- This role is crucial to the cluster’s industrial performance (in process safety, reliability and efficiency), functioning as a technical lead and interface between Cluster Operations, Industrial Projects, Procurement, engineering & technology vendors, and group technical experts.
Key Responsibilities:
Technical Lead/Expert
- Support and guide cluster operations compliance to Group (GTs)/Industrial Standards and help devise maturity roadmaps to reach industrial best practices.
- Lead and/or participate in technology evaluation and selection considering total cost of ownership.
- Participate in supplier evaluation and audits ensuring supplier technical compliance, capacity and capability for support throughout the life of assets.
- Provide technical support to Cluster Operations to implement asset integrity strategies supporting safety, reliability and efficiency targets.
- Propose or review proposals for implementing or integrating new technologies,tools, methods and procedures while adhering to management of change process.
- Participate in the development of project feasibility ensuring that system maintainability, operability and cybersecurity and relevant standards are respected.
Safety and Compliance Management
- Interpret regulatory requirements, Group Industrial Policy, and IMS documents to implement and maintain compliant operations within the OT and Instrumentation domain.
- Participate in the AMEI cluster incident review process at the request of the reliability team and proposed continuous improvement actions.
- Lead and/or participate in selected incident investigations, ensuring appropriate Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and capitalization of lessons learned.
- Provide leadership and guidance to drive continuous improvement for process safety related to OT and Instrumentation.
- Support the development of selected risk assessments for new and existing assets and the implementation of subsequent action plans.
- Support selected local and Group level IMS audits as a technical auditor for the OT and Instrumentation field, and provide technical assistance to address audit findings.
Design & Project Implementation
- Review and evaluate proposed changes to existing plants via the Management of Change (MOC) process and ensuring technical validation and assessment of proposed mitigations.
- Ensure subsidiary compliance with directives from Air Liquide Group related to OT and Instrumentation.
- Provide relevant technical expertise in the identification, proposal, appraisal, and selection of relevant technologies to meet project objectives including consideration of overall Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), reliability, and efficiency.
- Participate or lead in defining clear technical scopes of work as input for sourcing and project implementation.
Operations & Maintenance
- Provide operations support within the domain of OT and Instrumentation on complex troubleshooting.
- Issue lessons learned to prevent recurrence of incidents.
- Work closely with entity engineering disciplines to ensure the latest technology is identified and deployed.
- When requested, review plant level operating procedures (SOP) for scope, technical accuracy, and best practice identification.
- Be aware of Group initiatives for OT and Instrumentation from the Group Industrial Direction, SIS, and others. Provide interpretation to entities for implementation and participate in the development of such programs.
Collaboration & Training
- Work in a collaborative manner with entities and group functions.
- Mentor and support developing employees to expand knowledge sharing.
- Encourage clear and consistent communication, participation, and consensus building with Industrial Asset & Technology customers (Industrial Projects, Key Programs, and Operations), ensuring adequate handover and ownership of program/project deliverables.
Are you a MATCH?
Experience
- 5 - 10+ years of process industry experience.
- 5+ years of experience in programmable control system specification, configuration, networking, commissioning, and technical support, preferably with a mix of control systems, but at least expert level in one DCS system.
- Field experience in industrial control and automation.
- Excellent writing skills including writing project proposals, estimates, control narratives, and scope definitions.
- Experience with Virtual Operating Systems.
Education
- B.Tech Instrumentation/ Electrical Light Current
- B. Degree in Electronic/Control Systems/Instrumentation & Control /Computer Engineering
Specific Knowledge & Know-How
- Ability to read and develop functional diagrams.
- Knowledge of advanced control techniques.
- Practical understanding of computer networking and cyber security.
- Familiarity with industrial control systems communication protocols.
- Able to perform loop tuning.
- Good knowledge of field instrumentation including gas analysers
- Solid understanding of different instrumentation types, especially analyzers and flowmeters.
- Basic knowledge of cryogenic air separation process technology, distillation process technology, or Steam Methane Reformers.
- Knowledge of Google Office Productivity Suite (Drive, Doc, Sheets, etc.).
- Knowledge of MAXIMO or other ERP systems.
- Knowledge of Alarm Management Tools, APC Techniques and Software (AFF, MVPC)
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- The mission of the Treasury COE Team members is to manage bank relationships and group compliance with the support of local CFO / teams and ensure all affiliates have enough funds to run their operations. He/she will be the direct point of contact with local CFOs, GBSand clusters for treasury matters.
He/she provides support to Corporate Finance for the ST/LT funding of the entities.
At the EAMEI / HHC GBU level, his/her role involves
- Financial Risk management responsibility for all entities in EAMEI / HHC GBU
- Funding and Financial Investment Management and Reporting
- Leading Treasury Projects for EAMEI / HHC GBU
- Leading other treasury functions at EAMEI / HHC GBU as may be assigned
- Act as a back-up for other EAMEI / HHC CoE Treasury team members for their geographical scope
For the South African Region he/she will be leading treasury matters, in line with the main contributions highlighted below, and manage bank relationships and group compliance with the support of local CFO / teams and ensure all affiliates have enough funds to run their operations. He/she provides support to Corporate Finance for the ST/LT funding of the entities.
Financial Risk management & Insurance Management
- Executes hedges within financial policy principles in line with group policy
- Manage foreign exchange coverage, validate hedging strategy both FX and interest rate.
- Manage FX exposure across the scope.
- Ensure the implementation of the KTP Web tool and FX deals reporting when local hedging is performed due to local constraints (Aim, benefits, etc).
- Define BCP with support of the entity and ALEBS to ensure the continuity of treasury activity
Cash and Liquidity Management
- Own the full process of Cash and Liquidity management with the entities and ALEBS team.
- Maintain local cash pooling structure within the r entities.
- Supervise and contribute to treasury processes: weekly cash flow forecast, monthly operational actual cash flow
- Ensure all reports related to Treasury and cash projection management are done on time
- Monitor working capital and assist affiliates in improving their DSO, DIO and DPO.
Funding and Financial Investment Management and Reporting
- Support short term, long term funding and customer financing projects.
- Ensure proper control at entity levels of bank covenants, bank loan maturing and guarantees
- Drive implementation of factoring and supply chain financing solutions when applicable
- Support and ensure the deployment of any treasury project initiated by the CoE Treasury (encrypted payments, TMS, etc).
Performance, Quality & Conformity Management
- Ensure deliverables quality
- Ensure Service Level Agreement Compliance and report any dysfunction
- Ensure to implement the process improvements
- Manage and update Treasury procedures if needed.
- Manage Treasury Internal Control Reviews across EAMEI in coordination with Group Treasury and Head of COE
- Manage financial fraud and dispute cases
Bank Relationship Management and Treasury Administration
- Manage Bank relationships with the support of Local CFOs and Head of COE.
- Manage Defined KPIs, Ensure SLA compliance and reporting to the group, clusters and local countries
- Bank Portals Administration (updating authorized signatories, banking access rights...etc.)
- Drive the reduction of the number of bank accounts across the entities, review the bank fees and decide on an action plan to reduce transaction costs.
- Schedule regular meetings with core and local banks if any to review their performance and if needed take action to improve the level of the service
- Provide information to answer queries from management & external parties jointly with Local and BSC teams
- Provide treasury information/documentations as required by banks/financial institutions
Are you a MATCH?
- Bachelor degree in Finance, Mgmt, etc. Formal qualification in treasury (or master)
- 7+ years experience in Treasury activities including Africa and /Or MEI specificity
- Understanding of financial markets, financial instruments and debt instruments / Ability to work autonomously and be part of the broader team / Appropriate handling of sensitive information
Work experience
- Treasury and cash management
- Experience in shared service center
- Experience in a multinational company desirable
Functional Skills
- Strong knowledge of Treasury activities
- Strong Knowledge of ERP (Navision, SAP, Oracle, Gideon…) and Power BI (reporting tool)
- Google Suite and TAIG
Foreign language
- English Mandatory, French is an asset
Core Competencies & Knowledge
- Finance Expertise
- Business Acumen
- Digital/Financial/ Commercial Savvy
Complementary Capabilities
- Thinking & Partnering strategically
- Influencing for Change
- Managing conflict
- Analyzing and solving problems
- Professional manner and highly organized
- Proactive & adaptable
- Proven ability to meet deadlines
- Results oriented
- Good written and verbal communication, coaching skills
- Ability to be patient and methodical when resolving problems
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