Director, Capital Projects and Outages

Venture Global LNG; Louisiana; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Venture Global LNG seeks a Director of Capital Projects and Outages to lead Brownfield CAPEX programs at the Plaquemines LNG Plant, ensuring safety, cost control, and on-time delivery through front-end engineering to field execution.

The role requires senior leadership, LNG project experience, and strong collaboration with stakeholders across the organization to maintain project profitability and schedule integrity.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 15 years’ experience, at least 7 years at a senior management level.
• Min. 5 years on LNG liquefactions (preferred), GTL, petrochemical, refinery, or gas processing/feedstock plants.
• Proven leader and effective manager with the ability to inspire and drive a team.
• Deep understanding of safety, environmental, work organization, cost, schedule, quality, organizational competency, and reputational risk.
• Technical professional with proven experience in engineering and execution disciplines and delivery of projects.
• Verifiable performance and delivery working as a team member through two or more responsible project assignments.
• Experience with engineering pre-engineering approvals, EPC or EPCM contracts.
• Experience of project control systems and procedures supported by current software applications (e.g., Excel, MS Project, Risk Management and Planning Software).
• Client-side experience

Responsibilities

• Provide governance, direction, leadership, and management of the Brownfield Capital Works Program.
• Direct all projects from front-end engineering through to execution and handover in the field.
• Liaise and operate with other Directors to ensure effective project execution and profitability.
• Keep VP apprised of risks, issues, progress, and performance in a timely manner.
• Ensure reporting against KPIs and maintain fit-for-purpose systems.
• Inspire the team to meet schedule requirements with minimal changes to contracts.
• Oversee functional groups such as C&P, HR, Project Controls, IT, Engineering.
• Develop organizational effectiveness and planning for successive work stages.
• Prepare and review approvals, scopes of work, feasibility studies, and contract strategies.
• Ensure QA for internal deliverables.
• Perform other duties as assigned by Venture Global LNG.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Stakeholder communication

LNG experience

Engineering background

Risk management

Excel

MS Project

Planning software

Education

Engineering Degree

Tools

Excel

MS Project

Risk Management Software

Job description

Venture Global LNG (“Venture Global”) is a long-term, low-cost provider of American-produced liquefied natural gas. The company’s Louisiana-based export projects service the global demand for North American natural gas and support the long-term development of clean and reliable North American energy supplies. Using reliable, proven technology in an innovative plant design configuration, Venture Global’s modular, mid-scale plant design will replace traditional designs as it allows for the same efficiency and operational reliability at significantly lower capital cost.

We are seeking qualified applicants for the position:

Director, Capital Projects and Outages

Located:

Plaquemines

Summary

The Director of Capital Projects and Outages will be responsible for delivering all Brownfields CAPEX Projects safely, within budget and schedule within the Plaquemines LNG Plant from front-end engineering through to execution through a stage gate process.

Manage and facilitate communication between Company Stakeholders through Project Initiation, feasibility, define, and execution through to handover to Operations.

General Description Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide governance, direction, leadership, and management of the Brownfield Capital Works Program
• Direct all projects from front-end engineering through to execution and handover in the field ensuring that the Company’s technical performance and integrity requirements are met
• Liaise, communicate, and operate in conjunction with all other Directors to ensure a satisfactory teamwork operation for the effective execution of all projects to achieve the Company’s Corporate and project profitability and schedule requirements.
• Ensure Vice President is kept fully abreast of all key risks and issues, performance, progress in a timely manner
• Ensure fit for purpose systems and excellence in reporting against relevant KPIs
• Inspire the team for superior performance and ensure contractual requirements and obligations are met – mitigate risk by insisting on alternatives to meet schedule requirements with minimum changes.
• Direction, oversight, and management, as required, of functional groups which report outside of site organization: C&P, HR, Project Controls, IT, Engineering.
• Maintain organizational effectiveness by actively managing organizational development to meet the successive stages of the work.
• Assure the preparation and/or review of key approvals, e.g., scopes of works and proposals, feasibility studies, contract strategies for engineering engagement, project change requests (MOC), awards and variations.
• Ensure the Projects undertake adequate quality assurance for internal deliverables
• In addition to these duties, the incumbent will be expected to perform such other duties as may from time to time be assigned by VG. The incumbent may be required to carry out such other instructions and directions as VG may from time to time reasonably and lawfully give to you

Qualifications

Required experience

• Minimum of 15 years’ experience, at least 7 years at a senior management level
• Min. 5 years on LNG liquefactions (preferred), GTL, petrochemical, refinery, or gas processing/feedstock plants.
• Proven leader and effective manager with the ability to inspire and drive a team and collaborate with a larger project group
• Deep understanding of areas critical to the success of large complex projects: safety, environmental, work organization, cost, schedule, quality, organizational competency, and reputational risk.
• Technical professional with proven experience in engineering and execution disciplines and delivery of projects
• Verifiable performance and delivery working as a team member through two or more responsible project assignments
• Interacted with range of stakeholders
• Experience of engineering pre-engineering approvals, EPC or EPCM contracts
• Experience of project control systems and procedures supported by current software applications e.g., Excel, MS Project, Risk Management and Planning Software systems
• Client-side experience

Preferred Experience

• Min. 5 years on LNG liquefactions

Required Education

• Engineering Degree or another relevant subject

Venture Global LNG is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.