Country Manager
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 3, 2026. First seen by Alion on Jul 3, 2025. Airswift scores B on the Alion truth index.
Job reference
1260844
Location
Guyana, Guyana
Sector
Energy - Power
Function
Administration
Employment type
Permanent
Date published
July 3, 2025
Airswift is seeking a Country Manager to work in a permanent contract in Guyana with a company specializing in floating thermal power plants.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
- Responsible for ensuring all business activities and resources be directed toward meeting Company objectives.
- Directs the search, selection, and employment process of new employees or replacements.
- Coordinate activities required to assure commencement of Commercial Operations of all Power Plants on time on budget and on specifications.
- Responsible for the close out of project related documents with all stakeholders.
- Resolve issues with the customer concerning billings, plant performance, outages and failure to meet expectations and/or contract requirements.
- Be principal interface between the customer and the Company.
- Preparation of country budget and all financial related matters, ensure the achievement of key performance targets as set out in budgets or forecasts.
- Holds direct responsibility for managing cost by effective approval expenditures, overtime and effective budget monitoring and monthly variance reporting.
- Supervise the preparation of required internal and external business, operational, and compliance reports, budgets, and forecasts as needed.
- Verify the validity of all business and plant operating permits and requirements, ensure compliance with all laws and regulations.
- Actively participate and conclude all commercial negotiations on all local agreements.
- Participate to periodic review of all plant policies and procedures to ensure they represent actual commercial and operational requirements.
- Audit O&M performance against agreed dashboard KPIs and contract compliance.
- Assist to coordination of activities required to assure optimum safety and environmental compliance, plant efficiency and reliability, in accordance with established contracts, agreements, policies and applicable regulatory laws and procedures.
- Coordination, planning, budgeting and execution of major maintenance or capital expenditure programs with Plant Managers.
- Acts as Company principal public relations spokesperson in matters involving the public or media.
- Conduct extensive market research prior to starting up the business and continue gathering information throughout the life of the business.
- Informing and reporting current market developments, analyzing energy market structure and regulations, assembling periodic industry and country reports.
- Examining the price mechanisms, price trends and forecasts within the region as a basis for further financial analysis.
- Establishing strategic contacts in markets of interest to the firm, developing new business relationships, maintaining current client relationships active.
- Establishing new offices in the region, taking under all administrative activities about projects within the region.
- Managing relations and correspondences with foreign governmental organizations and officials.
- Examining contractual issues/responsibilities of existing and new contracts.
JOB QUALIFICATIONS
Experience in the energy sector
Higher Education
Fluent English
ABOUT AIRSWIFT
Airswift serves as a strategic partner to our clients in STEM industries. We offer a turnkey workforce solution to acquire, mobilise and employ top talent in over 70 countries. With 800 employees in over 60 offices worldwide, 7,000 contractors and a candidate database of 1.5m specialists, our geographical reach and pool of available talent, experience and expertise is unmatched in the industry. We are proud to serve as a trusted advisor to clients looking to expand their operations internationally and offer employer of record services, payroll outsourcing, as well as HR consulting.
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