Senior Project Manager, Project Execution - 2 openings

United States Career•Bridgewater, NJ

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Messer Americas operates a robust project management system for the implementation of its capital projects. The Project Manager is responsible for executing assigned projects safely, to specification, on time, and within budget. Our Project Managers lead multi-disciplinary and multi-functional teams to deliver these projects for Messer. The Senior Project Manager will independently execute multiple small to medium-sized projects, including new plant projects as well as plant upgrades, modifications, and retrofits. Senior Project Managers will also support Principal Project Managers on Messer’s largest capital projects. Messer is the world's largest privately held industrial gases company, and its work is essential to various aspects of life, from medical gases to the elements needed for safe and sustainable production of goods. The company emphasizes its people as its greatest strength and offers a stable, inclusive environment with diverse opportunities in a growing industry.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, or other relevant discipline.
5 years’ experience in the implementation of capital projects, ideally in the Industrial Gas or Chemical Process industries.
Demonstrated ability to develop a complicated technical scope, schedule, and budget and consistently deliver to it.

Responsibilities

Oversee proposal development and project execution of major capital projects for Messer LLC.
Manage all project activities throughout the project cycle, responsible for managing individual projects generally up to $10,000,000 in CAPEX.
Manage project activities, including coordination of basic and detailed engineering and design, development and maintenance of project schedules and budgets, prepare monthly status reports, provide oversight of construction and commissioning activities, coordinate Operator training, and ensure technical and administrative closeout of all project issues.
Manage the outsource of discipline engineering.
Implement the Project Definition & Execution Strategy (PDES) to ensure high confidence in project scope, schedule, and budget.
Qualify vendors, negotiate vendor pricing and bidding in conjunction with Procurement.
Execute the project safely, to specification, on time, and on budget, tracking costs for timely updates on spend relative to budget, managing vendors and contractors, and tracking schedule to complete on time.
Provide a quality project while minimizing unbudgeted change orders.
Manage interface with regulatory agencies to ensure compliance with adopted environmental, life safety, and technical code references.
Organize required internal activities such as safety reviews, Hazops, MOCs, and punch lists.
Ensure that all internal standards and procedures are followed, as well as relevant codes and applicable regulations.
Maintain effective communication of progress and issues with formal monthly reports on material variances to scope, schedule, or budget, or substantial usage of contingency, especially prior to the construction phase.
Deliver complete project documentation at project conclusion.
Act as a technical resource to plants to develop problem solutions or needed improvements.
Participate in interdepartmental initiatives.
Delivery of a safe quality project on schedule and within budget.
Effective communication with all Messer affected departments.
Agreement by plant management that objectives are met, all documentation delivered, and all punch list items resolved/agreed.
Accountable for construction site and the management of the appropriate site resources (safety, construction, commissioning, production, reliability, etc).
Perform other duties as assigned.