Project Lead

We are building a team of trailblazers, who embody growth, impact, and excellence.

Job Description

Position Title
Lead
Pinnacle is committed to building future leaders through a dedicated career program where you are in control of your own professional journey. Whether you are interested in project management or a technical career track, we have the resources and opportunities to help you reach your goals.
At Pinnacle, our vision is to make the world reliable, one customer at a time.
What does Reliability mean to you? For Pinnacle, reliability means our customers can trust that their facilities operate when and how they are supposed to. With a focus on data, Pinnacle drives to increase safety, efficiency, and evolve facilities to an optimized state through reliability. Pinnacle serves a variety of Industries, including:
• Oil & Gas
• Food & Beverage
• Specialty & Petrochemical
• Pharmaceutical
• Mining
• Agriculture & Fertilizer
• Lumber
• Water & Wastewater
Rooted in exploration, we constantly seek innovative ways to enhance industrial reliability. By fostering team development and embracing growth, we deliver added value to customers, creating a lasting global impact. This commitment drives us to cultivate bold future leaders, continuously reshaping the understanding of reliability.
Innovation resides at the heart of our core values—excellence, impact, and growth—propelling us toward our vision.

Why Advance Your Career at Pinnacle?

Our people are our driving force, vital in realizing our goal of a more reliable world. We prioritize fostering professional growth, offering comprehensive onboarding, training, leadership programs, and continuous learning opportunities. At Pinnacle, you'll expand your horizons across disciplines, collaborating with diverse teams, and participating in the development of leading-edge solutions. Curiosity, engagement, and impact are celebrated traits here. We strive for excellence in everything and seek people who share this drive to join our team. Our collaborative work environment encourages employees to develop the tools and techniques that redefine what reliability means to the industry. 

Job Duties

• Project team achieves milestone targets through efficient execution and effective utilization
  • Tasks are assigned to team members weekly to deliver productivity and quality targets
  • Maintain project management tasks such as trackers, schedule, cost of quality, and team utilization
  • Deviations from baseline project plan are detected early and communicated to Technical Specialist and collaborate to create risk mitigation plan
• Ensure deliverable quality
  • DRDs are explained, approved, and referred to regularly to ensure continued alignment
  • Work with Technical Specialist to ensure deliverables meet project standards
  • Rework is tracked and root causes identified to ensure customer satisfaction and improve team performance
• Internal teams receive accurate, timely, and professional reporting
  • Personnel hours, costs and metrics are reported accurately weekly
  • Team members execute according to the plan and escalate to Manager when deviations or risks occur
• Team members grow professionally through effective coaching and mentoring
  • Effective weekly one-on-ones are held with each team member to provide growth opportunities
  • Detailed feedback (positive and constructive) is documented, shared timely, and provided during QPCI’s

Accountabilities 

• Achieve schedule milestones, project team efficiency targets, and deliverable acceptance to deliver per project plan
• Assign tasks, monitoring team and project performance, and updating project plans
• Improve team performance by providing feedback and coaching through day-to-day supervision of team members

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical or chemical engineering
• Minimum 7+ years working directly in a large process facility; refinery, petrochemical or chemical plant, water or wastewater treatment plant, etc.
• Experience with risk-based inspection, reliability centered maintenance, and/or other reliability programs and methodologies

• Project Management Fundamentals: ability to effectively deliver the statement of work per customer expectations.
• Exceptional business acumen and communication
• Capable of evaluating resource needs and working with the Project Manager to communicate these needs or changes in needs
• Effective at communicating clear expectations, tasks, and procedures to team members, and project status updates, needs, and alerts to customer
• Capable of performing quality checks on task work; record progress, productivity, and quality
• High sense of urgency
• Problem solver

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP certification
• API 580 certification
• API 571 certification
• API 510 certification
• API 570 certification
• API 653 certification
• Proficiency in Microsoft Project
• Microsoft Office Suite
  • Intermediate excel skills
  • PowerBI
  • Teams