Senior Capital Projects Portfolio Manager (60066)

LSB INDUSTRIES•Pryor Creek, OK

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Capital Projects Portfolio Manager, reporting to the Plant General Manager, is responsible for the development, governance, prioritization, and execution of the Pryor site's capital and major expense project portfolio from initial opportunity identification through project closeout and operational handover. This role is accountable for establishing strong project management discipline, portfolio visibility, cost and schedule control, and predictable project delivery. The position leads the site project engineering team and works closely with Operations, Maintenance, EH&S, Finance, Procurement, and corporate functions to ensure projects are properly developed, authorized, executed, and integrated into the operating facility. The successful candidate will combine strong operating-plant experience with project execution expertise and the ability to build a disciplined project management organization. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring significant field presence and the ability to simultaneously manage the overall portfolio, challenge individual projects, and develop engineering capability.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
Minimum 15 years of progressively responsible experience in engineering, capital projects, turnarounds, reliability, or operations within an industrial manufacturing environment.
Significant project management experience in an operating chemical, petrochemical, refining, fertilizer, or similar process manufacturing facility.
Demonstrated successful execution of complex brownfield capital projects within operating production facilities.
Demonstrated experience managing multiple concurrent projects and/or a significant capital portfolio.
Strong understanding of project development, engineering, estimating, scheduling, procurement, construction, commissioning, and startup.
Strong understanding of project financial management, including budgets, commitments, actuals, forecasting, contingency, change management, and forecast-at-completion.
Experience managing engineering and construction contractors and equipment suppliers.
Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and develop engineers and project professionals.
Broad multidisciplinary engineering knowledge and the ability to effectively challenge engineering and contractor recommendations.
Strong organizational, analytical, interpersonal, and communication skills.
Ability to communicate candidly and effectively from the plant floor through senior management.
Demonstrated bias for action, sense of urgency, accountability, integrity, and commitment to results.
Fluent in English.

Nice To Haves

15+ years of experience in chemical, petrochemical, refining, fertilizer, or similar continuous-process manufacturing.
Owner/operator experience managing brownfield capital projects and portfolios.
Experience managing a significant annual capital portfolio and multiple simultaneous projects.
Experience establishing or improving project governance, project controls, or portfolio management systems within an operating facility.
Experience supporting major plant turnarounds and outage projects.
Experience with FEL/stage-gate project development methodologies.
Professional Engineer (PE), Project Management Professional (PMP), or equivalent professional certification.
Experience with project scheduling, cost-control, portfolio-management, and ERP systems.

Responsibilities

Own and maintain the site's complete capital and major expense project portfolio, providing clear visibility of project scope, business justification, priority, budget, forecast, schedule, risks, resources, and status.
Establish and maintain a consistent project development and execution process from concept through engineering, authorization, execution, commissioning, startup, and closeout.
Ensure appropriate stage-gate reviews are completed and that projects have sufficient scope definition, engineering maturity, cost estimates, schedules, risk assessments, and execution plans before progressing.
Partner with site leadership to prioritize projects based on safety, regulatory requirements, reliability, production impact, financial return, and strategic importance.
Identify resource constraints and recommend portfolio sequencing and resource allocation.
Establish effective portfolio reporting and review processes, including weekly project performance reporting and monthly management portfolio reviews.
Ensure lessons learned from completed projects are systematically captured and incorporated into future project development and execution.
Provide project and engineering oversight for projects from initial concept through successful operational handover.
Directly lead or provide senior oversight for significant, complex, or high-risk projects.
Ensure projects have clearly defined scope, deliverables, responsibilities, execution strategies, schedules, cost estimates, and risk management plans.
Ensure project teams understand critical path activities, milestones, risks, and required management decisions.
Lead the technical interface between Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, EH&S, Procurement, Finance, contractors, engineering firms, and equipment suppliers.
Ensure projects meet applicable engineering standards, regulatory requirements, process safety requirements, Management of Change requirements, and site operating standards.
Ensure appropriate commissioning, startup, documentation, training, and operational handover are incorporated into project execution.
Actively support turnaround planning and execution for projects requiring plant outages or turnaround integration.
Establish strong cost and schedule control across the project portfolio.
Develop and maintain credible project budgets, commitments, actual costs, estimates-to-complete, and forecasts-at-completion.
Partner with Finance and Procurement to ensure project financial information is accurate, reconciled, and understood.
Ensure project forecasts are routinely updated and significant deviations are identified and escalated early.
Maintain appropriate project contingencies and ensure their use is transparent and controlled.
Establish disciplined management of project scope changes, change orders, and contractor claims.
Ensure changes affecting project scope, cost, or schedule are identified, evaluated, documented, and authorized before execution whenever practicable.
Ensure significant projects maintain appropriate baseline schedules, milestone plans, and critical-path visibility.
Drive timely financial and administrative closeout of completed projects.
Lead, coach, and develop the site project engineering team.
Establish clear expectations, responsibilities, and performance standards for engineers and project managers.
Develop the project management capability of plant engineers, including project definition, estimating, scheduling, cost control, contractor management, risk management, commissioning, and closeout.
Assign engineering and project resources based on project priorities, complexity, risk, and individual capability.
Provide technical and project management coaching while maintaining clear accountability for results.
Manage team performance and support individual development and succession planning.
Promote strong collaboration between Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, EH&S, Finance, and Procurement.
Manage engineering contractors, construction contractors, technology providers, and equipment suppliers supporting site projects.
Develop appropriate contracting and execution strategies based on project scope, complexity, risk, and internal capability.
Ensure contractor scope, commercial terms, deliverables, schedules, and performance expectations are clearly defined.
Monitor contractor cost, schedule, quality, safety, productivity, and overall performance.
Challenge contractor estimates, change orders, schedule impacts, and commercial claims as appropriate.
Develop strong working relationships with key engineering firms, contractors, OEMs, and technology suppliers while maintaining appropriate commercial discipline.
Develop a strong working knowledge of the Pryor manufacturing processes and understand how proposed projects interact with existing operating units.
Maintain frequent presence in the operating areas and engage directly with Operations, Maintenance, EH&S, and engineering personnel.
Ensure projects solve the underlying business or operational problem and deliver the intended performance improvement.
Provide broad multidisciplinary engineering leadership across mechanical, piping, rotating equipment, fixed equipment, civil/structural, electrical, instrumentation, and controls.
Effectively challenge technical recommendations and engage appropriate specialists when deeper discipline expertise is required.
Participate in site operating, reliability, turnaround, capital planning, budget, and management review meetings as required.
Provide visible safety leadership and ensure process safety, occupational safety, environmental compliance, and operational risk management are integrated into every stage of project development and execution.