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Performance Support for Wind Power Work Package & Procurement Managers

Develop critical decision-making ability to leverage new market conditions and maximise supply chain performance in wind power projects.

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£18 + VAT per month

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£180 + VAT billed annually

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Who is it for?

Onshore and offshore wind power professionals, including:

  • Procurement managers
  • Turbine work package manager
  • Civils work package managers
  • O&M work package managers
  • Balance of plant work package managers
  • Assistant work package managers

What will you gain?

You will refine critical decision-making skills, including:

  • A range of planning and work execution decisions.
  • How to leverage market conditions to gain a competitive edge.
  • Understanding how contracts compromise quality, security and safety.
  • When and how to successfully collaborate with other internal departments.
  • Building mutually beneficial commercial relationships with the supply chain.

Ultimate performance support

  • 10 hours of bite-sized self-paced learning sprints.
  • 24/7 access to digital resources.
  • Available on desktop and on the go with the mobile app.
  • Engage with a community of industry experts.
  • CPD certificate

How good is this solution?

  • Slash project delivery time by up to 20%.
  • Cut frictional costs by 5%.
  • Reduce scope variations by 10%.
  • Proactively identify project risks and opportunities.
  • Easily accessible via the app whilst you work.
  • CPD UK approved.
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Is performance support for you?

Looking for new ways to safeguard your decisions among the complex procurement frameworks dominating wind power?

// Want to leverage today’s new, more flexible market conditions?

// Want to always be confident that the contracts you sign will never compromise quality, security and safety and instead will drive operational performance?

// Need to build a long-standing, transparent and mutually beneficial commercial partnership with the supply chain?

If you answer yes to these questions, our library of performance support resources is for you!

Available online and on the go, our portfolio of circa 40 short video-based materials is at your fingertips so you can inform, verify, and improve your decisions whenever and wherever. 

We help you succeed in your role. With performance support by your side, you develop more confidence in making informed decisions whilst navigating the critical process of contract engagement, negotiation and stakeholder management.

Performance support helps you proactively optimise projects, recognise opportunities and risks, and pinpoint performance improvements. The solution assists decision-making in the workflow, and we also connect you with a global community of like-minded professionals for insightful peer opinion.

Curious to learn more? Try our free demo!

But don’t just take our word for it. Hundreds of leading wind energy organisations worldwide trust the ARMSA approach.

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Our approach

The front end of project planning is where some of the most critical decisions are made. This performance support will help you understand how these decisions impact project delivery and occupational safety. The diagram below shows the proactive and reactive elements of management decision-making covered in ARMSA performance support sprints.

Front-end decision-making components

  • Organisational culture
  • Commercial/contract framework
  • Organisational precursors
  • Work planning decisions
  • Emergent operations failure

Late-stage decision-making components

  • Hazard observation
  • Incidents
  • Minor accident
  • Major accident
  • Fatality
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Performance support aims

How often are your decisions rushed and constrained by time or cost or because you didn’t have anyone to bounce your ideas off? 

Performance support helps you do things right, right from the start. Learn to understand the consequences of your decisions and make choices that result in safer, more effective, and more efficient outcomes.

Our performance support solutions are constructed around the cycle:

  • Leadership
  • Plan
  • Do
  • Check 
  • Act

Decision-making content

The performance support portal comprises circa 40 short video sprints supported by written transcripts. Each video can be viewed in any order and as many times as you like.

Search for the content you need advice for, and the platform will generate suggestions for you to consider.

The videos cover the critical decision-making points of each phase:

Master your leadership

  • Choosing the right contract manager
  • How to work in a matrix organisation

What should be considered in the planning phase  

  • Operationalising the risk assessment process
  • The impact of technical specifications on risk
  • The effect of contracting strategies on risk
  • Battle of the laws – H&S vs Commercial and contract
  • Delivering a capital project? What are the key roles?
  • Importing plant and equipment – what are your responsibilities?
  • Using the contract to influence the management of interfaces
  • Costs and risks arising from operational integration of newly procured plant and equipment.
  • Health and safety T&Cs – do’s and don’ts
  • The whole-of-life assessment for safety and costs
  • How to risk assess your project plan to attract the right bidders?
  • Procuring safety-critical services? Are kitemarks sufficient?
  • Specifying safety performance metrics and data for new and replacement plant
  • Managing client-side safety information pre-contract
  • Safety risk transfer – is it allowed?
  • Singular or segmented supply chain process – what is right for you?
  • Aligning culture, contract and work delivery (FIDIC vs NEC3)
  • Does your standard PQQ process really tell you if your contractor is competent?
  • Developing a work package risk register – what are the factors?
  • What is competence in the context of the supply chain?
  • The practical use of principles of prevention
  • Key roles in the Project Management Organisation – a regulatory perspective

Enhancing performance (Do)

  • The relationship between safety rules, risk assessments and work instructions
  • Practical application of Permit to Work
  • The relationship between work instructions, risk assessment and method statements
  • Reviewing risk assessments: improving operational control and reducing liability
  • Using the contract to manage multi-tiered contractor risk
  • The art of effective bid evaluation

Monitoring performance (Check)

  • Inspections and audits: is there a difference
  • Using cause and effect to identify plant/contract-specific KPIs
  • The effective contract review process
  • Does independent assurance help you understand how systems work in practice?

Learning lessons (Act)

  • Using organisational learning to streamline re-contracting

About the Facilitator

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Khalida Suleymanova and Rakesh Maharaj
Khalida and Rakesh have extensively researched the effects of Procurement and Work Package Managers’ decisions on project performance.

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