Project Team Leader

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Project Team Leader

The Project Team Leader (PTL) – is the single point of accountability for the end-to-end project process necessary for a Capital Project to deliver on business objectives. Clearly sets overall Project Team direction and expectations. The PTL provides the primary interface between the Project Team and the Business and leads all necessary communication forums. This role is located in Buffalo, NY at the Yerkes Plant.

Main Responsibilities:

• Leads cross functional capital project teams (including contract engineering team members) to meet business objectives.
• Accountable for developing and implementing appropriate project execution strategy for design, procurement, and construction
• Engages business / site leadership team as needed to ensure alignment with business, address any needs or concerns, make strategic project decisions, and provide status updates throughout execution of projects.
• Provides leadership for an effective team by ensuring roles and responsibilities are clearly understood, engages outside consultants when needed to support the team.
• Ensures applicable project deliverable are accomplished in a quality manner.
• Leads the team in identifying non-cap alternatives or lower capital options.
• Ensures excellence in adherence to Process Safety Management (PSM), Environmental, Safety and Health (EH&S), Mechanical Integrity and Quality Assurance (MIQA) requirements, export controls and trade secrets principles, and other core value standards, processes, and procedures.
• Facilitates economic evaluations, prepares funding requests, forecasts capital and non-cap expenditures and asset write-offs, and ensures necessary financial reporting and accounting is performed.
• Champions the “no change” concept and ensures only changes consistent with the business and project objectives are approved.
• Responsible for the development and implementation of Project Quality Plans, including auditing work processes and deliverables for compliance, and for meeting agreed upon project quality requirements and expectations.
• Work with business and technical leadership to identify and comply with any US Export Control and Trade Secret/Intellectual Property/Security requirements for the project.
• Primary DuPont interface on Front-End Loading (FEL) and Design/Procurement of assigned capital projects. 
• Engage with the sites to support the preparation of all documents needed to complete FEL and execute production design and procurement.

Qualifications:

• Required:  4-year degree in engineering (Chemical, Mechanical, or Electrical preferred).
• Required: 2 years (preferred > 5) experience working in manufacturing / industrial setting
• Preferred:  2 years of experience in project management
• Preferred:  Experience working with full service design contractors.

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