Senior Capital Projects Portfolio Manager
Location: Pryor, Oklahoma
Why Pryor, OK?
Set against the backdrop of a welcoming small-town atmosphere, Pryor offers an exceptional quality of life with its tight-knit community, excellent schools, and abundance of outdoor activities. Plus, its proximity to the vibrant city of Tulsa adds an extra layer of excitement, making Pryor the ideal place to both advance your career and enjoy a fulfilling lifestyle. Join us in this dynamic city and be part of a community that values progress, resilience, and collective success. If you're ready to embark on an exciting career journey filled with purpose, growth, and fulfillment, LSB Industries welcomes you with open arms. Come to Pryor, OK, and let's transform chemistry into opportunity together. Join us, and let's create a future where every bond we forge is built to last.
Discover your potential with LSB Industries. Apply now and unlock endless possibilities!
POSITION SUMMARY
The Senior Capital Projects Portfolio Manager, who will report to the Plant General Manger, is responsible for the development, governance, prioritization, and execution of the Pryor site's capital and major expense project portfolio from initial opportunity identification through project closeout and operational handover.
This role is accountable for establishing strong project management discipline, portfolio visibility, cost and schedule control, and predictable project delivery. The position leads the site project engineering team and works closely with Operations, Maintenance, EH&S, Finance, Procurement, and corporate functions to ensure projects are properly developed, authorized, executed, and integrated into the operating facility.
The successful candidate will combine strong operating-plant experience with project execute on expertise and the ability to build a disciplined project management organization. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring significant field presence and the ability to simultaneously manage the overall portfolio, challenge individual projects, and develop engineering capability.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Capital Portfolio Management & Governance
-
Own and maintain the site's complete capital and major expense project portfolio, providing clear visibility of project scope, business justification, priority, budget, forecast, schedule, risks, resources, and status.
-
Establish and maintain a consistent project development and execution process from concept through engineering, authorization, execution, commissioning, startup, and closeout.
-
Ensure appropriate stage-gate reviews are completed and that projects have sufficient scope definition, engineering maturity, cost estimates, schedules, risk assessments, and execution plans before progressing.
-
Partner with site leadership to prioritize projects based on safety, regulatory requirements, reliability, production impact, financial return, and strategic importance.
-
Identify resource constraints and recommend portfolio sequencing and resource allocation.
-
Establish effective portfolio reporting and review processes, including weekly project performance reporting and monthly management portfolio reviews.
-
Ensure lessons learned from completed projects are systematically captured and incorporated into future project development and execution.
Project Execution
-
Provide project and engineering oversight for projects from initial concept through successful operational handover.
-
Directly lead or provide senior oversight for significant, complex, or high-risk projects.
-
Ensure projects have clearly defined scope, deliverables, responsibilities, execution strategies, schedules, cost estimates, and risk management plans.
-
Ensure project teams understand critical path activities, milestones, risks, and required management decisions.
-
Lead the technical interface between Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, EH&S, Procurement, Finance, contractors, engineering firms, and equipment suppliers.
-
Ensure projects meet applicable engineering standards, regulatory requirements, process safety requirements, Management of Change requirements, and site operating standards.
-
Ensure appropriate commissioning, startup, documentation, training, and operational handover are incorporated into project execution.
-
Actively support turnaround planning and execution for projects requiring plant outages or turnaround integration.
Project Controls & Financial Management
-
Establish strong cost and schedule control across the project portfolio.
-
Develop and maintain credible project budgets, commitments, actual costs, estimates-to-complete, and forecasts-at-completion.
-
Partner with Finance and Procurement to ensure project financial information is accurate, reconciled, and understood.
-
Ensure project forecasts are routinely updated and significant deviations are identified and escalated early.
-
Maintain appropriate project contingencies and ensure their use is transparent and controlled.
-
Establish disciplined management of project scope changes, change orders, and contractor claims.
-
Ensure changes affecting project scope, cost, or schedule are identified, evaluated, documented, and authorized before execution whenever practicable.
-
Ensure significant projects maintain appropriate baseline schedules, milestone plans, and critical-path visibility.
-
Drive timely financial and administrative closeout of completed projects.
Engineering & Team Leadership
-
Lead, coach, and develop the site project engineering team.
-
Establish clear expectations, responsibilities, and performance standards for engineers and project managers.
-
Develop the project management capability of plant engineers, including project definition, estimating, scheduling, cost control, contractor management, risk management, commissioning, and closeout.
-
Assign engineering and project resources based on project priorities, complexity, risk, and individual capability.
-
Provide technical and project management coaching while maintaining clear accountability for results.
-
Manage team performance and support individual development and succession planning.
-
Promote strong collaboration between Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, EH&S, Finance, and Procurement.
Contractor & Supplier Management
-
Manage engineering contractors, construction contractors, technology providers, and equipment suppliers supporting site projects.
-
Develop appropriate contracting and execution strategies based on project scope, complexity, risk, and internal capability.
-
Ensure contractor scope, commercial terms, deliverables, schedules, and performance expectations are clearly defined.
-
Monitor contractor cost, schedule, quality, safety, productivity, and overall performance.
-
Challenge contractor estimates, change orders, schedule impacts, and commercial claims as appropriate.
-
Develop strong working relationships with key engineering firms, contractors, OEMs, and technology suppliers while maintaining appropriate commercial discipline.
Operational & Technical Integration
-
Develop a strong working knowledge of the Pryor manufacturing processes and understand how proposed projects interact with existing operating units.
-
Maintain frequent presence in the operating areas and engage directly with Operations, Maintenance, EH&S, and engineering personnel.
-
Ensure projects solve the underlying business or operational problem and deliver the intended performance improvement.
-
Provide broad multidisciplinary engineering leadership across mechanical, piping, rotating equipment, fixed equipment, civil/structural, electrical, instrumentation, and controls.
-
Effectively challenge technical recommendations and engage appropriate specialists when deeper discipline expertise is required.
-
Participate in site operating, reliability, turnaround, capital planning, budget, and management review meetings as required.
Key Measures of Success
Success in this role will include:
-
Complete and accurate visibility of the site's capital and major expense project portfolio.
-
Consistent application of project development and stage-gate requirements.
-
Improved predictability of project cost, schedule, and operational outcomes.
-
Timely identification and escalation of project risks and deviations.
-
Accurate capital forecasting and reconciliation of budgets, commitments, actuals, and forecasts.
-
Reduction in uncontrolled scope changes, cost overruns, schedule delays, and late project surprises.
-
Effective prioritization of capital resources against site business needs.
-
Timely project commissioning, operational handover, and financial closeout.
-
Improved project management capability across the site engineering organization.
-
Strong working relationships between Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, EH&S, Finance, and Procurement.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Minimum Required
-
Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
-
Minimum 15 years of progressively responsible experience in engineering, capital projects, turnarounds, reliability, or operations within an industrial manufacturing environment.
-
Significant project management experience in an operating chemical, petrochemical, refining, fertilizer, or similar process manufacturing facility.
-
Demonstrated successful execution of complex brownfield capital projects within operating production facilities.
-
Demonstrated experience managing multiple concurrent projects and/or a significant capital portfolio.
-
Strong understanding of project development, engineering, estimating, scheduling, procurement, construction, commissioning, and startup.
-
Strong understanding of project financial management, including budgets, commitments, actuals, forecasting, contingency, change management, and forecast-at-completion.
-
Experience managing engineering and construction contractors and equipment suppliers.
-
Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and develop engineers and project professionals.
-
Broad multidisciplinary engineering knowledge and the ability to effectively challenge engineering and contractor recommendations.
-
Strong organizational, analytical, interpersonal, and communication skills.
-
Ability to communicate candidly and effectively from the plant floor through senior management.
-
Demonstrated bias for action, sense of urgency, accountability, integrity, and commitment to results.
-
Fluent in English.
Preferred
-
15+ years of experience in chemical, petrochemical, refining, fertilizer, or similar continuous-process manufacturing.
-
Owner/operator experience managing brownfield capital projects and portfolios.
-
Experience managing a significant annual capital portfolio and multiple simultaneous projects.
-
Experience establishing or improving project governance, project controls, or portfolio management systems within an operating facility.
-
Experience supporting major plant turnarounds and outage projects.
-
Experience with FEL/stage-gate project development methodologies.
-
Professional Engineer (PE), Project Management Professional (PMP), or equivalent professional certification.
-
Experience with project scheduling, cost-control, portfolio-management, and ERP systems.
Leadership Profile
The successful candidate will be a hands-on project and engineering leader who combines technical credibility with strong business and financial discipline.
The individual should be comfortable entering an organization where processes and project maturity may require improvement and be capable of establishing structure without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
The ideal candidate:
-
Creates clarity and accountability.
-
Challenges assumptions and poor project definition.
-
Identifies problems early rather than reporting them late.
-
Is comfortable making decisions with imperfect information while appropriately managing risk.
-
Maintains high standards for project controls and financial discipline.
-
Works effectively in the field as well as in management reviews.
-
Builds strong relationships while being willing to challenge peers, contractors, and leadership when necessary.
-
Develops people rather than becoming the bottleneck for every technical or project decision.
-
Understands that successful projects are measured by sustainable operating results, not simply mechanical completion.
Working Conditions
-
Time will be spent in both office and operating plant environments.
-
Frequent field presence throughout the facility is expected.
-
Work areas may include high-noise, high-temperature, low-light, indoor, and outdoor environments in varying weather conditions.
-
The position requires willingness to work around chemicals, dust, high-pressure and high-temperature equipment, loud noise, and operating machinery.
-
Required PPE may include hard hat, safety glasses, gloves, steel-toed footwear, hearing protection, respiratory protection and flame-resistant clothing where applicable.
-
Some travel may be required to support projects, suppliers, engineering firms, contractors, and other LSB facilities.
Safety & Security
This safety- and security-sensitive role is based in a chemical manufacturing facility that handles hazardous materials and industrial processes that may present risks to employees and the public. The facility complies with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) CFATS security standards under 6 CFR Part 27.
The Senior Capital Projects Portfolio Manager must provide visible safety leadership and ensure process safety, occupational safety, environmental compliance, and operational risk management are integrated into every stage of project development and execution.
