Contracts Administrator

Job description

At Air Products, we reimagine what’s possible. By tapping into the motivation of our people and our collective experience, we create the ideas and innovations that drive us forward. When we come together – where every voice is heard and everyone knows they belong and matter – we create solutions that launch people into space, support lifesaving care in hospitals, and enable the construction of groundbreaking, world scale production facilities. Reimagine What’s Possible Principal Accountabilities: Safety Provide & maintain a safe work environment. Demonstrate leadership with all company & industry safe work processes to prevent all injuries. Adherence to company HSSE policy and procedures. Ensure all Environmental Regulatory requirements are met. Ensure Air Products and APQ standards, and global best practices for EH&S, productivity, reliability, quality, and overall customer services are met. Technical: Provide direction & guidance based on technical feedback from Engineering and Maintenance for troubleshooting, maintenance, repair, and test activities. Provide Operations and Maintenance support. Maintain accurate document control and monitor quality assurance initiatives. Provide Operations and Maintenance guidance to ensure safety, reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls, and safety/security systems. Provide Operations and Maintenance input for scheduled outages to ensure contractual requirements are achieved Manage plant production efficiently based on data driven decisions to ensure safety and reliability targets are met to achieve maximum profitable. Work closely with business areas to identify productivity expansion projects. Operations and Maintenance Ensure the safety of all operations and maintenance personnel by utilizing the APQ Basic Safety Practice program, which includes Safety Work Permits, LOTO, Confined Space, etc. The position facilitates planning, organizing, auditing, and follow-up, to build the Air Products safety culture into the APQ. Meet the customer’s satisfaction on safety, reliability, product quality, and flexibility on product supply. Responsible for performing all tasks assigned in a safe and responsible manner in accordance with the established operating procedures and written or oral instructions from Superintendent. Ensure that maintenance notifications in SAP are carried out correctly. Verify SAP notification on field and approved with basic data i.e. functional location, malfunction description, damage code, priority, and hazard information. Participate in pre-work visits with Maintenance and Contractors to identify risk activities. Ensure each work permit related documents are prepared and handed over to the team. Participate in preparing maintenance or process shutdowns and turnarounds i.e. scope of works, prioritization of notifications (define consequences of malfunctions in terms of sector availability). Participate in area daily meeting and share the maintenance plan with team to ensure all equipment’s are prepared for scheduled maintenance works (corrective and preventive). Participate in maintenance plan daily meetings with the Maintenance Leader and Planners to analyze daily notifications, and to contribute to the updating of the weekly maintenance schedule. Ensure equipment’s readiness for maintenance activity and after completion back to operations. Manage and organize regular equipment testing and routine preventive Maintenance. Participate in the marking priority maintenance activities to guarantee the reliability and operational continuity of equipment and to agree the date of repair. Release and ensure all work permit precautions and required conditions are fulfilled, maximize safe work permit practices by healthy communication & frequent site visits, ensure zero permit deviation Manage interface with all support departments for maintenance activities Need to have the necessary skills for conducting risk assessment and participate in unusual operational or maintenance activities. Contribute to achieving routine maintenance KPIs and objectives specific to the se reliability, planning and scheduling. Ensure availability and updating of required procedures and schedules for special operations. Ensure minimum forced tags & bypasses during operation by proper maintenance planning. Follow SIF procedure for forced tags & bypasses. Build the plant technical capability through support coordination from Air Product’s Regional and Global teams. Provide coaching and motivation to the operations team to achieve operational excellence and customer satisfaction. Develop, train, and promote top performing operation personnel who achieve success through teams, customer and employee focused, foster open communication, performance driven, and results oriented. Establish & maintain close working relationships with engineering and maintenance personnel to continuously monitor & evaluate plant systems & equipment. Provide operations and maintenance support and participate / lead incident investigations and Root Cause Analysis. Identify & implement sustainable corrective action(s). Act as the Single Point of Contact when dealing with internal issues of the facility, representing APQ and coordinating internal resources. Facilitate attainment of operations excellence and customer satisfaction via operations productivity, reliability, quality, cost reduction, services, continuous improvements, and meeting of budgets. Minimum Requirements and Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in chemical, Mechanical, or Process Engineering a minimum. 10 years minimum in gas, petrochemical, or related industries in operations, engineering, and/or maintenance function. Air Separation and /or Steam Methane Reformer Operations a plus. 6+ years in line supervision of process operations roles. Proven coordination experience in a multi team environment which includes operations, engineering, and maintenance. Good leadership, interpersonal and teamwork skills with the ability to communicate clearly and effectively throughout all levels within the organization and externally. Promotes a ‘one team’ environment Ability to communicate and manage customer interactions on a daily basis. Wide technical knowledge in operations, engineering, and maintenance activities. Proficiency in English speaking and writing. Knowledge and understanding of local environmental and health and safety requirements. Founded in 1940, Air Products is a world-leading industrial gases company and has a proud history of innovation, operational excellence, with an unwavering commitment to safety and environmental stewardship. Working together, we are taking our passion and diverse backgrounds forward to reimagine what’s possible and generate a cleaner future for our customers, our communities, and the world.