Senior Project Manager - Project Execution

Messer Canada Inc.; Bridgewater Township (NJ); On-site; USD 109,000 - 146,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) Plan

Paid time off

Job summary

The Project Manager at Messer Americas leads multi-discipline teams to deliver capital projects safely, on time and within budget. You will manage new plant projects, upgrades, and retrofits, often supporting Senior and Principal Project Managers on large initiatives.

Required are a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline, 5 years’ experience in capital project delivery, and the ability to travel 30-40% annually. Messer offers comprehensive benefits and a strong safety culture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical, mechanical, electrical, or other relevant discipline.
• 5 years’ experience in capital project implementation with demonstrated ability to manage scope, schedule and budget.
• Ability to travel 30-40% (60-80 nights per year).

Responsibilities

• Oversee proposal development and project execution of major capital projects up to $10,000,000 in CAPEX.
• Manage project activities through the full project cycle including engineering, scheduling, budgeting and commissioning.
• Coordinate safety reviews, Hazops, MOCs, and punch lists; ensure compliance with standards and regulations.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Stakeholder communication

Education

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

Tools

Vendor management

Job description

Why Messer?

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 Senior Project Manager will independently execute multiple small to medium size projects. The position will execute new plant projects as well as plant upgrades, modifications and retrofits.

Senior Project Managers will often support Principal Project Managers on the largest of Messer’s capital projects.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, or other relevant discipline.
• 5 years’ experience in the implementation of capital project, ideally 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.
• Ability to travel 30-40% (60-80 nights / year)

About Messer:

Messer’s safety culture, commitment to providing dependable supply and innovative gas technology solutions help customers unlock opportunities to be safer, more sustainable, more productive and more efficient, so their business thrives. We nurture lasting, meaningful relationships with customers, our communities, and with one another.

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 – the dedication, knowledge, customer focus and entrepreneurial spirit of our employees is what make Messer refreshingly different.

Messer stands apart because we put what matters first, and you matter.

Messer is the world’s largest privately held industrial gases company and what we do matters because it is woven into every part of life, from the medical gases that patients rely on to the essential elements needed to safely and sustainably produce the goods our communities depend on.

Join us and take pride in the impact you will make by providing solutions essential to our world and lives. Reach your highest potential at our stable, inclusive company with diverse opportunities in a growing industry, supported by people who care.

• Oversee proposal development and project execution of major capital projects for Messer LLC.
• Manage all project activities throughout project cycle; responsible for managing individual projects generally up to $10,000,000 in CAPEX. Senior Project Managers will normally have 2-3 projects at once.
• Manage project activities, including coordination of basic and detailed engineering and design, development and maintenance of project schedules and budgets, prepare monthly status reports, provide oversight of construction and commissioning activities, coordinate Operator training and ensure technical and administrative closeout of all project issues.
• Manage the outsource of discipline engineering.
• Implement the 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 adopted 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 technical resource to plants to develop problem solutions or needed improvements.
• Delivery of a safe quality project on schedule and within budget
• Effective communication with all Messer affected departments.
• Agreement by plant management that objectives are met, all documentation delivered, and all punch list items resolved/agreed.
• Accountable for construction site and the management of the appropriate site resources (safety, construction, commissioning, production, reliability, etc)
• Perform other duties as assigned.

The salary range for this position is $109,00-$146,000. Messer provides medical, dental, vision, short term disability, life insurance and paid time off as well as other voluntary benefits, such as, long term disability in accordance with the terms and conditions of these Plans. Employees are eligible to enroll in Messer’s 401(k) Plan. Employees may be eligible to participate in the company’s bonus program.

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