Employment
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Project Manager
Position is responsible for the execution of EPC Projects or Turnaround Projects. Manage all office and field personnel included in contract. Chair all applicable meetings and report to client. Provide condition status to client and advise of any corrective measures needed and participate in the implementation. Keep home office informed of and involved in daily progress and contract compliance.
Typical Duties:
Procure and set up all field facilities necessary for operation
Establish reporting requirements of subordinate personnel.
Develop project plan by defining scope of work, developing WBS, preliminary estimates, budgets, team members and responsibilities, QA/QC requirements, and establishing the procedures and controls to be used.
Evaluate for client and recommend Engineering and/or Construction Contractor for project as required.
Oversee and approve work of outside contractors
Establish document control plan for each project and ensure compliance
Issue and receive project correspondence distribute as necessary
Review and approve technical drawings and documents as required
Review and approve contractor requisitions and invoices
Review and approve deviations to the project plan and engineering design
Schedule and conduct project meetings with contractor, client and staff.
Report project status (cost, schedule and resources) on a timely basis.
Develop recovery plan for project problems.
Chair all progress/status/planning meeting and presentation meetings with client in a thorough, timely and effective manner
Report daily with required hard copy deliverables.
Conduct random field quantity survey of material receipts
Conduct random audit of contractor personnel to insure attendance
Oversee development of contractor performance audit by staff
Administer sub-contractor performance evaluation (back to top)
Project Controls Manager
Position is responsible for the management and execution of project controls systems, processes and personnel. Provide project status and progress to management. Identify and report issues and take measures to correct by applying industry best practices and or facilitate meetings with team management to raise and resolve issues.
Typical Duties:
Develop project control plan for the development of work scope definition, preliminary estimates, budgets, plans, schedules, scope change and resource requirements.
Develop and document control procedures and plan
Oversee and direct all work activities in the controls department.
Develop criteria for schedule and oversee development
Review and approve deviations to the project plan and schedule
Implement and mange field change order process
Schedule and conduct project meetings with contractor, client and staff.
Report project status (cost, schedule and resources)
Develop recovery plan for project problems
Report daily progress as required
Conduct random audit of contractor personnel to insure attendance
Oversee development of contractor performance audit by staff
Administer sub-contractor performance evaluations through Client or direct. (back to top)
Cost Engineer
Position is responsible for compiling job cost estimates, preliminary turnaround and/or project budgets, cost tracking, forecasting; and financial reporting.
Typical Duties:
Develop job cost management execution plan
Establish Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS) and integrate with WBS
Develop preliminary turnaround or project cost from job estimates
Set up Vendor files and collect contracts
Develop average job cost rates for estimating, if required
Review all PO’s as issued for cost committed and T&C analysis
Verify other committed cost information against contract T&C
Collect daily warehouse material issues and repair receipts
Enter all project committed cost data into cost tracking system
Adjust forecast to reflect change orders and other variances
Conduct random quantity survey of daily information received
Collect and enter all committed costs – labor, equipment, and materials
Analyze cost data and forecast final cost per project by work order by vendor
Report turnaround and project actual vs. baseline cost status as required
Report earned value per vendor and identify trends that impact the final cost projections
Prepare final cost report to client (back to top)
Scheduler
Set up and develop integrated schedule. Produce and progress daily shift schedules.
Report schedule progress.
Typical Duties:
Develop schedule shell to include calendars, resource codes, activity codes, etc.
Input job plans into scheduling software
Package and make logic ties per scheduling strategy
Identify critical path
Integrate capital work into schedule if applicable
Produce logic diagrams and summary bar charts.
Produce resource histograms
Review schedule with departments and contractors
Produce daily shift and look ahead schedules
Enter progress into schedule
Integrate field change orders into schedule
Optimize schedule as required to reflect progress and plan changes
Produce daily schedule reports (back to top)
Planner/Scheduler
This position is responsible for the development of detailed job plans, turnaround schedule development, schedule maintenance and management.
Typical Duties:
Develop detailed job plan packages (resource and duration loaded)
Field verify job plan packages
Identify equipment and special tools requirements
Identify safety and environmental requirements
Identify permitting requirements
Develop BOM (materials requirements)
Review job plan packages with departments and contractors as required
Develop schedule shell to include calendars, resource codes, activity codes, etc.
Input job plans into scheduling software
Package and make logic ties per scheduling strategy
Identify critical path
Integrate capital work into schedule if applicable
Produce logic diagrams and summary bar charts.
Produce resource histograms
Review schedule with departments and contractors
Produce daily shift and look ahead schedules
Enter progress into schedule
Integrate field change orders into schedule
Optimize schedule as required to reflect progress and plan changes
Produce daily schedule reports (back to top)
Field Planner
This position is responsible for the development of detailed job plans.
Typical Duties:
Compile all pertinent drawings and reports
Identify equipment and special tools requirements
Identify safety and environmental requirements
Identify permitting requirements
Develop BOM (materials requirements)
Develop detailed job plans (resource and duration loaded)
Field verify job plan packages
Review job plan packages with departments and contractors as required
Develop job plan packages for approved field change orders (back to top)
Execution Coordinator / Field Coordinator
Position is responsible for the daily coordination and execution of turnaround activity in assigned area of facility. Interface with client, contractors and sub-contractors to ensure smooth execution and a successful turnaround. Candidates must have knowledge of industry safety and project execution processes and procedures.
Typical Duties:
Review Job Execution Plan for assigned area with interface personnel and implement
Observe that all personnel in area are wearing proper PPE
Interface with Operations to communicate work schedule
Expedite the permit process
interface with scheduler to optimize work
Audit and verify contractor’s progress reports
Complete all applicable personnel reports and ensure timekeeping practices are in effect.
Review and approve contractor force report and timesheets as required
Review and agree to necessity of equipment rentals and other material purchases
Attend all progress/status/planning meeting and presentation meetings.
Coordinate with purchasing on any replacement materials required and assist in expediting
Assists QA/QC in receipt and acceptance of repaired or exotic material
Advise contractor of insufficient crew for job at hand
Conduct random audit of contractor personnel to insure attendance
Remove obstacles for contractors to insure focus on safety and schedule compliance (back to top)
Contract/Subcontract Administrator
Responsible for development, analysis and execution of T&M, Lump Sum or Incentive Based Contracts or Subcontract activity related to TA support needs.
Typical Duties:
Develop Contract routing procedure
Validate approved bidders list
Develop and Maintain Contract tracking log
Review contract language
Insure that Insurance requirements are met
Insure that site requirements are understood
Review T and C’s
Compile contract bid package
Resolve contract issues
Administer contracts and purchase orders
Document concerns of contractor and client
Issue Contract documents for file
Maintain and monitor contractor requisition log
Assist in reconciliation of invoicing with accounting
Resolve any contract related invoicing issue (back to top)
Field Cost Administrator
Responsible for the control and accuracy of all Turnaround and/or project related cost information, including timesheets, purchase orders, and internal costs. Verifies contractor commercial terms against submitted cost information, inputs all data into cost system, and identifies issues for resolution by the Cost Engineer.
Typical Duties:
Ensure the integrity of cost data entered into any cost system.
Enter all labor, material and equipment cost information into cost program.
Interface daily with contractor timekeepers to ensure timely submittal and validity of time reports and work force reports.
Audit invoices for proper support documents, correct rates and hours.
Verify cost information for all requisitions.
Verify cost information for all materials receipts.
Verify labor and equipment rates and codes.
Reconcile committed versus expended costs.
Generate and distribute cost reports produced from cost control system.
Perform daily computer backup of cost data files.
Set up and manage cost control filing system.
Prepare report data of actual costs vs. budget utilizing software program.
Interface with client accounting and purchasing personnel as directed. (back to top)
Materials Coordinator
Position is responsible for the coordination of materials receiving, expediting and processing of materials required for a Turnaround or project
Typical Duties:
Execute material management procedures.
Have a thorough knowledge of the work plan and schedule against material needs
Ensure correct staging of all material assigned to project.
Establish the materials plan inspection, expediting, receiving, staging and issuing of turnaround or project materials
Execute plan with Vendors and Suppliers to return unused materials and goods to a pre-defined location and then inventoried.
Maintain and issue material status report for responsible area
Ensure materials purchased meet client/project/engineering specification
Set up materials history file to capture all material control and spec documents
Collect all documents from data sheets for all material.
Report daily to designated supervisor with required hard copy deliverables of turnaround/project materials
Conduct random field quantity survey of material receipts, as directed
Work with Execution Coordinator, Supervisor, Planner and/or Purchasing on Change Orders requiring materials and the delivery requirements
Implement bag and tag process for project/turnaround and monitor
Implement and monitor material movement process for turnarounds/projects
Assist QA/QC in receipt and acceptance of all material and repaired items
Initiate defective material returns from field (back to top)
QA/QC Inspector
Position is responsible for maintaining the standards of quality control on projects and insuring all work is in accordance with all applicable codes, recommended practices, jurisdictional requirements, good engineering practices and client specifications and procedures. Inspector is certified to Level II in general NDE disciplines (i.e. UT thickness, PT, MT, RT interpretation), holds a CWI certification or comparable certification.
Typical Duties:
Maintaining all applicable project inspection/quality control documentation for onsite project work.
Develop and/or approve PQR’s and WPS’s.
Conduct and/or witness welder testing for projects.
Develops and maintains appropriate traveler documentation on specific projects.
Develops repair procedures and ensures repairs are in accordance with the applicable codes, jurisdictional authority and best practices.
Develop and maintain jobsite weld maps.
Review and acceptance of weld radiographs.
Maintains accountability of welding consumables.
Performs NDE such as PT, MT, WFMT, and UT thickness as applicable, as well as maintaining documentation on test results.
Develop test packages for fixed equipment and piping
Performs and/or witnesses testing of fixed equipment and piping and documenting the tests (back to top)
Document Control Clerk
Establish and control new construction and plant equipment files and all required contents.
Produce, package and deliver all required job package documents and drawings.
Typical Duties:
Establish file for each piece of maintainable equipment and or job package
Obtain equipment list from operating plant engineering files or Engineering contractor as necessary to identify baseline
Obtain all relative equipment drawings, data sheets, purchase orders, vendor catalogues and manuals
Obtain reproducible drawings where possible
Operate blue print machine or other reproduction equipment to make copies of required drawings
Maintain catalogue of equipment files with drawing numbers and revision numbers
Procure all drawings for a new project or upgrade
Set up and maintain drawing flat file (back to top)
Track Administrator
This position is responsible for the administration of all Track Software modules and operational activities. This includes daily monitoring, planning and scheduling work process compliance, change management, configuration, report design, issue resolution, documentation and operational support.
Typical Duties:
Responsible for daily operation of Track and coordination of Timekeeper activities
Process and resolve all Track exceptions, schedule changes, etc
Track data entry and configuration
Interface with contractor Timekeepers
Passwords, profiles and security configuration
Coordinate reporting requirements
Timesheets are processed timely and accurately
Print and distribute management reports
Provide operational support and training
Maintain Tract procedures and work processes on an on-going basis (back to top)
Benefits Package
As a growing, dynamic company Fishbone Solutions has continued to improve our benefits package and provides an excellent selection of benefits for our permanent employees. Below you will find our current selection of benefits available. When new benefits become available, you can find them in our registered employee section of our web site www.fishbonecompanies.com. Check it periodically to make sure you are taking advantage of all the great opportunities available to you.
Health Insurance (Humana) – New, Current, & Terminating Employees: Rates and details are available in the insurance package you receive with your contract. We offer a choice of 3 plans for our employees to choose from, and split the base level plan employee (50/50) with the employee. Families can be added at the employee’s discretion. We also have available TASC – is an HRA that fishbone provides to the employee to offset a portion of the employees deductible under the insurance options. When TASC is applicable, Fishbone covers the portion allotted on an 80/20 split with the employee. On the base program, this helps employees cover any routine medical expenses.
- New hires- have a 60 day waiting period before they are eligible for health insurance. Once the 60 day are up they may apply and it will be active the 1st of the following month.
- If a new hire decides not to accept the insurance at that time a signed declination is needed. Its section 10 of the Humana enrollment form.
- Current employees – if you decide to enroll in the health insurance and did not enroll during your 1st 60 days you will not be eligible until the Open Enrollment Period.
- Terminating Employees – You will be sent a letter informing them that they can continue your insurance through COBRA. If you choose to not continue your insurance you will be taken off of the policy before the 1st of the following month.
- One open enrollment per year – September 1st so the month of August will be the open enrollment period for employees. Prior to open enrollment a letter or email will be sent out to inform the employees of this option along with firm deadlines for getting applications in to process.
401K Retirement Account
One of the best benefits Fishbone offers their employees is our 401K. Fishbone’s 401K is through the Hartford, with our financial advisor coming from Baird and associates. Our financial advisor keeps close watch on the variety of funds available through our plan, and is accessible for advice to our employees.
The plan we offer is called a Safe Harbor Plan. A Safe Harbor Plan has a couple of very important implications for participants. The first implication is that the company participation (matching) is guaranteed and immediate. Other types of plans have discretionary matching, where the company decides whether and how much to match. The other implication involves vesting or ownership of the money matched. Oftentimes vesting will occur over a multi-year period, but with a Safe Harbor plan, vesting is immediate. As soon as the deposit is made, the matching money belongs to the employee.
Details of the standard administration of the plan are listed below.
- Two enrollments per year they are the months of January and July. A letter will be sent out to the eligible employees prior to these periods to inform them of the open enrollment and deadlines of when to have the paperwork back in.
To enroll in 401K the employee will receive an enrollment book. Once you have made your selections on your distribution choices you will need to get that form to the Human Resources Department. We will need the enrollment form(signed) and the beneficiary form returned to the Fishbone Office so that we may send your information into Hartford and to keep in your personnel file in our office. - New hires have a 9 month waiting period before they are eligible for this benefit. Once they have completed their nine months with Fishbone they may enroll during the next open enrollment.
- Hartfordlife is where we have our 401k plan. It is deducted at each bi-weekly payday.
- Terminating employees may rollover their 401k to a new plan. You will need to contact the Human Resources Department for the necessary form.
- Fishbone Solutions LTD contributes 5% to an employees 401-K. For the employee to receive the companies 5% contribution they must contribute on their part of 5%. The company matches dollar for dollar the first 3% and .50 on the dollar for the 2nd 2%. If the employee saves 5% of their pay into the 401K plan, this amounts to an immediate 80% return on their investment.
Aflac: We offer a variety of insurance packages through AFLAC, that are purely employee discretionary. These include – Short Term Disability, Cancer/Specified Disease, Accident, among others.
- All employees are eligible immediately.
- Employees may enroll at the 1st of each month.
- This is a voluntary plan and Fishbone does not pay any portion of the premium.
- The original enrollment forms need to go to Debbie, but we keep a copy of them in the employees file.
- The deduction for the premium is calculated for a bi weekly deduction. The total deduction is give to Fishbone Solutions LTD by the AFLAC Representative.
VACATION BENEFITS
Paid Time Off
Eligibility and Accrual
After you have been actively employed by the company for at least six (6) months, you will start accruing vacation hours at 1.53 hours a week per 40 hours worked. Year two through 4 accrues at the same rate for a total of 80 hours per year. Vacation accrual for the fifth year accrues at 2.31 for 120 vacation hours. Management reserves the right to make adjustments or altercations as necessary.
HOLIDAY PAY
Standard
Fishbone Provides all employees with 4 standard paid holidays/year. All holidays are paid based on straight time rates and a standard 8 hour work day. Holidays do not count toward overtime. Standard Holidays are
New Years Day
Christmas Day
July 4th
Thanksgiving day
Client Specific
Depending on the client, paid holidays may also include
Good Friday
Memorial Day
Electronic Payroll
Payroll is paid biweekly and is strictly done via ACH (direct deposited) into the employees account. Pay weeks cycle from Monday through Sunday, and net pay is deposited by the following Friday directly into the employee’s checking account. Mandated withholdings, payments, or pre-tax insurance payments are made electronically through our payroll system. Payroll receipts are sent electronically to employees on Wednesdays prior to payroll initiation to give employees an opportunity to review their paycheck before payroll is run, giving them a chance to confirm accuracy for that week’s payroll.
COMPANY EVENTS
Fishbone provides opportunities to network and spend time with other employees on a pretty regular basis. Several times a year, the company has large company functions that all employees are encouraged to attend. The annual Christmas party occurs in December, and all employees are invited to attend with their spouse or date. Fishbone is also a sponsor for the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Barbeque Cookoff annually, where we give out passes to our sponsored tent. These fun events are great ways for our employees to network and build team spirit within the organization. (back to top)
