Production Manager (Plant Supervisor)
Location
Barauni | India
Job description
Job Description and Qualifications
POSITION SUMMARY
Purpose
Reporting to the Facility Manager, the Plant Supervisor is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the Hydrogen and Air separation plants based on the Air Products Barauni Plant, organizing the shift operating team to operate the plants to facilitate attainment of the company’s standards.
Working alongside the Maintenance Manager to ensure the smooth and reliable operation and maintenance of all aspects of the Air Products Barauni facility. Deputizing for the Plant Supervisor when required.
Nature and Scope The Barauni Plant is Air Products first fully owned and operated plant in north India; it represents a significant investment and includes “State of the Art” technology which makes it advanced Hydrogen Plant within the Corporation.
The plant consists of 2 main elements: -
- 1 x Large Technip Steam Methane Reformer (SMR) with Air Products PSA’s for H2 purification.
- An Air Products Air Separation Unit (ASU) Producing Nitrogen
The customer is Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IOCL), Barauni refinery and the Air Products plant is located within the customer’s site. The products from the Air Products plants go directly to the customer as part of their refinery expansion. There is a high level of integration between IOCL and Air Products with respect to feedstock’s, products and utilities. The products are critical to refinery unit operations.
The plants run on continuous basis and there is a strong emphasis of high reliability and high efficiency with contractual penalties against Air Products for underperformance.
Air Products owns, operates and maintains Hydrogen Plants and ASUs around the globe with Operations in over 50 countries, in excess of 100 hydrogen plants and 350 ASU’s. As such we have a wealth of expertise and have well established work processes in place for the reliable and efficient operation of our plants. The Plant Supervisor will be expected to work closely with the Global Communities of expertise and ensure consistent compliance with these work processes.
Prior to facility operation the individual will have a period of training before plant commissioning begins, where they will have a role setting up the permanent site team, establishing site procedures and involvement in the plant commissioning.
The role will involve working closely with Air Products Global Hydrogen communities.
DIMENSIONS
Plant Products (Approximate): H2: 50 KTPA
N2: 4,000 Nm3/h
Number of Direct Reports: Shift Team (Total 10 people)
PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Understand and implement Air Products EH&S work processes including emergency preparedness and incident management.
- Support of all aspects of the day-to-day operation of the plants, including troubleshooting plant process problems, directly supervising daily plant activities and driving plant projects.
- Providing support as the most senior plant individual, even outside of normal working hours, making sound decisions and checking compliance of all operational requirements.
- Maintain staffing levels in the shift team.
- Manage the Operations team to ensure adequate continuous operating cover, and additional cover if required in case of unplanned situations, through commissioning, start up and operation, ensuring 24hour stable operation.
- Ensuring periodic maintenance tasks are completed as required by the operations team.
- Identifying maintenance concerns, then developing and implementing corrective / preventative measures with the maintenance team.
- Working with the shift engineer and support resources to achieve productivity targets.
- Facilitate the use of, and compliance to AP EH&S standards such that EH&S performance continually improves and performance targets are met or exceeded.
- Support the commissioning of the Barauni plants to ensure the start-up is successful; the plants are properly handed over to Global Operations in accordance with Air Products standards and all outstanding testing, work and punch list items identified with a path to closure.
- Implement Air Products work processes to achieve ongoing operating excellence in the areas of customer satisfaction, efficiency, productivity, product integrity, reliability, quality, cost reduction and continuous improvement.
- Achieve alignment with Air Products global organization by close liaison with Air Products Regional and Global Operations, Engineering and Support Service Departments.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor degree in Engineering. (Typically Chemical, Mechanical or Electrical).
- Direct experience in operation and management of large Steam Methane Reformers for hydrogen production or similar technologies for example ammonia, methanol etc. Experience in Cogen and Gas Turbine operation would be an advantage.
- Minimum 10 years’ experience in gas, petrochemical, or related industries.
- Minimum 3-5 years’ experience in Plant Management positions.
- BOE/Boiler operation certificate will be an added advantage.
- Must have extensive coordination experience in a multi team environment.
- Strong leadership, interpersonal skills and customer relation skill.
- Demonstrated ability to work in matrix organization, across functional and reporting relationships.
- Excellent Communication & coordination skills.
- Able to handle communication with customer.
- Wide technical knowledge in gas operations and engineering.
- Fluent oral English and excellent written English.
- Knowledge of Hindi will be an added advantage.
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