Trend & Change Manager

Location: Richmond, Virginia, United States

Company

hirify.global Sustainable Technology Solutions provides licensed process technologies, advisory services, technical expertise, energy transition solutions, design capabilities, and smart asset optimization solutions across the asset life cycle.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain the Trend and Change Management Plan in line with client instructions and approved governance requirements.
• Administer the Trend Register and identify potential scope, cost, schedule, procurement, construction, and readiness impacts.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary assessments, including cost estimates, schedule impact analyses, risk exposure, and funding implications.
• Manage formal change workflows, approval routing, commercial records, supporting documentation, and audit trails.
• Analyze root causes, recurring change drivers, aging, approval cycle times, and cumulative exposure.
• Prepare dashboards, decision registers, executive summaries, and baseline updates for project governance forums.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management, quantity surveying, business, finance, or a related discipline.
• At least 15 years of relevant experience in project controls, change management, commercial management, cost engineering, or major capital projects.
• Demonstrated experience managing trends, change notices, impact assessments, contractor change submissions, and formal approval workflows.
• Strong knowledge of cost, schedule, risk, estimating, contracts, contingency, and baseline-control interfaces.
• Experience coordinating cost estimates and schedule Time Impact Analyses for complex project changes.
• Strong facilitation, negotiation, written communication, auditability, and governance skills.

Nice to have

• Pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, or other regulated manufacturing capital-project experience.
• Owner’s Representative, PMC, EPCM, or IPMT experience on projects exceeding $500 million TIC.
• Experience with change management systems, EcoSys, Primavera P6, Power BI, or comparable project-controls platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Benefits may include a 401(k) plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending account, disability coverage, and paid time off.
• Flexible work schedule options may be available.
• Professional training and development support career advancement.
• People First and Zero Harm principles guide the work environment.