Construction Project Manager

Construction Project Manager

The Construction Project Manager is a highly experienced and strategic engineering leader responsible for leading the execution of a capital projects portfolio. This role focuses on site readiness for manufacturing expansion, infrastructure development, new product commercialization, and operational growth. The position entails driving the planning, execution, and integration of multiple concurrent capital programs, ensuring projects are delivered in alignment with business priorities, engineering standards, production readiness requirements, and long-term operational strategy. This role acts as a key cross-functional leader, facilitating successful project delivery and smooth transitions from capital execution to stable site operations.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive execution of multiple concurrent capital programs across site expansion, product commercialization, and infrastructure improvements.
• Establish priorities, sequencing, and resource alignment across the project portfolio.
• Ensure projects comply with applicable safety, environmental, regulatory, quality, and engineering standards.
• Ensure alignment between project delivery and production readiness requirements.
• Drive integration across Engineering, Manufacturing, Maintenance, Quality, and Supply Chain.
• Define and execute commissioning, qualification, startup, training, spare parts, maintenance plans, SOPs, staffing readiness, and operational handoff requirements.
• Ensure successful transition from project completion to stable operations.
• Lead and influence cross-functional teams as a central coordination point across internal stakeholders and external partners.
• Resolve conflicts and remove barriers to execution.
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and aligned with scope.
• Provide oversight to project managers, contractors, and vendors.
• Drive proactive risk identification and mitigation.
• Manage capital budgets, forecasts, cash flow, change controls, and cost-to-complete reporting across assigned programs.
• Support the development of capital plans, project charters, business cases, budget estimates, and investment prioritization recommendations.
• Align capital projects with long-term operational and reliability strategy.
• Ensure consistency with engineering standards and site capabilities.
• Oversee performance of external partners, including contractors, consultants, and equipment suppliers.
• Ensure effective communication and alignment with leadership.

Essential Skills

• Strong knowledge of capital project portfolio management, engineering project execution, manufacturing operations, and site readiness requirements.
• Demonstrated understanding of project budgeting, scheduling, resource planning, risk management, contractor/vendor oversight, commissioning, startup, and operational handoff.
• Familiarity with engineering standards, safety and compliance requirements, capital investment prioritization, and long-term operational reliability strategy.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in engineering, capital projects, manufacturing operations, facilities, or project/program management.
• Experience leading site expansion, infrastructure, or capacity growth projects.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams in a matrix environment and influence stakeholders without direct authority.
• Strong knowledge of project controls, scheduling, budgeting, risk management, vendor management, and capital governance processes.
• Experience in manufacturing, industrial operations, food, pharmaceutical, chemical, packaging, or regulated production environments preferred.

Work Environment

This role involves managing projects estimated to range in scope from about $500K to $50MM+. It requires expanding existing footprints at sites such as the Orangeburg site and a new site acquired in Tappan, NY. The position requires coordination across multi-year projects, construction project management, engineering, and safety. The work environment is dynamic and involves collaboration with various internal and external stakeholders to achieve successful project outcomes.

Job Type & Location

This is a Permanent position based out of Tappan, NY.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $140000.00 - $170000.00/yr.

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Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Tappan,NY.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Jul 15, 2026.

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 20,000 consultants and 5,000 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be an Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top 500 Design Firm for our engineering design services and a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® winner for both client and talent service.

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