Job Description

Job Title : Project Manager

Location: Bellingham, WA, Billings, MT, Bismarck, ND, Minneapolis, MN, Spokane, WA, Vancouver, WA 98662

Salary Range : $140,000 - $160,000 (negotiable depending upon experience)

Shift : General

Employment type : Full-time/Permanent

Client : industrial process engineering and consulting firm

Job Description

• Target Base Comp is in the $140-$160k range. Could go up to $170k for a rock star.
• Location can be any client location in the US including : Bellingham, WA, Billings, MT, Bismarck, ND, Minneapolis, MN, Spokane, WA, Vancouver, WA.
• Relocation also available for someone willing to move to one of these locations.
• Client looking for someone with this related experience within the Oil & Gas, Hydrocarbon and/or Petroleum industry
• Preferred projects spend range is $10-15M. Not looking for someone who has managed 50-100M+ project spend as this will not be challenging for them.

Summary

Responsible for planning, organizing, monitoring, and managing multi-discipline engineering activities and resources to execute all stages of small- to mid-cap retrofit projects, from initiation through closeout. Must have an engineering background & project experience in the pulp & paper industry, petroleum refining, hydrocarbons, high tech, or specialty chemicals experience highly desirable. Has single point accountability to organize, integrate and lead the project team to successfully meet the project objectives.

Responsibilities

• Maintain efficient and effective interaction with the client and project stakeholders, defining and managing expectations.
• Ensure all ’s and client contractual obligations are fulfilled.
• Focus on client care and monitor client satisfaction. Solicit management support and intervention when required.
• Promote capabilities and work to expand the ’s scope of services where it provides value to the client.
• Review and understand ’s proposal, contract, and associated risks.
• Manage client proprietary and confidential information in accordance with ’s and client’s requirements.
• Protect the interests and reputation of Client and its client.
• Initiate, execute and deliver the project in accordance with the proposal, and client’s and company’s expectations.
• Develop Work Breakdown Structures for projects.
• Develop the project proposal/execution plan addressing the project scope, cost, schedule, and risks, as well as client expectations. Define the project organization and work with engineering and design management to obtain resources for the project.
• Establish the division of responsibilities between the client, company, and others.
• Ensure project team roles and responsibilities are clearly defined.
• Ensure project interfaces are clearly identified and managed.
• Facilitate an environment where project team members and project stakeholders can effectively achieve the project objectives.
• Develop and maintain project schedules, identifying and managing project dependencies, critical path, and deliverables issuance.
• Identify and manage project risks, developing and implementing risk response strategies. Ensure proper documentation and communication of project risks, actions, issues, decisions, and interfaces.
• Develop and implement management of change within projects, proactively forecasting and documenting changes to clients, developing project change requests/orders and subsequently modifying project budgets, schedules, and scopes of services in accordance with approved changes.
• Express ideas clearly and concisely. Seek to understand other’s perspectives. Keep accurate and organized records.
• Effectively communicate project expectations to project team in a timely and clear fashion.
• Communicate project risks as appropriate within the company and the project team.
• Ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, dissemination, storage, and ultimate disposition of project information.
• Routinely monitor and report on project progress, cost, risks, and quality in accordance with company’s and client’s requirements, identifying trends and allowing for timely corrective actions. Provide forecasts of status and progress as required.
• Plan, manage and facilitate timely submittal of deliverables/work packages provided to clients and return of client review comments or approvals.
• Bring the project to an orderly completion, ensuring handover of appropriate project documentation and data.
• Ensure all required project records have been properly archived. Issue closeout report(s) and lessons learned.
• Review and approve invoices to client and monitor and expedite payments, as necessary.
• Execute the project work in accordance with the contract, scope of services, client requirements, company’s practices, and project procedures.
• Plan, organize and manage resources to achieve the project goals and objectives. Has a good working knowledge of all key project processes, including engineering, procurement, and construction management.
• Possess a solid grasp of interdisciplinary engineering practices in a project phase/stage-gated work process for heavy industry (e.g., Front-End Loading).
• Support the development of project personnel and recognize the accomplishments of individuals and the team.
• Foster development of a common vision and collaboration among team members and teams, operating effectively across various offices.
• Provide clear direction and priorities. Convey a sense of urgency and drive issues to closure. Persist despite obstacles and opposition.
• Pursue aggressive project goals, setting a high standard of performance.
• Promote open expression of ideas, encouraging and empowers others to achieve.
• Address substantive conflicts and facilitate timely resolution.
• Other duties may be assigned as required.

Education, Skills, and Experience

• BS in engineering (chemical or mechanical preferred), with a preference for licensed Professional Engineers.
• Minimum of 10 or more years’ experience; an engineering background and project experience in the pulp & paper industry, petroleum refining, hydrocarbons, high tech, or specialty chemicals experience highly desirable. Previous consulting engineering experience is strongly preferred.
• Have strong working knowledge of critical path scheduling techniques using Microsoft Project and/or Primavera P6, and experience applying such tools on projects.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience as project manager on capital projects, with a preference for small- to medium-cap retrofit projects experience in a portfolio program.
• Experience with project work sharing, working with resources in locations remote from the project manager’s office.
• Travel to domestic job sites may be required on a routine basis.
• Certifications, Credentials, Licenses & Registrations
• Professional certification such as Project Management Professional (PMP) desirable.
• Eligibility to obtain or currently hold a valid Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) required.

Employment Benefits:

We offer a full benefits package. Medical, Dental, Vision, FSA, HSA, 401K, paid Life & AD&D Insurance, paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability, Supplemental Life & Dependent Life Insurance, and a Flexible Spending Account. We also offer a generous Paid Time Off program, 8 paid holidays, and exempt staff compensated for hours worked over 40 per week.

General Qualification Requirements:

All staff must have the legal right to work in the United States. Client does not provide immigration or work visa sponsorship.

Drug & Alcohol Testing: Drug and alcohol screening will be completed by Company at employment initiation and periodically thereafter as required to meet our client requirements. This testing is performed in accordance with state and federal requirements and as defined by client drug and alcohol testing requirements. Failure to pass a drug or alcohol test, refusing to submit to testing, and/or providing an adulterated or substituted sample, will be cause for termination where not contrary to law.

Background Checks: Background checks will be completed by the Company at employment initiation and periodically thereafter as required to meet our client requirements.

Travel Requirements: Employees must be willing and able to travel by driving or flying to client facilities and other offices. For employees to drive as a course of their employment they must have a valid driver’s license and be insurable through company’s insurance provider. You must be willing and able to drive your own properly registered and insured vehicle. Any negative incidents such as speeding tickets or DUI’s could prevent an employee from being insurable as a driver of a Company’s or rental vehicle. Must also meet all requirements to fly with commercial airlines without restriction.

Language Skills: Because client maintains strict adherence to policies and procedures, for an individual to perform this job successfully, he/she must have the ability to speak, write and understand English. Ability to read, communicate, interpret, and comprehend simple instructions, correspondence, and memos, both electronically and in written form.

Mathematical Skills:

Candidate must be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the associate is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The associate frequently is required to sit and reach with hands and arms. The associate is occasionally required to walk; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The associate must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

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