Kindly be advised that we are handling the recruitment for this position internally and are not partnering with external recruiters. Backed by Unreasonable.
About the role
This is not a design-only or advisory role. You will be accountable for turning a defined facility need into an operating plant and will bring together Plantible's engineering, operations, development, finance, and technical teams with external engineers, contractors, vendors, and construction partners. You will own the project from FEL through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handoff to Operations.
What they're looking for
- Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Process Engineering, Bioengineering, Civil Engineering, Construction Management, or related technical field
- 10+ years delivering industrial capital projects with increasing ownership and leadership responsibility
- Required experience in biotechnology, food processing, fermentation, protein processing, pharmaceutical, biochemical, or similar hygienic process-manufacturing environments
- Personally led a significant greenfield or major expansion project through engineering, construction, commissioning, and startup. We want to understand what you owned, what went wrong, and how you got it built
- Experience owning project budgets, schedules, forecasts, contingency, and change control
- Managed multidisciplinary engineering teams, contractors, equipment vendors, and external engineering firms
More about this role
Plantible is scaling from building our first commercial facility to developing and executing the next generation of Plantible facilities. We are looking for a Director of Capital Projects to own the execution of those builds.
This is not a design-only or advisory role. You will be accountable for turning a defined facility need into an operating plant and will bring together Plantible's engineering, operations, development, finance, and technical teams with external engineers, contractors, vendors, and construction partners. You will own the project from FEL through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handoff to Operations.
Own the Build
- Own scope, schedule, budget, risk, and execution strategy for major Plantible capital projects.
- The Upstream scope includes large-scale greenhouse and cultivation infrastructure. The Director of Capital Projects will provide overall leadership for execution strategy, contractor performance, installation productivity, and standardization across repeated modules.
- The Downstream covers food-processing environments across biomass handling, maceration, extraction, centrifugation, solid-liquid separation, filtration,...
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