Principal Project Manager

Principal Responsibilities

• Oversee proposal development and project execution of major capital projects for Messer LLC.
• Manage all project activities throughout project cycle; responsible for managing larger and more complex projects.
• - In addition, responsible for managing the day-to-day activities of up to 2 full time project engineers, plus 2 to 3 contract project managers.
• Manage project activities, including: coordination of basic and detailed engineering and design, development and maintenance of project schedules and budgets, prepare monthly status reports, provide oversight of construction and commissioning activities, coordinate Operator training and ensure technical and administrative closeout of all project issues.
• Manage the outsource of discipline engineering.
• At the direction of the Department Head develop standards and procedures to increase department productivity
• Provide business with capital estimates with the appropriate level of accuracy for proposed projects especially in the upfront stages where GOM order estimates are required to determine go/no go decisions in the project feasibility phase.
• Interface with Business Development, Product Management, Production, Reliability, Distribution and all other Messer functions to develop and implement capital projects.
• Develop an effective Project Definition & Execution Strategy (PDES) that enables a high degree of confidence in the project scope, schedule, and budget.
• Qualify vendors, negotiate vendor pricing and bidding in conjunction with Procurement.
• Execute the project safely, to specification, on time and on budget, tracking costs to provide timely updates on spend relative to budget, managing vendors and contractors and tracking schedule to complete on time.
• Provide a quality project while minimizing unbudgeted change orders.
• Manage interface with regulatory agencies to ensure compliance with adopted environmental, life safety and technical code references.
• Organize required internal activities such as safety reviews, Hazops, MOCs and punch lists.
• Ensure that all internal standards and procedures are followed as well as relevant codes and applicable regulations.
• Maintain effective communication of progress and issues with formal monthly reports on material variances to scope, schedule or budget or substantial usage of contingency especially prior to the construction phase.
• Deliver complete project documentation at project conclusion.
• Act as technical resource to plants to develop problem solutions or needed improvements.
• Participate in interdepartmental initiatives.

Qualifications

• Functional Skills: Knowledge of codes and regulations as they pertain to industrial gas projects, i.e. ASME particularly B31.1, NEC, building codes, permitting experience.
• Expert at field phases – managing field construction, check out, commissioning and performance testing and punch list closure.
• Negotiation
• Planning
• Basic Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, or other relevant discipline.
• 15 years’ experience in the implementation of capital project, ideally in the Industrial Gas or Chemical Process industries, with demonstrated ability to develop a complicated technical scope, schedule and budget and consistently deliver to it.