Job Description

Req No.

38372BR

and Qualifications

• POSITION SUMMARY

Part of the Air Products regional Planning Team, supporting the Product Line, Project Execution and Engineering Teams to ensure successful execution businesses. Ensuring competitiveness, successful project execution, productive internal / external interfaces and risk management. Asset creation work involves developing, bidding, and executing projects.

Provide project planning services to a broad portfolio of projects ranging from highly standardized / small scale (assets values around $0.5mm - $3mm) through to complex and unique facilities with asset values in the order of $500mm and above.

Provide guidance and deliver planning execution plans and schedules to suit the project execution strategy and needs from both and internal and external aspect. Ensure accurate and timely reporting input to the project and work within the project applicable procedures and process workflows.

To fulfill the requirements of the position the incumbent must develop collaborative working relationships with Global Engineering and Manufacturing (GEM) team members, along strong business leadership with all internal functions.

• PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Motivated to help achieve an industry leading regional project planning team capable of managing internal/external customer projects including EPCs, both within the office and construction site.
• Use Air Products planning IT systems and functional discipline work processes to provide reliable and consistent reporting to ensure that we can meet the project, regional/global project portfolio and business requirements.
• Collaborate with execution team to develop and deliver competitive project schedules aligned to the execution scope and strategy during the bid phase through award and execution, ensuring the growth of Air Products businesses whilst consistently delivering on project commitments in terms of cost and schedule.
• Develop and maintain accurate progress & earned value measurement systems for engineering, procurement, manufacturing, construction and commissioning to ensure credible control throughout the project execution phase.
• Help maintain and improve the capabilities of the regional team to ensure that we can support the business needs across the broad portfolio of offerings.
• Provide close collaboration with and support across the other regional and global teams to ensure effective resource sharing, lessons learned, best practices and the development of appropriate work processes and procedures across the global execution teams.
• MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Graduate engineer with Minimum 10 to 14 years of project planning experience.

General

• Create, monitor, and analyze project schedules in accordance with standard of best project practice.
• Track, analyze, update and create reports to allow accurate project evaluation and management.
• Must have a track record of delivering accurate schedule information, reporting and guidance to senior management.
• Experience in engineering and/or construction work process and activity sequence required.
• Strong project coordination skills with ability to prioritize, organize, and perform multiple work assignments simultaneously.
• Co-ordinate project schedules, tasks, meeting updates, and efficient distribution of information.
• Prepare, implement, and monitor scopes of work using Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for control and integrity
• Monitor projects progress, including identifying critical activities and reviewing forecasts and progress achieved to date (after liaising with stakeholders to discuss the progress of the project and addressing any issues that arise)
• Provide updates to project risk register (identify, monitor & report all risks and issues) to ensure that risks are effectively managed to minimize their impact on schedule, scope, and budget of projects and work with the project team to ensure resolution.
• Track baselines, perform what-if analysis, and develop contingency and recovery plans
• Present information for internal meetings on the project.
• Experience within an Oil & Gas, Chemical processing or related business and equivalent projects a further benefit.

Global Project Planning Experience: Proven skills and experience of planning of projects on global basis, executed by multiple engineering offices. Understanding of a variety of project types, structures and contract terms

Flexibility.

Determined, adaptable and resilient. Able to achieve success under significant pressure, evolving requirements, and conflicting priorities.
Culturally astute. Experience and ability to work with different cultures associated with multi-region project execution, and to therefore achieve success with a multi-cultural team. Experience of Customer and external stakeholder regional cultures, and ability to achieve success with those cultures
Relationship network. Established and proven internal relationships with key individuals in all teams in all regions, with the ability to build strong relationships to apply leverage to execute the project.
Core competencies: Commercial and technical acumen, detailed working knowledge of project planning tools and systems. Proven skills in planning coupled with a working knowledge of project management, business development and finance.

Project Planning During Bid Phase
Responsible for developing the key milestone dates and L1/L2 opportunity specific schedule based in the generic/baseline schedules in conjunction with the Product Line and Project Execution teams, understanding and incorporating the opportunity scope split and contract requirements.

Project Planning Project Award Phase
Responsible for updating key milestone dates and L1/L2 working schedule incorporating client milestones, update the discipline L4 deliverables list and confirm man-hours, conduct Last Planner sessions as required, prepare L3 schedule in conjunction with the Product Line and Project Execution teams, and consistent with the as sold scope, scope split, milestones, specific contract requirements and execution strategy. Prepare the progress measurement systems and reporting tools (including resource histograms and S curves) and issue the Project Controls Plan.

Project Planning During Project Execution
Responsible for guiding and advising Projects, Engineering, Construction and Commissioning on maintaining the schedule and optimizing working including critical and near critical path analysis, schedule risk review. Prepare L3 construction and commissioning schedules and provide support to planning and QS resources on site. Maintain accurate progress measurement systems (progress S curves, resource histograms, resource efficiency curves, progress measurement tables, earned value reporting, internal/external milestone tables, critical path views) for engineering, procurement, manufacturing, construction and commissioning. Reporting on progress, progress variance, resource productivity, project KPI\'s.

• Tools

• Proficient in Primavera or other Scheduling / Planning software.
• Proficient in MS Office Tools (Word, Excel , Power Point etc) , EVMS tools
• SAP (equivalent ERP) and EcoSys experience preferred.

Employment Status

Full Time

Region

India

Organization

Global Engrg Mfg Technology & Equipment

Business Sector / Division

Gasification Project Execution Unit

Air Products