Director, Capital Projects
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We need to decide sections: About the role (company overview, mission). Responsibilities (what you will be working on). Requirements (what you bring: education, experience). Qualifications maybe overlapping; but we can combine? The instruction: prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. Could have About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Benefits. Possibly Skills separate? The "What You Bring To Plantible" includes both required and preferred qualifications; could be Requirements. Benefits separate.
We must not repeat job title. No Pay/Schedule.
We need to extract substantive content:
Company description: "We Are a Biology Company Plantible, backed by Astanor Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, Piva Capital, Kellogg’s, and Vectr Ventures, is a vertically integrated biology company that is unlocking the power in plants in service of people & planet. Our mission is to create solutions that empower customers to make sustainable and regenerative choices without compromising on quality. We are beginning with the food industry."
Also mention website.
Responsibilities: The "How You Will Contribute" and "What You Will Be Working On" sections list many duties. Need to capture them as list items.
Let's parse responsibilities:
- Own the Build: Own scope, schedule, budget, risk, and execution strategy for major Plantible capital projects.
- Upstream scope includes large-scale greenhouse and cultivation infrastructure.
- Provide overall leadership for execution strategy, contractor performance, installation productivity, and standardization across repeated modules.
- Downstream covers food-processing environments across biomass handling, maceration, extraction, centrifugation, solid-liquid separation, filtration, purification, drying, and CIP.
- Build and maintain the integrated project plan from FEL through commissioning and startup.
- Know the critical path, what is slipping, why it is slipping, and what needs to happen to recover it.
- Establish clear project governance, decision rights, stage gates, and accountability across internal and external teams.
- Surface problems early. Bring leadership decisions and tradeoffs, not surprises.
- Turn Engineering into an Executable Facility: Partner with Plantible's engineering and technical leaders to translate process and operational requirements into buildable facility designs.
- Manage the interfaces between process, agricultural, mechanical, civil, structural, electrical, controls, utilities, and site infrastructure.
- Lead external engineering, EPC/EPCM, construction, and specialty partners.
- Challenge scope, design assumptions, and unnecessary complexity before they become expensive construction decisions.
- Make sure lessons from our previous designs become standards for the next facility rather than problems we solve twice.
- Control the Project: Own the project cost forecast, commitments, contingency, schedule, and change-control process.
- Partner with Finance to translate the project forecast and schedule into accurate cash-flow planning.
- Understand what has been spent, what has been committed, what remains at risk, and where the project is expected to finish.
- Evaluate changes based on cost, schedule, technical, and operational impact before approving execution.
- Establish reporting that tells leadership what they actually need to know to make decisions.
- Build It: Develop procurement and contracting strategies for major equipment and construction packages.
- Identify long-lead equipment before it becomes the critical path.
- Hold engineering firms, contractors, and vendors accountable for scope, schedule, quality, and performance.
- Oversee construction execution and drive resolution of RFIs, field changes, design conflicts, and contractor issues.
- Spend time where the project is happening. This is not a role that can be managed entirely from a conference room.
- Promote a strong construction-safety, process-safety, hygienic-design, and quality culture.
- Start It Up: Own the transition from construction through mechanical completion, commissioning, startup, and operational handoff.
- Bring Operations into the project early enough that we build something that can actually be operated and maintained.
- Establish commissioning and turnover plans before construction is finished.
- Capture what worked and what didn't and build those lessons into Plantible's next project.
- Build the Capability: Build and lead Plantible's Capital Projects organization as our project portfolio grows.
- Develop Project Engineers into strong owner-side project leaders.
- Establish the tools, standards, processes, and operating cadence required to repeatedly deliver major facilities.
- Help Plantible move from "building a facility" to having a repeatable model for how Plantible builds facilities.
That's a lot; we can condense into bullet points but must preserve all substantive info; we can combine similar points but not lose detail. However we must not invent or summarize away detail. We need to preserve all substantive information; we can keep each bullet as a separate
- but that may be many. That's okay.
Requirements: "What You Bring To Plantible" includes:
- Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Process Engineering, Bioengineering, Civil Engineering, Construction Management, or related technical field.
- 10+ years delivering industrial capital projects with increasing ownership and leadership responsibility.
- Required experience in biotechnology, food processing, fermentation, protein processing, pharmaceutical, biochemical, or similar hygienic process-manufacturing environments.
- Personally led a significant greenfield or major expansion project through engineering, construction, commissioning, and startup.
- We want to understand what you owned, what went wrong, and how you got it built.
- Experience owning project budgets, schedules, forecasts, contingency, and change control.
- Managed multidisciplinary engineering teams, contractors, equipment vendors, and external engineering firms.
- Strong understanding of FEL/FEED, detailed engineering, procurement, industrial construction, commissioning, and startup.
- Enough technical depth to challenge an engineering firm without needing to personally design every system.
- Strong people leadership. You create clarity, set expectations, hold people accountable, and get technical teams moving in the same direction.
- Comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and creating structure in an environment that is still evolving.
- Willingness to spend significant time at project sites during design, construction, commissioning, and startup.
Preferred (optional) but we can include as part of Requirements or separate Skills? The instruction: prefer few substantive sections. Could combine Requirements and Preferred into one Requirements section, but we could also have Skills section for preferred. However we need to avoid thin sections. Maybe we have Requirements (including required and preferred) and Benefits.
Benefits list: "Competitive health and wellness benefitsMedical, Dental and Vision InsuranceDiscretionary Unlimited PTO ProgramPaid Holidays401k ProgramCareer StipendCareer development and growth opportunitiesWorking in a rapidly growing, flexible and entrepreneurial environmentTeam building and company-wide eventsFinancial support with your relocation, if necessary, ensuring a smooth transitionAnd of course, lots of beautiful land for outdoor activities!"
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About the role
We Are a Biology Company Plantible, backed by Astanor Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, Piva Capital, Kellogg’s, and Vectr Ventures? Actually Vectr Ventures, is a vertically integrated biology company that is unlocking the power in plants in service of people & planet. Our mission is to create solutions that empower customers to make sustainable and regenerative choices without compromising on quality. We are beginning with the food industry. Learn more at https://www.plantiblefoods.com/
Responsibilities
- Own scope, schedule, budget, risk, and execution strategy for major Plantible capital projects.
- Upstream scope includes large‑scale greenhouse and cultivation infrastructure.
- Provide overall leadership for execution strategy, contractor performance, installation productivity, and standardization across repeated modules.
- Downstream covers food‑processing environments across biomass handling, maceration, extraction, centrifugation, solid‑liquid separation, filtration, purification, drying, and CIP.
- Build and maintain the integrated project plan from FEL through commissioning and startup.
- Know the critical path, what is slipping, why it is slipping, and what needs to happen to recover it.
- Establish clear project governance, decision rights, stage gates, and accountability across internal and external teams.
- Surface problems early; bring leadership decisions and tradeoffs, not surprises.
- Partner with Plantible's engineering and technical leaders to translate process and operational requirements into buildable facility designs.
- Manage the interfaces between process, agricultural, mechanical, civil, structural, electrical, controls, utilities, and site infrastructure.
- Lead external engineering, EPC/EPCM, construction, and specialty partners.
- Challenge scope, design assumptions, and unnecessary complexity before they become expensive construction decisions.
- Ensure lessons from previous designs become standards for the next facility rather than problems solved twice.
- Own the project cost forecast, commitments, contingency, schedule, and change‑control process.
- Partner with Finance to translate the project forecast and schedule into accurate cash‑flow planning.
- Understand what has been spent, what has been committed, what remains at risk, and where the project is expected to finish.
- Evaluate changes based on cost, schedule, technical, and operational impact before approving execution.
- Establish reporting that tells leadership what they actually need to know to make decisions.
- Develop procurement and contracting strategies for major equipment and construction packages.
- Identify long‑lead equipment before it becomes the critical path.
- Hold engineering firms, contractors, and vendors accountable for scope, schedule, quality, and performance.
- Oversee construction execution and drive resolution of RFIs, field changes, design conflicts, and contractor issues.
- Spend time where the project is happening; this role cannot be managed entirely from a conference room.
- Promote a strong construction‑safety, process‑safety, hygienic‑design, and quality culture.
- Own the transition from construction through mechanical completion, commissioning, startup, and operational handoff.
- Bring Operations into the project early enough that we build something that can actually be operated and maintained.
- Establish commissioning and turnover plans before construction is finished.
- Capture what worked and what didn't and build those lessons into Plantible's next project.
- Build and lead Plantible's Capital Projects organization as the project portfolio grows.
- Develop Project Engineers into strong owner‑side project leaders.
- Establish the tools, standards, processes, and operating cadence required to repeatedly deliver major facilities.
- Help Plantible move from “building a facility” to having a repeatable model for how Plantible builds facilities.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Process Engineering, Bioengineering, Civil Engineering, Construction Management, or a related technical field.
- 10+ years delivering industrial capital projects with increasing ownership and leadership responsibility.
- Required experience in biotechnology, food processing, fermentation, protein processing, pharmaceutical, biochemical, or similar hygienic process‑manufacturing environments.
- Personally led a significant greenfield or major expansion project through engineering, construction, commissioning, and startup.
for prose. We need to decide sections: About the role (company overview, mission). Responsibilities (what you will be working on). Requirements (what you bring: education, experience). Qualifications maybe overlapping; but we can combine? The instruction: prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. Could have About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Benefits. Possibly Skills separate? The "What You Bring To Plantible" includes both required and preferred qualifications; could be Requirements. Benefits separate. We must not repeat job title. No Pay/Schedule. We need to extract substantive content: Company description: "We Are a Biology Company Plantible, backed by Astanor Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, Piva Capital, Kellogg’s, and Vectr Ventures, is a vertically integrated biology company that is unlocking the power in plants in service of people & planet. Our mission is to create solutions that empower customers to make sustainable and regenerative choices without compromising on quality. We are beginning with the food industry." Also mention website. Responsibilities: The "How You Will Contribute" and "What You Will Be Working On" sections list many duties. Need to capture them as list items. Let's parse responsibilities: - Own the Build: Own scope, schedule, budget, risk, and execution strategy for major Plantible capital projects. - Upstream scope includes large-scale greenhouse and cultivation infrastructure. - Provide overall leadership for execution strategy, contractor performance, installation productivity, and standardization across repeated modules. - Downstream covers food-processing environments across biomass handling, maceration, extraction, centrifugation, solid-liquid separation, filtration, purification, drying, and CIP. - Build and maintain the integrated project plan from FEL through commissioning and startup. - Know the critical path, what is slipping, why it is slipping, and what needs to happen to recover it. - Establish clear project governance, decision rights, stage gates, and accountability across internal and external teams. - Surface problems early. Bring leadership decisions and tradeoffs, not surprises. - Turn Engineering into an Executable Facility: Partner with Plantible's engineering and technical leaders to translate process and operational requirements into buildable facility designs. - Manage the interfaces between process, agricultural, mechanical, civil, structural, electrical, controls, utilities, and site infrastructure. - Lead external engineering, EPC/EPCM, construction, and specialty partners. - Challenge scope, design assumptions, and unnecessary complexity before they become expensive construction decisions. - Make sure lessons from our previous designs become standards for the next facility rather than problems we solve twice. - Control the Project: Own the project cost forecast, commitments, contingency, schedule, and change-control process. - Partner with Finance to translate the project forecast and schedule into accurate cash-flow planning. - Understand what has been spent, what has been committed, what remains at risk, and where the project is expected to finish. - Evaluate changes based on cost, schedule, technical, and operational impact before approving execution. - Establish reporting that tells leadership what they actually need to know to make decisions. - Build It: Develop procurement and contracting strategies for major equipment and construction packages. - Identify long-lead equipment before it becomes the critical path. - Hold engineering firms, contractors, and vendors accountable for scope, schedule, quality, and performance. - Oversee construction execution and drive resolution of RFIs, field changes, design conflicts, and contractor issues. - Spend time where the project is happening. This is not a role that can be managed entirely from a conference room. - Promote a strong construction-safety, process-safety, hygienic-design, and quality culture. - Start It Up: Own the transition from construction through mechanical completion, commissioning, startup, and operational handoff. - Bring Operations into the project early enough that we build something that can actually be operated and maintained. - Establish commissioning and turnover plans before construction is finished. - Capture what worked and what didn't and build those lessons into Plantible's next project. - Build the Capability: Build and lead Plantible's Capital Projects organization as our project portfolio grows. - Develop Project Engineers into strong owner-side project leaders. - Establish the tools, standards, processes, and operating cadence required to repeatedly deliver major facilities. - Help Plantible move from "building a facility" to having a repeatable model for how Plantible builds facilities. That's a lot; we can condense into bullet points but must preserve all substantive info; we can combine similar points but not lose detail. However we must not invent or summarize away detail. We need to preserve all substantive information; we can keep each bullet as a separate
About the role
We Are a Biology Company Plantible, backed by Astanor Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, Piva Capital, Kellogg’s, and Vectr Ventures? Actually Vectr Ventures, is a vertically integrated biology company that is unlocking the power in plants in service of people & planet. Our mission is to create solutions that empower customers to make sustainable and regenerative choices without compromising on quality. We are beginning with the food industry. Learn more at https://www.plantiblefoods.com/
Responsibilities
- Own scope, schedule, budget, risk, and execution strategy for major Plantible capital projects.
- Upstream scope includes large‑scale greenhouse and cultivation infrastructure.
- Provide overall leadership for execution strategy, contractor performance, installation productivity, and standardization across repeated modules.
- Downstream covers food‑processing environments across biomass handling, maceration, extraction, centrifugation, solid‑liquid separation, filtration, purification, drying, and CIP.
- Build and maintain the integrated project plan from FEL through commissioning and startup.
- Know the critical path, what is slipping, why it is slipping, and what needs to happen to recover it.
- Establish clear project governance, decision rights, stage gates, and accountability across internal and external teams.
- Surface problems early; bring leadership decisions and tradeoffs, not surprises.
- Partner with Plantible's engineering and technical leaders to translate process and operational requirements into buildable facility designs.
- Manage the interfaces between process, agricultural, mechanical, civil, structural, electrical, controls, utilities, and site infrastructure.
- Lead external engineering, EPC/EPCM, construction, and specialty partners.
- Challenge scope, design assumptions, and unnecessary complexity before they become expensive construction decisions.
- Ensure lessons from previous designs become standards for the next facility rather than problems solved twice.
- Own the project cost forecast, commitments, contingency, schedule, and change‑control process.
- Partner with Finance to translate the project forecast and schedule into accurate cash‑flow planning.
- Understand what has been spent, what has been committed, what remains at risk, and where the project is expected to finish.
- Evaluate changes based on cost, schedule, technical, and operational impact before approving execution.
- Establish reporting that tells leadership what they actually need to know to make decisions.
- Develop procurement and contracting strategies for major equipment and construction packages.
- Identify long‑lead equipment before it becomes the critical path.
- Hold engineering firms, contractors, and vendors accountable for scope, schedule, quality, and performance.
- Oversee construction execution and drive resolution of RFIs, field changes, design conflicts, and contractor issues.
- Spend time where the project is happening; this role cannot be managed entirely from a conference room.
- Promote a strong construction‑safety, process‑safety, hygienic‑design, and quality culture.
- Own the transition from construction through mechanical completion, commissioning, startup, and operational handoff.
- Bring Operations into the project early enough that we build something that can actually be operated and maintained.
- Establish commissioning and turnover plans before construction is finished.
- Capture what worked and what didn't and build those lessons into Plantible's next project.
- Build and lead Plantible's Capital Projects organization as the project portfolio grows.
- Develop Project Engineers into strong owner‑side project leaders.
- Establish the tools, standards, processes, and operating cadence required to repeatedly deliver major facilities.
- Help Plantible move from “building a facility” to having a repeatable model for how Plantible builds facilities.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Process Engineering, Bioengineering, Civil Engineering, Construction Management, or a related technical field.
- 10+ years delivering industrial capital projects with increasing ownership and leadership responsibility.
- Required experience in biotechnology, food processing, fermentation, protein processing, pharmaceutical, biochemical, or similar hygienic process‑manufacturing environments.
- Personally led a significant greenfield or major expansion project through engineering, construction, commissioning, and startup.