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Job Description

OPAL Fuels, an industry leader in Renewable Natural Gas and Renewable Energy, has an immediate need for a Director of Preconstruction. This role is responsible for providing leadership for the preliminary planning and engineering services prior to completion of a financial investment recommendation for construction of Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) and other major projects. The role will provide the necessary project development support to adequately define the project, identify potential challenges, develop a comprehensive schedule, estimating co-directs in coordination with the project management team, and analyzing the specific requirements of the project, ensuring a smooth hand-off between origination and construction organization. Incumbent can reside anywhere in the continental United States with a manageable commute to a major commercial airport as this position will have overnight travel responsibilities. The ideal candidate will have related experience with process plant / process piping projects in Oil & Gas, Refinery, Chemical Process, Biogas, and other related process facility projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical development of the schedule and budget in coordination with the origination and project management team.
• Accurately scope and coordinate estimate development.
• Lead development of the Project Financing memo and supporting documentation
•  Develop initial Engineering Request for Proposal (RFP)
• Lead early development activities for each project including permitting, preliminary engineering and equipment selection, utility service “Will serve letters” or proposals, coordinate local AHJ meetings and land use approvals.
• Establish an initial project cash-flow curve in coordination with the project management team
• Monitor, control, and report engineering performance against budget and schedule for their designated area of responsibility.
• Manage external and internal engineering activities to ensure compliance with the scope of work (services and facilities) and quality objectives of the project. Specifically:
• Ensuring that the entire project team is executing to the initially agreed facility plus approved changes (via project change management) to the facility
• Ensuring that the entire project team is producing the deliverables initially agreed to in the manner (quality, level of detail, format, file type, etc.) initially agreed to plus any approved changes (via project change management) to the deliverable set and/or content.
• Initial coordination of document control plans between all parties involved in the project and enforcement of the plans through execution
• Lead and coordinate all technical reviews within the project for their designated area of responsibility.
• Coordinate between origination, engineering, procurement, and project management for their designated area of responsibility.
• Enforce and facilitate the management of project change process.
• Assist with development of design change notices.
• Assist with the development and approval of engineering queries. Overall responsibility for technical integrity of engineering deliverables.
• Enforce the management of change process within the project team.
• Ensure sufficient and competent engineering resources to meet the schedule and scope of work.
• Assist in evaluation of proposed changes.
• Ensure project standards and procedures are in place during the project.
• Ensure that lessons learned are implemented and captured on the project.

Job Qualifications

• Ten plus years of industrial scale project management experience.
• Experience working on gas processing projects such as RNG, gas transmission and compression, gas treating, air separation, LNG, CNG, hydrogen, or related.
• Four-year technical/engineering degree from an accredited educational institution, preferred but not required.
• PMP certification preferred but not required.
• Must be able to adapt and pivot in response to changes on a day-to-day basis.
• Demonstrable skills and experience with Autodesk Construction Cloud, Procore, Primavera, or MS Project.
• Strong understanding of project controls and contract management. Experience managing projects with CAPEX greater than $50MM.
• Ability to manage concurrent projects in multiple states.
• Approximately 30% of the travel is normally overnight, but during plant commissioning, your presence may be required on-site daily.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
• A strong candidate will have an existing network of vendors, consultants, and contractors throughout the US and be able to deploy those resources to support the overall goals of the Upstream Construction group.
• Can reside anywhere in the mainland USA near a major commercial airport.
• Must have appropriate experience within the United States.

The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Candidate must be able to inspect all areas of jobsite, in all types of weather; this may include walking, climbing, reaching, bending, crawling, or stretching. Candidate must be able to speak and hear at normal levels, see with close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and have the ability to adjust focus. Individuals must be able to use hands and fingers to operate tools, motorized equipment, and other construction equipment. Must be able to lift/and or move up to 50 lbs.

How to apply

https://opalfuels.com/careers/#toggle-20