Senior Project Manager to lead cross functional teams for the decommissioning of an industrial site

Our client is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead cross functional teams for the decommissioning of an industrial site including maintenance, operations and IT.

You’ll run point across all the teams involved, coordinating subject matter experts fromoperations, maintenance, finance, supply chain, HR, legal, environmental and corporate IT to retire systems, protect the data that must be kept, and deliver the transition on schedule.

Contract: 6 months with strong possibility of extension

Working model: % remote but preference will be given to local Calgary candidate

Must-haves

• 8+ years as a Project Manager, including leading at least one decommissioning, site closure, divestiture or carve-out project
• Experience leading stakeholder management across business units such as operations, finance, supply chain and HR, and IT including steering committee reporting
• Experience managing projects in heavy industry such as mining, fertilizer, chemicals, oil and gas or manufacturing, including plant or OT systems
• Experience managing projects that involve system retirement or data archiving
• Experience coordinating technical SMEs and third-party vendors to deliver to an integrated plan

Nice-to-haves

• PMP or PRINCE2 certification
• Experience managing OT system retirement or decoupling (SCADA, DCS, PLC)
• SAP project experience
• Experience delivering multi-site or international projects
• Exposure to network and infrastructure decommissioning
• Experience transitioning a site to care and maintenance or reclamation
• Knowledge of data retention and legal hold requirements for retired systems

Key Responsibilities

• Build and own the integrated decommissioning plan across SAP, OT, infrastructure, data and vendors
• Run point for IT SMEs and business teams by setting priorities, managing dependencies and keeping each team on schedule
• Work with operations and OT leads to confirm which systems are retired, decoupled or kept running after closure
• Coordinate with finance, supply chain and procurement on SAP closure, final postings, open orders and vendor contracts
• Work with HR and corporate IT to remove system access and accounts for exiting staff
• Work with legal and records management to define data retention and legal hold requirements
• Work with environmental, health and safety and security teams to keep the monitoring, safety and security systems needed after closure
• Run cross-team status meetings and manage the RAID log, budget and steering committee reporting
• Build a repeatable approach that can be applied to future site closures