Project Manager

Project Manager

BUSINESS: Refinery Valves – DeltaValve and TapcoEnpro

LOCATION: Coimbatore, India

DIRECT REPORTING: Senior Director - Coimbatore Business

FUNCTIONAL REPORTING: Sr. Manager, Project Management

CIRCOR International is one of the world’s leading providers of mission critical flow control products and services for the Industrial and Aerospace & Defense markets. The Company has a product portfolio of market-leading brands serving its customers’ most demanding applications. CIRCOR markets its solutions directly and through various sales partners to more than 14,000 customers in approximately 100 countries. The Company has a global presence with approximately 3,200 employees and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.

About CIRCOR Refinery Valves

CIRCOR Refinery Valves consists of two product brands, DeltaValve and TapcoEnpro, offering a diverse range of products and services, mainly for the oil and gas and petrochemical industries.

TapcoEnpro: For nearly seven decades, TapcoEnpro has been the leader in providing severe service, critical flow, high temperature control valves, electrohydraulic actuators and other essential products and services to the global refining and petrochemical industry. Our multi-step process includes research, conceptualization, feasibility assessment, establishing design requirements, preliminary design, detailed design, production planning, and finally production. TapcoEnpro valve and actuator service handles the needs of customers throughout the world with the capability to perform complete valve overhauls in the field with an emphasis on safety, quality, and on time completion.

DeltaValve: DeltaValve is a world leader in the design, engineering, and manufacturing of critical service equipment for delayed coking. Our renowned fully automated coke drum unheading valves have become a global standard for safe, reliable, and easy-to-operate coke drum unheading. This revolutionary technology was the foundation for many other innovations, including the Top Unheading Valve, Retractable Center Feed Injection Device, Planetary Roller Screw Electric Actuator, Isolation Valves that are in-line maintainable, Auto-Switch Coke Boring/Cutting Tools, and other related equipment.

POSITION DETAILS

Position Summary

As the Project Manager, with little to no guidance, you will have ultimate responsibility for the assigned, complex projects from the release by the Sales Department until final shipment and installation at the customer’s site. You will proactively anticipate the needs of the projects, the customers, and the project flow to independently manage those needs and prepare for or avoid conflicts or risks. This includes, but is not limited to, being able to comprehensively review and thoroughly understand all project related specifications, documents, and requirements included in Capital and Aftermarket projects.

Principal Activities

• Manage and support preliminary negotiations with Sales, quotations, and purchase orders
• Manage and drive activities related to project budgets, order acknowledgement, customer specifications, ITP, customer drawings, BOMs, weld maps, WPSs, PQRs, and International Certifications when applicable.
• Coordinate with Operations and Quality to develop a comprehensive and accurate manufacturing plan based on the customer’s specifications.
• Monitor compliance to customer specifications.
• Manage customer relationships and expectations with proactive communication and managing to commitments.
• Coordinate with operations to develop a comprehensive and accurate production schedule which meets or improves on the customer’s requirements.
• Monitor (expedite as necessary) and report on the production schedule.
• Monitor costs and keep project on budget.
• Direct the project documentation submittal, distribution and return processes ensuring on-time processing of complete and accurate job documentation.
• Manage contract administration: change orders, billings/collections, letters of credit, bonds, invoices, transportation, etc.
• Ensure Customer Projects are engineered, purchased, manufactured and tested in accordance with the customer’s requirements and committed ship date.
• Organize and administrate pre-production meetings with Engineering, Purchasing, Manufacturing and Quality Assurance.
• Support administration of Warranty and Goodwill.
• Conduct Coordination Meetings with Engineering, Purchasing, Manufacturing and Quality Assurance.
• Develop and lead the mitigation plan for individual projects to identify any risks and opportunities; facilitate and overcome obstacles.
• Responsible for resolving project-related customer concerns and gathering and providing answersto product, quality and documentation related questions.
• Coordinate and attend Pre-Assembly and Final Inspection meetings with the customer at subcontractors/vendors and other Company sites.
• Report project status to the customer and leadership.
• Manage all aspects of project execution in Company PLM and ERP systems.