Oil, Gas & Chemical Consulting Emerging Energy Advisory Project Manager – 1898 & Co. (Chicago)

Description

1898 & Co. is a global business, technology and security consultancy serving critical infrastructure industries. We partner with clients to plan, secure, and optimize their business. As part of Burns & McDonnell and our 120 years of industry experience, we understand the complexity inherent to asset-intensive business models, the trends impacting the industries we serve, and the need to ground big ideas in operational realities. 1898 & Co. has the feel of a start-up, with the support of Burns & McDonnell’s endless resources. It’s what makes us unselfish collaborators. We proactively walk the talk to create bigger opportunities through sharing, communicating, and candidness. We are energy-givers who maintain a broader view of success, prioritizing others’ needs and goals in addition to our own. With possibilities powered by experience, our purpose is to serve a brighter future. Are you ready to be a part of it?

The Emerging Energy Advisory (EEA) business line is part of the Energy & Utilities Consulting (EUC) Practice, which provides strategic advice and support to help clients manage and optimize their energy and utility operations. Like all 1898 & Co. business lines, EEA aligns its strategy to fulfill the overarching purpose of 1898 & Co., to create value for its customers, and to resonate with its staff who are accountable for executing the strategy. EEA helps clients achieve their decarbonization and sustainability goals with focus on clean pathways to converting “chemical” energy to thermal and electrical energy. Hydrogen, sustainable aviation fuel, renewable natural gas, e-methanol, green ammonia, and electrofuels are all vying to become enduring sources of chemical energy. The enduring sources will offer low levelized costs of production, be readily scalable, and have ample feedstock. EEA supports the master planning of “chemical energy” transition, which integrates an optimized power mix, process technology, policy, and proforma. Our team blends business, financial and technical know-how with industry experience to deliver solutions that work.

A Project Manager within EEA is tasked to strike the right balance of business development (e.g., client relationships, strategic partnerships, etc.), sales, mentoring, and study/project execution. The Project Manager must work with oil, gas, and chemical clients but also clients in adjacent industries including agriculture and power. Project Managers are seller-doers, conducting marketing & sales activities and executing projects. A Project Manager directly engages clients to identify new work, prepares proposals, establishes project objectives, formulates project approaches, and oversees a team of consultants and engineers to meet the study objectives and provides clients with valuable and actionable deliverables. The Project Manager displays grit in their leadership role and quality in the work they deliver. They are confident and willing to take it to the next level.

Responsibilities:

• The Project Manager will be responsible for, and manage, all aspects of projects from business development, scope and fee development, staffing plan development, project oversight and execution, quality management, and financial performance responsibilities. The project manager will support and lead both on-the-job and classroom training efforts for less experienced team members. Key responsibilities will include:
• Business development: Develop new, and manage existing, client relationships through client marketing and project interactions; identify new sales opportunities with clients; lead all aspects of proposal development and submission including project planning, budgeting, and scheduling; establish critical project objectives and performances with clients; lead contract preparation and negotiations.
• Project execution: Lead all aspects of project execution including scope, schedule, and budget; ensure quality control of deliverables; analyze and communicate project status, risks, schedule, and costs to all internal and external stakeholders; lead multi-discipline teams of engineers and analysts; plan, organize, and communicate project personnel needs to department management.
• Leadership: Mentor and train less experienced staff on technical and business aspects of projects and the industry; serve as a recognized industry leader in power generation planning and evaluation; support company initiatives.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in engineering or related field from an accredited program. Advanced degree is a plus such as an MBA or Engineering Management.
• Minimum 5 years of related experience; working for, or providing consulting services to oil, gas, and/or chemical industries including 3 or more years managing engineering or consulting projects.
• Broad base of knowledge of emerging energies, specifically regarding the power mix, hydrogen production (both via power and natural gas), storage and logistics, and the varied hydrogen demand centers including renewable transportation fuels, ammonia, methanol, electrofuels, etc., is preferred.
• General business and financial calculation knowledge, including discounted cash flow analysis, net present value analysis, and internal rate of return evaluations.
• Proven ability to lead, educate, and train a team of engineers and analysts.
• General business and financial calculation knowledge.
• Effective Project Management skills.
• Ability to work with existing and new clients to identify new projects, articulate to the clients our ability to perform those projects and translate that into the sale of consulting services.
• Ability to communicate with various business contacts to understand their needs and translate them into a scope of work that meets their desired outcomes.
• Ability to perform under pressure and tight deadlines and to be effective in on-site work environments.
• Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently, including identification of critical path items to ensure deliverable deadlines are met.
• Ability to focus on the big picture to effectively and efficiently provide services that meet client needs, while also having the ability to identify and analyze details that are critical to project outcomes.
• Willingness to learn new service offerings as client needs and the market requires changes to the service offerings provided by our group.
• Willingness and ability to develop a broad set of service offering types to allow for flexibility to go where the work is.
• Willingness to cross-sell other services offered by Burns & McDonnell outside the project manager’s core set of services.
• Willingness to negotiate with clients for new service agreements.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PPT).
• Must have the ability to deal effectively with a wide variety of industry, government, and public contracts on project-related matters.
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to travel.

This job posting will remain open a minimum of 72 hours and on an ongoing basis until filled.

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