Sr. Project Manager (Preventative Maintenance)

The Chemours Company

About The Position

As we create a colorful, capable and cleaner world through chemistry, we invite you to join our team to harness the power of chemistry to shape markets, redefine industries and improve lives for billions of people around the world. CREATING ESSENTIAL CHEMISTRY THE WORLD NEEDS At Chemours, our people are redefining how the world thinks of chemistry by approaching everything we do with a commitment to delivering Trusted Chemistry that creates better lives and helps communities thrive. That begins with how we use our science, data, and unmatched technical expertise to develop market-leading products with the highest levels of performance, sustainability, and safety in the industry. Powered by chemistry, our products are used in applications that make the products we rely on, processes, and new technologies possible. In key sectors such as clean energy, advanced electronics, high-performance computing and AI, climate friendly cooling, and high-quality paints and coatings for homes and industrial infrastructure---sustainable solutions and more modern living depend on Chemours chemistry. Chemours is seeking a Senior Project Manager (Preventative Maintenance) to join our growing Capital Execution team. This position report directly to the Senior Manager – Capital Projects. As a Sr. Project Manager (PM), you will lead large and complex capital projects across Chemours sites worldwide that will shape the future of our operations and deliver on our commitment to safety, quality, and innovation. This role offers the unique opportunity to work on diverse, high-impact initiatives while collaborating with teams across the globe. While the Sr. Project Manager will support and travel to multiple locations, this role is preferably intended to be based at any of our Chemours sites, to maximize your impact through close collaboration with project teams and ensure seamless execution of world-class capital projects. The Sr. Project Manager (PM) is responsible for planning, leading, and managing all engineering activities associated with large capital projects (>$10M). PM’s are expected to have significant project leadership skills and experience to successfully execute these projects. The PM is accountable for the total engineering effort, including design, procurement, construction, project controls, estimating, document management and contractor oversight, typically from FEL-2 to Mechanical Completion. The PM coordinates with and supports the Project Sponsor in FEL-1 and commissioning/start-up. The PM leads and manages the project engineering processes as described in the Chemours Project System.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in any Engineering discipline
10+ years managing capital projects
5+ years working with a chemical plant environment
5+ years of experience in field construction or contract management
Strong communication skills
Ability to lead by influence
Strong team-building skills
Experience working with engineering/design contractors
Experience using project scheduling software
Smart engineering/design tools knowledge
Fluent use of Microsoft Office software
Ability to travel up to 40%

Nice To Haves

Direct report supervisory experience is a plus
Plant operations or maintenance experience is a plus

Responsibilities

Is responsible for identifying Chemours engineering and design resources
Work with the appropriate people managers to secure as well as ensuring that engineering contractor staffing is adequate to meet project objectives.
Is accountable to ensure that quality plans are documented and followed and to ensure engineering productivity throughout project life is appropriately measured and reported.
Leads the engineering portion of the front-end engineering process, including preparation of the project scopes of work, completion of the project estimates, preparation of funding requests and the integrated project schedule, and the development of the production design basis.
Establishes effective communications among the engineering team to ensure alignment around business objectives, project objectives, and project scopes.
Identify required project team roles and responsibilities and ensure each engineering functional team member understands their role and deliverables.
Identify necessary project deliverables and assist in the development
Manages changes in the project scope and controls cost within the approved budgets per the project “Management of Change” policy.
Drives capital project work processes and practices as described in the Chemours Project System.
Leads / facilitates problem solving sessions throughout project life to manage schedule, budget, priorities and constraints.
Ensures appropriate design standards and agreements with internal and external design resources are followed.