PROJECT MANAGER - Austin Industrial - Plaquemine, La

Functional Areas of Responsibility

• Business growth
• Account management
• Customer satisfaction
• Develop and manage teams
• Contract administration
• Seeking internal/external growth opportunities
• Building strategies for execution
• Schedule reporting and performance processes
• Financial performance
• Productivity performance
• Development and annual reviews of subordinates
• Compliance with company policies and procedure
• Safety and quality performance

Specific Duties And Responsibilities

• Contract Administration
• Know prime contracts and assure staff execution of the requirements.
• Assign and maintain effective staff representation on accounts.
• Administer Readiness Reviews for new projects.
• Develop and implement transition plans for new work.
• Lead the re-bid process.
• Develops KPI reporting requirement process, and ensures effective delivery.
• Holds staff, customers, subcontractors, and vendors accountable to the performance of the agreements.
• Manage timely billing and receivables performance.
• Quarterly customer review process ownership.
• Cost and Productivity Management
• Review monthly financial reports and takes corrective actions to bring productivity and cost performance within expectations.
• Analyze performance metrics for sites.
• Review the AIMS dashboard report to ensure required performance metrics are met or exceeded.
• Ensure continuous improvement initiatives are established and achieved.
• Review productivity reports with project teams at regular intervals and ensure that management is informed on cost and schedule results for the work and how it compares with the budget.
• Take appropriate measures to ensure productivity is equal to or better than estimate productivity.
• Profit/loss accountability to include proper project controls and proactive measures to meet or beat budgeted costs.
• Establish and maintain job cost reporting in accordance with company policy.
• Acknowledge the conversion of bid documents to the various cost codes in the Job Cost Statement and prepare monthly Job Status Reports for review by management.
• Scheduling
• Develop comprehensive execution plans, schedules, and critical path actions for unit shutdowns, overhauls, and restarts.
• Ensure turnaround work processes are effectively managed in accordance with customer workflow process.
• Schedule and coordinate all resources as needed to meet requirements of all sites.
• Quality
• Ensure projects are completed to all applicable quality requirements.
• Ensure the sites process for inspection of work is comprehensive, meets the contract requirements, and is timely administered.
• Periodic reviews of inspection documentation to assure policy and contract requirements are met, inclusive of verifying there is a robust process for follow up inspections on all non-compliant work.
• Relationships
• Develop and maintain the trust of the customers and engineers.
• Reviews strategic plan initiatives with key customers, ensuring alignment and progress to Strategic Plans.
• Ensures Austin’s site leader is in good standing with customer staff.
• Personnel development and succession planning.
• Safety and Environmental
• Responsible for the overall safety performance of assigned sites.
• Ensure CARE is effectively utilized by all staff, and that safety management processes are effectively established.
• Participates on corporate steering teams to ensure strategic plans are in place to ensure sustained performance in safety.
• Participates in site safety rituals, and ensures they are effective in sustaining a safe work culture at assigned businesses.
• Sponsors incident investigations and ensures action management processes are functioning.
• Perform safety observations at assigned projects, assessing the effectiveness of safe work practices at each site.
• Ensure all environmental obligations required by contracts and regulatory agencies are fulfilled.
• Other
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Experience

• Minimum of 10 years in a maintenance operations management role.
• Experience in managing Site Turnaround operations.
• General competency in maintenance operations, specific management capability in at least three of the following areas: civil, structural steel, fixed equipment, piping, I&E, soft craft, and bulk loading.
• This includes a good knowledge of craft skillsets, work planning, estimating, scheduling, and work execution.

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.