Zone Maintenance Planner

About the role

• R10099040 Zone Maintenance Planner (Open)
• Location: Houston, TX (HO) - Cust. installations
• How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

Apply engineering expertise and project management skills to plan, design, and execute complex projects while ensuring safety, quality, and sustainability throughout the project lifecycle. (TAR = Turn Around)

Airgas is Hiring a Zone Maintenance Planner in Houston, TX!

At Airgas, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We are looking for YOU!

• Pay Range: $105k - $115k/annually
• Bonus: 10%
• Travel: Up to 25%
• Work schedule: Mon - Fri 8am - 4pm, or normal business hours

Essential Duties and responsibilities

• Accountable for safety, environmental and regulatory compliance
• Model safety behavior; enforce safety rules; establish safety culture
• Ensure effective utilization of the Turnaround (TAR) Process for ASU, CO2 and VSA locations.
• Assure roles/responsibilities regarding the TAR are clearly understood by all those involved
• Drive engagement; ensure alignment of the team with TAR objectives
• Ensure complete and timely integration of any Capital, Controls, Engineering or Operations projects scope within the TAR plan; report on its progress throughout the TAR process
• Ensure TAR development and execution is properly planned and staffed, including interfacing with Safety, Engineering, Controls & Operations to assure adequate participation
• Lead development of detailed plans/strategies for TAR execution, including HSE planning, contracting and procurement strategy, project controls, etc.
• Drive material management and QA/QC process throughout the TAR process
• Drive optimization of the TAR schedule and resource loading
• Recommend and manage appropriate TAR organization to deliver scope, schedule and cost requirements
• Ensure all pre-TAR work is completed and materials are received prior to outage
• Manage the scope change process
• Communicate to the Steering Team in a timely manner on TAR status, issues and concerns; provide solutions for open issues
• Assure issues are resolved in a timely manner to minimize impacts
• Provide accurate and timely reporting on cost and schedule performance during the TARs. Also complete the post TAR meetings and zone forecast reports.

Required Qualifications

• BS in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent experience
• 5 years of TAR management or project engineering experience
• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft office applications- Word, Excel, PowerPoint Project, Maximo and I-Procurement.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; demonstrated interpersonal skills
• Demonstrate proficiency in areas of procurement, evaluation and selection of contractors, contracts and negotiation
• Ability to work with all levels of personnel
• Comfortable in both corporate and field environments
• Ability to multitask, prioritize in periods of peak work volume
• Ability to work self directed, make sound decisions
• Knowledge of implementing and participating in continuous improvement procedures
• Experience supervising or managing projects from $250K to $10MM
• Willingness/ability to travel up to 25% of the time to fulfill responsibilities; can travel on short notice (2 to 10 days)
• Has full range of motion; ability to lift 50 lbs
• Able to climb ladders, work off elevated platforms/surfaces
• Able to enter confined spaces for inspection/testing, while wearing fall restraint and respirators
• Physical range of motion required to climb and descend ladders, work at heights above 50 feet

Preferred Qualifications

Prior industrial gas experience.

Benefits

We care about and support our Airgas Families. This is evident not only through our competitive compensation but also through a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision plans, short-term and long-term disability, life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), pre-tax commuter transportation benefit, parental leave, vacation, sick time, floating holidays, jury duty and funeral/bereavement leave, and paid holidays for all eligible full-time employees.

• Additionally, we offer our eligible employees a 401k plan with company matching funds, tuition reimbursement, discounted college tuition for eligible employees' dependents, and an Airgas Scholarship Program for dependent children.
• Associates who are members of collective bargaining units should review their bargaining agreement to determine whether they are eligible for some or all of the benefits described here and to see any special terms or conditions for eligibility.
• Your DIFFERENCES enhance our PERFORMANCE
• At Airgas, we are committed to building a workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.