Senior Project Manager (CAPEX | Process Engineering)

• Lead CAPEX projects from project initiation through final completion and customer acceptance.
• Manage project scope, schedule, budget, quality, safety, and overall project performance.
• Develop project schedules, monitor critical milestones, identify risks, and implement corrective actions.
• Own project budgets, forecasts, Estimate to Complete (ETC), and Estimate at Completion (EAC).
• Prepare and support quotations, proposals, technical alignments, and project kickoff activities.
• Identify scope changes and develop estimates and change requests.
• Coordinate engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, and commissioning resources.
• Manage customer communication and expectations throughout the project lifecycle.
• Coordinate vendors, suppliers, contractors, and customer representatives.
• Participate in supplier selection, RFQs, technical bid evaluations, and procurement activities.
• Review and validate P&IDs, equipment lists, drawings, specifications, and 3D design deliverables.
• Develop technical specifications and bid packages for process equipment, piping, platforms, pipe racks, and related industrial systems.
• Coordinate shop fabrication and onsite mechanical installation.
• Plan and support FAT, SAT, commissioning, startup, and qualification activities.
• Maintain project risk registers, issue logs, KPIs, non-conformities, and action plans.
• Manage project punch lists, customer handover, acceptance documentation, claims/reserves, and final closeout.
• Conduct project postmortems and document lessons learned.

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical, Mechanical, Food Process, Agricultural Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• 10+ years of relevant engineering and project experience within a process manufacturing environment.
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience personally managing CAPEX projects.
• Experience within Food & Beverage, Dairy, Pharmaceutical, Cosmetics, Brewing, or another hygienic/sanitary process industry.
• Experience managing projects involving process equipment, skids, tanks, pumps, piping, instrumentation, and related systems.
• Strong understanding of P&IDs and engineering design documentation.
• Experience managing projects through multiple phases, including design, procurement, fabrication, installation, commissioning, startup, and closeout.
• Demonstrated ownership of project budgets, schedules, forecasting, vendors, contractors, and change orders.
• Strong customer-facing communication, leadership, organization, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
• Ability to travel up to 40%.

• Hygienic or sanitary process systems.
• Food, dairy, beverage, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, or brewery capital projects.
• Process skids and packaged equipment.
• CIP/SIP systems.
• FAT/SAT and commissioning/startup.
• EPC, systems integration, OEM, or design/build project environments.
• Multi-million-dollar capital projects.
• Customer-facing project ownership from proposal through final handoff.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.