Site Enablement Lead – Civil & Structural (WPO)

ADP, Inc.; Carolina (PR); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

JC Automation Corp. (JCA) in Carolina, Puerto Rico, seeks a Work Package Owner for Site Related / Enabling Projects, Civil & Structural. The WPO will serve as Owner representative from mobilization to turnover, maintaining safety, quality, schedule, cost, and risk visibility.

You will coordinate interfaces across design, procurement, construction, systems turnover, and CQV teams, drive decisions, and escalate risks to ensure timely mechanical completion and project objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree is required; equivalent construction and industry experience considered.
• Minimum 10 years of experience on complex industrial, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, semiconductor, or similar capital projects.
• Experience coordinating multi-disciplinary construction, startup, and turnover activities.
• Strong understanding of contractor management, construction execution, quality systems, and project controls.
• Experience with systems completion, mechanical completion, turnover, and CQV processes preferred.
• Strong stakeholder management, interface management, and problem-solving skills.
• English required; Spanish strongly preferred for projects located in Puerto Rico.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Owner representative for an assigned Base Work Package from field mobilization through mechanical completion and turnover.
• Maintain overall awareness of package safety, quality, schedule, cost, productivity, and risk performance.
• Establish and maintain package-level execution readiness and interface tracking plans.
• Ensure Owner obligations and deliverables are completed in accordance with project requirements.
• Monitor contractor performance against approved safety, quality, schedule, and productivity goals.
• Participate in field walks, coordination meetings, readiness reviews, and contractor progress discussions.
• Identify emerging performance issues and elevate concerns through appropriate project governance channels.
• Verify contractor-reported progress and support project controls reporting activities.
• Identify and track constraints impacting package execution.
• Coordinate timely resolution of Owner-driven and cross-functional constraints.
• Facilitate decisions related to design clarifications, procurement issues, access requirements, permits, turnover priorities, and operational interfaces.
• Escalate unresolved constraints to project leadership when required.
• Coordinate package interfaces with adjacent work packages, utility systems, infrastructure, commissioning activities, and operational stakeholders.
• Ensure interface risks are identified, documented, tracked, and resolved.
• Support planning and execution of tie-ins, shutdowns, energizations, and system integration activities.
• Promote project safety culture and Owner HSE expectations.
• Participate in safety observations, field engagements, audits, and leadership walks.
• Monitor contractor compliance with project safety requirements.
• Track and elevate significant safety concerns, trends, and recurring issues.
• Monitor field quality performance and implementation of approved quality plans.
• Support inspection readiness and adherence to project quality requirements.
• Participate in quality reviews and issue resolution activities.
• Track quality trends, deficiencies, punch list status, and corrective action closure.
• Coordinate installation readiness and integration of Owner-furnished equipment and systems.
• Interface with equipment suppliers and vendor representatives to support successful installation, startup, and turnover activities.
• Track supplier deliverables, technical support requirements, and commissioning readiness.
• Support package-level progress assessment and forecasting activities.
• Review contractor look-ahead plans and identify risks to upcoming work.
• Coordinate Owner actions necessary to support planned execution activities.
• Monitor milestone achievement and turnover readiness.
• Ensure package execution supports the project's systems-based turnover strategy from the earliest stages of construction.
• Monitor progress against mechanical completion, systems completion, turnover, and CQV readiness milestones.
• Coordinate with Construction Management, System Owners, Turnover Leads, CQV, Operations, and contractors to identify and remove barriers to system handover.
• Promote construction sequencing and workface planning that enables phased turnover and efficient CQV execution.
• Track and drive closure of deficiencies, punch list items, documentation gaps, testing activities, and turnover deliverables affecting system readiness.
• Advocate for turnover and startup priorities during package planning and interface discussions.
• Escalate risks that could impact mechanical completion, turnover milestones, commissioning activities, qualification schedules, or startup objectives.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Interface management

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, or related technical discipline

Job description

JC Automation Corp. (JCA) in Carolina, Puerto Rico, seeks a Work Package Owner for Site Related / Enabling Projects, Civil & Structural. The WPO will serve as Owner representative from mobilization to turnover, maintaining safety, quality, schedule, cost, and risk visibility.

You will coordinate interfaces across design, procurement, construction, systems turnover, and CQV teams, drive decisions, and escalate risks to ensure timely mechanical completion and project objectives.