Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities

• Maintain efficient and effective interaction with the client and project stakeholders, defining and managing expectations.
• Develop Work Breakdown Structures for projects.
• Develop the project proposal/execution plan addressing the project scope, cost, schedule, and risks, as well as client expectations.
• Develop and maintain project schedules, identifying and managing project dependencies, critical path, and deliverables issuance.
• Identify and manage project risks, developing and implementing risk response strategies.
• Ensure proper documentation and communication of project risks, actions, issues, decisions, and interfaces.
• Develop and implement management of change within projects, proactively forecasting and documenting changes to clients, developing project change requests/orders and subsequently modifying project budgets, schedules, and scopes of services in accordance with approved changes.
• Express ideas clearly and concisely. Seek to understand other’s perspectives. Keep accurate and organized records.
• Routinely monitor and report on project progress, cost, risks, and quality in accordance with client’s requirements, identifying trends and allowing for timely corrective actions.
• Provide forecasts of status and progress as required.
• Plan, manage and facilitate timely submittal of deliverables/work packages provided to clients and return of client review comments or approvals.
• Bring the project to an orderly completion, ensuring handover of appropriate project documentation and data.
• Plan, organize and manage resources to achieve the project goals and objectives.
• Has a good working knowledge of all key project processes, including engineering, procurement, and construction management.
• Possess a solid grasp of interdisciplinary engineering practices in a project phase/stage-gated work process for heavy industry (e.g., Front-End Loading).

Required Qualifications

• BS in engineering (chemical or mechanical preferred), with a preference for licensed Professional Engineers.
• Minimum of 10 or more years’ experience; an engineering background and project experience in the pulp & paper industry, petroleum refining, hydrocarbons, high tech, or specialty chemicals experience highly desirable.
• Previous consulting engineering experience is strongly preferred.
• Have strong working knowledge of critical path scheduling techniques using Microsoft Project and/or Primavera P6, and experience applying such tools on projects.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience as project manager on capital projects, with a preference for small- to medium-cap retrofit projects experience in a portfolio program.
• Experience with project work sharing, working with resources in locations remote from the project manager’s office.
• Travel to domestic job sites may be required on a routine basis.

Preferred

• Eligibility to obtain or currently hold a valid Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC)