Capex Project Manager

Project Manager

The Project Manager will prepare, lead, execute & deliver best in class capex projects to add value to Nouryon.

About the role

Nouryon is a global team of Changemakers who take positive action every day to reach higher collectively and individually. We create innovative and sustainable solutions for our customers to answer society's needs – today and in the future.

Responsibilities

• Manage site capex portfolio, including both execution and forecasting.
• Prepare, lead, execute and deliver best in class capex projects, safe within defined scope, schedule, budget and expected quality.
• Select, lead and develop the multifunctional project team.
• Apply and adhere to Nouryon’s project management methodology, NPM.
• Ensure compliance to company directives.
• Take owner’s role, bringing value to the business with accountability for the capex part of an assigned capital investment.
• In the Initiation & Study Phase (FEL-1 and FEL-2) project manager’s responsibility is in the facilitator/technical contributor roles and ensures endorsement and approval of the handed over engineering package by the business/site representative
• Ensure completeness and quality of the appropriate deliverables for the current stage-gate of the project
• Generate project’s Appropriation Request (AR) for each stage-gate and obtain sign off for execution
• Project safety, including ensuring process safety requirements are met as well as safely executing design/construction activities
• Could possibly support engineering and project management at multiple sites or large capex such as NPM full projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor, master or doctorate level degree in preferably mechanical/civil/electrical engineering or related discipline; relevant experience could suffice in lieu of degree
• 3-5 years of chemical/petrochemical industry experience & 3+ years of project management experience
• Extensive experience leading multi-discipline engineering reviews for EPC contractors
• Relevant experience in different units of chemical plants, disciplines, locations, and/or other companies
• Thorough understanding of common chemical processes, process equipment, piping, and instrumentation
• Strong strategic and conceptual skills with ability to execute and follow through
• Able to drive continuous improvement of the processes, policies, standards
• Leadership skills by showing “presence in the room”
• Ability to work in an inclusive way in the engineering community to make sure the business experiences ‘one voice’ and the project team’s collective objectives are met
• Excellent interpersonal skills, influencing, persuading, entrepreneurship, result oriented, negotiation, problem solving
• Good structured and analytical skills
• Good communication and presentation skills in English both verbal and written
• Openness to innovation, change and ability to work in a flexible work environment
• Able to impart knowledge and learn quickly
• Team oriented mindset, contributes to project team’s ability to reach maximum performance
• Able to travel > 5 - 50 days annually
• SAP project management module experience
• Able to produce Gantt chart project schedules with critical paths identified
• Able to develop the appropriate grade of estimate for the project’s stage-gate
• Able to conduct project risk analysis and contingency analysis
• Strong scope change management experience
• Technical expertise of at least one engineering discipline with the ability to facilitate engineering design and analysis across all engineering disciplines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor, master or doctorate level degree in preferably mechanical/civil/electrical engineering or related discipline; relevant experience could suffice in lieu of degree
• 3-5 years of chemical/petrochemical industry experience & 3+ years of project management experience

Skills

• Technical expertise of at least one engineering discipline with the ability to facilitate engineering design and analysis across all engineering disciplines.

Benefits

We believe you bring

Pay

Standard

Schedule

Fulltime

Hierarchy level

Professional/Experienced/Specialist

Job area

Engineering (all roles)

Business

Integrated Supply Chain

Site

Salisbury

Continent

North America

Country

United States

State/Region/Province

North Carolina

Job area

Engineering (all roles)

Full time/part time

Fulltime

Contract type

Permanent