Assistant Principal Project Engineer, COE

Assistant Principal Project Engineer, COE

Location:

Home Office, LA, US

Custom Field 1: 40865

Date:
Jan 21, 2026

ASR Group is the world’s largest refiner and marketer of cane sugar, with an annual production capacity of more than 6 million tons of sugar. The company produces a full line of grocery, industrial, food service and specialty sweetener products. Across North America, ASR Group owns and operates six sugar refineries, located in Louisiana, New York, California, Maryland, Canada and Mexico.

In Europe, the company owns and operates sugar refineries in England and Portugal. ASR Group also owns and operates mills in Mexico and Belize. The company’s brand portfolio includes the leading brands Domino®, C&H®, Redpath®, Tate & Lyle®, Lyle’s® and Sidul®.

This advanced Project and Program Manager role leads strategic portfolio initiatives and drives continuous improvement across complex capital projects. The position requires deep project/program management expertise, strong strategic development skills, and subject‑matter knowledge across multiple disciplines.

Key responsibilities include leading portfolio-wide project prioritization, developing corporate processes and software tools, overseeing reporting governance, forecasting, budgeting, risk analysis, and conducting forensic reviews of cost and schedule performance. This role partners closely with plant/facility teams to create comprehensive project lists and provides executive-level reporting and insights.

The position ensures workflows, tools, and systems are streamlined, automated where possible, and designed to support effective decision-making. Acting as a liaison between project sites, corporate partners, and stakeholders, this role enhances transparency and improves cost and schedule predictability through data-driven analysis.

This role supports large, complex CAPEX programs involving safety, infrastructure, process improvement, capacity expansion, compliance, and operational efficiency. It also includes leading cross-functional teams and mentoring engineering, finance, and procurement staff while ensuring adherence to safety and environmental standards.

The ideal candidate has expert knowledge of engineering principles, project management methodologies, and process equipment, along with strong leadership, communication, and continuous improvement skills. Additional requirements include familiarity with regulatory and engineering standards and the willingness to travel 25–50% annually.

• This role is remote (5 days a week) with 25–50% annually travel to any of our refinery and/or non-refinery operations as required.

Job Responsibilities

• Senior level Project Manager executing complex projects across the enterprise at any location. In addition, Leader, Trainer and Mentor of project management delivery tools and processes. Implements and builds tools and systems to execute and manage complex projects and programs from initiation to closure, ensuring alignment with company objectives. Provides support and/or manages COE projects.
• Develops new or advances current software programs to support corporate initiatives, investment strategies, capital efficiency, cost accuracy and create project transparency while reducing work.
• Develops process and workflows that advance project management, provides insight to decision makers, and reduces human error traps.
• Advances and governs the cost and forecast reporting process, workflows, and tools.
• Streamline cost, forecasts, and budget processes to be more automated, robust, and insightful.
• Collects, governs, analyzes, forecasts, and reports portfolio budgets ($170M to $300M). Includes: trend analysis, risk standpoints, committed vs. actual, under and overrun potential.
• Leads the effort to utilize advanced portfolio tools such as Power BI and SAP add-ons.
• Own the project prioritization process, runs list reviews and project addition meetings producing portfolio level reporting/insights.
• Identify potential portfolio risk and implement mitigation strategies.
• Reviews Project Charters and AFE documents to ensure the majority level is met and all costs and risks are…