Turnaround Manager

Company:

Interested in joining a winning team? A team whose employees share in the ownership of the business and are empowered to make a difference?

Organizational context
and job purpose

INEOS Organization:

INEOS is a global manufacturer of petrochemicals, specialty chemicals and oil products. It comprises 15 businesses each with a major chemical company heritage. Its production network spans 65 manufacturing facilities in 16 countries throughout the world. INEOS products make a significant contribution to saving life, improving health and enhancing standards of living for people around the world. Its businesses produce the raw materials that are essential in the manufacture of a wide variety of goods: from paints to plastics, textiles to technology, and medicines to mobile phones - chemicals manufactured by INEOS enhance almost every aspect of modern life.

BUSINESS CONTEXT:

Ethylene oxide (EO) is an important building block for the preparation of a wide variety of EO derivatives (EODs), including various surfactants, as well as a host of other chemical intermediates including Glycol Ethers, Polyethlene Glycols, Ethanolamines, and Alkyl Alkanolamines. 

INEOS Oxide is one of the world’s leading producers of Ethylene Oxide (EO) and Ethylene Oxide Derivatives (EODs).  We currently have a total EO and EOD capacity of 920 kta spread across five different production units throughout Europe and the US. These units have leading cost economics, due to economies of scale, state-of-the-art technology, strategic locations, etc. Our EO project in the US is targeting the fast-growing merchant EO market, building on our experience and leadership position in Europe.

Purpose of the Job:

The Turnaround Manager will manage Turnarounds and smaller plant outages form planning through completion. Days will include interfacing with site engineers, operations, engineering firms, procurement, and construction contractors to design, procure, and repair equipment to meet the stated objective from the Turnaround Steering Team.

The candidate is responsible for implementing all aspects of the Turnaround

Responsibilities and Accountabilities

Accountability 1: 

SHE

• Advises on safety expectations for the Turnaround and leads the team to achieve safety goals.  Serves as job representative and addresses all safety issues that arise with contractors brought on site for the execution of capital projects to deliver best-in-class HSE performance.
• Ensures new installations adhere to INEOS Group Guidance Notes.
• Ensures proper engagement with site SHE representatives and approvals of contractor safety plans.
• Maintain safety as the highest priority of the plant
• Maintain the 20 Principles of Safety
• Adhere to and uphold all safety policies and standards

Accountability 2: 

Turnaround Management

• Leads and directs the planning and execution of the turnaround.
• Oversees the implementation of the TAR processes approved by the steering team (according to the manual) such as target definition, P&ID meetings, scope challenge, scope freeze, risk assessment, change order process, etc.
• Partners with the steering team and obtains decisions/guidelines if necessary
• Clearly formulates the project assignment and communicating it to the project team
• Ensure appropriate risk management, including risk-based scope assessments, creating and maintaining a TAR risk register and planning and monitoring necessary risk mitigation measures
• Oversees cost responsibility, equipped with powers such as PO approval
• Manages coordination, formulation and documentation of TAR targets (KPI)
• Advises on description and monitoring of milestones
• Delivers definition of clear roles and responsibilities in the respective TAR organization
• Collaborative responsibility for compliance with security targets
• Implementation of the specifications by the steering team in concrete instructions and processes
• Defining the shutdown-specific organizational chart, ensuring sufficient staffing (resources)
• Oversees the exchange of information between the groups involved
• Manages the creation of an overall schedule
• Determines the critical path
• Management of e integrated planning and execution and coordination of all work.
• Providing an overview of all technical projects with a share in the TAR
• Oversight of organization of meetings, reviews, presentations
• Define and initiate contractor management
• Participate in the creation of procurement and contracting strategies and ensure their implementation
• Integration of the Purchasing department (coordination of the project-related purchasing strategy)
• Organize holistic, cross-zone progress monitoring
• Execute phase: ensure troubleshooting
• Initiate post TAR activities, such as billing, final documentation and lessons learned, and support and implement them responsibly until completion
• Manage the closeout and documentation of drawings and equipment records upon completion of the Turnaround.

Skills/Competencies

Level of Education & Experience in general

• BS Chemical/Mech/or Electrical Engineering
• 10 years of chemical plant experience
• Experience executing >1 Turnarounds as a Turnaround Manager

Technical Skills

• Broad basic technical knowledge in the relevant specialist areas, in particular experience in the process organization of technical services
• Knowledge of the planning and implementation of shutdowns or comparable projects (desirable)
• Experience in project management, especially in leading project teams (desirable)
• MS Office (especially Excel), SAP PM, scheduling (e.g. MS Project)
• Basic knowledge of cost estimating and cost controlling

Behavioral Skills

• Goal-oriented and assertive
• Willingness to take on responsibility
• High resilience
• Strong interpersonal skills as well as excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong influencing skills with those individuals/teams they do not directly supervise
• Proactive leadership, change management and team building skills and experience.
• Excellent organization skills.
• Must be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to present updates to the project team and management.
• Safety role model

ADA Physical requirements, visual acuity requirements and environmental conditions

Outside

Light Work:  Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. Ability to climb ladders and stairs.

• The worker is subject to inside environmental conditions:  Protection from weather conditions, but not necessarily from temperature changes.
• The worker is subject to outside environmental conditions: No effective protection from the weather.
• The worker is subject to both environmental conditions: Activities occur inside and outside.
• The worker is subject to extreme cold:  Temperatures below 32 degrees F for periods of more than one hour.
• The worker is subject to extreme heat:  Temperatures above 100 degrees F for periods of more than one hour.
• The worker is subject to noise: There is sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard above the ambient noise level.
• The worker is subject to hazards: Includes a variety of physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, electrical current, working on scaffolding and high places, exposure to high heat or exposure to chemicals.
• The worker is subject to atmospheric conditions:  One or more of the following conditions that affect the respiratory system or the skin:  fumes, Odors, dusts, mists, gases, or poor ventilation.
• The worker is subject to oils: There is air and/or skin exposure to oils and other cutting fluids.
• The worker is not required to wear a respirator.
• The worker is not required to don a gas mask.

Inside:

Sedentary Work:  Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.  Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time.

Subject to inside environmental conditions:  Protection from weather conditions, but not necessarily from temperature changes

Employee must have the ability to see written documents, computer screens, and to adjust focus.

Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction.   Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make discriminations in sound.

PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

• Adherence to the TA objectives as stated in the agreed Turnaround Charter
  • Execution within defined window
  • Adherence to approved budget
  • Full execution to agreed scope
• Achieve SHE metric targets for safety and environmental incidents
• Adherence to all company standards and processes
• Proper reporting on project status and metrics.

Our culture is one of honesty and integrity with an emphasis on safety, health and environmental performance.On our team, people are acknowledged for embracing new practices that help create real value for customers.