Messer Americas · 3 days ago
Senior Project Manager - Capital Projects
Greater Houston
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$106K/yr - $141K/yr
5+ years expMesser Americas is the world’s largest privately held industrial gases company, and they are seeking a Senior Project Manager to oversee the execution of capital projects. The role involves managing project activities, ensuring compliance with regulations, and delivering projects on time and within budget.
ChemicalHealth CareIndustrialManufacturingOil and GasPrecious Metals
Hiring Manager
Laura Brewer
Responsibilities
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
Participate in interdepartmental initiatives
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
Qualification
Required
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)
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Short term disability
Life insurance
Paid time off
Long term disability
401(k) Plan
Bonus program
Company
Messer Americas
Messer Americas is one of the industrial gas companies, offers expertise in industrial, medical, specialty, and electronic gases.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
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Late StageLeadership Team
Elena Skvortsova
President and CEO
Jens Luehring
President & CEO
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