Manager Capital Projects

Contribute. Grow. Lead...with OxyChem. Looking for a challenge? Desire to achieve your true potential? OxyChem is a growing, action-oriented, safety driven chemical manufacturing company continually striving to be the best in the business while staying focused on environmental protection. The secret to our success has and will continue to be our people.

Occidental Chemical Corporation (OxyChem) is a leading North American manufacturer of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resins, chlorine and caustic soda – key building blocks for a variety of indispensable products such as plastics, pharmaceuticals and water treatment chemicals. Other OxyChem products include caustic potash, chlorinated organics, sodium silicates, chlorinated isocyanurates and calcium chloride. OxyChem's market position is among the top three producers in the United States for the principal products it manufactures and markets. Based in Dallas, Texas, the company has manufacturing facilities in the U.S., Canada and Latin America.

In a fast-paced industry that demands precision, we create a supportive workplace where the safety and well-being of our employees are paramount. We are committed to rewarding top performers, offering very competitive pay and benefits, and providing tremendous career development opportunities.

Essential Job Duties

- Maintain protection of the environment and the health and safety of our employees, customers, and the communities in which we operate and/or transport our products, as our highest priority.

- Prepare and administer capital programs, methods, systems, and practices for reducing costs and improving safety, productivity, reliability, and employee and plant efficiency.

- Execute approved capital projects to ensure safe, timely, and economical completion in accordance with AFE requirements. Acts as the liaison with Operations. Oversees projects, coordinates the work of required engineering disciplines, provides cost control and prepares project procedures.

- Responsible for the project engineering, design and capital construction groups and all project forecasting, scheduling, estimating, and reporting.

- Oversees the project development and implementation efforts which includes coordinating design functions, specifying, requisitioning and expediting project elements, approving purchase requisitions, reviewing vendor information and maintaining project documentation.

- Communicates any design and technical issues to technical and non-technical functions through reports, memos, design documents and presentations in a manner that is concise, factual and effective.

- Maintains overall responsibility for prioritizing, development and execution of annual capital budget and allocation of funding. Ensures capital spending is within +/- 2% of allotted budget.

- Recommends action to improve the quality of the engineering, design and construction functions, working on new engineering methods and giving technical seminars and training programs. Responsible for developing capital team members to increase bench strength of team and to ensure they are successful in role.

- Ensures all project management tasks are maintained including, but not limited to, routine project updates and forecasts, project cost control, maintaining project documentation, and project close-out and archive.

- Responsible for ensuring all projects stay within their approved budget of +10/-5% estimate.

Qualifications

- B.S. in Engineering with 10+ years of project engineering experience, including a minimum of 5 years in a chemical or petro-chemical plant.

- Must be able to develop strong relationships with project sponsors, outside engineering, construction and equipment supply firms.

- Must be capable of handling multiple assignments and leading technical staff with projects ranging in size from $25K to $10MM, with an annual budget up to $30MM and an active portfolio of up to $80MM.

- High proficiency in SAP and Microsoft applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Projects and Outlook).

- Field experience with installation of chemical plant equipment.

- Excellent written and verbal communications skills. Ability to read, write and speak in English.

- Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to work as part of a team.

- Ability to work weekends and holidays and respond to callouts or off-hour emergencies on a non-routine basis.

- Physical requirements – Must be able to lift 40 lbs., climb ladders and stairs. Walking, bending, stooping is required. Must be able to wear personal protective equipment. Must be able to respond to visual and audible alarms.

Recruitment Fraud

It has come to our attention various individuals and/or organizations are contacting people falsely pretending to recruit on behalf of Oxy. Please be aware that these recruiting scams and communications do not originate nor are they associated with our recruitment process. All Oxy job postings and offers will require a completed application through our company website.

Oxy does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruiting process. We will never:

- Ask you to pay for applications, interviews, meetings, processing, training or for any other fees

- Use recruiting or placement agencies that charge candidates an advance fee of any kind or

- Request personal information such as passport and bank account details at an early stage of our recruitment process.

We recommend against responding to unsolicited business propositions or offers from people you don't know. Do not disclose your personal or financial details. If you believe you have been the victim of a recruiting scam, please contact your local police department.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.