Manager - Project Management

Chart Industries, Inc.; New Iberia (LA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Chart Industries in New Iberia, LA, seeks a seasoned Project Manager to lead the PMO and ensure on-time delivery of engineered-to-order equipment. You will coordinate with Operations and Engineering across multiple sites to optimize project execution and customer satisfaction.

Ideal candidates bring 10+ years of PM experience, proven leadership, and a track record of improving margins and schedules. PMP certification is a plus in a matrix environment.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership and communication skills with cross-functional teams.
• Experience in project management methodologies and tools.
• Proven people leadership in engineered-to-order environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Project Management Organization and drive on-time delivery.
• Coordinate with Operations, Engineering and client-facing PMO teams.
• Own project execution, scope, risks and budget controls.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Negotiation

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic direction

Project governance

Budget control

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business or Engineering

Job description

Ensuring Chart’s Success…

• Launching rockets into space
• Delivering Nexus of Clean™ solutions for clean water, clean power, clean food, and clean industrials
• Powering the carbonation in your favorite fast-food beverage
• Making nitro coffee and even nitro ice cream possible

Location: New Iberia, LA, United States, 70560

Company: Chart Industries

Ensuring Chart’s Success…

At Chart, we design and build some of the world’s most advanced cryogenic equipment— that’s how our “Cooler By Design®” tagline was born. But it’s not just our technology that’s cool. It’s our people. We solve complex problems as a team, making us trulyCooler Together. And with the addition of Howden to the Chart family, we’reStronger Together, too. Our customers don’t simply bring us equipment specs—they bring us challenges. That’s where you come in. From concept and design to installation and commissioning, you’ll help create solutions that support a wide range of industries and applications.

• Launching rockets into space
• Delivering Nexus of Clean™ solutions for clean water, clean power, clean food, and clean industrials
• Powering the carbonation in your favorite fast-food beverage
• Making nitro coffee and even nitro ice cream possible

Want to see our impact in action? ExploreChart City: https://chartcity.chartindustries.com/ . We’re looking for bright, driven talent excited to build a career in an evolving, high‑growth industry. Along with competitive compensation and meaningful work, Chart offers development programs designed to grow future leaders. That could be you. If you’re passionate about design engineering and think a career at Chart sounds pretty cool, let’s talk.

What Will You Do?

You will be responsible for ensuring on time delivery of our products, packaged to contractual specifications. You will develop the Project Management capabilities within the team and lead improvements in project execution and scheduling to ensure customer satisfaction. This role requires close coordination and collaboration with the Operations team in New Iberia and with the client-facing Project Manager and Engineering teams located in our Woodlands TX, Tulsa OK, and La Crosse WI offices.

This is an on-site position in New Iberia, LA.

This position exists within Chart’s broader Project Management Organization (PMO) and will report to the Director of Project Management located in our Woodlands, TX office.

Your Experience Should Be...

• Provide leadership, motivation and strategic direction to ensure the effective and efficient operation of the project management team.
• Provide clear communication to the team in relation to required goals, responsibilities, performance expectations and feedback.
• Drive innovative and continuous improvement strategies within the department and the business to improve project margins, performance against the budget and on time delivery using robust operational processes.

• Drive financial performance in line with commitments. Identify, evaluate, report and seek to minimize any negative financial variance and ensure cash flow milestones are maintained.
• Manage team expectations and processes to ensure proactive project coordination of the following:
• Project Specifications and Assembly Requirements
• Weld Procedures and Drawings
• Inspection Requirements
• Progress Reporting
• Purchasing Requisitions
• Third-Party Vendor Coordination
• Resource Tracking
• Status Communication
• Kickoff Meetings
• Inspections, Testing, and Shipping
• Lessons Learned Documentation and Reporting
• Own and lead project execution, scope management, risk management, and resource management. Drive accountability and ownership of this within the project team and the wider business. Ensure that project risks and opportunities are identified well ahead of time and are mitigated and realized respectively.
• Ensure that departmental standards and processes are maintained and updated in line with industry standards and are applied at all times.
• Monitor and report on the KPI’s in area of responsibility and review actions and workflows accordingly.
• Interact and respond to all aspects of Chart Business Excellence (CBE) supporting cost reduction, efficiency, delivery, and quality improvements.
• Ensure compliance to Company Health and Safety policies and standards to support a safe working environment

Your Education Should Be…

Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, or related field

Your Professional Experience Should Include…

• Leadership, communication, negotiating, influencing and inter-personal skills, with the drive and commitment to achieve project deliverables.
• Proven experience in Project Management methodologies, tools and responsibilities.
• Proven people leadership experience
• Management of project execution teams in an Engineered-to-Order environment.
• Proven commercial awareness.
• Demonstrated commitment to customer service
• Responsibility for budget controls within a Project environment
• Commitment to the development of a continuous improvement culture

Desired

• 10+ years' experience in project management
• Process Technology, Cryogenic, or Packaged Equipment Experience
• Experience working in a matrix organization where influence, indirect leadership and compelling ideas are used to accomplish organizational objectives
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification

Chart Industries is an equal employment opportunity (EEO) employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicants because of his or her race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, military status, marital status, genetic information or any other reason prohibited by law. Additionally, it is and shall continue to be our policy to provide promotion and advancement opportunities in a non-discriminatory fashion.

Chart complies with applicable local, state, and federal statutes governing “equal employment opportunity” and nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfers, leave of absence, compensation and training.