Senior Capital Projects Development Lead

Calumet Specialty Products Partners L.P.; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Calumet Specialty Products Partners L.P. is seeking a senior project development professional to guide early-stage capital opportunities from screening through scoping at our Indianapolis sites.

You will translate objectives into defined scopes, collaborate with operations, engineering, finance, and commercial teams, and drive decisions to maintain momentum across the development portfolio.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical or business discipline.
• 10+ years of capital project development, project engineering, or project evaluation in petroleum manufacturing or chemical processing.
• Knowledge of front-end loading (FEL) methodology, stage-gate development, and business case/economic evaluation practices.
• Experience facilitating cross-functional discussions across operations, engineering, commercial, and finance stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support early-stage project development by helping define the potential scope of new capital opportunities from initial screening through scoping.
• Translate business objectives, operational needs, and technical opportunities into potential project scopes that can be evaluated and advanced.
• Support business case development by assessing portfolio fit, strategic alignment, feasibility, cost, schedule, resource needs, and commercial attractiveness.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts to screen, evaluate, and shape development options for capital opportunities.
• Lead and facilitate early development discussions with site teams, operations, engineering, commercial, finance, and leadership stakeholders to build a shared view of scope.
• Drive key decisions, action items, assumptions, risks, and follow-up items to maintain alignment and development momentum.
• Apply best practices, tools, and systems in partnership with internal and external resources to improve capital efficiency across the development portfolio.
• Ensure potential projects are well defined, strategically aligned, technically feasible, and ready for the next phase of development before hand-off.

Skills

Scope definition

Stakeholder engagement

Facilitation

Project scheduling

FEL knowledge

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Job description

Calumet Specialty Products Partners L.P. is seeking a senior project development professional to guide early-stage capital opportunities from screening through scoping at our Indianapolis sites.

You will translate objectives into defined scopes, collaborate with operations, engineering, finance, and commercial teams, and drive decisions to maintain momentum across the development portfolio.