As we create a colorful, capable and cleaner world through chemistry, we invite you to join our team to harness the power of chemistry to shape markets, redefine industries and improve lives for billions of people around the world. The Global Program Director - Project Execution is the senior enterprise leader accountable for the successful execution of Chemours major capital projects with a Total Installed Cost (TIC) of $15 million USD and greater across all Chemours sites globally. The role leads the site-level project execution organizations responsible for delivering these investments and has overall authority for Chemours direct-hire project personnel and contracted execution resources, including EPC/EPCM firms, construction managers, engineering partners, consultants, general contractors, and specialty contractors.
The position provides leadership across the complete project lifecycle - project development, engineering, procurement, construction, mechanical completion, commissioning, startup, and operational turnover - and is accountable for safe, predictable delivery against approved scope, cost, schedule, quality, operability, and business objectives.
The Global Program Director serves as the senior execution interface with Business Leadership, Manufacturing, Site Leadership, Engineering, Procurement, Finance, EHS, Operations, Technology, and executive management.
Enterprise Scope & Accountability
- Provide enterprise leadership and accountability for execution of all Chemours capital projects exceeding $15M TIC, regardless of business unit or site.
- Lead the project execution organizations assigned to major capital projects at the site level, including Project Directors, Project Managers, Construction Managers, Engineering Managers, Project Controls, Procurement/contracting resources, commissioning/startup personnel, and other assigned direct-hire resources.
- Exercise overall execution authority for EPC/EPCM organizations, construction-management firms, engineering partners, consultants, general contractors, and specialty contractors supporting project delivery.
- Establish project organizations, assign key leadership, adjust resources, replace underperforming personnel or contractors, and direct corrective or recovery actions when required.
- Ensure each project has the leadership structure, technical capability, controls, commercial strategy, contracting model, and execution resources necessary for successful delivery.
Major Capital Project Execution
- Establish and enforce enterprise project-execution standards, governance, stage-gate expectations, and performance requirements from FEL through startup and turnover.
- Approve or provide executive review of project execution plans, organizational structures, contracting strategies, construction plans, integrated schedules, cost forecasts, risk plans, contractor selections, commissioning strategies, and recovery plans.
- Ensure constructability, procurement strategy, construction planning, resource loading, outage integration, commissioning requirements, and Operations involvement are incorporated early in project development.
- Lead executive project reviews and communicate project health, forecast, key risks, decisions required, and corrective actions to senior company leadership.
- Intervene directly when safety, cost, schedule, quality, commercial, contractor, or operational-readiness performance is at risk.
Financial, Schedule & Commercial Accountability
- Maintain enterprise-level accountability for predictable execution of a portfolio of major capital investments and ensure projects are managed to approved authorization, scope, cost, schedule, quality, safety, and business objectives.
- Oversee project forecasting, contingency management, schedule performance, productivity, change management, contractor claims, earned value, and financial exposure.
- Partner with Project Controls, Finance, Procurement, and Legal to maintain reliable forecasts, strengthen commercial outcomes, and resolve significant claims, disputes, and contractor-performance issues.
- Direct recovery programs for projects experiencing significant cost, schedule, technical, commercial, or execution challenges.
Organizational Leadership & Authority
- Build, lead, deploy, and develop a high-performing global project-execution organization capable of delivering Chemours' largest and most complex capital investments.
- Own selection, performance, development, succession, and deployment of project execution leaders and key project personnel.
- Establish performance expectations for both Chemours employees and contracted organizations, including safety, quality, productivity, cost, schedule, commercial performance, and leadership behaviors.
- Develop strategic relationships with key engineering, construction, technology, and professional-services partners supporting the global capital portfolio.
- Strengthen organizational capability through standardized work processes, lessons learned, talent development, succession planning, and project-execution communities of practice.
Safety, Quality & Operational Readiness
- Establish an uncompromising culture of safety across the project organization and contractor workforce, with authority to stop, delay, or restructure execution when unacceptable risk exists.
- Ensure robust systems for construction safety, process safety, contractor management, quality assurance, mechanical integrity, regulatory compliance, mechanical completion, commissioning, and startup readiness.
- Ensure completed assets are safe, reliable, maintainable, operable, and capable of achieving the approved business case before final turnover to Operations.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related technical discipline; advanced technical or business degree preferred.
- 20+ years of progressively responsible experience in capital-project execution, engineering, construction, manufacturing, or major program leadership.
- Extensive experience delivering large, technically complex capital projects in chemicals, petrochemicals, specialty materials, pharmaceuticals, energy, refining, advanced manufacturing, or comparable process industries.
- Demonstrated leadership of major capital projects exceeding $15M TIC, with substantial experience on projects in the hundreds of millions of dollars and/or responsibility for a multi-project capital portfolio.
- Demonstrated experience leading geographically dispersed project teams and both direct-hire and contractor organizations.
- Strong experience with global capital governance, FEL/stage-gate methodologies, EPC/EPCM execution, project controls, contracting strategy, construction management, cost/schedule recovery, claims/change management, commissioning, startup, brownfield projects, shutdowns, and operational tie-ins.
- International or multi-region capital-project leadership experience strongly preferred.
Leadership Requirements
- Executive-level leadership, decision-making, and communication capability with the ability to influence across a highly matrixed global organization. Proven ability to lead large multidisciplinary organizations consisting of employees, EPC/EPCM teams, consultants, and construction contractors. Strong financial, commercial, contractual, and risk-management judgment with the ability to make high-value decisions under uncertainty.
- Demonstrated ability to challenge project assumptions, lead distressed-project recoveries, resolve complex execution issues, and hold internal and external teams accountable.
- Strong organizational-development, succession-planning, and talent-development capability.
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Pay Range (in local currency):
$177,811.00 - $277,830.00
Chemours Level:
30
Annual Bonus Target:
27% Annual Stock Amount 65,000.00 USD The pay range and incentives listed above is a general guideline based on the primary location of this job only and not a guarantee of total compensation. Factors considered in extending a compensation offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, and alignment with market data. The incentive pay is dependent on business results and individual performance and subject to the terms and conditions of the specific plans.
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