Senior Project Manager, Project Execution

Purpose of Position

Messer Americas runs a strong project management system for implementation of our capital projects. The Project Manager is accountable for executing the assigned projects, safely, to specification, on time and on budget. Our Project Managers lead multi‑discipline and multi‑functional teams to deliver these projects for Messer. The Senior Project Manager will independently execute multiple small to medium size projects. The position will execute new plant projects as well as plant upgrades, modifications and retrofits.

Senior Project Managers will often support Principal Project Managers on the largest of Messer’s capital projects.

Messer is the world’s largest privately held industrial gases company and what we do matters because it is woven into every part of life, from the medical gases that patients rely on to the essential elements needed to safely and sustainably produce the goods our communities depend on.

The true strength of Messer is our people—at every level and in every role.

Join us and take pride in the impact you will make by providing solutions essential to our world and lives. Reach your highest potential at our stable, inclusive company with diverse opportunities in a growing industry, supported by people who care.

Messer stands apart because we put what matters first, and you matter.

• 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.

• 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.

The salary range for this position is…