Senior Project Manager

First Quality•Anderson, SC

About The Position

First Quality was founded in 1989 and has grown to be a global privately held company with over 4,000 employees. Its corporate offices are located in Great Neck, New York, with manufacturing facilities and offices in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Georgia, and Canada. First Quality is a diversified family of companies manufacturing consumer products ranging from Absorbent Hygiene (adult incontinence, feminine care, and baby care), Tissue (bath and towel), and Industrial (print and packaging materials), serving institutional and retail markets throughout the world. First Quality focuses on private label and branded product lines. We are seeking a Senior Project Manager for our First Quality P&P located in Anderson, SC . This position will lead the planning, execution, and commissioning of capital projects, including new facility construction, facility expansions, and equipment installations. This role requires deep expertise in fire codes, international building codes, labor and industry standards, insurance company expectations, and National Electrical Code (NEC) guidelines. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience managing contractors, with the ability to serve as a general contractor when needed and will support the company’s organic and inorganic growth objectives

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field.
Project Management experience with 15+ years of successful expertise.
Large greenfield project experience, including experience leading at least $75M+ manufacturing projects; experience with campus builds (multiple buildings) preferred
Vast construction and engineering knowledge
Experience in the flexible packaging or consumer goods manufacturing industry.
Core belief in site Safety.
Previous experience with both Lump Sum and Unit Rate contacting.
Solid Project Controls knowledge.
Knowledge of flexographic printing production equipment and processes.
Knowledge of plastics extrusion production equipment and processes.
Deep domain with project and construction management.
Advanced verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
Superior interpersonal skills.
Willingness to travel domestically and internationally (up to 50%) to support project sites and expansion initiatives.
Ability to keep sensitive information confidential.
Action Oriented – Takes an enthusiastic approach to the job, is energetic and action oriented for the role’s challenges, demonstrates insight, courage and a bias for decisiveness, recognizes and acts upon opportunities when they arise.
Approachability – Is approachable and amiable, invests the extra effort to put others at ease, can be warm, pleasant, and gracious. Is sensitive to and patient with the interpersonal anxieties of others, builds rapport, listens actively, is an early knower, working with informal and incomplete information in time to take appropriate action.
Compassion – Genuinely cares about people, conveys sincere concern, is available and ready to help, empathetic to employees and their situations.
Customer Focus – Understands and responds to the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; effectively mines for data and information and uses it for improvements in products, services and delivery; develops trust and influence in all relationships.
Ethics & Values – Projects and practices the highest level of propriety and serves as a model of ethics and integrity. Demonstrates and promotes the Company’s core values and principles at all times, acts in line with those values, appropriately addresses employee behaviors at all levels, through reward, recognition and corrective action.
Hiring and Staffing – Possesses an intuitive eye for talent; hires the most qualified internal and external candidates; willing to select strong people; assembles talented staffs.
Integrity and Trust – Builds credibility and trust across the business; recognized as direct and truthful; constructively represents the truth; able to maintain confidences; acknowledges mistakes and presents him/herself openly and serves as a conscience to the organization.
Interpersonal Savvy - Relates well across the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably. Recognizes and acts appropriately.
Managerial Courage – In serving as a conscience to the organization, has the appropriate insight and timing to speak and act when and where situations require. Provides constructive and effective feedback at all levels, especially to leadership. Ensures the work environment is respectful, constructive and motivational. Willing to confront unacceptable behaviors at all levels.
Relationship with Peers – Takes a 360 perspective in problem solving, can represent his/her own interests and yet be fair to other groups, can solve problems with peers constructively, is seen as a team player and is cooperative, gains trust and support of peers, encourages collaboration, delivers feedback candidly.

Responsibilities

Overall management inclusive of services scope definition, design deliverables prioritization, constructability, reviews and approvals, engaging end-users, ensuring complete close-out documentation, administration of agreement terms and conditions.
Support geographic expansion by leading facility construction and retrofit projects in new and existing markets.
Manage and coordinate interface between Engineering and Division Procurement for the purchase of equipment and bulk materials.
Manage construction contract procurement by the Project Team inclusive of RFP preparation, bid process, post bid verification and award recommendation.
Responsible and accountable for all contracted vendors/contractors and their deliverables.
Overall management of Project Team personnel, ramp-up and down of third party personnel, recruitment as necessary, administration of HR related issues.
Provides direction, supervision and development to all direct reports, ensures that all project team members receive clear direction, feedback and development
Overall responsibility for Construction Site Safety inclusive of program enhancements, implementation and enforcement.
Overall management of the Quality program ensuring incorporation of previous projects lessons learned, ensuring quality is built-in from the beginning and continuous improvement in processes to meet the high standards of First Quality.
Overall management of the Construction Check-Out process inclusive of system boundaries definition, flushing, testing and complete check-out with required documentation. Ensure a complete installation is turned over to Operations in a sequential manner to support Operational Check-Out and Start-Up.
Schedule - Overall management of planning, scheduling and progress measurement processes for all project phases.
Cost - Overall management of estimating/budgeting, value engineering, cost management, change control, forecasting and reporting processes Project Controls processes and tools shall ensure accurate project status communication and timely completions to support end-user requirements.
Reports regularly to senior leadership on project status and works closely with production leadership to ensure accurate installation and application.