Senior Project Manager
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Summary
Leads a 12-month, on-site build of a specialty metals manufacturing facility in Fremont, CA — managing scope, schedule, budget, risk, and quality across engineering, procurement, construction, vendors, and Element Solutions client stakeholders from design through commissioning and turnover, using Oracle Primavera Cloud for scheduling.
The Senior Project Manager will support managing the development and construction of a new specialty metals manufacturing facility. This individual will provide overall project leadership and coordinate activities across engineering, procurement, construction, equipment vendors, contractors, and client stakeholders to keep the project aligned with its approved scope, schedule, budget, quality requirements, and operational objectives.
The Senior Project Manager will establish clear project controls, monitor performance, identify emerging risks, and ensure stakeholders have the information needed to make timely decisions. The role requires an experienced project leader who can manage a complex facility build from planning and design through construction, equipment installation, commissioning, start-up, and turnover.
DURATION: 12 Months
WORK SCHEDULE: TBD
LOCATION: On Site - Fremont, CA with travel to travel to New Jersey, Connecticut, and Texas
This position offers Per Diem for those eligible
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS & RESPONSIBLITIES:
- Provide overall leadership and day-to-day management of the facility buildout.
- Establish and maintain the project execution plan, including scope, schedule, budget, risk, quality, communication, and stakeholder-management expectations.
- Coordinate closely with engineering, procurement, construction, equipment vendors, contractors, and Element Solutions stakeholders.
- Maintain alignment among design development, material procurement, site construction, equipment delivery, installation, commissioning, and operational-readiness activities.
- Oversee development and maintenance of the integrated master schedule in Oracle Primavera Cloud and ensure it accurately reflects the current project execution plan.
- Review project progress, schedule updates, critical-path activities, key milestones, constraints, and forecast completion dates.
- Identify schedule, cost, scope, quality, resource, and execution risks and lead the development of appropriate mitigation or recovery plans.
- Monitor engineering and procurement deliverables to ensure they support required construction and equipment-installation dates.
- Manage project interfaces and dependencies among internal departments, contractors, suppliers, and equipment vendors.
- Facilitate project meetings, document decisions, assign action items, and ensure commitments are completed in accordance with established due dates.
- Evaluate proposed scope changes and support the change-management process by assessing potential cost, schedule, resource, and operational impacts.
- Monitor contractor and vendor performance against contractual commitments and project requirements.
- Provide accurate project forecasts, performance reporting, executive-level updates, and recommendations for corrective action.
- Escalate significant issues, risks, and decisions to the appropriate Element Solutions stakeholders.
- Support construction readiness, equipment installation, system turnover, commissioning, start-up, and transition to facility operations.
- Promote a strong culture of safety, quality, accountability, communication, and disciplined project execution.
- Travel to project locations as required to support planning, stakeholder coordination, construction oversight, and major project milestones.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Demonstrated experience managing major capital projects or new industrial facility construction.
- Experience leading projects involving engineering, procurement, construction, equipment installation, commissioning, and start-up.
- Strong understanding of project management principles, project controls, scheduling, cost management, risk management, forecasting, and change control.
- Ability to coordinate multiple contractors, vendors, technical disciplines, and internal stakeholder groups.
- Experience reviewing and using integrated project schedules to evaluate progress, critical-path impacts, constraints, and forecast completion.
- Strong leadership, communication, problem-solving, negotiation, and decision-making skills.
- Ability to communicate project performance, risks, and required decisions clearly to both project teams and senior leadership.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience managing the construction or expansion of specialty metals, chemical processing, advanced manufacturing, or similarly complex industrial facilities.
- Experience with Oracle Primavera Cloud or comparable enterprise scheduling and project-controls systems.
- Experience supporting first-of-a-kind facilities, specialized manufacturing processes, or projects involving significant vendor-supplied production equipment.
- Experience managing projects across multiple locations and coordinating geographically dispersed teams.
- Experience with facility commissioning, operational readiness, start-up, and final turnover.