What are the responsibilities and job description for the Regional Project Manager position at MLC (formerly Mississippi Lime)?
Why consider a career at MLC?
- Highly collaborative work environment focused on growth and innovation
- Safety and sustainability are top priorities
- Excellent compensation, benefits, generous perks; focused on employee wellbeing
- Great development and advancement opportunities
- Bring your real self to work, come grow with us!
MLC operates the largest lime facility in the Americas and mines some of the purest limestone reserves in the world…and we just went global! The company is committed to development and employee satisfaction. Join our outstanding team!
About the Job - Located in Verona, KY:
The Regional Plant Project Manager role is assigned to support all regional plants and terminals in the company. The Project Engineer supplies support for capital spending, major outages, and minor maintenance projects in that area. They work closely with the Director of Regional Operations and specific plant managers/leaders to study the feasibility of spending capital on projects, generate cost estimates / budgets for each project, navigate and expedite projects through the capital approval project, and help the areas plan and justify their capital spending.
Essential Functions:
- Manage all aspects of a multiple projects, including schedule, budget, scope, and communication, and prepare project status reports. Present project status to upper management.
- Manage engineering firms and able to review their drawings and calculations.
- Project justification (Quickly perform preliminary feasibility studies. Perform ROI calculations with minimal input from finance), implementation, and execution are the primary functions of the role
- Provide timely feedback to stakeholders on project costs and schedules.
- Project Execution and Close
- Develop systems to train and transfer support of plant requirements to operators and supervisors to improve operating discipline to begin cost savings/improvement projects.
- Ensures product and process compliance with all MSHA requirements.
- Project Implementation
Requirements:
- Education: Minimum 4 Year STEM Bachelor’s Degree required (Mech. Eng. Preferred)
- Certifications: None
- Skills: Respond decisively to emergencies and exercise sound judgment in problem-solving.
- Abilities: Ability to effectively communicate with all functional groups and through all MLC Personnel & Management levels. Utilizes project management and other engineering tools to optimize project execution.
- Behaviors: Action Oriented, Composure, Customer Focus, Managing Diversity, Ethics, and Values, Informing, Integrity and Trust, Peer Relationships, Priority Setting, Time Management, Dealing with Ambiguity, Approachability, Creativity, Decision Quality, Functional/Technical Skills, Innovation Management, Intellectual Horsepower, Learning on the Fly, Listening, Perseverance, Problem Solving, Drive For Results, Technical Learning, and Written Communication.
- Able to travel 30% of the time.
The Fine Print
Benefits and perquisites may vary based on the nature and location of each job.
About MLC
- MLC, headquartered in St. Louis, Mo., is a leading global supplier of high-calcium lime products and technical solutions. These offerings bring essential performance and value to a broad range of market applications, including metals, construction, chemical synthesis, water and emissions treatment, glass, textiles, plastics, rubber, agriculture, foods and beverages. With over a century in business, MLC has built a reputation on the quality of its products and services, as well as an unwavering commitment to safety, sustainability and service. The company’s expanding global footprint includes a diversified, reliable network of production and distribution facilities in the U.S., as well as in the UK through our Singleton Birch business. For more information, visit www.mlc.com.
