Project Manager, Capital Projects

Symrise is a global supplier of fragrances and flavors, cosmetic active ingredients as well as functional ingredients. Its customers include perfume, cosmetics, food and beverage manufacturers, the pharmaceutical industry and producers of dietary supplements and pet food.

With sales of around €5.0 billion in the 2024 financial year, the company is one of the world's leading providers. The Group, headquartered in Holzminden, Germany, has more than 100 locations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, Asia, the USA and Latin America.

Scent & Care creates and sells fragrances, cosmetic ingredients, aroma molecules and mint aromas. Manufacturers use it to produce perfumes, personal care and cosmetic products, cleaning products and detergents, home fragrances and oral care products.

Directly manage multiple capital projects ranging approximately from $20,000 to $50 million, depending upon project complexity, risk, and business requirements.

Manage projects through the complete project lifecycle: INITIATION to CONCEPT / FEL to ENGINEERING & PLANNING to APPROVAL to PROCUREMENT to EXECUTION to MONITORING & CONTROL to COMMISSIONING / STARTUP to CLOSEOUT

Responsibilities include:

• Develop project charters, objectives, business justification, scope, deliverables, and success criteria.
• Lead feasibility studies, alternatives analyses, conceptual engineering, and Front-End Loading/Front-End Engineering activities.
• Develop preliminary and definitive project cost estimates.
• Establish project schedules, milestones, critical paths, and resource requirements.
• Develop project execution plans and contracting strategies.
• Coordinate engineering disciplines, contractors, vendors, procurement, Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, EHS, Finance, and other stakeholders.
• Develop and manage Requests for Proposal (RFPs), bid evaluations, vendor selections, purchase requisitions, and contract recommendations.
• Monitor commitments, actual expenditures, forecasts, contingency, and Estimate at Completion (EAC).
• Manage project scope and prevent uncontrolled scope growth.

Serve as a key site resource for the development and execution of the annual and multi-year capital investment plan.

Responsibilities include:

• Coordinate annual capital planning and budgeting activities.
• Support development of the site's 3-5-year capital master plan.
• Develop preliminary scopes, schedules, and cost estimates for future capital investments.
• Facilitate project prioritization based on safety, regulatory compliance, reliability, asset integrity, production, business growth, sustainability, and financial return.
• Maintain visibility of approved, pending, and future capital projects.
• Monitor portfolio-level spending, commitments, forecasts, schedules, and project status.
• Identify projects at risk of exceeding approved scope, cost, or schedule.

Support continuous improvement of the Project Engineering function by developing, maintaining, standardizing, and training personnel on project management and engineering systems.

This includes:

• Engineering standards
• Design specifications
• Project procedures and instructions
• Project execution plans
• Capital request templates
• Project charters
• Cost-estimating tools
• Scheduling standards
• Risk registers
• Project status reports
• Scope-of-work templates
• Bid evaluation tools
• Change-control forms
• Construction checklists
• Commissioning and startup checklists
• Project closeout packages
• Lessons-learned databases
• Engineering drawing standards

• Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, or other applicable Engineering discipline.
• Minimum 5-10 years of engineering/project experience in a chemical, petrochemical, refining, specialty chemical, pharmaceutical, or comparable process-manufacturing environment.
• Minimum 2-5 years of direct experience managing capital process plant projects from concept through commissioning and closeout.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating multidisciplinary engineering and construction activities.
• Working knowledge of capital estimating, scheduling, procurement, construction management,…