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Senior Manager Biogas Systems Engineering

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Located in Newark, DE.

Job title

Senior Manager Biogas Systems Engineering

Contract Type

Regular

Publication date

2021-01-21

Country

United States

Company presentation

World leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health, Air Liquide is present in 80 countries with approximately 66,000 employees and serves more than 3,6 million customers and patients. Oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen have been at the core of the company's activities since its creation in 1902. Air Liquide's ambition is to be the leader in its industry, delivering long-term performance and acting responsibly.

Entity and activity description

Air Liquide is helping to draw the contours of the energies of tomorrow and seeks to introduce scientific and technological innovations into society that will open up new markets while addressing today's economic and environmental challenges.

In a world where energy needs and sources are changing rapidly, the ability to transform organic resources into renewable and totally carbon-free energy is poised to become part of the new energy mix. The energy produced in this way offers the advantage of being easy to store and responsive to the need for sustainable heating and clean transportation in modern societies.

To this end, the Air Liquide Biogas team embodies the ambition of the Air Liquide group, developing global solutions for biomethane upgrading. We are present across the biomethane supply chain: production from organic and farm wastes, purification, liquefaction, packaging, transportation and distribution. Using Air Liquide's innovative membrane technology, we are able to separate methane and carbon dioxide to generate high quality biomethane.

With over 50 biogas sites worldwide and more than 100 years of experience in gas separation, Air Liquide is in a position to provide clean energy solutions for power and transportation to our customers and the community.

Job Responsibilities

The Senior Manager Biogas Systems Engineering manages the process to design and engineer systems to meet customer requirements for Biogas upgrading, effectively managing a team of engineers and the lines of communication between the engineering team, the technical sales teams and the customers. The Senior Manager is accountable for the performance of the engineering portfolio, ensuring high quality technical design packages and commercial proposals with focus on safety and customer satisfaction and is responsible for assigning work packages, forecast resource needs, and controlling costs.  In addition, this role has responsibility for developing and executing a strategy for continuous improvement for the department. 

Duties and Responsibilities 

• Develop, promote and maintain professional relationships with key landfill market customers through prompt creative solutions


• Develop new technical solutions to meet customers' evolving requirements and manage technical integrity of each project in the assigned portfolio.


• Manage the overall engineered systems portfolio including budget estimate, cost competitiveness and delivery time.


• Coordinate internal and external design reviews, HAZOPs, etc. for new products and new system designs, participate in project commissioning as required.


• Develop and execute strategy for continuous improvement, including standardization of products to create opportunities for cost reduction and schedule efficiencies and development of tools to monitor and measure engineering progress, and provide near real time cost information and overall status reporting and document control of engineering designs.


• Evaluate engineering tasks and workflows to eliminate unneeded hours or equipment and  focus on value added engineering, consolidating, and reducing variability in BOM's with suppliers.


• Ensure effective systems of communication between technical sales and system engineering groups to ensure workload of engineering and fabrication requirements is assigned and forecast out at least one year. 


• Supervise, manage, and mentor a team of Project and Process Engineers who are responsible for delivering high quality system designs and cost estimates to the sales organization that meet customer requirements for Biogas upgrading.


• Assign project managers, engineers and other professionals to projects and manage the overall project budget, including but not limited to engineering labor hour budget, monitoring budgeted vs actual engineering hours on a regular basis.


• Assess the individual performance of each direct report, build a succession plan for the team and key roles.


• Develop and maintain a relationships with vendors and management of third party engineering firms assisting in developing new products, new system designs and cost estimates, working within the framework of Air Liquide's supply management team and delegation of authority and coordinate with other project entities in GMT Americas and in AL  to plan and schedule resources and ensure projects are adequately staffed to achieve schedule requirements.

Qualifications & Competencies

Required 

• Bachelor's Degree in Technical Discipline (Preferably Chemical or Mechanical Engineering)


• Minimum 10+ years of equipment/technology commercial, business development and/or engineering experience


• Minimum 3+ years managing a commercial or technical team


• Demonstrates strong process and operational safety behavior at all times 


• Excellent communication skills to be utilized not only with external customers, but also internally with other groups (eg., management, Solutions Development, OTF, Advanced Technology, Systems Engineering, etc.)


• Demonstrated business acumen


• Must be willing to take the initiative and be strongly self-directed

Preferred 

• MBA is highly desirable


• 15+ years of equipment/technology commercial, business development and/or engineering experience


•  Direct commercial or technical experience with Biogas and/or ALaS portfolio of technologies


• Knowledge and understanding of membrane systems and/or willingness to quickly learn to become a Design Authority

Additional Information

Working Conditions 

• Office environment


• Consistent travel primarily domestic with some international of 20%, with busy times requiring 50% or more  

This position is identified as "safety-sensitive" and is subject to random drug testing in accordance with the current Drug and Alcohol Policy and/or state law. 

The candidate must have valid unrestricted employment authorization in the U.S. and must not require visa sponsorship now or in the future. 

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