Senior Project Manager

Founded over 35 years ago, First Quality is a family-owned company that has grown from a small business in McElhattan, Pennsylvania into a group of companies, employing over 5,000 team members, while maintaining our family values and entrepreneurial spirit. With corporate offices in New York and Pennsylvania and 8 manufacturing campuses across the U.S. and Canada, the companies within the First Quality group produce high-quality personal care and household products for large retailers and healthcare organizations. Our personal care and household product portfolio includes baby diapers, wipes, feminine pads, paper towels, bath tissue, adult incontinence products, laundry detergents, fabric finishers, and dishwash solutions. In addition, we manufacture certain raw materials and components used in the manufacturing of these products, including flexible print and packaging solutions.

Guided by our values of humility, unity, and integrity, we leverage advanced technology and innovation to drive growth and create new opportunities. At First Quality, you’ll find a collaborative environment focused on continuous learning, professional development, and our mission to Make Things Better®.

We are seeking a Senior Project Manager for our First Quality P&P located in Anderson, SC. This position will lead the planning, execution, and commissioning of capital projects, including new facility construction, facility expansions, and equipment installations. This role requires deep expertise in fire codes, international building codes, labor and industry standards, insurance company expectations, and National Electrical Code (NEC) guidelines. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience managing contractors, with the ability to serve as a general contractor when needed and will support the company’s organic and inorganic growth objectives

Primary responsibilities include:

• Overall management inclusive of services scope definition, design deliverables prioritization, constructability, reviews and approvals, engaging end-users, ensuring complete close-out documentation, administration of agreement terms and conditions.

• Support geographic expansion by leading facility construction and retrofit projects in new and existing markets.

• Manage and coordinate interface between Engineering and Division Procurement for the purchase of equipment and bulk materials.

• Manage construction contract procurement by the Project Team inclusive of RFP preparation, bid process, post bid verification and award recommendation.

• Responsible and accountable for all contracted vendors/contractors and their deliverables.

• Overall management of Project Team personnel, ramp-up and down of third party personnel, recruitment as necessary, administration of HR related issues.

• Provides direction, supervision and development to all direct reports, ensures that all project team members receive clear direction, feedback and development

• Overall responsibility for Construction Site Safety inclusive of program enhancements, implementation and enforcement.

• Overall management of the Quality program ensuring incorporation of previous projects lessons learned, ensuring quality is built-in from the beginning and continuous improvement in processes to meet the high standards of First Quality.

• Overall management of the Construction Check-Out process inclusive of system boundaries definition, flushing, testing and complete check-out with required documentation.

• Ensure a complete installation is turned over to Operations in a sequential manner to support Operational Check-Out and Start-Up.

• Schedule - Overall management of planning, scheduling and progress measurement processes for all project phases.

• Cost - Overall management of estimating/budgeting, value engineering, cost management, change control, forecasting and reporting processes

• Project Controls processes and tools shall ensure accurate project status communication and timely completions to support end-user requirements.

• Reports regularly to senior leadership on project status and works closely with production leadership to ensure accurate installation and application.

The ideal candidate should possess the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field.

• Project Management experience with 15+ years of successful expertise.

• Large greenfield project experience, including experience leading at least $75M+ manufacturing projects; experience with campus builds (multiple buildings) preferred

• Vast construction a