Site Manager
Anaergia
About Us:
Anaergia (TSX: ANRG) is a global leader in offering sustainable solutions to produce clean energy and the conversion of waste streams to resources. Through a proven portfolio of proprietary technological solutions, Anaergia maximizes the generation of renewable energy, diversion of waste from landfills, and reduction of greenhouse gases for customers across the municipal, industrial, commercial, and agricultural sectors. Headquartered in Burlington, ON, and through its multiple subsidiaries across North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, Anaergia is trusted at more than 1,600 installations globally.
Job Overview:
Be Anaergia’s main point of contact on-site to the customer, sub-contractors, and Anaergia personnel. Consistently manage the assigned jobs by managing all the Site Activity from the site establishment until the handover to the commissioning team, meeting, and possibly improving timing and costing. This role will be site-based in the US, with the primary location in Carlsbad, CA.
Job Responsibilities:
Goals
- Daily morning site meetings to be held with all sub-contractors, vendors, and Anaergia personnel to ensure planning, coordination, and cooperation between these sub-contractors and vendors are archived
- Daily morning feedback discussions with clients on activities completed and planned for the day, as well as any cooperation needed from the clients.
- Coordinate with the Project Manager to ensure that the project timelines, scope, and budget are adhered to as per the contract.
- Ensure the application of the highest safety standards in the erection and start-up phase, as well as full compliance with the safety rules
- Maintain and improve the project budget
- Maintain and improve the job schedule
- Achieve the Customer Satisfaction rate
- Fulfill the agreed daily reporting with reliable data and within the requested deadline
- Regarding the erection, provide risk analysis, develop and manage a mitigation plan
- Identify opportunities to increase revenues and GM to be pursued in cooperation with the PM
- Ensure the consistent "hand-over" to the Customer, delivery of an effective, safe, and reliable "product"
Tasks, Authority, and Liability
- manage all the activities from the site establishment until the handover to the end user
- read, analyze, and understand the contract, meeting Anaergia's obligations
- estimate, develop, and agree on job schedules and budgets with the PMs
- manage, meet, and possibly improve the budget and the timing
- monitor and plan the delivery of supplies and services (expediting & logistics) unless it is not covered by the supply chain
- manage directly and/or via contractors the Quality Assurance / Quality Control
- coordinate all resources involved in site activities, both internal or external (outsourcers/sub-contractors), either through the updating and distributing of detailed schedules and/or setting regular site meetings
- early identification of project risks for and early adoption of appropriate countermeasures
- within the limits of site-related matters (erection and start-up) and concerning the agreed project communication plan, manage the relationship with the Customer’s project leader
- manage relationships with vendors and sub-contractor for what is concerning technical issues and organization of tasks, including technical correspondence, leaving to the PM the management of contractual-related communication
- ensure the plant and all the supplies, in general, comply with the applicable codes and regulation
- support the tests of components
- collect and deliver to the PE the whole set of documents with red mark-up to enable the production of the “as built” release
- feed-back the office-based team (PE/EE&AUT/DM/PM/AE) with lessons learned for continuous improvement
- create, update, and deliver the reporting per the agreed reporting plan.
The CM/SM is authorized to:
- Sign correspondence to customers and vendors within the limits agreed upon (communication plan)
- Instruct the sub-contractor for the extra-order task and request the PO regularization within the limits of Anaergia's scope of supply and the limits of the allowed and agreed field budget
- Manage T&L expenses within the project-related assigned budget
Safety and Quality related responsibilities
The CM/SM is responsible for rigorously applying the company rules regarding project development, ensuring the accuracy of reported data, and respecting the contractual/agreed-upon deadlines.
Compliance to Safety is priority one for Anaergia
The erection and start-up represent two of the most critical phases regarding the safety risks. The CM/SM is called to respect all general and project-specific safety rules, applying and ensuring the application of all. It is also the CM’s/SM’s responsibility to ensure that all the people involved and engaged in site activities are adequately trained regarding the activity they are called to perform. The CM/SM is responsible for notifying all misses and eventually claiming to stop activity in case of severe negligence/risks.
Competencies/Qualifications:
Education
Holds a technical graduation in one of the following: Civil Engineering / Mechanical engineering/ Electrical Engineering/ Chemical Engineering, Technician or equivalent
Experience
Minimum 3 years experience as Construction/Site manager in Industrial Plant construction.
Technical/Special Competencies
- Deeply understands and can manage contracts for supplying complex plants
- Is fully skilled in reading and understanding technical drawings, documents, specification
- Is knowledgeable in all the disciplines involved with erection (civil, mechanical, electrical, instrumental, etc.)
- Is knowledgeable in construction codes and regulation
- Is knowledgeable in quality control of all supplies
- Is experienced in training resources on safety and technical matters
- Is experienced in managing relationships with Customers
- Is experienced in leading and coordinating the assigned resources
- Is knowledgeable in “site” project administration
- Is used to manage detailed job schedules
- Some experience in purchasing
- Fluent in English
Cross-functional competencies
Act with professionalism and the right “sense of priority.” The CM/SM must understand how activities affect other functions and how other functions can influence the achievement of the goals, either positively or negatively.
Competences include, but are not limited to:
- Strong leadership based on technical competencies to gain discipline and respect for the managed resources
- Some knowledge of “company management” and how the projects’ result, either forecasted or actual, do affect overall company management concerning structural growth and other investments
- Have some biogas specific competencies
Hierarchy
The CM/SM reports to the Director of Operations at an organizational level and has wide autonomy with organizing field activity but reports to the PM for:
- Consistency of the delivered scope of supply
- Compliance with the project budget
- Compliance with the job schedule
For additional information on Anaergia, please visit www.anaergia.com
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Anaergia provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Anaergia will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.