The Senior Project Manager will support continuous improvement and growth initiatives at our chemical plant. This role requires a strong foundation in project management crossfunctional collaboration and strategic planning. An engineering background is highly beneficial to provide technical insight during project development phases. The focus will be on project initiation feasibility studies alternatives evaluation and scope planning. This individual will work closely with process reliability maintenance and operations engineers alongside a dedicated project execution team comprising a project manager administrator procurement specialist and construction management personnel.
Problem Identification and Analysis:
- Collaborate with plant management operations and engineering to identify and help to prioritize areas affecting production reliability safety and environmental compliance that could be addressed through the CapEx process.
- Develop problem statements and project charters that clearly articulate the projects scope objectives expected benefits constraints and alternatives considered.
- Feasibility Studies and Alternatives Evaluation:
- Perform feasibility studies to evaluate the technical and economic viability of proposed projects.
- Support asset owners as DST (decision support tool) evaluations are being developed for business justification and CapEx timing.
- Prepare scope of works preliminary cost estimates timelines and resource requirements for potential projects.
- Investigate and compare multiple solutions to identified problems considering factors such as cost feasibility implementation time and impact on operations.
- Evaluate the benefits and tradeoffs of different methodologies technologies alternatives and process changes.
- Prepare reports and presentations to facilitate decisionmaking by senior management.
- Coordinate external services and or expertise for development of technical scope(s) as needed.
- Support development of revised and or new documents such as preliminary drawings P&IDs control logic and others to support the evaluation.
- Provide overview of project regarding Site PSM and MOC procedures and conduct preliminary reviews as needed.
- Ensure legal and regulatory requirements for new technologies are incorporated.
Project Planning and Scope Development
- Develop project plans outlining the scope timeline budget resource allocation and risk management strategies.
- Collaborate with crossfunctional teams to ensure thorough planning and alignment with organizational goals.
- Define a detailed scope of work including technical specifications requirements and deliverables for each project.
- Participate in technical evaluation of contracted services and technologies.
Coordination with Project Execution Team
- Work closely with the Capital project team for remaining execution commissioning and closeout phases.
- Provide technical support and expertise during the execution phase to ensure projects stay aligned with initial scopes and objectives.
- Participate in regular project review meetings to address any technical issues and provide general support.
- Support regular updates and progress reports to stakeholders highlighting key achievements challenges and any changes to the project scope or schedule.
Expectations
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement within the engineering team encouraging innovative thinking and problemsolving.
- Demonstrate technical knowledge in engineering principles relevant to supporting CapEx projects.
- Experienced in and understands the planning phase of projects that include timelines budgets resource allocation and risk management strategies.
- Support the execution of CapEx projects ensuring milestones are met within scope on time and within budget.
- Foster a collaborative environment encouraging input and feedback from stakeholders to enhance project development and execution outcomes.
- Provide leadership and direction to project teams fostering a culture of accountability excellence and continuous improvement.
Qualifications :
- A bachelors degree in engineering (e.g. Mechanical Chemical Electrical) and at least 5 years of experience in engineering with a significant portion of that time supporting projects.
- Strong technical knowledge in relevant engineering discipline and practical application of engineering principles especially as it relates to projects.
- Able to prepare and review detailed technical documents reports and specifications.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime