Civil Package Manager

APM Terminals • Elizabeth, NJ

2d • Onsite

About The Position

APM Terminals is hiring a Civil Package Manager to lead the execution and delivery of civil contract packages for the Elizabeth Terminal Upgrade Project in Elizabeth, New Jersey. The project will overhaul and partially rebuild the existing terminal’s electrical system to support increased demand associated with facility decarbonization. Its wider scope includes design and civil works for marine and yard facilities; interfaces with STSs, RTGs, and other equipment; associated IT components; integration with the operating Port Elizabeth business; and support for operational startup.

The role covers marine and civil infrastructure, utilities, yard works, and buildings. Reporting to the Head of Asset Delivery, the manager will help ensure civil works meet approved project scope, schedule, budget, quality requirements, safety objectives, and operational needs. The position involves coordination across engineering, operations, maintenance, procurement, HSSE, IT, consultants, vendors, contractors, and other stakeholders in a complex brownfield construction environment within an operating container terminal.

APM Terminals describes its culture as focused on continuous improvement, learning, Lean principles, and safer, simpler operations. The role offers the opportunity to contribute to a major terminal modernization program, technical improvements, lessons learned, and engineering standards across APM Terminals.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience managing delivery of marine and civil infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of civil design, construction methods, project controls, scheduling, cost management, change management, risk management, commissioning, and contractor oversight.
• Ability to build productive working relationships across engineering, operations, maintenance, HSSE, procurement, consultants, vendors, contractors, and senior stakeholders.
• Clear communication in English and disciplined project documentation, reporting, escalation, and follow-through using Microsoft Office.
• University degree in engineering, with civil engineering preferred, or an equivalent combination of directly relevant engineering and construction-delivery experience.
• Applicants for U.S. positions must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in container terminals, ports, maritime facilities, or similarly complex industrial environments.
• Civil engineering degree.
• Strong continuous-improvement mindset, including curiosity, solving problems at their root, and seeking to improve operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead execution and delivery of marine, civil, utility, yard, and building work packages in accordance with project scope, schedule, budget, quality, and safety objectives.
• Direct design consultants, project management consultants, contractors, subcontractors, vendors, and quality-control partners through design, construction, commissioning, and integration.
• Monitor construction schedules, costs, risks, changes, delays, and dependencies; report on them and recommend practical corrective actions.
• Develop and review technical specifications, civil designs, method statements, risk assessments, implementation plans, budgets, and detailed construction schedules.
• Coordinate procurement and ensure specifications and contract packages align with APM Terminals standards and applicable legal, union, and EPA grant requirements.
• Manage interfaces among civil works, terminal operations, equipment deliveries, maintenance, IT components, commissioning, integration testing, and operational startup.
• Promote visible HSSE leadership and verify that designers and contractors comply with Elizabeth Terminal and APM Terminals safety requirements.

Benefits

• Learning and training culture supporting employee development and career advancement.
• Opportunity to influence a major terminal modernization program.
• Collaboration with engineering, operations, maintenance, procurement, HSSE, IT, consultants, and contractors.
• Opportunity to strengthen expertise in complex brownfield construction within an operating container terminal.
• Opportunity to contribute to technical improvements, lessons learned, and engineering standards across APM Terminals.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager