Technical Manager, Onsites & APSA

1. Operations Support: Provides support to the Operations personnel by leading reliability risk assessments (such as vulnerability studies) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA). Provides technical support to regions and assists in troubleshooting. Ensures operations reports are updated monthly, invoicing information is accurate and available for month-end reporting. Provides support in budgeting process and capital planning, providing justification for such investments and leading their execution

2. Asset Efficiency: Is responsible to assess the technical efficiency of the assets and work with the field personnel to ensure these efficiencies are maintained at their design level.  Establishes operational KPI’s and analyzes plants performance and implements improvement initiatives. 

3. Technical Training: Ensures that appropriate training material for the operation of the assets is available for the operations staff to perform training, and will directly provide training when required. Develops and optimizes operations SOP’s for standard and non-standard installations. 

4. Asset management: Manages national programs and initiatives to ensure commonality in approach and efficiency in execution.  Ensures that best practices and “lessons-learned” are captured in ALC operating procedures and these practices are effectively transmitted and implemented nationally.  Leads the implementation of Group documents and initiatives on these assets.

5. Technical Resource: Provides technical assistance with regards to Onsite and Floxal technology with project engineers on non-standard installations to minimize the total cost of ownership, including training plan on SOP’s. Provides operations strategy and budget estimates to the Commercial team for new business opportunities.  Develops an international network of contacts with regards to onsite technology and imports the best practices to Canada. 

6. Continuous improvement: Works in cooperation with cross-functional teams to continuously improve the work processes and reach the company’s objectives. Promotes experience sharing. Coordinates the technical assistance provided by other groups. 

1. Technical abilities: Masters a concept, tools and methods related to his/her job, meets or exceeds professional requirements of his/her field of work, keeps abreast of progress in his/her field.

2. Planning skills: Defines objectives and the means to achieve them, determines all required resources, anticipates future situations and establishes work plans, efficiently allocates or makes use of available resources, acts according to plans and establishes priorities, uses efficient methods, systems and work tools.

3. Decision-making skills: Considers all factors before making a decision, makes quick decision when necessary, accepts consequences and risks involved.

4. Coaching skills: Clearly establishes performance criteria, finds solutions to problems by consulting team members, understands and listens to the concerns of all individual team members, gives ideas in clear and appropriate language.

5. Leadership: Positively influences others, easily obtains cooperation from others, is concerned with people as much as with results.

6. Initiative: Initiates actions, ideas or solutions spontaneously on his/her own, undertakes action without waiting directives, uses all of his/her resources before asking for help, establishes his/her performance objectives and deadlines.