Job Title: TRACK Cost Control Administrator
Type of Role: Contract
Duration: 2 years
Location: Gonzales, LA
Work Schedule: 40 hours (more hours required during TA executions)
Global Edge is an international staffing firm connecting projects worldwide with the industry’s most talented project professionals. We work with high-level technical and commercial personnel across multiple industries including Oil and Gas, Energy, Renewables, Infrastructure, Automotive and Motorsports, IT, Marine, Mining, and more. With offices strategically located worldwide, Global Edge is known for the highest level of delivery for our clients and contractors.
Position Overview
Our team is currently seeking an experiencedTRACK Cost Controls Administrator in the Chemical industry for one of our clients.
The TRACK Cost Controls Administrator will be within the client’s Project Resource and Outage Support (PROS) Group supporting Turnaround execution for North America. The preferred candidate will be located onsite in Gonzalez, LA, Allentown, PA, Pasadena, TX, Long Beach, CA, or Edmonton, AB. This position requires the ability to travel 25-40% to support on-site turnaround execution. This role takes direction from the TAR Track Lead and reports to the TAR Project Control Manager.
Typical work week is 40 hours. Longer hours are required during Turnaround execution which may also require working weekends. Travel is required in U.S. and Canada, primarily California, U.S. Gulf Coast, Edmonton, Ontario, and U.S. Northeast. The work environment is diverse from an office setting to onsite operating field facilities.
Responsibilities & Essential Duties
- Key responsibilities in the areas of TRACK Administration, Site Badging & Headcount Accountability, Cost Reporting, Vendor follow-ups for expectations setting, invoicing issues & cost closure, SAP Services Requisitioner & Invoice approvals
- Serve as single point of contact between procurement and TAR execution team to ensure all contracts are implemented per bid documents (Pay formula, agreements, skills, schedules, and rates, configure materials module, etc).
- Develop badging and accountability strategy for each TAR in accordance with AP safety and security requirements. Work with outage team to ensure security (both guards and infrastructure/perimeter) is correctly implemented in support of the strategy. Monitor reporting to ensure fatigue and accountability guidelines are met and ensure plant mustering is fail-safe and timely for emergencies.
- Provide daily gate log & TRACK information to the outage team, including headcounts, manhours, burn rates, crew sizes, etc. for use in reporting and decision-making.
- Calculate net all contractor time daily and clear exceptions (missing in/out scans, schedules, moving scans, etc.). Review and approve contractor override hours; require approval documentation from vendor when needed.
- Create and upload Track Imports for Cost Objects (work orders, purchase orders), rates, etc. Create and assign new vendor work schedules incorporating site rules.
- Run daily non-allocated, non-accepted, rejected reports to ensure adherence to daily vendor timekeeper requirements. Audit Track data by running weekly cost reports to increase management visibility, enforce accountability, and assure work process adherence.
- Mentoring/coaching/onboarding of vendor timekeepers, vendor reconcilers, and Outage Team Members as needed; Provide training, and review expectations and deadlines.
- Support creating Service requisitioning, cost tracking & reporting, and proper invoicing/close out of all labor, material, and equipment purchased for North America turnarounds (U.S. and Canada) including interactions with vendors for resolving invoice issues as well as goods receiving in SAP.
- Authorize cost in Track once verification requirements are met; Send Authorized timesheets to vendors for invoicing. Ensure all final costs are received and balanced with Track upon vendor completion of work.
- Lead closeout effort for assigned outages by monitoring vendor invoicing, communicating deadlines, collaborating with procurement and outage team, and decommitting/increasing purchase orders as directed. Ensure vendor invoicing is in balance with verified final costs
Qualifications (Education, Experience, & Skills)
- Turnarounds TRACK and SAP Requisitioning experience (Minimum 5 years)
- Turnarounds Cost Controls experience (Minimum 5 years)
- Strong leadership, multi-tasking abilities
- Strong communication, organizational, and planning skills
- Self-motivated and willingness to learn and improve
- High ethical standards
- Willing to work a wide variety of scheduled days and hours
- Works professionally and harmoniously with employees, peers, management, support personnel, program participants and business area persons
- Utilizes positive and constructive attitude toward resolution of problems and conflicts
- Accepts direction, constructive feedback, and supervision
- Minimum high school diploma
- Proficient in the use of computers and business software, including Microsoft (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook), OneNote.
- SAP experience with VIM is a must
- TRACK software experience is a must
Global Edge Group, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Global Edge Group, LLC does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
