Construction Manager - Large Projects

About The Chemours Company

As we create a colorful, capable and cleaner world through chemistry, we invite you to join our team to harness the power of chemistry to shape markets, redefine industries and improve lives for billions of people around the world. Creating Essential Chemistry The World Needs At Chemours, our people are redefining how the world thinks of chemistry by approaching everything we do with a commitment to delivering Trusted Chemistry that creates better lives and helps communities thrive. That begins with how we use our science, data, and unmatched technical expertise to develop market-leading products with the highest levels of performance, sustainability, and safety in the industry. Powered by chemistry, our products are used in applications that make the products we rely on, processes, and new technologies possible. In key sectors such as clean energy, advanced electronics, high-performance computing and AI, climate friendly cooling, and high-quality paints and coatings for homes and industrial infrastructure---sustainable solutions and more modern living depend on Chemours chemistry.

About the Role

Chemours is seeking a Construction Manager to join our Capital Execution and CoE team. This position will report directly to the Construction Engineering Manager. As a Construction Manager, you will lead large and complex capital projects across Chemours sites worldwide that will shape the future of our operations and deliver on our commitment to safety, quality, and innovation. This role offers the unique opportunity to work on diverse, high-impact initiatives while collaborating with teams across the globe. While the Construction Manager will support and frequently travel to multiple locations, this role is preferably intended to be based at any of our Chemours sites, to maximize your impact through close collaboration with project teams and ensure seamless execution of world-class capital projects. The Construction Manager serves as Chemours’ construction leader for capital project(s) with construction execution responsibility for safety, cost, productivity, schedule, and quality. Participating with and leading a team that is acting as the Owner’s Representative, provides a competitive advantage in execution of the construction phase of the Capital Projects. The Construction Manager will have or develop deep skills in one (1) defined area of expertise (Civil/Structural, Instrumentation and Controls, Electrical or Piping/Mechanical) and employ this expertise to coach and support all projects across the Chemours’ portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and technical input during Front End Loading and Detailed Design including:
• Safety Plan Development and Management.
• Ensure development of MI-QA plan, qualification and validation of execution per plan.
• Participation and input in Engineering/Design Development Reviews.
• Development of Contracting Strategy Development, Contractor Qualification and Performance Management.
• Lead Constructability Analysis and Optimization (and inclusion of innovative/cost effective construction technologies).
• Provide direct input to Construction schedule and budget review/validation
• Provide input on material and equipment selection to align with business objectives while minimizing cost (utilizing deep direct experience based technical expertise in areas of expertise (Codes, Standards. Construction Methods and Technical Reviews).
• Lead Construction Planning & Work Management/Progress Tracking Processes –incorporate LEAN Construction concept to drive field productivity.
• Site Assessments and support in continuous improvement efforts.
• Construction execution planning, including CM staffing plan.
• Oversee The Construction Effort In The Field
• Identify, on-board and manage on-site CM resource(s).
• Safety plan auditing and assessment.
• Quality plan auditing and assessment.
• Plan and coordinate the construction/installation of all phases of the construction and support processes on his/her projects and work orders
• Optimize and maintain the integrated project schedules.
• Audit total contractor performance against established
• Coordinate all Chemours and contractor resource requirements during the construction phase of the work, including safety, technical, and control personnel.
• Accountable for overall results of field activity on his/her projects and work orders.
• Provide timely, accurate information to all members of project teams and appropriate functional and business leadership to assure common view of job status opposite commitments.
• Set goals, manage priorities, audit constantly, and take decisive action as necessary to assure all commitments are met.
• Know the specifications, standards, methods, scope of work, design, and other technical information specific to his/her assignment/projects.
• Assure materials and equipment are available and are delivered to the proper locations to maintain schedule and productivity.
• Documentation and approval of change throughout field construction.
• Support the planning and execution of the commissioning and start-up efforts.
• Provide input on Rigging and Equipment requirements during construction.
• Input into commissioning & checkout planning and execution.
• Competency Development
• Training for Chemours and Contractors Resources as appropriate on areas of specialization.
• Support in defining and implementing continuous improvement efforts.

Qualifications

To be qualified for this role, you must possess the following:

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• 8+ years of construction management experience on Industrial Construction related projects (ideally has progressed through a craft role into a leadership position).
• Broad knowledge of capital project and support processes (ideally in-depth and practical experience in one of the craft roles (Civil/Structural, Process/Mechanical, Electrical or Instrumentation & Controls).
• Ability to lead/manage a large capital construction project.
• Experience in achieving field execution through the use of contractors.
• Capable of detailed planning for contracted field work, in a way that barriers and contingencies are anticipated, and appropriate resources are allocated.
• Ability to perform constructability analyses.
• Knowledge of Best Practices for safety, contracting/sourcing, cost control, quality assurance, scheduling, project cycle time reduction, invoicing, value engineering, and front-end loading.
• Must be willing to travel up to 50% of the time directly to capital project location(s) (nationally, potentially internationally) to engage with and drive successful construction execution.

The Following Skill Sets Are Preferred

• Construction management of large (> $10M) capital projects within a chemical plant setting.
• Ability to proactively lead and motivate on-site CM team, contractors and others to complete assigned tasks on schedule.
• Ability to bring together a diverse group of parties involved in field execution and keep them focused on common objectives.
• Ability to review estimates for validity and to use them to develop plans and schedules.
• Knowledge of project change order procedures.
• Excellent Understanding of contracting and purchasing processes.
• Use of LEAN methodologies and scheduling tools (e.g. Primavera) and knowledge of critical path method scheduling.
• Knowledge of construction and site safety, and environmental procedures/policies.
• Skill, ability, and experience in networking and teamwork, negotiating, planning, application of construction technology and applications, defining project scope, and translating scope into cost estimates.
• Fluent in the use of Microsoft Office tools.

Key skills/competency

• Construction Management
• Capital Projects
• Safety Management
• Contractor Management
• Project Scheduling
• Cost Control
• Quality Assurance
• Constructability Analysis
• Risk Management
• Team Leadership