Project Manager-Capex

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Join us as our new Project Manager-Capital Expenditures

Welcome to the role of Project Manager. You will directly manage capital projects or parts of capital projects to include planning and follow-up on project deliverables, schedule, scope, budget development, safety, staffing, design, procurement, installation, start-up, and project handover for CapEx projects in the Americas Region. you will routinely take responsibility for projects with CapEx costs $200K to $5M. We’re looking for a team player with project and change management experience who can easily adapt to a dynamic environment.

In this role you'll make an impact by:

• Directly manages capital projects across the Americas, overseeing planning, execution, and handover—including scope, schedule, budget (USD 200K–5M), safety, staffing, and procurement—with autonomy and strong stakeholder engagement.
• Aligning project scope across Operations teams, global colleagues, and full project team to ensure user requirements are met and solutions comply with regulations, standards, and best practices.
• Proactively managing schedule to ensure integration with the full project deliverables.
• Coordinating, supervising and directing efforts of all involved such as internal and external suppliers and resources, contractors and consultants.
• Conducting onsite construction audits to ensure safety and quality standards, fostering accountability and effective team delegation.
• Preparing regular oral and written reports of capital project progress and status. Maintain the appropriate flow of information and communication to project steering committees and other stakeholders. Facilitates monthly steering committee meetings for the key support site for CapEx projects.
• Ensuring project compliance with purchasing policies, safety and sanitation standards, and environmental regulations by providing engineering guidance and assessing impacts of process and equipment changes.
• Ensuring project documentation (e.g. as-build drawings, equipment documentation, local regulatory documentation, maintenance documentation) is updated at handover of project, and stored according to local guidelines, accessible and searchable in the future.
  
  

To succeed you must hold:

• BS in engineering discipline or related field.
• 5 years of relevant project management experience in the processing industry.
• Experience in construction of various technical objectives in manufacturing environments.
• Proven project management skills in schedule, scope and budget management.
• Project management certification or PMP a plus
• Good organizational skills and effective written and oral communication skills in both local language and English.
• Ability to travel up to 15%.
  
  

Location: (on-site-Franklinton, North Carolina)

Application Deadline: June 26, 2026

Expected Salary Range: $110,000 - $130,000

Benefits you will enjoy:

• 401(k) with up to a 9% company contribution! 
• Minimum of 3 weeks' vacation plus 12 holidays and 2 weeks of Wellness Time 
• Health, Dental, Vision & Life insurance  
• Healthcare savings account option with generous employer contribution 
• Employee assistance program 
• Parental leave 
• Tuition reimbursement 
• All benefits begin on your first day! 
  
  

Our purpose guides the way

In Novonesis, we know that solutions rooted in biology can help solve humanity’s biggest challenges. Since we began more than a century ago, this has been our guide. It’s how we've gotten so far. And it’s how we'll impact the future. Now, more than ever, the world needs change. And with biosolutions, the possibilities for transformation are endless. If our purpose resonates with you, we encourage you to apply.

Opportunities for everyone

We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process and equal opportunity for all applicants. Therefore we ask you to apply without a cover letter or photo and instead include a few sentences in your CV explaining your motivation for applying.

We make all employment decisions based on business needs and welcome candidates with a wide range of backgrounds, including ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status.

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