Senior Project Manager and Integration Program Owner

Ashland Specialty Ingredients, GP

Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious?

Are you always solving?
Then we'd like to meet you and bet you'd like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Manager and Integration Program Owner to join our Specialty ingredients G.P., business at our Hopewell, VA location.

This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and the Project Engineering and Operations functions.

This position will report to the site's Capital Engineering Manager

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:



* Lead the development, execution, and plant integration of large capital projects from front-end planning through design, construction, commissioning, startup, stabilization, and closeout.


* Translate business and plant needs into clear project objectives and execution strategies, ensuring alignment with safety, production, quality, reliability, environmental, cost, and operational requirements.


* Lead front-end project planning and scope development, including design basis, process requirements, alternatives evaluation, execution and contracting strategies, constructability, project boundaries, and change management.


* Provide integrated project controls and governance across scope, schedule, cost, resources, risk, field execution, and operational readiness, proactively addressing issues that could affect startup, production commitments, or expected business results.


* Drive cross-functional alignment and decision-making among Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, EHS, Quality, Supply Chain, Technology, contractors, vendors, and project leadership throughout the project lifecycle.


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* Ensure designs are safe, reliable, operable, and maintainable by leading appropriate technical and operational reviews and ensuring identified design issues and actions are resolved prior to construction, commissioning, or startup.


* Own operational readiness, commissioning, and startup integration, ensuring plant personnel, equipment, procedures, training, maintenance strategies, spare parts, documentation, systems, and support functions are prepared for a safe and successful transition to operation.


* Drive successful project closeout and realization of business benefits by monitoring post-startup performance, resolving remaining technical and operational issues, transferring ownership to the appropriate plant organizations, and incorporating lessons learned into future projects and engineering practices.


* Actively contribute to the organizational goals by taking initiative, executing on goals and focusing on performance and safety


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