Mgr - TAR Technical Planning

at  Air Products and Chemical

At Air Products, our purpose is to bring people together to reimagine what’s possible, collaborate and innovate solutions to the world’s most significant energy and environmental sustainability challenges. Grow with us as we embark on building tomorrow together by being the safest, most diverse and most profitable industrial gas company in the world.

REIMAGINE WHAT’S POSSIBLE

We are seeking a Turnaround Technical Planning Manager within our Project Resource and Outage Support (PROS) Group located onsite in Gonzalez, LA, Allentown, PA, Pasadena, TX, Long Beach, CA or residence based (remote). This position requires the ability to travel 25-30% depending on assigned workload. This is a diverse group that supports Industrial Gases (IG) North America capital projects, turnaround (TAR) planning, and turnaround execution. This allows our team to provide specialized services and additional capacity for infrequent events to operational assets. This role collaborates with the TAR Manager, North America and works in concert with TAR Support Manager, TAR Execution Manager, and their teams to ensure smooth execution of 6-14 TARs annually across Air Products North America.

REQUIRED SKILLS / ABILITIES:

• 10 years’ experience in maintenance and/or engineering fields, including industrial outages.
• Strong solid understanding of operating plant systems including Maintenance, Machinery, Electrical, and Instrumentation. Broad technical familiarity with motors, pumps, compressors, turbines, fans, cooling towers, pressure vessels, and piping systems.
• Strong leadership abilities.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and planning skills.
• Self-motivated and willingness to learn and improve.
• High ethical standards.
• Willing to work a wide variety of scheduled days and hours.
• Works professionally and collaboratively with employees, peers, management, support personnel, program participants and business area persons
• Applies positive and constructive demeanor toward resolution of problems and conflicts.
• Accepts direction, constructive feedback, and supervision.

EDUCATION AND LICENSING REQUIREMENTS:

• Engineering Degree or equivalent industry experience.
• Proficient in the use of computers and business software, including Microsoft (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook).
• Proficient in use of SAP and Primavera P6 software.

• Manage a team of planners (8 direct, 10+ contingent workers) across mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and control valve subject areas to produce professional and accurate manhour estimates, work packages, and bills of material.
• Participate in front end scope development to ensure work list and Technical Recommendation Summary reflect tangible scope for planning purposes. Align with local maintenance resources on scope split for TAR planners vs maintenance technicians.
• Resource load planners across outages to ensure pre-outage turning points are achieved while optimizing contingent worker headcount. Drive consistency and efficiency using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Manage contingent worker planners to supplement Air Products labor during peak resource draw.
• Serve as technical lead in support of planning standard processes. Ensure work packages are produced in accordance with Air Products’ standards, procedures, and specifications. Collaborate with internal subject matter experts (SMEs) as required to confirm scope, materials, QC requirements, etc.
• Coordinate with the TAR Execution Manager to roll planners into execution and ensure safety, quality, cost, and schedule are met at each outage.
• Coordinate with the TAR Support Manager to ensure planners bid, order, and manage contractors per the procurement and cost control strategy for each outage.
• Champion safety as a planning deliverable and ensure packages consider safety related practices, e.g. Falling Object Prevention.
• Complete lessons learned and package documentation to drive efficiency in future TARs.
• Support continuous improvement of the TAR planning process through development and modification of TAR planning procedures as well as digitalization of planning process.