Senior PM: Chemical Manufacturing & Industrial Construction

ARCHEM LLC; Shreveport (LA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Employee discounts

Health insurance

Paid time off

401(k) matching

Job summary

Archem is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead a large-scale chemical manufacturing and industrial construction project in Northwest Louisiana. You will guide engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, startup, and operational readiness while coordinating internal teams, EPC partners, contractors, and suppliers.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years of capital-project leadership in process industries, strong scheduling and risk-management skills, and the ability to work with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Business, or related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of progressively responsible project or program management experience.
• Demonstrated experience managing large industrial, chemical, manufacturing, energy, or process-plant capital projects.
• Experience managing projects through engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and startup.
• Strong understanding of project controls, integrated scheduling, cost forecasting, risk management.
• Experience managing EPC contractors and multidisciplinary engineering and construction teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead overall project execution across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and startup.
• Own and maintain the integrated project schedule, cost baseline, milestones, dependencies, and critical path.
• Coordinate activities across engineering teams, EPC firms, construction contractors, equipment suppliers, and specialty subcontractors.
• Lead regular project performance reviews covering schedule, budget, scope, risks, procurement, field changes, and corrective actions.
• Track project costs, commitments, forecasts, estimates to complete, and anticipated cost at completion.
• Identify schedule and budget variances early and drive appropriate corrective and recovery actions.
• Establish and maintain effective scope, configuration, and change-control processes.
• Manage project risks and opportunities and ensure mitigation actions are assigned, tracked, and completed.
• Manage long-lead procurement activities and ensure critical equipment is identified, sourced, tracked, and escalated before impacting the project schedule.
• Coordinate site execution activities including contractor staging, utility interfaces, material flow, construction sequencing, and turnover to operations.
• Support permitting, process-safety reviews, construction readiness, and pre-startup activities.
• Coordinate mechanical completion, commissioning, startup, and transition to steady-state operations.
• Ensure project milestones and deliverables are supported by clear documentation and objective evidence of completion.
• Provide concise project status, forecasts, risks, and decision support to company leadership and key stakeholders.
• Drive accountability across internal and external project teams while protecting safety, quality, cost, schedule, and technical performance.

Skills

Leadership

Problem-solving

Communication

Stakeholder management

Scheduling

Education

Bachelor’s degree (Engineering/Construction/PM/Business)

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Job description

Archem is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead a large-scale chemical manufacturing and industrial construction project in Northwest Louisiana. You will guide engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, startup, and operational readiness while coordinating internal teams, EPC partners, contractors, and suppliers.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years of capital-project leadership in process industries, strong scheduling and risk-management skills, and the ability to work with