Description
1898 & Co. is a global business, technology and security consultancy serving critical infrastructure industries. We partner with clients to plan, secure, and optimize their business. As part of Burns & McDonnell and our 120 years of industry experience, we understand the complexity inherent to asset-intensive business models, the trends impacting the industries we serve, and the need to ground big ideas in operational realities. 1898 & Co. has the feel of a start-up, with the support of Burns & McDonnell’s endless resources. It’s what makes us unselfish collaborators. We proactively walk the talk to create bigger opportunities through sharing, communicating, and candidness. We are energy-givers who maintain a broader view of success, prioritizing others’ needs and goals in addition to our own. With possibilities powered by experience, our purpose is to serve a brighter future. Are you ready to be a part of it?
The Energy Advisory (EA) business line is part of Energy & Utilities Consulting (EUC). EA provides strategic advice and support to help clients manage and optimize their energy and utility operations. Like all 1898 & Co. business lines, EA aligns its strategy to fulfill the overarching purpose of 1898 & Co., to create value for its customers, and to resonate with its staff who are accountable for executing the strategy. EA helps clients achieve their profitability goals with focus on margin improvement, early capital project support, sustainability studies, and master planning. Our team blends business, financial and technical know-how with industry experience to deliver solutions that work.
A Senior Project Manager within EA is tasked to strike the right balance of business development (e.g., client relationships, strategic partnerships, etc.), sales, mentoring, and study/project execution. Senior Project Managers are seller-doers, conducting marketing & sales activities and executing projects. A Senior Project Manager directly engages clients to identify new work, prepares proposals, establishes project objectives, formulates project approaches, and oversees a team of consultants and analysts to meet the study objectives and provides clients with valuable and actionable deliverables. The Senior Project Manager displays grit in their leadership role and quality in the work they deliver. They are confident and willing to take it to the next level.
Responsibilities:
Business development: Develop new, and manage existing, client relationships through client marketing and project interactions; identify new sales opportunities with clients; lead all aspects of proposal development and submission including project planning, budgeting, and scheduling; establish critical project objectives and performances with clients; lead contract preparation and negotiations.
Project execution: Lead all aspects of project execution including scope, schedule, and budget; ensure quality control of deliverables; analyze and communicate project status, risks, schedule, and costs to all internal and external stakeholders; lead multi-discipline teams of engineers and analysts; plan, organize, and communicate project personnel needs to department management.
Leadership: Mentor and train less experienced staff on technical and business aspects of projects and the industry; support company initiatives.
Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from an accredited program. Advanced degree is a plus such as an MBA or Engineering Management.
Minimum 7 years of related experience; working for, or providing consulting services oil, gas, and/or chemical industries including 3 or more years managing engineering or consulting projects.
Extensive knowledge of downstream refining process technologies.
Broad base of knowledge of downstream gas and chemical technologies.
General business and financial calculation knowledge, including discounted cash flow analysis, net present value analysis, and internal rate of return evaluations.
Proven ability to lead, educate, and train a team of engineers and analysts.
Effective Project Management skills.
Ability to work with existing and new clients to identify new projects, articulate to the clients our ability to perform those projects and translate that into the sale of consulting services.
Ability to communicate with various business contacts to understand their needs and translate them into a scope of work that meets their desired outcomes.
Ability to perform under pressure and tight deadlines and to be effective in on-site work environments.
Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently, including identification of critical path items to ensure deliverable deadlines are met.
Ability to focus on the big picture to effectively and efficiently provide services that meet client needs, while also having the ability to identify and analyze details that are critical to project outcomes.
Willingness to learn new service offerings as client needs and the market requires changes to the service offerings provided by our group.
Willingness and ability to develop a broad set of service offering types to allow for flexibility to go where the work is.
Willingness to cross-sell other services offered by Burns & McDonnell outside the project manager’s core set of services.
Willingness to negotiate with clients for new service agreements.
Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PPT).
Must have the ability to deal effectively with a wide variety of industry, government, and public contracts on project-related matters.
Excellent written & verbal communication skills.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Ability to travel.
This job posting will remain open a minimum of 72 hours and on an ongoing basis until filled.
EEO/Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans
Job : Engineering
Primary Location : US-MO-Kansas City
Other Locations : US-IL-Chicago
Schedule: Full-time
Travel: Yes, 25 % of the Time
About 1898 & Co. 1898 & Co. is a business, technology and security solutions consultancy where experience and foresight come together to unlock lasting advancements. We innovate today to fuel our clients’ future growth, catalyzing insights that drive smarter decisions, improve performance and maximize value. As part of Burns & McDonnell, we draw on more than 120 years of deep and broad experience in complex industries as we envision and enable the future for our clients.
Req ID: 244190
Job Hire Type : Experienced #LI-MG #E98 N/A
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