Director, Capital Projects & Portfolio Mgmt

Bonnell Aluminum•Newnan, GA

About The Position

The Director, Enterprise Capital Planning, Projects & Engineering leads Tredegar’s enterprise capital planning and owns the capital project process from inception and development through approval readiness, execution, startup, and closeout. The role develops the annual capital budget, 3-year plan, and 10-year roadmap; aligns investments with business strategy, asset needs, capacity requirements, and operational priorities; and ensures capital projects are fully developed for approval and positioned for successful delivery. Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Global Operations, the Director evaluates and prioritizes capital opportunities, recommends allocations within Corporate Finance’s framework, and develops project justifications and ROI analyses in collaboration with Corporate Finance and business sponsors. After approval, the Director ensures projects are designed and delivered safely and within approved scope, budget, schedule, quality, and performance commitments. The role establishes expectations for safe design, contractor management, construction, commissioning, and startup; leads Project Engineering Managers; provides functional direction to enterprise project resources; strengthens project standards and capabilities; and partners with business leaders, Environmental Health & Safety, and Corporate Finance to validate results and improve capital effectiveness. Corporate Finance retains ownership of capital governance, approvals, policies, and investment standards.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Business, or a related technical discipline.
At least 10 years of progressive experience leading capital projects in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
At least 5 years of leadership experience managing complex capital programs, portfolios, or multi-site project organizations.
Demonstrated experience developing annual, multi-year, and long-range capital investment plans.
Demonstrated success delivering large, complex projects with strong safety performance, proactive risk elimination, and disciplined execution on schedule and within budget.
Proven ability to integrate inherently safer design, construction safety, contractor safety management, management of change, and safe commissioning and startup into capital project execution.
Experience directly leading managers and providing functional leadership in a matrix organization.
Strong financial acumen and experience partnering with Finance on capital justification, forecasting, and benefit validation.
Experience with manufacturing operations, engineering systems, asset reliability, and operational excellence.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
Professional Engineer (PE) license or equivalent technical credential, where applicable.
Experience in global or multi-site manufacturing operations.
Enterprise capital portfolio leadership experience.
Experience with large-scale plant expansions, modernization, automation, or infrastructure programs.
Experience in aluminum extrusion, films, packaging, engineered materials, or related industrial sectors.

Responsibilities

Develop the annual capital budget, 3-year plan, and 10-year roadmap, integrating business strategy, asset needs, capacity requirements, risk reduction, safety improvements, modernization, productivity, and infrastructure renewal.
Evaluate, sequence, and prioritize capital opportunities; explicitly consider safety risks and risk-reduction opportunities in project selection and design; and recommend allocations within Corporate Finance’s framework.
Own project development and approval readiness, including project justifications, ROI analyses, and definition of requirements, scope, estimates, schedules, resources, risks, contracting, and execution plans before authorization.
Prepare monthly capital cash forecasts, explain significant variances to plan, and maintain enterprise visibility of project status, spending, forecasts, resources, and safety performance.
Manage the capital project process from approval through procurement, construction, installation, commissioning, startup, stabilization, benefit handoff, and formal closeout.
Deliver projects safely within approved scope, budget, schedule, quality, and performance commitments; establish controls for cost, schedule, scope, safety risk, changes, forecasting, reporting, and escalation.
Embed safety into design reviews, constructability planning, contractor selection and onboarding, pre-task risk assessments, field execution, management of change, commissioning, and startup.
Review project health, lead recovery actions, and promptly escalate forecasted safety, cost, schedule, scope, or benefit deviations with documented recovery plans.
Lead Project Engineering Managers and provide functional direction to Project Engineers and enterprise project resources; set common standards, clarify accountability, and deploy resources effectively.
Build organizational capability through coaching, performance management, succession planning, technical development, career paths, and targeted training.
Prepare stakeholders for startup and sustained operation; require business sponsors to own delivery of approved operating benefits; and track actual results against approved business cases.
Partner with Corporate Finance for independent financial validation and formal post-investment reviews of major projects at 6 and 12 months after startup.
Lead lessons-learned reviews, standardize effective practices, and replicate best practices to improve capital planning, engineering, execution, commissioning, startup, and capital effectiveness.
Manage engineering firms, contractors, integrators, OEMs, and technology providers; support sourcing and set and enforce safety, quality, schedule, cost, and performance expectations.
Verify contractor safety qualifications and site-requirement compliance; hold partners accountable for risk identification and elimination and results; and promote enterprise solution standardization.