Area Project Engineer II

Responsibilities

• Manage portfolio of projects in the assigned area.
• Execute small-medium projects.
• Develop project phases and execute to fulfill project scope while ensuring that industry standards, guidelines, and regulations are met, and that corporate and department standards, procedures, and policies are followed.
• Provide engineering and project management support to Messer manufacturing plants for new capital projects, expansions, and equipment modifications.
• Support corporate and division goals for GAP/HPO and productivity gains.
• Deliver successful cost saving, revenue, and cash generating projects in Supply using the Six Sigma methodology.
• Develop medium and long term productivity pipeline aligned with Region Americas supply strategy, ensuring adequate resources (people and CAPEX) are available.
• Work with leadership team to identify and prioritize projects across the region.
• Ensure alignment of Green Belt and Black Belt projects with RAS Supply priorities and critical projects.
• Project design and execution of new systems, upgrades, efficiency improvements, & service of existing customer installations.
• Develop project internal orders in accordance with company accounting procedures.
• Track project budget throughout the project and close in accordance with company accounting procedures.
• Lead development of customer-specific documentation: installation drawings, risk assessment/HAZOPs, PSSR, commissioning procedures, customer presentations/progress reports, customer turnover manuals, lessons learned/close-out reports, etc.
• Manage outsourced engineering and design functions, including interface and project management of consultants, A&E firms, and EPC contractors.
• Perform and/or support design of gas handling systems, including development of Process Flow Diagrams, P&IDs, BOMs, and gas panel drawings.
• Support Sales team at customer meetings as technical representative.
• Work with local Sales personnel to lead implementation of solutions to satisfy customer needs.
• Maintain corrective actions and maintain EMOC records for assigned projects.
• Identify potential GAP/HPO projects at assigned plants that can create cost savings and/or increased productivity.
• Work with stakeholders to develop GAP/HPO project proposals for submittal to division management.
• Determine parameters and metrics to measure GAP/HPO savings, and apply information collection techniques to gather supporting data.
• Support the business to improve existing processes and to create new ones to become more effective and efficient.
• Ensure sharing of best practices & lessons learned.
• Drive the organization to use common tools and methods to arrive at quicker, more transparent, data-based business decisions.
• Provide engineering and project management support to Messer manufacturing plants for new capital projects, expansions, and equipment modifications.
• Deliver successful productivity projects for RAS across the Supply functions of BSCM, CSCM, and Tonnage operations.
• Ensure timely execution of project implementation and pragmatic, sustainable, and accepted solutions; support identification and chartering of new projects.
• Timely communicate and report project progress, results, deviations from the plan, and associated risks to all relevant people within the area of responsibility; recognize and reward successes and celebrate accomplishments.
• Identify, translate, and promote best practices within the region, geographically and functionally; research and promote opportunities to replicate best practice from Six Sigma projects implemented in other Messer organizations and by benchmarking leading organizations.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Required Skills:
  • Experience with process equipment engineering; P&IDs, process piping, pressure vessels, instrumentation/controls, process safety reviews (HAZOP) and LOPA.
  • Computer literate including MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and AutoCAD.
  • Highly motivated and able to self-direct.
  • Leadership, communication, facilitation, influencing, interpersonal, project management & planning, analytical, MS-Office (especially Excel), fluent in English; knowledge of operations bulk and tonnage organization and business processes.
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