Operational Excellence Asset Data Automation Manager - Allentown, United States - Air Products

Air Products

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Allentown, United States

3 weeks ago

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Mark Lane

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Description

At Air Products, our purpose is to bring people together to reimagine what's possible, collaborate and innovate solutions to the world's most significant energy and environmental sustainability challenges.

Grow with us as we embark on building tomorrow together by being the safest, most diverse and most profitable industrial gas company in the world.

Reimagine What's Possible

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., a Fortune 500 manufacturer of industrial gases, has an immediate opening for an Operational Excellence Asset Data Automation Manager.

A key enabler to business growth is data integrity and digitization to execute Air Products' large integrated projects globally, across all regions, seamlessly and effectively.

As an owner-operator, it is business critical to then operate these new assets most efficiently, leveraging data automation and digital twin technologies over the life of the asset.

Just as the Company's internal project execution efficiency can be bolstered through organization's data automation capabilities, the Operating phase of the asset will benefit from efficiencies by driving the full integration of work processes, tools, and systems used by the Operations and Maintenance organization.

In Air Product's "Build, Own, Operate" model, it is essential to modernize the current processes and systems under the leadership of an individual with experience in O&M work processes and asset data automation as well as data integration within an operating asset.

DIMENSIONS:

The role's objective is to provide global asset data automation requirements as well as continuous improvement of systems, tools, and processes to sustain Operational Excellence of the assets.

While the role will focus initially on one large scale operations location, the individual will be developing the vision and road map for how digital twins and data hubs will be used and kept evergreen at other sites in the future.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

This position is accountable for the following:

Responsible for all asset data automation-related activities for a green field complex operations site.
Work with Global Engineering organization and automation manager to enable handover of a data hub and develop a functioning digital twin for use by the AP O&M organization.
Work with Operational Excellence, Regional Operations technical support and Information Technology to identify the desired system automations between the new data hub and existing O&M data tools, in alignment with cross functional work processes.
Develop definition and documentation of data requirements with Engineering and OpEx stakeholders.
Support project IM managers to develop project specific IM plans and deliver IM scope on project.
Manage the asset data automation scope, services, budget, and schedule for OpEx data automation for each asset location which will receive a digital twin.
Maintain strong links with AP Digital Technology organization and strategic partners to ensure alignment on objectives and resources.
Keep aware of trends, best practices, and stateoftheart information management in the process industries to enable the strategic vision to be regularly updated and extended.
Establish asset data automation work processes including set up, implementation, and management of change (MOC), work process definition and adherence will be critical to the success of the digital twin over the life of the asset.
Drive and implement strategic plan toward Vision of true "digital twin."
Perform data integrity audits, as required, to ensure that data standards and nomenclature established are followed.
Ensure that the digital twin can be managed and updated by developing robust work processes for the asset undergoing change brought on by turnarounds and debottleneck projects.
Develop impactful training so that employees can leverage the benefits of a digital twin and be proficient in its use.
Ensure that required prequalifications of contractors/suppliers with respect to data automation capabilities are undertaken; integrate the technology needs of the project with the capabilities of the contractors, vendors, and client; propose/provide methods for connectivity and consulting to implement technology, if required
Scope will also include advising joint

- venture operating companies of which Air Products is a partner on whether to choose to adapt the data hub and develop a digital twin.

Define, support, and enforce standards and work practices to enable multioffice/company project execution (worksharing activities) and Electronic Data Interchange with suppliers, subcontractors, and vendors.

CRITICAL COMPETENCIES

Strong organization and planning skills
Knowledge of key OpEx and O&M systems sourcing (Technology, Hexagon, Document Management System, Subcontract Management, Construction Management, Maintenance, Mechanical Integrity, Plant Data Historians and Data Visualization platforms)
Strong influe