Senior Engineering Project Manager

Company Description

Covia is a leading provider of minerals and material solutions for the Industrial markets. We have a strong legacy built on a spirit of partnership – with each other, our customers, and our communities. Our scale and capabilities allow us to serve the diverse and complex needs of customers in various markets such as foundry, building products, ceramics, coatings and polymers, water filtration, glass, sports, and recreation.

With market-driven insights and value-added offerings that address all well environments and solve a range of down-hole challenges; we pride ourselves on delivering the right product to the right place at the right time, while building partnerships that help our customers succeed.

Role Description

This is a full-time remote role for a Senior Engineering Project Manager at Covia, this person would ideally be located in the Houston, TX area at the candidate’s home office; the expectation is that the Project Manager will travel as needed and up to 67% of the time to successfully execute the position The Senior Engineering Project Manager will be responsible for overseeing and managing engineering projects, including coordinating project teams, ensuring project timelines and budgets are met, and communicating project progress to stakeholders. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineers, operations, construction managers and 3

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party organizations to ensure successful project delivery.

The

Senior Engineering Project Manager

will provide general engineering support which includes capital projects, engineering design, equipment specifications/diagnostics and process system review. This role will be responsible for all five stages of the project lifecycle represented by all FEL stages from initial conception through substantial completion & full acceptance.

The successful incumbent will have the following Key Accountabilities:

- Carries out varied engineering assignments requiring general familiarity with broad field of engineering and knowledge of reciprocal effects of the work upon other fields.

- Lead projects from requirements definition through deployment, identifying schedules, scopes, budget estimations, and implementation plans, including risk mitigation.

- Coordinate internal and external resources to ensure that projects adhere to scope, schedule, and budget.

- Ability to complete cost estimates and project schedules as well as to ensure timeliness in the completion of projects of high quality within budget.

- Analyze project status and, when necessary, revise the scope, schedule, or budget to ensure that project requirements can be met.

- Establish and maintain relationships with relevant client stakeholders, providing day-to-day contact on project status and changes.

- Ability to problem solve using a combination of standard methodologies, processes and procedures; acquires and/or developed in previous assignments or best practices.

- Participates in planning and/or preparation of technical electrical and mechanical specs for internal review to achieve prescribed objectives.

- Ability to perform commercial and technical bid analysis and make purchase recommendations.

Qualifications

- 15+ years of industrial (manufacturing, mining, oil & gas, chemicals, machinery, etc.) project management experience

- Engineering Management, Project Management, and Project Engineering skills

- Construction Management skills

- Strong leadership and communication skills

- Experience in managing complex engineering projects

- Ability to work independently and remotely

- Excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field

- PMP certification is a plus