Principal Project Manager

Messer Americas; Bridgewater (PA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Messer Americas seeks a Principal Project Manager to lead multi-disciplinary teams in delivering capital projects safely, on schedule and on budget. You will oversee scope definition, risk management, vendor relations, and regulatory compliance across large industrial gas facilities.

This senior role requires extensive experience in project execution, engineering interfaces, cost control, and monthly reporting, with a focus on continuous improvement and safe operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical, mechanical, electrical, or other relevant discipline.
• 15 years of experience in the implementation of capital projects in the industrial gas or chemical processing industries.
• Knowledge of codes and regulations relevant to industrial gas projects.

Responsibilities

• Oversee proposal development and project execution of major capital projects for Messer LLC.
• Coordinate engineering, design, schedules, budgets, and procurement across multi-disciplinary teams.
• Develop and implement PDES to ensure scope, schedule, and budget alignment.
• Qualify vendors, negotiate pricing and bidding with Procurement.
• Ensure projects are delivered safely, on time, and within budget with proper documentation.

Skills

Field construction

PDES planning

Negotiation

Planning

Education

Bachelor’s degree in chemical, mechanical, electrical, or other relevant discipline

Job description

Job Summary

Messer Americas runs a strong project management system for implementation of our capital projects. The Project Manager is accountable for executing the assigned projects, safely, to specification, on time and on budget. Our Project Managers lead multi‑discipline and multi‑functional teams to deliver these projects for Messer. The Principal Project manager is Messer’s most senior project management position, implementing our largest, most complex, and most critical projects.

Principal Responsibilities

• Oversee proposal development and project execution of major capital projects for Messer LLC.
• Manage all project activities throughout the project cycle; responsible for managing larger and more complex projects, including day‑to‑day activities of up to two full‑time project engineers and two to three contract project managers.
• Coordinate basic and detailed engineering and design, develop and maintain project schedules and budgets, prepare monthly status reports, oversee construction and commissioning activities, coordinate operator training, and ensure technical and administrative closeout of project issues.
• Manage the outsourcing of discipline engineering.
• At the direction of the Department Head develop standards and procedures to increase department productivity.
• Provide capital estimates with appropriate accuracy for proposed projects, especially in the upfront stages where GOM order estimates determine go/no‑go decisions during the feasibility phase.
• Interface with Business Development, Product Management, Production, Reliability, Distribution and other Messer functions to develop and implement capital projects.
• Develop an effective Project Definition & Execution Strategy (PDES) that enables a high degree of confidence in the project scope, schedule, and budget.
• Qualify vendors, negotiate vendor pricing and bidding in conjunction with Procurement.
• Execute the project safely, to specification, on time and on budget, tracking costs to provide timely updates on spend relative to budget, managing vendors and contractors, and tracking schedule to complete on time.
• Provide a quality project while minimizing unbudgeted change orders.
• Manage interface with regulatory agencies to ensure compliance with environmental, life safety and technical code references.
• Organize required internal activities such as safety reviews, Hazops, MOCs and punch lists.
• Ensure that all internal standards and procedures are followed as well as relevant codes and applicable regulations.
• Maintain effective communication of progress and issues with formal monthly reports on material variances to scope, schedule or budget or substantial usage of contingency especially prior to the construction phase.
• Deliver complete project documentation at project conclusion.
• Act as a technical resource to plants to develop problem solutions or needed improvements.
• Participate in interdepartmental initiatives.
• Deliver a safe, quality project on schedule and within budget.
• Communicate effectively with all Messer‑affected departments.
• Agree with plant management that objectives are met, all documentation delivered, and all punch list items resolved and agreed.
• Accountable for construction site and the management of the appropriate site resources (safety, construction, commissioning, production, reliability, etc).

Required Skills

• Functional Skills:
• Knowledge of codes and regulations relevant to industrial gas projects, e.g., ASME B31.1, NEC, building codes, permitting experience.
• Expertise in field phases – managing field construction, check‑out, commissioning and performance testing and punch list closure.
• Negotiation skills.
• Planning skills.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical, mechanical, electrical, or other relevant discipline.
• 15 years of experience in the implementation of capital projects in the industrial gas or chemical process industries, with demonstrated ability to develop a complicated technical scope, schedule and budget and consistently deliver to it.

Benefits

We offer comprehensive benefits and appreciable pay, with steady schedules and opportunities for ongoing training and career progression. We prioritize and invest in our people at every level of our organization.

If you need assistance with the application or would like to request accommodation, call (877) 243‑1030.