Project Manager, Capital Projects

Responsibilities

• Directly manage multiple capital projects ranging approximately from $20,000 to $50 million, depending upon project complexity, risk, and business requirements.
• Manage projects through the complete project lifecycle: INITIATION → CONCEPT / FEL → ENGINEERING & PLANNING → APPROVAL → PROCUREMENT → EXECUTION → MONITORING & CONTROL → COMMISSIONING / STARTUP → CLOSEOUT
• Develop project charters, objectives, business justification, scope, deliverables, and success criteria.
• Lead feasibility studies, alternatives analyses, conceptual engineering, and Front-End Loading/Front-End Engineering activities.
• Develop preliminary and definitive project cost estimates.
• Establish project schedules, milestones, critical paths, and resource requirements.
• Develop project execution plans and contracting strategies.
• Career Development
• Coordinate engineering disciplines, contractors, vendors, procurement, Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, EHS, Finance, and other stakeholders.
• Develop and manage Requests for Proposal (RFPs), bid evaluations, vendor selections, purchase requisitions, and contract recommendations.
• Maintain visibility of approved, pending, and future capital projects.
• Monitor portfolio-level spending, commitments, forecasts, schedules, and project status.
• Identify projects at risk of exceeding approved scope, cost, or schedule.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, or other applicable Engineering discipline.
• Minimum 5-10 years of engineering/project experience in a chemical, petrochemical, refining, specialty chemical, pharmaceutical, or comparable process-manufacturing environment.
• Minimum 2-5 years of direct experience managing capital process plant projects from concept through commissioning and closeout.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating multidisciplinary engineering and construction activities.
• Working knowledge of capital estimating, scheduling, procurement, construction management, commissioning, and project controls.
• Understanding of industrial safety and process safety requirements applicable to capital project execution.
• Experience managing contractors, engineering firms, equipment suppliers, and construction vendors.

Preferred

• Experience managing simultaneous projects across multiple engineering disciplines.
• Experience with brownfield projects executed within continuously operating process plants.
• Experience with shutdown/turnaround project planning and execution.
• Experience with project stage-gate or Front-End Loading methodologies.
• Familiarity with Process Safety Management, MOC, PHA, PSSR, and RAGAGEP requirements.
• Experience developing capital budgets and multi-year capital plans.
• PMP, CAPM, or equivalent project-management certification.