Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Uncommon Elite is seeking a Vice President of Project Management to lead delivery of its large-scale manufacturing facilities. The role owns end-to-end execution of major capital projects across EPC performance, cost, schedule, quality, equipment integration, commissioning, and operational readiness, while developing a repeatable delivery model and building an internal project-management team.
Responsibilities
- Own the successful delivery of major capital projects from development through engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, startup, performance validation, and operational handoff
- Maintain accountability for project schedule, budget, quality, contractor performance, equipment integration, and overall execution
- Serve as the primary owner-side interface with EPC contractors, major equipment suppliers, engineering partners, and other critical project stakeholders
- Establish clear expectations and hold EPC and vendor partners accountable for contractual commitments, technical requirements, schedule, cost, quality, regulatory compliance, and project performance
- Build collaborative relationships with project partners while maintaining the willingness and technical credibility to challenge assumptions, recommendations, costs, schedules, and performance when appropriate
- Manage project budgets, forecasts, contingency, cost-to-complete, change orders, commercial issues, procurement commitments, and other project controls, particularly as the Company’s internal capabilities continue to develop
- Provide oversight of long-lead equipment and critical supply-chain interfaces, including vendor coordination, fabrication, logistics, delivery sequencing, installation, and commissioning
- Ensure permitting, environmental, regulatory, and other compliance requirements are appropriately addressed by the EPC and incorporated into project execution and schedule
- Work with the EPC, equipment vendors, and future plant leadership to ensure an effective transition from construction through commissioning and into safe, reliable plant operations
- Make timely project decisions within established scope, budget, and delegated authority while maintaining appropriate executive visibility and escalating material changes in scope, economics, schedule, contractual commitments, or risk
- Provide concise and transparent project reporting to the COO, including weekly visibility into schedule, budget, risks, decisions, contractor performance, and upcoming milestones. Support broader monthly reporting to Company leadership
- Identify project risks early, develop actionable recommendations, engage the appropriate stakeholders, and drive issues through resolution
- Establish disciplined project documentation, decision records, lessons learned, project controls, standards, and other systems necessary to preserve institutional knowledge
- Translate lessons from the first facility into a repeatable project-delivery model for future sites
- As the Company scales, build and lead an internal project-management team capable of executing multiple overlapping facility developments
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, or another closely related technical discipline
- Approximately 10–15+ years of progressively responsible experience in capital projects, EPC, engineering, construction, or complex industrial project delivery
- Demonstrated experience taking at least one major industrial project through the complete project lifecycle, including engineering/development, construction, commissioning, startup, performance validation, and turnover to operations
- Strong technical acumen and the ability to quickly understand complex industrial processes, evaluate technical and commercial issues, challenge sophisticated engineering and equipment partners, and drive decisions
- Experience managing EPC contractors, engineering partners, equipment suppliers, and multidisciplinary project stakeholders
- Strong working knowledge of project financial management, including budgeting, forecasting, change management, contingency, commercial commitments, and cost-to-complete
- Demonstrated ability to operate with significant autonomy, make sound decisions with incomplete information, and appropriately escalate material risks and decisions
- Willingness and ability to travel to project sites at key milestones and as project conditions require
- Direct experience developing or constructing pyrolysis facilities
- Owner-side capital-project leadership experience within petrochemical/refining, biomass, biochar, renewable fuels, carbon materials, or other process-intensive industrial sectors utilizing pyrolysis or comparable thermal processes
- Experience working on both the owner/operator and EPC sides of major capital projects
- Experience with major equipment procurement, long-lead equipment, OEM/vendor management, fabrication oversight, logistics, and equipment integration
- Experience in a startup, greenfield organization, or other environment requiring leaders to build systems and operate effectively with limited organizational infrastructure
- Experience establishing project-management systems, standards, processes, or capital-project delivery organizations
- PMP or other relevant professional certification
- Demonstrated leadership responsibility for complex industrial capital projects valued at $100 million or greater, with experience on projects exceeding $500 million strongly preferred
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