Head of Projects
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Job Summary
About CRA Energy
CRA Energy is a Noida-based manufacturer of custom-engineered process equipment for oil & gas chemical biogas/CBG food & beverage power mining and defence sectors. Our product range includes gas flaring systems thermal oxidisers vapour combustion units biogas compression and upgrading skids gas processing skids burner management systems and industrial burners. We deliver across India and to international markets.
The Role
As CRAs order book grows in volume and complexity including international deliveries and multi-system packages we are strengthening our Projects function with senior leadership. This role owns end-to-end project delivery across all active orders leads and develops the project engineering team and carries full accountability for schedule cost quality and client satisfaction.
Key Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end delivery of all active projects: from purchase order through design coordination procurement manufacturing inspection dispatch and site commissioning.
- Own project P&L: track actual costs against budget flag deviations early and drive corrective action.
- Maintain a consolidated master schedule across all active orders; identify resource conflicts and critical-path risks.
- Serve as the primary client interface during execution: progress updates inspection coordination FAT/SAT change order management and escalation handling.
- Manage vendors and subcontractors for bought-out items and outsourced fabrication against delivery quality and cost targets.
- Coordinate across design engineering procurement production and QA/QC to meet project milestones.
- Build and lead the project engineering team hiring onboarding and developing project engineers as the function scales.
- Plan and oversee site installation and commissioning; manage commissioning crews and client sign-off.
- Establish repeatable project execution processes templates and review cadences.
Requirements
Must Have
- B.E. / in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering.
- 1218 years of project management experience in custom-engineered process equipment manufacturing. Relevant backgrounds include: pressure vessels heat exchangers fired heaters flare systems gas processing skids thermal oxidisers scrubbers boilers or similar fabricated-to-order capital equipment.
- Proven P&L ownership direct accountability for project margins cost tracking and overrun management.
- Multi-project management: experience running 510 concurrent projects at different execution stages simultaneously.
- Team leadership: directly managed 4 engineers or coordinators (not just dotted-line or matrix reporting).
- Client-facing credibility: comfortable running progress reviews handling escalations and managing client expectations independently.
- Vendor and subcontractor management against schedule quality and cost.
- Site commissioning experience for process equipment.
- Structured project tools: MS Project Primavera or equivalent; disciplined documentation and reporting.
Preferred
- PMP PMI or Prince2 certification.
- International project delivery experience.
- Defence sector project experience (DRDO BrahMos armed forces).
- ERP-based project tracking experience (SAP ERPNext or similar).
- Familiarity with ASME API PESO or CCOE compliance in a project delivery context.
Benefits
- Leadership role in a growing Projects function bring structure raise the bar and scale the team as order complexity increases.
- Diverse project portfolio: combustion systems gas processing biogas defence technically varied work across multiple sectors.
- Growing international order book with increasing project complexity.
- Direct access to senior leadership; high ownership and visible impact.
Required Skills:
Excel Powerpoint Leadership Stakeholder Management
