Consultant, Capital Projects

Capital Project Manager

For more than three decades, premier organizations have trusted IPM to help ensure the successful execution of their strategic portfolios and critically important initiatives. With 90 percent repeat business and a Net Promoter Score in the world-class category, IPM has a reputation that is second to none.

Headquartered in Chicago with offices in Boston, Parsippany, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Los Angeles and San Francisco, IPM has led more than 5,000 projects for over 500 clients in the United States and across continents. Our clientele ranges from Fortune 100 companies to startups.

Our Consultants are our full-time employees. They are our most important asset and the competitive advantage that sets us apart from the rest.

We are seeking a Capital Project Manager to support client transformations where capital investment, operational excellence, and business transformation intersect. This role is ideal for someone who can lead capital projects while embedding OpEx principles, including improving safety, quality, cost, and delivery.

In this role your focus will be:

• Ensuring successful delivery outcomes and value realization across end-to-end or phase-driven projects, from initiation and scoping through scale-up and commissioning
• Management of projects within established scope, schedule, and budget while meeting and exceeding IPM project management standards
• Acting as a trusted advisor to client leaders regarding delivery, translating business strategy into executable capital roadmaps, facilitating steering committees, core teams, and managing vendor relationships, and diagnosing capital and project management pain points and designing practical, scalable solutions
• Leading or supporting end-to-end capital project lifecycle activities including opportunity identification and business case justification, Front-End Planning (FEL), scope definition, and design readiness, and realization across execution, commissioning, and startup
• Embedding Lean, OpEx, and Continuous Improvement principles into capital planning and execution while aligning capital projects to manufacturing excellence
• Leading capital initiatives in GMP-regulated environments and partner with Quality, Validation, and Regulatory teams to ensure compliant, right-first-time delivery
• Integrating capital projects into site OpEx and quality maturity models
• Supporting growth, automation, sustainability, and productivity investments and ensure capital solutions support plant throughput, labor efficiency, and operational stability while minimizing downtime and disruption to ongoing operations
• Proactively identifying execution risks and leading mitigation planning
• Driving capability building through coaching client project managers, engineers, and operators, developing capital playbooks, standards, templates, and OpEx-aligned delivery frameworks, and supporting organizational readiness for new assets, systems, and processes
• Creating and presenting both executive-level and detailed updates throughout an engagement and within a final project readout deck

The successful candidate for this position should have the following skills and experience:

• A bachelor's degree with a preference in Engineering, Construction Management, Operations Management, Project Management or similar (e.g., Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management)
• At least 8 years of professional experience delivering successful capital projects within consulting or matrixed enterprise environments
• Have a strong foundation in capital project management best practices and be well versed in operational excellence methodologies
• Demonstrated experience across Life Sciences, Consumer, and/or Industrial sectors
• Experience working directly with senior stakeholders, acting as the owner's representative and trusted advisor
• Be dedicated to delivering high-quality outcomes focused on scope, budget, and schedule (Project Management Professional, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Professional Engineer, and APICS certifications are a plus)
• Have familiarity with GMP, FDA, OSHA, ISO, and environmental requirements
• Willingness to travel based on client needs

If you think you can work with high-caliber…