Industrial Project Development Leader

Wasson Enterprise; North Carolina; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary Annual Bonus

Comprehensive Benefits Package

Job summary

Clayco is seeking a Project Development Manager to lead the development and continuous improvement of processes for industrial project execution. You will collaborate with executives to shape the Project Development Group, drive best-in-class delivery, and engage external engineers and vendors to integrate best practices into a cohesive delivery strategy.

The role requires guiding teams through complex, ambiguous environments, managing multiple stakeholders, and maintaining rigorous

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, process, chemical, civil/structural, or electrical engineering, or related field; MBA preferred, but not required
• 15+ years' experience in increasingly challenging positions, preferably in an engineering or construction organization
• 7+ years’ experience in managing an engineering and design team of at least 20 or more
• 5+ years’ experience performing engineering-related design or management within the industrial market
• Good negotiation, presentation and persuasion skills.
• Experienced in communicating ideas, winning approval, and reaching resolutions with a variety of audiences.
• Experience with management of projects and progression of ideas to execution in a complex environment.
• Strong analytical ability along with the capacity to interpret data and make recommendations.
• Comfortable with change and ambiguity; adaptable, collaborative and a systems thinker.
• Must be self-motivated, results oriented and must constantly coach in order to develop future leaders.
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Strong written and verbal communications skills
• Attention to detail, with the ability to recognize discrepancies
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team

Responsibilities

• Lead development and continuous improvement of processes, procedures and tools for efficient and consistent execution of Project Development operations.
• Work with the VP – Project Development, Project Executives and Business Unit Leaders on strategy and shaping the Project Development Group organization to provide Best-In-Class execution models for project development operations.
• Lead the consolidation and communication of best practices and lessons learned from project development execution.
• Through engaging communication, provide execution expertise, establishment of team goals, and alignment with project objectives.
• Develop and execute a communication and training plan, ensuring team members are informed of strategy, shared goals, objectives, individual responsibilities, best practices, and policies.
• Work with the Industrial team to engage with clients to fully understand priorities and ensure our execution strategy is aligned.
• Engage with third party engineers, vendors, and OEMs to understand their development processes, procedures and tools so we can integrate them into our approach; identify industry best practices and incorporate into our continuous improvement effort.
• Support the project teams as they develop and maintain the Division of Responsibilities (DOR) for their project, to include internal as well as third party and client responsibilities.
• Provide guidance to the project team on how to maintain efficient execution processes within a dynamic and ambiguous environment, with limited information, including documenting and communicating design assumptions internally and with the client.
• Work within a matrix environment to communicate and coordinate resource needs.
• Conduct/support monthly internal project performance status reviews.
• This role requires great flexibility to react to issues and short-fused client RFPs/requests while demonstrating an ongoing ability to:
• Deal with ambiguity and remain focused on successful project operations.
• Manage many varied personalities on the work team and at the client level.
• Communicate clearly and consistently with appropriate documentation.
• Communicate effectively with Clients at all levels, always looking for additional work.
• Oversee the monitoring and reporting on progress of projects against the execution plan; direct project teams on taking appropriate corrective action if progress is not in line with the plan.
• Contract and Scope Change Management: develop and champion best practices to identify, control, and communicate changes to project contract obligations and project design scope.
• Oversee project team’s implementation of contract and scope change management process as required.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Strategic planning

Negotiation

Communication

Problem solving

Team building

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

MBA preferred

Job description

Clayco is seeking a Project Development Manager to lead the development and continuous improvement of processes for industrial project execution. You will collaborate with executives to shape the Project Development Group, drive best-in-class delivery, and engage external engineers and vendors to integrate best practices into a cohesive delivery strategy.

The role requires guiding teams through complex, ambiguous environments, managing multiple stakeholders, and maintaining rigorous