Project Lead and Scheduler

Summary

Join Sand Cherry Associates as a Project Lead for an enterprise oil and gas organization, focusing on cost tracking and analysis, schedule management, and compliance for multiple CCUS projects. Partner with Project Managers to ensure the successful execution of these projects. This new role requires at least 5 years of experience in a similar capacity and demands both leadership and technical expertise across various disciplines. The position is remote, working across US time zones, primarily Mountain or Central. Qualified candidates must meet minimum requirements and be authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship. The role involves developing processes, managing compliance, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver safe, cost-effective, and timely capital projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field along with business case experience is required
• 5+ years of project services, project lead or coordinator experience to include cost tracking and analysis, schedule management, and compliance with agreements and permits within oil and gas organizations
• Highly proficient in Excel, PPT, MS Project and able to use digital tools to improve project services performance
• Qualified candidates must meet the minimum requirements and be fully authorized to work in the United States, without requiring visa sponsorship or C2C status

Responsibilities

• Develop and own cost tracking and analysis for CCUS projects
• Develop project schedules
• Manage and ensure compliance of agreements
• Manage and ensure permits are properly issued and maintained across multiple projects
• Develop process flows, consistent standards and compliance protocols for this new role within the organization
• Support safe, cost effective and timely delivery of capital projects
• Ability to understand complex problems and ensure efficient use of resources to deliver project results
• Demonstrate safety leadership, integrity, accountability, and transparency while upholding standards, values, and culture
• Work to achieve operational targets under general supervision. Requires the ability to influence others by explaining facts, policies, and practices. Problems faced may be difficult but generally not complex. Demonstrates integrity, accountability, and transparency; upholds standards, values, and culture
• Follows established project management processes within the organization
• Develop, implement, and help manage robust and fit-for-purpose processes for identifying, screening, appraising, selecting, designing, and executing economic risk
• Establish robust, effective, and fit-for-purpose project services processes
• Document and apply lessons learned for continuous process improvement
• Ensure scope, schedule and cost controls are implemented at each project phase, working alongside project managers
• Support project managers to ensure the project’s economic model is accurate weighing risks and validating input
• Collaborate across functions such as Geology, Land, Business Development
• Develop and apply the project playbook and best practices tool kit
• Assist in managing vendor, supplier, and service providers

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA is helpful
• PMP or PMI certification is preferred
• Project Management experience utilizing PM methodology and tools. This includes project coordination, planning, scheduling, monitoring, documentation and reporting
• Minimum of 3-5 years in oil and gas industry in project, program management or consulting capacity
• Strong individual contributor experience. Exposure to carbon capture, carbon injections or carbon capture utilization and storage is preferred
• Ability to integrate, align and motivate a team of people across a common project mission
• Communication skills, setting of priorities, delegation, and performance management
• Ability to develop and deliver a complex set of competing objectives. Set high standards
• Comfortable with complexity, evolving situations and developing plans with multiple courses of action
• Knowledge of project development stages from concept definition to design and planning processes to EPC work
• Knowledge of use of stage gates, budgets and FID decision making processes
• Understand the value of interfacing and engaging Operations in project design and delivery
• Basic to moderate subsurface and wells knowledge and an understanding of engineering design processes
• Contract development, Contractor management and project contract strategies
• Construction planning and execution, project completions and commissioning process
• Understanding of natural gas industry standards, market trends, emerging issues, and regulatory requirements
• Experience working at a public company in multiple areas of the project management function
• Experience identifying, assessing, and addressing key risks; understand the risk/reward picture
• Financial management skills and experience utilizing economic models to make informed project decisions
• Proficient in Excel, PPT, MS Project and able to use digital tools to improve project performance
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic fast-paced environment and work independently or as part of a team

Benefits

• This role is a 6+ month consulting contract and the salary range is $90-125k
• Professional career growth is one of our main priorities, as we affirm that investing in our Consultants and empowering our people will also deliver the best results and value for our clients
• Our culture is one of the most friendly and communicative in the consulting industry
• Sand Cherry is not a top-heavy organization
• We offer the opportunity to be part of a digital workforce
• Our team members manage their own workloads and are expected to deliver exceptional work for our clients