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Remote capital project engineer jobs are actively posted across the U.S. by remote-first firms, distributed infrastructure teams, and enterprise organizations in energy, utilities, manufacturing, and construction technology. Employers hiring remotely right now include The Foth Companies, Welltower, and Fisher Investments. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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AMP is applying AI-powered sortation at scale to modernize the world's recycling infrastructure and maximize the value in waste. AMP gives waste and recycling leaders the power to harness AI to reduce labor costs, increase resource recovery, and deliver more reliable operations. With hundreds of deployments across North America, Asia, and Europe, AMP's technology offers a transformational solution to waste sortation and changes the fundamental economics of recycling.
Headquartered in Louisville, Colorado, the Denver Post and BuiltIn Colorado have recognized AMP as one of the state's top workplaces. AMP has operations and career opportunities outside of Atlanta, Cleveland, Portsmouth, Virginia, and Europe. We're fostering an environment where passionate individuals can grow and create impact. We seek unconventional thinkers to join our mission to enable a world without waste; at AMP, your contributions have meaning and can spur change. With backing from top-tier investors and national recognition including North American Cleantech Company of the Year, we're always seeking ways to better our operations, raising the bar on innovation, and looking to collaborate and improve in what we do. Learn more at AMPSortation.com.
The PMO Senior Project Manager, Capital Projects is a part of AMP's centralized PMO and is responsible for owning the day-to-day project management of complex, high-priority, and cross-functional capital expenditure (CapEx) projects through the full project lifecycle. This role serves as the primary point of accountability for project outcomes, ensuring the project is delivered on time, within budget, within scope, aligned with project requirements, organizational objectives, and meets contractual obligations and deliverables.
The Senior Project Manager works across functional and organizational boundaries to drive execution, establish accountability, manage interdependencies, and maintain transparency into project health. The role applies standardized PMO methodologies, governance processes, tools, and best practices to ensure consistent, effective, and successful project delivery.
Responsibilities
- Own the day-to-day project outcomes of complex, high-visibility CapEx projects through all phases of the project lifecycle, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, and closeout.
- Ensure adherence to all applicable contractual, regulatory, and organizational compliance requirements throughout project execution by proactively identifying, assessing, monitoring, and mitigating contract-related risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, while maintaining compliance oversight and supporting timely resolution of contractual obligations.
- Effectively manage scope, schedule, budget, resources, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies and outcomes.
- Drive execution across cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and workstreams to achieve project commitments and deliverables.
- Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, budgets, resource plans, and performance measures.
- Monitor and report project health, including progress, KPIs, budget, schedule, risks, issues, and key decisions.
- Ensure project change control is applied, assessing impact and ensuring approved changes are documented, communicated, and incorporated into project plans.
- Facilitate and document project meetings, stakeholder discussions, and decision-making sessions.
- Apply PMO standards, methodologies, tools, and governance requirements, including stage gates and documentation standards. This includes maintaining accurate project documentation, records, decision logs, RAID logs, and project repositories.
- Identify opportunities to improve project delivery, tools, processes, and stakeholder adoption.
Key Skills
- Project Management Expertise: Extensive experience successfully leading complex CapEx projects throughout the full project lifecycle.
- Project Planning & Execution: Advanced proficiency in developing and managing integrated project plans, schedules, budgets, milestones, and resource requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
- Compliance & Controls: Advanced expertise in analyzing, communicating, tracking, and managing contractual, regulatory, and organizational requirements while ensuring compliance and governance adherence.
- Problem Solving & Decision Making: Strong analytical skills and ability to resolve complex project challenges and provide actionable recommendations
- Stakeholder Management: Build alignment and maintain effective relationships with project sponsors, functional leaders, and project teams.
- Communication: Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.
- Performance Management & Reporting: Ability to develop KPIs, assess project health, identify trends, and provide clear status reporting.
- Technology & Tools: Proficiency with project management, collaboration, reporting, and documentation tools.
Required Qualifications:
- Experience successfully executing capital expenditure (CapEx) projects.
- Minimum 7-10+ years of progressive project management experience, with demonstrated ownership of complex, multi-year CapEx projects.
- Certification(s): Project Management Professional (PMP) strongly preferred.
- Strong knowledge of project controls, compliance tracking, cost management, scheduling, procurement, contracting, risk, and change management.
- Experience working with engineering, operations, finance, installation, supply chain, and legal teams.
Working Conditions and Physical Demands
The physical demands described below are representative of those required to perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions. This role requires regular travel to active industrial and construction environments. Project sites may not be climate controlled and may include noise, dust, moving equipment, uneven surfaces, elevated work areas, and other typical industrial hazards. While performing the duties of this position, the employee may be required to stand, walk, use hands and fingers, reach, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, communicate effectively, and occasionally lift or move up to 45 pounds. Appropriate personal protective equipment and compliance with all site-safety requirements are mandatory.
AMP provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Applicants who identify with a historically underrepresented group are encouraged to apply.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Other Duties
This job description is not intended to contain a comprehensive listing of all duties, responsibilities, or activities required of the employee. Responsibilities may change at any time, with or without notice, based on business and project needs.
Equity Grant: The candidate selected for this role will be recommended for a stock option grant commensurate with the position and the candidate's qualifications.
Benefits Information:
- Medical - The company covers between 78% to 100% of the premium for Cigna medical healthcare plans depending on the selection.
- Dental, Vision, Short- and Long-Term Disability
- Life Insurance: The company covers the cost of Basic Life / AD&D 1 x Salary, option to purchase additional through New York Life
- Benefits start the day you start
- HSA Eligible Health Plans, Company Monthly Contributions!
- 401(k) retirement plan (non-matching)
- FTO - Flexible Time Off
- 6 Accrued Sick Days
- Eight (8) paid holidays
We'll consider applications until the position is filled.
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AMP is applying AI-powered sortation at scale to modernize the world's recycling infrastructure and maximize the value in waste. AMP gives waste and recycling leaders the power to harness AI to reduce labor costs, increase resource recovery, and deliver more reliable operations. With hundreds of deployments across North America, Asia, and Europe, AMP's technology offers a transformational solution to waste sortation and changes the fundamental economics of recycling.
Headquartered in Louisville, Colorado, the Denver Post and BuiltIn Colorado have recognized AMP as one of the state's top workplaces. AMP has operations and career opportunities outside of Atlanta, Cleveland, Portsmouth, Virginia, and Europe. We're fostering an environment where passionate individuals can grow and create impact. We seek unconventional thinkers to join our mission to enable a world without waste; at AMP, your contributions have meaning and can spur change. With backing from top-tier investors and national recognition including North American Cleantech Company of the Year, we're always seeking ways to better our operations, raising the bar on innovation, and looking to collaborate and improve in what we do. Learn more at AMPSortation.com.
The PMO Senior Project Manager, Capital Projects is a part of AMP's centralized PMO and is responsible for owning the day-to-day project management of complex, high-priority, and cross-functional capital expenditure (CapEx) projects through the full project lifecycle. This role serves as the primary point of accountability for project outcomes, ensuring the project is delivered on time, within budget, within scope, aligned with project requirements, organizational objectives, and meets contractual obligations and deliverables.
The Senior Project Manager works across functional and organizational boundaries to drive execution, establish accountability, manage interdependencies, and maintain transparency into project health. The role applies standardized PMO methodologies, governance processes, tools, and best practices to ensure consistent, effective, and successful project delivery.
Responsibilities
- Own the day-to-day project outcomes of complex, high-visibility CapEx projects through all phases of the project lifecycle, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, and closeout.
- Ensure adherence to all applicable contractual, regulatory, and organizational compliance requirements throughout project execution by proactively identifying, assessing, monitoring, and mitigating contract-related risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, while maintaining compliance oversight and supporting timely resolution of contractual obligations.
- Effectively manage scope, schedule, budget, resources, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies and outcomes.
- Drive execution across cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and workstreams to achieve project commitments and deliverables.
- Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, budgets, resource plans, and performance measures.
- Monitor and report project health, including progress, KPIs, budget, schedule, risks, issues, and key decisions.
- Ensure project change control is applied, assessing impact and ensuring approved changes are documented, communicated, and incorporated into project plans.
- Facilitate and document project meetings, stakeholder discussions, and decision-making sessions.
- Apply PMO standards, methodologies, tools, and governance requirements, including stage gates and documentation standards. This includes maintaining accurate project documentation, records, decision logs, RAID logs, and project repositories.
- Identify opportunities to improve project delivery, tools, processes, and stakeholder adoption.
Key Skills
- Project Management Expertise: Extensive experience successfully leading complex CapEx projects throughout the full project lifecycle.
- Project Planning & Execution: Advanced proficiency in developing and managing integrated project plans, schedules, budgets, milestones, and resource requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
- Compliance & Controls: Advanced expertise in analyzing, communicating, tracking, and managing contractual, regulatory, and organizational requirements while ensuring compliance and governance adherence.
- Problem Solving & Decision Making: Strong analytical skills and ability to resolve complex project challenges and provide actionable recommendations
- Stakeholder Management: Build alignment and maintain effective relationships with project sponsors, functional leaders, and project teams.
- Communication: Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.
- Performance Management & Reporting: Ability to develop KPIs, assess project health, identify trends, and provide clear status reporting.
- Technology & Tools: Proficiency with project management, collaboration, reporting, and documentation tools.
Required Qualifications:
- Experience successfully executing capital expenditure (CapEx) projects.
- Minimum 7-10+ years of progressive project management experience, with demonstrated ownership of complex, multi-year CapEx projects.
- Certification(s): Project Management Professional (PMP) strongly preferred.
- Strong knowledge of project controls, compliance tracking, cost management, scheduling, procurement, contracting, risk, and change management.
- Experience working with engineering, operations, finance, installation, supply chain, and legal teams.
Working Conditions and Physical Demands
The physical demands described below are representative of those required to perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions. This role requires regular travel to active industrial and construction environments. Project sites may not be climate controlled and may include noise, dust, moving equipment, uneven surfaces, elevated work areas, and other typical industrial hazards. While performing the duties of this position, the employee may be required to stand, walk, use hands and fingers, reach, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, communicate effectively, and occasionally lift or move up to 45 pounds. Appropriate personal protective equipment and compliance with all site-safety requirements are mandatory.
AMP provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Applicants who identify with a historically underrepresented group are encouraged to apply.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Other Duties
This job description is not intended to contain a comprehensive listing of all duties, responsibilities, or activities required of the employee. Responsibilities may change at any time, with or without notice, based on business and project needs.
Equity Grant: The candidate selected for this role will be recommended for a stock option grant commensurate with the position and the candidate's qualifications.
Benefits Information:
- Medical - The company covers between 78% to 100% of the premium for Cigna medical healthcare plans depending on the selection.
- Dental, Vision, Short- and Long-Term Disability
- Life Insurance: The company covers the cost of Basic Life / AD&D 1 x Salary, option to purchase additional through New York Life
- Benefits start the day you start
- HSA Eligible Health Plans, Company Monthly Contributions!
- 401(k) retirement plan (non-matching)
- FTO - Flexible Time Off
- 6 Accrued Sick Days
- Eight (8) paid holidays
We'll consider applications until the position is filled.
#LI-Remote
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Construction & Real Estate
- Investment & Asset Management
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote capital project engineer jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, typically civil, mechanical, or chemical
- Experience managing capital projects through full project lifecycle
- Proficiency with project scheduling software such as Primavera P6 or MS Project
- Knowledge of cost estimating, budgeting, and earned value management
- Familiarity with engineering design, procurement, and construction coordination
- Professional Engineer licensure or progress toward PE certification preferred
Tips for Your Remote Capital Project Engineer Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote capital project engineer openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your background and apply directly without sorting through unrelated postings.
Show async project coordination in your resume
Remote capital project engineer hiring managers look for evidence you've managed schedules, RFIs, and contractor updates without relying on in-person check-ins. Call out specific tools like Procore, Primavera P6, or Bluebeam and name the project types you controlled remotely.
Build a remote-ready project controls portfolio
Compile two or three project examples that show budget tracking, schedule management, and stakeholder reporting you completed with a distributed team. A short PDF or shared document demonstrating your documentation quality signals remote readiness faster than a resume line alone.
Prepare for asynchronous technical screens
Many remote capital project engineer interviews include a take-home scenario covering cost variance analysis or schedule delay mitigation. Practice writing up your reasoning clearly in a document format, since remote employers evaluate how well you communicate technical decisions in writing, not just verbally.
Remote Capital Project Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote capital project engineer job?
Remote capital project engineer roles go to candidates who can demonstrate strong project controls discipline without in-person oversight. Remote employers screen for proficiency in project management platforms like Procore, Primavera P6, or MS Project, along with clear written communication and the ability to coordinate across time zones. Highlighting past experience managing budgets, schedules, and contractors independently gives your application a clear edge.
Which companies hire remote capital project engineers?
Companies hiring remote capital project engineers right now include The Foth Companies, Welltower, and Fisher Investments, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These tend to be remote-first engineering consultancies, distributed energy and utilities companies, and large industrial or infrastructure firms managing multi-site capital programs.
Can you get a remote capital project engineer job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level capital project engineer roles are harder to land because employers expect you to manage vendor coordination and schedule updates with minimal hand-holding from day one. Smaller engineering consultancies and remote-first infrastructure firms are the most likely to hire early-career candidates. A strong portfolio of academic projects, internships, or relevant certifications like PMP or CAPM can substitute for direct work history and open the door.
Do you need a degree for remote capital project engineer jobs?
Usually, but not always. Most remote capital project engineer postings list a bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, or a related field as a baseline. Remote employers, however, weigh demonstrated project controls experience, software proficiency, and a record of delivering projects on time and on budget heavily alongside formal credentials. Relevant certifications and a strong project history can offset the absence of a traditional degree for the right role.
Which industries hire the most remote capital project engineers?
Most remote capital project engineer openings sit in Construction & Real Estate and Investment & Asset Management, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors rely on distributed project teams managing capital programs across multiple facilities or regions, making remote capital project engineer roles a practical fit for how their work is structured.
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