Vice President, Projects

CTCI Americas Inc; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical / Dental / Vision

Life & AD&D

401k with company match

Job summary

CTCI Americas Inc. is seeking a high-impact Vice President of Projects to lead its project delivery, engineering, and construction functions.

This senior executive will provide strategic direction, governance, and performance oversight to ensure safe, on-time, and on-budget execution of capital programs across multiple divisions. The role requires extensive EPC experience, strong leadership, and a proven track record in refining/petrochemicals projects, contract management, and risk mitigation.

Qualifications

• Significant recent experience leading projects in refining/petrochemicals sectors.
• Proven ability to manage scope, schedule, budget, and change management.
• Experience in contract management.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Understanding of scheduling concepts and earned value management.
• Strong verbal and written communication; able to present to internal teams and stakeholders.
• Experience managing project personnel.

Responsibilities

• Lead project management, construction, and engineering functions for capital programs.
• Provide strategic leadership, oversight, and technical direction for project delivery.
• Ensure projects are safe, on schedule, within budget, and meet quality standards.
• Collaborate with executives, clients, and operations to optimize portfolio performance.
• Oversee risk management, budgeting, forecasting, and performance reporting.
• Develop talent, succession plans, and leadership development across teams.

Skills

Project management

Contract management

Multi-project leadership

Scheduling

Earned value management

Communication

Personnel management

Education

Bachelor’s (B.S.) in Engineering or related field

20+ years EPC experience

PMP (preferred)

Job description

The Vice President of Projects is a senior executive who reports directly to the President and is responsible for leading the organization's project delivery, engineering, and construction functions. This role provides strategic leadership, operational oversight, and technical direction to ensure successful execution of capital projects, engineering initiatives, and business objectives. The VP is accountable for project performance, engineering excellence, safety, quality, financial results, resource management, and client satisfaction. This position collaborates closely with executive leadership, clients, business development teams, operations, and external stakeholders to deliver projects safely, on schedule, within budget, and in accordance with company standards and customer expectations.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Support the day-to-day operation of the business, including project delivery performance, pricing strategies, risk management, forecasting and budgeting, and performance reporting.
• Provide interpretation of monthly performance figures to support management.
• Provide support to project managers to resolve project issues and make recommendations to improve project performance for underperforming projects.
• Direct project management staff to ensure timely, effective, and efficient performance of project managers' responsibilities.
• Identify and close capability gaps among staff, providing team management and talent development support to foster career growth and required skills of project managers, construction managers and engineers.
• In partnership with department leaders, evaluate individual performance of project managers, construction managers, and engineers.
• Evaluate project compliance with CTCIA policies and procedures.
• Assist in developing and reviewing proposal pricing to support business objectives and individual bid pricing strategies.
• Support the client service/business development staff on key pursuits (e.g., initial evaluation of terms and conditions, commercial risk, and competitive advantage).
• Review proposal and project scopes, schedules, and budgets.
• Promote risk management practice within the project management function and develop PM risk competencies, including developing a strong contractual understanding among project managers of risk management and contingency management.
• Conduct project reviews with project managers in accordance with company guidelines. Utilize reviews to monitor project-level performance, client satisfaction, team, budget, schedule, risk, and quality management.
• Lead project management, construction management and engineering processes, including timely and accurate Estimate at Completion submittals.
• Provide executive oversight of the project portfolio, establish delivery priorities and governance standards, and **escalate** material cost, schedule, safety, quality, and commercial exposures to the Chairman.
• Lead project execution strategy and reviews from award and mobilization through engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, turnover, and final closeout.
• Ensure project teams timely identify, document, negotiate, and resolve scope changes, contract variations, claims, and disputes in coordination with Commercial and Legal teams.
• Oversee project resources and capacity planning across multiple divisions.
• Sponsor project specific HSE and quality performance, including leading indicator reviews, corrective action accountability, audit findings, and lessons learned to prevent recurrence.
• Maintain executive level client and stakeholder relationships, lead resolution of escalated delivery concerns and support contract performance, repeat business, and customer satisfaction.
• Oversee project cash flow, working capital, margin protection, milestone billing, and financial exposure, partnering with Finance to improve portfolio profitability and forecast reliability.
• Establish consistent project reporting, decision rights, project handover and closeout requirements, and lessons learned practices; drive continuous improvement and appropriate adoption of project management tools.
• Recruit, develop, mentor, and retain high-performing project management, construction management and engineering professionals.
• Establish succession planning and leadership development programs.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Conduct performance evaluations and career development planning.
• Lead multidisciplinary engineering teams including civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, process, software, or systems engineering disciplines as applicable.
• Establish engineering standards, design guidelines, and quality assurance procedures.
• Ensure technical compliance with applicable codes, regulations, industry standards, and customer specifications.
• Perform other work-related tasks as assigned.
• Comply with all CTCI Company and HSE procedures and policies.

Required Skills

• Significant recent experience managing projects in the refining and petrochemicals sectors, including the development of scope, schedule, and budget, and the subsequent management of cost and schedule and change management.
• Strong project management skills, with experience in organizing, planning, and executing projects from pursuit through closeout, involving internal personnel, contractors, and vendors.
• Experience in contract management.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Understanding of scheduling concepts and earned value management.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including ability to present to an internal audience and facilitate workshops.
• Experience managing personnel.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s (B.S.) degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or comparable technical, business, or professional degree.
• 20 plus years of EPC experience, preferably with lump sum execution
• PMP preferred

Pay range and compensation package

• Pay Range is depending on experience
• Medical / Dental / Vision plans
• Basic Life & AD&D - company paid
• 401k Program - with company match

Equal Opportunity Statement

CTCIA is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. All employment decisions are made without regard to these factors. We encourage individuals from all backgrounds and experiences to apply, as we believe a diverse workforce fosters innovation and success.