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 an experienced Senior Project Manager for our First Quality Tissue Division located in Defiance, Ohio, site for a new state-of the art tissue manufacturing complex.

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.

• 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.

Managerial & Leadership Skills:

Action Oriented – Takes an enthusiastic approach to the job, is energetic and action oriented for the role’s challenges, demonstrates insight, courage and a bias for decisiveness, recognizes and acts upon opportunities when they arise.

Approachability – Is approachable and amiable, invests the extra effort to put others at ease, can be warm, pleasant, and gracious. Is sensitive to and patient with the interpersonal anxieties of others, builds rapport, listens actively, is an early knower, working with informal and incomplete information in time to take appropriate action.

Compassion – Genuinely cares about people, conveys sincere concern, is available and ready to help, empathetic to employees and their situations.

Customer Focus – Understands and responds to the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; effectively mines for data and information and uses it f