VP of Project Engineering
Singapore
Engineering /
Full Time /
Hybrid
About Us
Ambercycle is a materials company founded in 2015 to create a circular supply chain for the apparel industry, making decarbonized raw materials across industry verticals. We're doing this by developing and deploying new technologies to increase the scope and scale of regenerated materials in the global apparel supply chain, and reduce the use of raw agricultural and petroleum resources. Our products avoid the use of new raw materials and go into the highest quality applications, exceeding the expectations of end customers with a fraction of the environmental footprint. Our success is the result of the talent, curiosity, and drive of our people. They bring solutions every day to realize our vision to improve humanity’s relationship with the material world.
The Job
As VP Project Engineering you will serve as a key focal point for project stakeholder management and stewardship. The ideal candidate will be driven, confident, and will do what it takes to ensure successful commercialization and strategic project stewardship for the capital projects portfolio. This individual will work to ensure effective decision-making and execution of our strategic priorities across the organization. You will report to the CTO, and will interface with Ambercycle key external stakeholders and internal stakeholders across the functions of the business.
Who You Might Be
You are a true builder and execution-focused leader. You are meticulous in industrialization and developing project concepts, as well as high-level stewardship through to project completion. You have a confident manner in which you prepare, present, and relay information to those inside and outside the company.
You have the perfect mix of strategic, operational, analytical, and people skills. You are a clear, confident communicator who loves taking a complicated problem, deconstructing it, and finding + implementing solutions.
Responsibilities
- Manage various stages of development in a project portfolio with project values of $100MM+.
- Define, communicate, and manage project scopes, expectations and deliverables that support Ambercycle business goals in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
- Oversee a number of scale-up related functions such as concept design, site selection, and execution.
- Project management with a focus on risk, regulatory, and environmental operability permits and compliance across Ambercycle facilities as well as with contract CMO facilities at different global locations.
- Partner with the executive team, finance, business, and commercial groups to execute a cohesive long-term strategy to enable business success.
- Travel to domestic and international company locations and facilities for meetings, training, or information gathering will be required.
- Must be available to travel up to 50%.
Minimum Qualifications
- B.S. in engineering required, mechanical, electrical or chemical focus preferred.
- Proven leader with a track record of EPC / EPCm project execution in both brownfield and greenfield capital projects.
- 15+ years of project engineering/project management experience from concept to start-up.
- Successful execution of new product and process commercialization at large company and small start-up environments with international teams involving Operations, Process Technology, Supply Chain, Procurement, Finance, and Legal.
- Project development and stewardship in large-scale industrial projects involving the manufacturing and processing of chemicals or polymers.
Preferred Qualifications
- Techno-economic analysis, trade-off studies and financial evaluation.
- Project documentation, planning, risk tracking, and management - across pre-FEED, FEED, detailed engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and startup phases.
- Must have a strong background in chemicals/polymers projects, contracts development and administration, project controls, and quality management.
- Highly capable to reach a thorough understanding of a situation, finding gaps and opportunities, in order to develop and execute the right strategy to get the required results, while communicating with all levels of the organization.
- Preference is given to individuals with extensive experience in oil and gas, downstream petrochemical, specialty chemical, polymer, and mineral processing industries.
- Must be comfortable in a fast-paced, open environment.
