Turnaround Operations Manager (Louisiana) -Austin Industrial

Austin Industries is one of the nation’s largest, most diversified U.S.-based construction companies. With more than 7,000 employee-owners, Austin Industries provides nearly every type of civil, commercial and industrial construction services through the expertise of our operating companies: Austin Bridge & Road, Austin Commercial and Austin Industrial.

Austin Industrial, Inc. delivers premier maintenance, construction, and soft craft services to the nation’s leading producers of oil, gas & chemicals; energy; and manufactured goods. As a merit shop, employee-owned company that self-performs more than 95% of a typical project scope, we pride ourselves on helping our customers maximize their return on investment.

Functional Areas of Responsibility

• Business growth


• Account management


• Customer satisfaction


• Develop and manage teams


• Contract administration


• Successful relationship with engineers, service suppliers and vendors, etc.


• Seeking internal/external growth opportunities, building strategies for execution


• Schedule reporting and performance processes


• Financial performance


• Productivity performance


• Development and annual reviews of subordinates


• Compliance with company policies and procedure


• Safety and quality performance

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

Contract Administration

• Know prime contracts and assure staff execution of the requirements.


• Assign and maintain effective staff representation on accounts.


• Administer Readiness Reviews for new projects


• Develop and implement transition plans for new work.


• Leads the re-bid process.


• Develops KPI reporting requirement process, and ensures effective delivery


• Holds staff, customers, subcontractors, and vendors accountable to the performance of the agreements.


• Manage timely billing and receivables performance.


• Quarterly customer review process ownership

Cost and Productivity Management

• Review monthly financial reports and takes corrective actions to bring productivity and cost performance within expectations.


• Analyze performance metrics for sites.


• Review the AIMS dashboard report to ensure required performance metrics are met or exceeded. Ensure continuous improvement initiatives are established and achieved.


• Review productivity reports with project teams at regular intervals and ensure that management is informed on cost and schedule results for the work and how it compares with the budget. Take appropriate measures to ensure productivity is equal to or better than estimate productivity.


• Profit/loss accountability to include proper project controls and proactive measures to meet or beat budgeted costs.


• Establish and maintain job cost reporting in accordance with company policy. Approve the conversion of bid documents to the various cost codes in the Job Cost Statement and prepare monthly Job Status Reports for review by management. 

Scheduling

• Develop comprehensive execution plans, schedules, and critical path actions for unit shutdowns, overhauls, and restarts.


• Ensure turnaround work processes are effectively managed in accordance with customer workflow process.


• Schedule and coordinate all resources as needed to meet requirements of all sites.

Quality

• Ensure projects are completed to all applicable quality requirements.


• Ensure the sites process for inspection of work is comprehensive, meets the contract requirements, and is timely administered


• Periodic reviews of inspection documentation to assure policy and contract requirements are met, inclusive of verifying there is a robust process for follow up inspections on all non-compliant work.

Relationships

• Develop and maintain the trust of the customers and engineers.


• Reviews strategic plan initiatives with key customers, ensuring alignment and progress to Strategic Plans.


• Ensures Austin’s site leader is in good standing with customer staff.


• Personnel development and succession planning.

Safety and Environmental

• Responsible for the overall safety performance of assigned sites.


• Ensure CARE is effectively utilized by all staff, and that safety management processes are effectively established.


• Participates on corporate steering teams to ensure strategic plans are in place to ensure sustained performance in safety.


• Participates in site safety rituals, and ensures they are effective in sustaining a safe work culture at assigned businesses.


• Sponsors incident investigations and ensures action management processes are functioning.


• Perform safety observations at assigned projects, assessing the effectiveness of safe work practices at each site.


• Ensure all environmental obligations required by contracts and regulatory agencies are fulfilled.

Other

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Experience

• Minimum of 10 years in a maintenance operations management role


• Experience in managing Site Turnaround operations


• General competency in maintenance operations, specific management capability
  in at least three of the following areas: civil, structural steel, fixed equipment,
  piping, I&E, soft craft, and bulk loading. This includes a good knowledge of craft
  skillsets, work planning, estimating, scheduling, and work execution

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

• See the “Know Your Rights” poster available in English and Spanish.


• See the “Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision” poster available in English and Spanish.

No Third-Party Inquiries Please

• This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy. The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so (i.e., payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement). 

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