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The role leads the site-level project execution organizations responsible for delivering these investments and has overall authority for Chemours direct-hire project personnel and contracted execution resources, including EPC/EPCM firms, construction managers, engineering partners, consultants, general contractors, and specialty contractors.\nThe position provides leadership across the complete project lifecycle - project development, engineering, procurement, construction, mechanical completion, commissioning, startup, and operational turnover - and is accountable for safe, predictable delivery against approved scope, cost, schedule, quality, operability, and business objectives.\nThe Global Program Director serves as the senior execution interface with Business Leadership, Manufacturing, Site Leadership, Engineering,\nProcurement, Finance, EHS, Operations, Technology, and executive management.\nEnterprise Scope & Accountability\n Provide enterprise leadership and accountability for execution of all Chemours capital projects exceeding $15M TIC, regardless of business unit or site. \nLead the project execution organizations assigned to major capital projects at the site level, including Project Directors, Project Managers, Construction Managers, Engineering Managers, Project Controls, Procurement/contracting resources, commissioning/startup personnel, and other assigned direct-hire resources. \nExercise overall execution authority for EPC/EPCM organizations, construction-management firms, engineering partners, consultants, general contractors, and specialty contractors supporting project delivery. \nEstablish project organizations, assign key leadership, adjust resources, replace underperforming personnel or contractors, and direct corrective or recovery actions when required. \nEnsure each project has the leadership structure, technical capability, controls, commercial strategy, contracting model, and execution resources necessary for successful delivery. \nMajor Capital Project Execution\nEstablish and enforce enterprise project-execution standards, governance, stage-gate expectations, and performance requirements from FEL through startup and turnover. \nApprove or provide executive review of project execution plans, organizational structures, contracting strategies, construction plans, integrated schedules, cost forecasts, risk plans, contractor selections, commissioning strategies, and recovery plans. \nEnsure constructability, procurement strategy, construction planning, resource loading, outage integration, commissioning requirements, and Operations involvement are incorporated early in project development. \n Lead executive project reviews and communicate project health, forecast, key risks, decisions required, and corrective actions to senior company leadership. \nIntervene directly when safety, cost, schedule, quality, commercial, contractor, or operational-readiness performance is at risk. \n\nFinancial, Schedule & Commercial Accountability\nMaintain enterprise-level accountability for predictable execution of a portfolio of major capital investments and ensure projects are managed to approved authorization, scope, cost, schedule, quality, safety, and business objectives. \nOversee project forecasting, contingency management, schedule performance, productivity, change management, contractor claims, earned value, and financial exposure. \n Partner with Project Controls, Finance, Procurement, and Legal to maintain reliable forecasts, strengthen commercial outcomes, and resolve significant claims, disputes, and contractor-performance issues. \nDirect recovery programs for projects experiencing significant cost, schedule, technical, commercial, or execution challenges.\nOrganizational Leadership & Authority\nBuild, lead, deploy, and develop a high-performing global project-execution organization capable of delivering Chemours' largest and most complex capital investments. \nOwn selection, performance, development, succession, and deployment of project execution leaders and key project personnel. \nEstablish performance expectations for both Chemours employees and contracted organizations, including safety, quality, productivity, cost, schedule, commercial performance, and leadership behaviors. \nDevelop strategic relationships with key engineering, construction, technology, and professional-services partners supporting the global capital portfolio. \nStrengthen organizational capability through standardized work processes, lessons learned, talent development, succession planning, and project-execution communities of practice. \nSafety, Quality & Operational Readines s\nEstablish an uncompromising culture of safety across the project organization and contractor workforce, with authority to stop, delay, or restructure execution when unacceptable risk exists. \nEnsure robust systems for construction safety, process safety, contractor management, quality assurance, mechanical integrity, regulatory compliance, mechanical completion, commissioning, and startup readiness. \nEnsure completed assets are safe, reliable, maintainable, operable, and capable of achieving the approved business case before final turnover to Operations.\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related technical discipline; advanced technical or business degree preferred. \n20+ years of progressively responsible experience in capital-project execution, engineering, construction, manufacturing, or major program leadership. \nExtensive experience delivering large, technically complex capital projects in chemicals, petrochemicals, specialty materials, pharmaceuticals, energy, refining, advanced manufacturing, or comparable process industries. \nDemonstrated leadership of major capital projects exceeding $15M TIC, with substantial experience on projects in the hundreds of millions of dollars and/or responsibility for a multi-project capital portfolio. \nDemonstrated experience leading geographically dispersed project teams and both direct-hire and contractor organizations. \nStrong experience with global capital governance, FEL/stage-gate methodologies, EPC/EPCM execution, project controls, contracting strategy, construction management, cost/schedule recovery, claims/change management, commissioning, startup, brownfield projects, shutdowns, and operational tie-ins. \nInternational or multi-region capital-project leadership experience strongly preferred. \nLeadership Requirements\nExecutive-level leadership, decision-making, and communication capability with the ability to influence across a highly matrixed global organization. Proven ability to lead large multidisciplinary organizations consisting of employees, EPC/EPCM teams, consultants, and construction contractors. Strong financial, commercial, contractual, and risk-management judgment with the ability to make high-value decisions under uncertainty. \nDemonstrated ability to challenge project assumptions, lead distressed-project recoveries, resolve complex execution issues, and hold internal and external teams accountable. \nStrong organizational-development, succession-planning, and talent-development capability.\nIn our pursuit to be the greatest place to work, we know that a critical element to enhancing our employee experience is to assure we’re operating with a solid foundation of trust. At Chemours, this means being transparent about how we pay our employees for the work that they do.\nPay Range (in local currency):\n$177,811.00 - $277,830.00Chemours Level:\n30Annual Bonus Target:\n27%Annual Stock Amount\n65,000.00 USDThe pay range and incentives listed above is a general guideline based on the primary location of this job only and not a guarantee of total compensation. Factors consideredin extending a compensation offer include (but are not limited to)responsibilities of the job, experience,knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, and alignment with market data. The incentive pay is dependent on business results and individual performance and subject to the terms and conditions of the specific plans.\nAt Chemours, you will find sustainability in our vision, our business and your future. 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