Project Business Lead

Linde; The Woodlands (TX); On-site; USD 108,000 - 159,000; Full time

Job summary

Linde Inc. is seeking a Project Business Lead to supervise the commercialization of complex projects across the United States, coordinating with engineering, regional teams, and operations to ensure financial targets are met and schedules are kept.

You will lead customer interactions, review change requests, and present updates to senior leadership while aligning with regional operations and site hosts. Travel up to 25% is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering; MBA is a plus.
• Minimum seven years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in project work covering design, engineering, execution, or operations.
• Experience collaborating with customers during project development and execution.
• Knowledge of air separation, HyCO, and related processes.
• Confidently present to and engage with executive-level leadership.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with cross-team collaboration.
• Influence positively and build strategic relationships internally and externally.
• Lead and motivate teams through natural authority and strong leadership presence.
• Willingness to travel up to twenty-five percent as required.

Responsibilities

• Supervise commercialization of approved projects meeting financial targets.
• Track KPIs during execution and coordinate with engineering, regional teams, and operations.
• Lead customer interactions during execution and manage change requests.
• Deliver clear project updates across US Gases and senior leadership.
• Collaborate with regional operations director and Project Operations Lead to align scope.
• Manage project 'white-spaces' across utility agreements, land, permitting, approvals.
• Review risk analyses and impacts on management reserves during execution.
• Participate in customer contract development and amendments to align investments and commitments.
• Lead discussions with third-party customers or site hosts during execution.
• Represent projects in internal committee reviews and provide support.

Skills

Project leadership

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Executive communication

Travel readiness

Education

Engineering degree

MBA (plus)

Job description

Project Business Lead

Tonawanda, NY or The Woodlands, TX, United States | req29038

Linde Inc.

What you will enjoy doing*

• Supervise and support commercialization of approved projects, ensuring investments meet obligations and financial targets
• Track key performance indicators during project execution and coordinate with engineering, regional teams, and operations to resolve issues
• Lead customer interactions during execution, reviewing and managing change requests to maximize benefits and minimize risks
• You will deliver consistent and clear project updates across Linde Gases US and senior leadership
• And you will collaborate closely with regional operations director and Project Operations Lead to align project scope
• Manage project "white-spaces," ensuring alignment across all Linde functions on utility agreements, land acquisition, permitting, and regulatory approvals
• Challenge and collaborate with Linde Engineering on project scope and capital cost to ensure competitiveness
• Review risk analyses and impacts on management reserves and business contingencies during execution
• Participate in customer contract development and amendments to align investments, project economics, and commitments
• Further, you will lead discussions with third-party customers or site hosts during execution alongside regional business leaders
• Represent projects at Linde Gases US and internal committee reviews, presenting and supporting as needed

What Makes You Great

• You hold a bachelor's or master's degree in engineering; MBA is a plus
• Bring a minimum of seven years of relevant work experience
• In addition you demonstrate experience in project work covering design, engineering, execution, or operations
• Have experience collaborating with customers during project development and execution
• Possess knowledge of air separation, HyCO, and related customer processes
• Confidently present to and engage with executive-level leadership
• You can apply strong problem-solving and analytical skills while collaborating effectively with teams to find optimal solutions
• Influence positively and build strategic relationships internally and externally suits your profile
• Lead and motivate teams through natural authority and strong leadership presence
• Willingness to travel up to twenty-five percent as required

Why you will love working with us

Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2025 sales of $34 billion. We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high-quality solutions, technologies and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain, decarbonize and protect our planet.

Linde serves a variety of end markets such as chemicals & energy, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, metals and mining. Linde's industrial gases and technologies are used in countless applications, enabling space exploration and launch technologies, delivering ultra-high-purity and specialty gases for semiconductor manufacturing, providing life-saving medical oxygen and enabling clean hydrogen production and carbon capture to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Linde also delivers state-of-the-art gas processing solutions to support customer growth, efficiency improvements and emissions reductions.

What we offer you!

At Linde, the sky is not the limit. If you're looking to build a career where your work reaches beyond your job description and betters the people with whom you work, the communities we serve, and the world in which we all live, at Linde, your opportunities are limitless. Be Linde. Be Limitless.

Linde offers competitive compensation and an outstanding benefits package. Enjoy access to health, dental, disability, and life insurance, paid holidays and vacation, 401(k) matching, pension benefits, an employee discount program, and opportunities for educational and professional growth. Additional compensation may vary depending on the position and organizational level. Build your future with us while making an impact every day!

Pay commensurate with experience. Open to salary range $108,225 - $158,730

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other reason prohibited by applicable law.

Linde Inc. acts responsibly towards its shareholders, business partners, employees, society and the environment in every one of its business areas, regions and locations across the globe. The company is committed to technologies and products that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable development.

• The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of employees assigned to this position. Therefore employees assigned may be required to perform additional job tasks required by the manager.