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RENOWNED engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company KBR has built a strong reputation for delivering proven solutions across a range of sectors including resources, infrastructure, marine engineering, environment, and transport.
One of KBR’s core strengths has been its ability to deliver some of the world’s most complex projects and programs using its proven program management office (PMO).
As a major EPC contractor, KBR has consistently brought the skills to manage and deliver projects in remote and harsh environmental conditions against time critical project completion dates, while helping ensure the transfer of knowledge to deliver outstanding outcomes.
These strong outcomes have been achieved by KBR’s ability to develop a flexible solution, which recognised that no single execution model would suit every customer and their goals, issues, needs, and risks.
KBR has continued to offer solutions to clients that combined some of the world’s best program management personnel, who have been trained and developed to work collaboratively, along with procedure, systems and tools that could be adapted and rapidly deployed anywhere in the world.
The company’s approach to providing PMO was client goal focussed, with an emphasis on integrity and accountability, collaborative working, risk awareness, and zero harm.
It also brought a number of core skills to PMO ensuring the best possible outcomes for clients.
KBR’s contracting strategy delivered the most advantageous commercial execution model to ensure delivery, while its collaborative behaviour delivered integrated teams to work with customers to deliver the best solution for the project.
This collaborative and flexible approach to project delivery was reflected in the company’s long-term relationships and contracting arrangements with clients, with KBR supporting many of its clients for several decades.
The company’s skills in risk management meant clients could expect a full and open discussion on all threats and opportunities to help ensure the certainty of the outcome.
KBR’s interface management guaranteed early acting to de-risk the main issues in a project and its data centric management helped ensure real time information, which could be entered once, trusted, and re-used many times.
This was supported by KBR’s appropriate skills and resources in project management; project controls; quality; HSE; information management; business transformation and training; technical and engineering teams; construction and commissioning; and logistics management.
Among its recent projects was the Carrapateena copper-gold project, which KBR has been supporting OZ Minerals to deliver since 2017.
KBR’s role has been providing professional project management services for the execution phase of the project as part of an integrated project team office.
Previous to the project starting, KBR had been supporting OZ Minerals to finalise its early contractor involvement strategy and associated feasibility study activities.
In total 60 employees were working on the project, with 70 per cent coming from KBR and 30 per cent coming from OZ Minerals.
As an integrated team, KBR and OZ Minerals were delivering more than 30 separate work packages, including a minerals processing plant, 550-bed accommodation and a 1.6km aerodrome designed to accommodate a 100-seat jet aircraft.
More information about KBR can be found at www.kbr.com.