Project Director

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Project Manager to lead our Capital Projects team at CDI Engineering Solutions. As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for safely executing capital projects from front-end development to detailed design and construction, including procurement, cost control, and schedule management.

• Safely execute capital projects from front-end development to detailed design and construction, including procurement, cost control, and schedule management.
• Manage simultaneous projects with competing priorities in various phases on a wide variety of manufacturing processes in the chemical complex.
• Develop project scopes in collaboration with operations, process engineering, and disciplines.
• Ensure the proper technical authority approves the design, including the appropriate technical authority of equipment specification and drawings.
• Oversee engineering execution utilizing either on-site or off-site disciplines/engineering companies.
• Coordinate with Project Assurance and Technical Assurance activities (where applicable).
• Collaborate with project controls organization to develop project cost estimates and schedules for each phase and for final funding.
• Meet project cost and schedule requirements and provide accurate forecasting.
• Work with procurement to develop/implement a procurement strategy for each project.
• Work with environmental to ensure permitting strategy/compliance.
• Assist with the development of equipment and material bid specification, bid evaluation and selection.
• Accountable for working with construction and ensuring proper construction management and safety plans are in place.
• Coordinate personnel and contractor partners to assure that field activities are completed safely, on time, within budget, and in accordance with the design requirements.
• Supports construction safety expectations by spending time in the field.
• Assist with mechanical start-up plans and procedures, provides technical support during start-up, supports training activities, and assures documentation and knowledge transfer.
• Provides appropriate files to maintenance and operations for record keeping.
• Creates or assembles all documents for project closure.
• Follows the plant Management of Change (MOC) process.

• 7+ years' experience in Refinery or Petrochemical Plant Engineering is desired.
• Project Engineering experience is required.
• A practical working knowledge of refinery/chemical processes, process equipment, and general project procedures is required.
• Ensuring each project meets premises, is scoped in front-end to solve the identified problem, and then is executed efficiently and competitively.
• Integrating resource needs across Engineering & Technology and Maintenance Turnarounds Construction (MTAC) organization.
• Balancing project execution with stakeholder expectations in a portfolio management environment.
• Demonstrating strong safety leadership, hazard recognition, and mitigation.