Capex Project Manager

Nouryon•LaPorte, IN

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Nouryon is a global, specialty chemicals leader. Markets and consumers worldwide rely on our essential solutions to manufacture everyday products, such as personal care, cleaning goods, paints and coatings, agriculture and food, pharmaceuticals, and building products. Furthermore, the dedication of approximately 7,650 employees with a shared commitment to our customers, business growth, safety, sustainability and innovation has resulted in a consistently strong financial performance. We operate in over 80 countries around the world with a portfolio of industry-leading brands. The Capex Project Manager will prepare, lead, execute and deliver best in class capex projects to add value to Nouryon. At Nouryon, our global team has positive action every day, to reach higher collectively and individually. We create innovative and sustainable solutions for our customers to answer society’s needs – today and in the future. We are looking for team members who bring ideas forward, champion others and work together to do better. Does that sound like you?

Requirements

Bachelor, master or doctorate level qualification in preferably mechanical/civil/electrical engineering or related disciplines.
Relevant experience in the chemical or petrochemical industry is preferred
Minimum 10 years of experience in project management
Strong strategic and conceptual skills with ability to execute and follow through
Ability to drive continuous improvement of the processes, policies, standards
Leadership skills by showing “presence in the room”
Able to work in an inclusive way in the engineering community to make sure the business experiences ‘one voice’ and the project team’s collective objectives are met
Excellent interpersonal skills, influencing, persuading, entrepreneurship, result oriented, negotiation, problem solving
Good structured and analytical skills
Good communication and presentation skills in English both verbal and written
Open to innovation, change and ability to work in a flexible work environment
Able to impart knowledge and learn quickly
Team player, contributes to project team’s ability to reach maximum performance
SAP project management module
Produces Gantt chart project schedules with critical path identified
Ability to develop the appropriate grade of estimate for the project’s stage-gate
Ability to conduct project risk analysis and contingency analysis
Strong scope change management
Understanding of common chemical processes, equipment, and instrumentation

Responsibilities

Manages a site’s capex portfolio, including both execution and forecasting
Prepare, lead, execute and deliver best in class capex projects, safe within defined scope, schedule, budget and expected quality
Select, lead and develop the multifunctional project team
Apply and adhere to Nouryon’s project management methodology, NPM
Ensure compliance to company directives
Take owner’s role, bringing value to the business with accountability for the capex part of an assigned capital investment.
In the Initiation and Study Phase (FEL-1 and FEL-2) project manager’s responsibility is in the facilitator/technical contributor roles and ensures endorsement and approval of the handed over engineering package by the business/site representative
Ensure completeness and quality of the appropriate deliverables for the current stage-gate of the project
Generate the project’s Appropriation Request (AR) for each stage-gate and obtain sign off for execution
Project safety, including ensuring process safety requirements are met as well as safely executing design/construction activities