The Motiva Mechanical Engineer/Project Manager is accountable for delivering all aspects of major facility projects and venture projects in support of Motiva’s Supply and Distribution's transportation business.
This position involves 50% travel. A typical schedule may have you travel from Tuesday to Thursday 2 times a month.
Accountable to the Technical Manager and Technical Supervisor for Project Management of Major Capital Projects (from $100K to $10+ mil) from opportunity framing to commissioning & handover to operations. Key aspects of this position include leveraging the front-end development of the project in the Identify to Define phase and honoring the promise in the Execution phase by choosing the right contracts and contractors, selecting the right method of management, and delivering the value with tight control and supervision of those contracts and contractors
Project Development:
-Managing the Risks of the project effectively from Identify through Define stages.
-Develop the scope of the project through consultation and input from the various project stakeholders.
-Develop and implement a Project Execution Plan to deliver the goal and strategies of the project.
-Identify and appoint a suitable engineering consultant that will be responsible for developing the various design engineering packages required.
-Specify all the relevant Motiva and industry standards that design and construction of the facility must comply to.
-Develop all the relevant engineering packages required for the commercial biding and construction stages.
-Identify and apply for all the relevant permits that will be required for the construction and commissioning of the facility.
-Coordination of cross business unit teams during development and execution phases.
- Collaboration with Commercial Stakeholders.
Project Execution:
-Manage the execution of the project to ensure that the facilities are constructed without any HSSE incidents and within budget and schedule.
-Manage the design consultants to carry out and deliver the design engineering packages, tender documents, technical specifications, and all other deliverables expected from the consultant.
-Develop, implement, and execute the strategy for the commercial aspects of the project, including vendor identification and qualification, tender preparation, invitation to bid, technical and commercial evaluation and award.
-Manage the overall process for the appointment of contractors for the various construction packages.
-Prepare all relevant project execution procedures, specifications, and documentation that will be required to manage the project and report progress.
-Management of 3rd parties such as Norco and/or Oil Tanking ventures.
-Manage the HSSE standards at the site and ensure all the HSSE targets are delivered. Carry out frequent reviews of HSSE standards on site and continuously seek to improve the conditions.
-Embed a strong safety culture in the project team, contractors and workers on site.
-Prepare and implement appropriate spending procedures and frequently report the status of the spending to stakeholders, particularly actual vs. plan, commitments vs. plan, and latest estimate.
-Prepare and implement progress reports to track the progress of the overall project against the plan.
-Supervise the onsite construction activities of the project.
-Develop and implement a project quality and test plan to ensure the construction of the facility is done in accordance to this plan.
-Manage all the technical clarifications raised by the contractor through the project management consultant.
Commissioning and Handover:
-Prepare a commission procedure and checklist for the facility to ensure all aspects of the construction is completed and ready for commissioning.
-To liaise with operations to ensure all necessary operational commissioning procedures and requirements are in place.
-Prepare and execute a handover procedure, including relevant training for the operational team, documents and manuals.
Training and Mentoring Roles:
-Must be able to work in a Team environment to assist in development of direction and processes to enhance the effectiveness of the Technical Group.
-Provide Training and On Boarding for all new hire Project Managers and Engineers.
- Leads and inspires the Project Engineer Team members to deliver high quality, professional support to Operations and Business Development Stakeholders. Enables value adding project selection, completion and startup. Includes directing a team of engineers and contract resources in executing strategic project key to the Motiva Distribution portfolio.
- Provide Training and On Boarding for all new hire Project Managers and Engineers.
- Serve as a Technical Resource for the Project Engineers in this group as well as to the Terminals and in some cases to the Project Coordinators.
- Champion for Project Process. Development and Implementation.
-Responsible for Front End Engineering Design that includes Permitting and Transition to team members. Duties will include some oversight of project development and scoping for both Mechanical and Electrical projects, development of alternative solutions, equipment selection, contractor manager and some construction oversight. Additionally, ability to assure that Management of Change is effectively managed and communicated. Cost control and management are a key role of this position as is schedule management.
Includes MOC, Contract Board Submittals and Schedule initiation. Leverage experiences gained that will allow transition into the PM role for high visibility projects.
-Responsible for Technical Roll Out Initiatives, includes Technical Standard Review and development.
-The successful candidate will need to be able to work independently, without much daily contact and supervision from other Motiva staff.
-The successful candidate will also need to work as a team leader on direct assigned projects, or a team member on projects assigned to other Project Managers.
-The successful candidate will need to work closely with local project Operations personnel, Management and local Technical team, to safely deliver all agreed upon project aspects.-The position will require frequent travel to the job site to check on progress and demonstrate HSSE commitments by performing field HSSE leadership reviews.
-This position requires excellent communication skills across all levels of the organization.
-Communicating the impacts (changes required, timing of the project and resource impacts, etc.) to the end-user and the local management.
Requirements
Must be a U.S. Citizen, or hold a valid work visa that does not require sponsorship in order to legally work full-time in the United States.
Bachelor's degree in Mechanical engineering discipline with five (5+) years experience in project engineering and/or project management.
Skilled at managing contractors and consultants.
Have a proven track record of delivering projects on time and within budget with a focus on HSSE.
Experience in piping and civil structures is preferred.
Good knowledge of the interdisciplinary engineering fundamentals as applied to pipeline facilities and terminals.
Excellent communication skills with ability to engage and draw upon region and global experience and knowledge.
Reasonable familiarity with IT solutions (SAP PS, CAPEX Bay).
Registered PE is preferred but not required.
This position involves 50% travel. A typical schedule may have you travel from Tuesday to Thursday 2 times a month.
