Senior Project Manager
Senior Project Manager
Major Tasks & responsibilities:
- Accountable for the delivery of highly complex technology Capital Investments (>$50MM) or higher with strategic importance.
- Maintain a close working relationship, with global business management to define, plan, budget, and execute required capital investment.
- Support and execute through cold commissioning.
- Lead an international, diverse engineering team in such way to define a project to the set Business Strategy and goals
- Ensure, and be accountable for, the project follows the defined stage gate process.
- Manage the implementation of complex capital investments. This includes concept development, extended basic engineering, process optimization, technical and economic evaluation of alternatives, scope definition and control, estimating, cost control, scheduling, ensuring schedule compliance, detailed engineering and design, compliance with engineering, safety and environmental standards and procedures, global procurement of goods and services, overall supervision of construction and preparation of information for submittal of environmental permit applications.
- Identify requirements, review and secure the necessary engineering discipline, engineering services, procurement, and construction support to execute the capital plans and/or the assigned projects (internal and/or outsourcing) Work with international contractors in a project structure.
- Establish and maintain effective relationships with the many international support groups, as well capital projects and their assistance in project execution. Participate as chairperson on Project Steering Committees, be a focal point between Project Team and Steering Committee on project issues and decisions as well as program director.
- Implements and usage of preventive clams’ management techniques.
Value Added:
This position provides direct supervision, management, coaching and training of an international and diverse project team. The Sr. Project Manager acts as the task force leader. When projects are in an outside engineering firm. The Senior Project Manager is the liaison between the contractor and Company. In addition, the incumbent is responsible to ensure that all the required resources are identified and available for these investment projects. The know-how and technology transfer from other production sites, U.S. and the Asia Pacific is an integral part of the responsibilities. The experiences made related to global procurement should be considered to efficiently execute the project at lowest possible expenditure and optimized for project investment requirements.
Work Relations:
- Steering Committee / Site Manager
- Program Management of Mega Projects
- Global Technology Experts (R& D, P& T Tech Center, Production and global plant management).
- Functional project organization / Engineering Manager / Engineering experts of disciplines
- HSEQ/ Legal / Communication. Permitting. QA/QC heads
- Project Controlling Lead. Global project procurement and Claims management. National and International engineering, construction and installation companies, contractors and suppliers
External Specialists:
- Claims management.
- Scheduler, contract negotiation, project controller, maintenance experts.
- Permitting Authorities in the applicable region.
- ICA – Investment Coordination and Analysis.
Qualifications:
- BS (University) degree in Engineering, preferably in Chemical Engineering, with a minimum of 15 years of experience of managing investment projects. Master’s preferred.
- Proven track record in delivering international and national projects> $50 MM
- Excellent knowledge of the respective technology preferably combined with operation and technology experience.
- A broad and sound understanding of complex project execution principles and design of the discipline activities.
- Excellent Technical skills about relevant local and global standards.
- An understanding of CapEx and OpEx business principles and procedures is beneficial in the handling of cost-related aspects of project management.
- Good communication skills and leadership to steer international and multicultural and multi-location teams.
- Strong organizational skills.
- Take over a high degree of accountability and ownership in projects.
- Willingness to travel and take international assignments.
to describe the importance of the position:
- This position is responsible for capital investment projects and is accountable for meeting all scope requirements, including achieving product quality and design capacity and completing the project within the scheduled time frame and appropriate budget.
- The Senior Project Manager is directly responsible for control of the project scope, schedule, and cost.
- The individual must be capable of handling projects > $50MM.
- The Senior Project Manager provides supervision of a project team with members from engineering services discipline, personnel, plant site, etc. assigned to his/her projects.
- This Senior Project Manager fills a key role, bringing together the technical requirements to meet the customer’s business needs.
- Investment volume for projects below $100 MM- other non-financial magnitude describing the complexity of the position (e.g. number of clients, administrative reports, products or projects)
- The jobholder’s role in the successful execution of these projects is critical to the business result. Many problems must be addressed and solved from the first step of project definition and value engineering through detailed design, procurement, construction and plant start-up.
- The incumbent must balance cost, schedule, and plant design to obtain results that satisfy the board needs. Many groups, contribute input to the overall success of each project, and it is the incumbent’s job to evaluate these inputs and utilize them to form a cohesive design.
- The incumbent must be open-minded and flexible to address and solve the many problems that appear as the project progresses. These changes can affect cost, schedule, and technical quality.