Snr Project Manager

Sasol • Lake Charles, LA

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About The Position

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for leading complex, high‑value capital and major maintenance projects from concept through commissioning, ensuring alignment with business strategy, operational needs, regulatory requirements, and long‑term asset integrity. This role provides strategic direction, drives project governance, and influences senior stakeholders to ensure safe, competitive, and efficient project delivery across the site.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (required).
• Minimum 15 years of engineering and project management experience in operating facilities, including leadership of complex, multi‑disciplinary capital projects (>$5MM) or portfolios of projects.
• Demonstrated delivery of projects within live operating units, including constrained brownfield environments, tie‑ins, outages, and TAR integration.
• Excellent problem solving and written/verbal communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and people management skills; strong and positive people leadership.
• Customer centric (internal and external).
• Proactively drives competitive edge in a value based and high integrity manner.
• Collaborative mindset; works well with others.
• Executive level communication and stakeholder management; ability to influence across functions and levels.
• Advanced mastery of capital governance, risk and opportunity management, contracting strategies, and project controls (forecasting, cost/schedule trending, change control).
• Strong commercial acumen to challenge estimates, contractor productivity, claims, and variations.
• Ability to manage ambiguity, drive clarity, and make sound decisions with incomplete data.
• Proficiency with enterprise project systems and tools (e.g., Primavera P6, SAP, project dashboards).

Nice To Haves

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification (preferred).
• Advanced degree (e.g., MS in Engineering or MBA) a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex capital and major maintenance projects from concept through commissioning, ensuring strategic alignment and safe, competitive delivery.
• Define project scope, objectives, execution strategies, and governance requirements across all project phases.
• Manage project budgets, schedules, forecasts, risks, and KPIs with strong cost and schedule discipline.
• Ensure compliance with HSE, process safety, and regulatory requirements, and actively champion safety in all planning and execution activities.
• Oversee engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning activities to ensure quality and timely delivery.
• Drive cross‑functional alignment with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Supply Chain, and HSE to ensure readiness, operability, and smooth handover.
• Develop contracting strategies and manage contractor performance, productivity, and claims.
• Identify and manage risks and opportunities, escalating issues proactively to maintain project performance.
• Provide transparent and routine reporting on progress, cost trends, schedule status, risks, and decision needs.
• Ensure proper project closure, including documentation turnover, MOC compliance, and capture of lessons learned.
• Mentor and develop project engineering and management staff.
• Drive continuous improvement of project processes, standards, and governance, and contribute to broader portfolio planning.

Benefits

• purpose, development opportunities, benefits to support every stage of life and a working culture that embraces flexibility, diversity, and inclusion.

What This Job Offers

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