Project Manager

Chemours; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits packages

401(k) match

Employee stock purchase

Job summary

Chemours is seeking a Project Manager to join our growing Capital Execution team. This role leads large and small capital projects worldwide, collaborating with teams across the globe to deliver safe, high-quality, and innovative outcomes.

The PM will plan, lead, and manage all activities from FEL through Start-Up, coordinating with engineering, procurement, construction, and stakeholders to meet objectives while controlling scope, cost, and schedule. Travel approx. 40% is expected.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in engineering is required.
• Minimum 5 years managing capital projects.
• Minimum of 2 years in field construction or contract management.
• Experience with engineering/design contractors and project scheduling software.
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with ability to travel ~40%.

Responsibilities

• Plan, lead, and manage all activities of executing capital projects from FEL thru Start-Up.
• Identify project resources and ensure adequate staffing and contractor oversight.
• Establish clear communication with stakeholders on objectives, scope, and deliverables.
• Drive scope, cost, schedule, and resource management; control changes per policy.
• Lead risk assessment and problem-solving across the project life cycle.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Leadership by influence

Team-building skills

Experience with project scheduling

Microsoft Office proficiency

Multi-project management

Travel willingness 40%

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

CREATING ESSENTIAL CHEMISTRY THAT THE WORLD NEEDS

At Chemours, our people are redefining how the world thinks of chemistry by approaching everything we do with a commitment to delivering Trusted Chemistry that creates better lives and helps communities thrive. That begins with how we use our science, data, and unmatched technical expertise to develop market-leading products with the highest levels of performance, sustainability, and safety in the industry.

Powered by chemistry, our products are used in applications that make the products we rely on, processes, and new technologies possible. In key sectors such as clean energy, advanced electronics, high-performance computing and AI, climate friendly cooling, and high-quality paints and coatings for homes and industrial infrastructure---sustainable solutions and more modern living depend on Chemours chemistry.

Chemours is seeking a Project Manager to join our growing Capital Execution team. This position report directly to the Senior Manager - Capital Projects.

As a Project Manager (PM), you will lead large/complex and small capital projects across Chemours sites worldwide that will shape the future of our operations and deliver on our commitment to safety, quality, and innovation. This role offers the unique opportunity to work on diverse, high-impact initiatives while collaborating with teams across the globe. This position may be based at various Chemours locations; however, proximity to our headquarters in the Wilmington, Delaware or Philadelphia, PA area -will enable close collaboration with partner teams.

The Project Manager is responsible for planning, leading, and managing all activities associated with executing capital projects. PM's are expected to have strong project leadership skills and experience to successfully and safely execute projects. The PM is accountable for the total effort, including design, procurement, construction, project controls, estimating, document management and contractor oversight, typically from FEL thru Start-Up. The PM works closely with key stakeholders during early FEL and commissioning/start-up. The PM leads and manages the project execution processes as described in the Chemours Project System.

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Is responsible for identifying project team resources and working with appropriate resource managers to secure as well as ensuring that engineering contractor staffing is adequate, to meet project objectives.
• Ensures all project team members understand and held accountable for their role, responsibilities and expected deliverables.
• Establish effective communications with the project team to ensure alignment around business objectives, project objectives, and project scopes as well as with the project stakeholders.
• Leads front-end loading process, including preparation of the project scopes of work, completion of the project estimates, preparation of funding requests and the integrated project schedule, and the development of the production design basis.
• Proactively drive project scope, cost, schedule and project resources
• Identify necessary project deliverables and ensure timely completion and sufficient quality
• Manages changes in the project scope and controls cost within the approved budgets per the project "Management of Change" policy.
• Drives capital project work processes and practices as described in the Chemours Project System.
• Leads / facilitates risk identification / mitigation and problem-solving sessions throughout project life to manage schedule, budget, priorities and constraints.
• Ensures appropriate design standards and agreements with internal and external design resources are followed.

The following is required for this role :

• A minimum of a bachelor's degree in any Engineering discipline
• Minimum 5 years managing capital projects
• Minimum of 3 years working with a chemical plant environment
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with field construction or contract management
• Capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to execute smaller, less complex projects with limited engagement of supporting resources
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to lead by influence
• Strong team-building skills
• Experience in working with engineering/design contractors
• Experience using project scheduling software
• Smart engineering/design tools knowledge
• Fluent use of Microsoft Office software
• Ability to travel approximately 40% of the time

The following is preferred for this role

• Direct report supervisory experience is a plus
• Plant operations or maintenance experience is a plus

Benefits:

• Competitive Compensation
• Comprehensive Benefits Packages
• 401(k) Match
• Employee Stock Purchase