E&C_Project Director
Air Liquide E&C (Engineering & Construction) builds the Group’s production units - mainly air gas separation and renewable and low carbon hydrogen production units - and provides external customers with efficient, sustainable, customized technology and process solutions.
Overall Purpose: The E&C Project Director is in charge of supporting the Lead Business Developer and the project development team by striving for a competitive solution and planning an appropriate project strategy in all aspects: risks register, capex., technical integrity of the overall plant (ISBL+OSBL) on EPC basis . He/She is supporting the E&C Proposal manager in this phase. Once the project is awarded and handed over to the Project Execution phase, the E&C Project Director / E&C Project Manager is responsible for overall EPC Project Execution,optimizing continuously to deliver the EPC project in line with the safety, cost, schedule and reliability as approved by AL RIC. He/she is also actively supporting the OPD (AP) to ensure excellence in successful investment delivery.
Responsibilities: During the development phase up to the Handover to Execution:
Support the E&C proposal manager to coordinate/develop the most competitive execution and sourcing strategy (notably packages/involvement from affiliates), adapted to the final customer requirements, support under Proposal manager’s coordination with the following Validating proposal information, project execution related procedures / interface & site management, requirements necessary for installation (land, utilities, storage & prefabrication area…) to be fully integrated into the project definition, scope and execution Review & evaluate the overall performances of the proposal (budget, planning, scope, final technical solution, …) before the B meeting. Coordinate with related departments to evaluate the availability of the resources and competences. Initiate actions if any gaps. Inputs & review of overall project risks evaluation and be force of proposition to mitigate risks Double check the consistency / identifications of gaps between the E&C technical & commercial offers and final Gas contract and E&C-Affiliate contract Participate in cost estimation / vendor costs clarification notably site activities and challenge all the stakeholders to ensure the best AL competitiveness Review the solution and execution strategy is set up in line with compliance to AL rules and systems and any relevant external rules and guidelines During the Execution phase up to Handover to Operations:
Manage the Project Execution with Excellence in order to ensure overall performances, as defined during the Handover (Technical Performances, safety, Capex, budget, schedule, reliability, Scope, Risks,…) Contract, manage, optimize and challenge external/internal suppliers, including internal E&C to optimize and meet the performance (budget, schedule, ..) within the approval received from RIC Ensure the submission schedule and content of documents necessary for permits application is known in time and met, to ensure overall FIP met in line with the gas contract, or at least to ensure overall FIP met in line with the contract between E&C and Affiliate Manage Changes and support the OPD(or AP) for final customers negotiation, if needed Ensure the capitalization/ lesson learnt collection and consolidation for the project and hand-over to the designated company resources in line with company development objectives. (eg. strategy / schedule / vendors selection .. for future projects). Safety / Quality Assurance / Risk Management/ IMS and general activities
Ensure that developed execution strategy and people assignment will address all necessary aspects related to Safety, Quality and Risk Management & IMS Ensure Safety/Quality/Risks management processes are applied during the entire execution phase