30%–50% of working time) to project sites, client meetings, supplier facilities, and partner engagements.

EXPECTATIONS TO BE SUCCESSFUL:

• Motivates and leads a regional PM team with strong strategic alignment to business goals.

• Demonstrated ability to translate regional business strategy into clear, actionable objectives for a PM team, while maintaining team morale, engagement, and a shared sense of purpose across countries and cultures.

What can you expect as a member of the Fluence team?

• Interesting, engaging, and challenging work
• The ability to make a difference
• Growth opportunities
• Engaged and motivated colleagues from around the world
• Diverse and global organization
• Approachable leadership
• A team-oriented environment
• The ability to make a meaningful impact on sustainability and the environment.

EEOC Statement:

Fluence Corporation is committed to hiring a diverse workforce that fosters an inclusive culture of belonging. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race or color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, veteran status, genetic information, or disability.