B.S. – CHEMICAL ENGINEERING ’85
A highly skilled and successful project manager, Paul Lammers has built a notable career overseeing hundreds of projects for a host of clients throughout his 38 years in the industry.
Originally from Carrollton, Alabama, Lammers earned his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from The University of Alabama in 1985. He obtained his master’s degree in project management from the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota, in 2022.
Lammers, like most project managers, was told to manage his first project in 1986 and fell in love with the profession. Throughout his career, he has been selected to manage 10 first-of-their-kind technology scale-up projects, taking what a scientist has created in a lab and scaling it up into a manufacturing plant. From 1985 to 2021, Lammers led project management initiatives for over 30 different companies, including industry leaders such as Pfizer, Amgen, International Paper, INOES, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Additionally, he served as the chief operating officer and chief engineer of OSDV, a specialty engineering consulting company, from 2018 to 2019.
In 2021, Lammers joined W.R. Grace & Co., a premier specialty chemical and materials company that holds more than 1,300 patents worldwide and is over 190 years old. He serves as a senior project manager for the company and as the portfolio manager for the Northern region of the Americas, which covers nine facilities. Throughout his nearly four-decade-long career, Lammers has managed over $4 billion worth of projects around the globe.
Lammers is a licensed professional engineer (PE) and currently holds licenses in six states. He serves on both the chemical and petroleum professional engineering exam committees that create the PE exam. He is a certified project management professional through the Project Management Institute and frequently serves as a guest speaker at universities as well as national and international meetings.
In addition to his professional work, Lammers dedicates a significant amount of time to supporting his alma mater. He currently serves as a member of the Chemical and Biological Engineering Advisory Board for The University of Alabama College of Engineering. He is also a current member, and former chair, of the Capstone Engineering Society (CES) Board. He is active on the CES golf tournament committee and volunteers as a professional mentor through the chemical and biological engineering department and the College’s MentorUPP program. He enjoys traveling, golfing, skiing, and constructing churches through the Builders for Christ program in his spare time.
Lammers currently resides in The Woodlands, Texas, and has two daughters, Kim and Katherine.