Purpose of the role:
The Site Manager is responsible for meeting contract requirements and Valmet’s goals by planning and managing the site operations, ensuring HSE, cost effectiveness, quality, and correct timing.
In multi-unit projects, involving several business lines and/or business units, a General Site Manager is appointed. Specific additional responsibilities of this role can be found at the end of the Responsibilities section.
Areas of responsibility:
Planning and establishment
- Familiarize with the delivery scope of equipment and services, including the customer’s requirements and obligations
Customer relations
- Contact for the customer, site experts, subcontractors, and other site-related activities
- Represent Valmet in site meetings with the customer and other vendors
Site management
- Manage and report progress, cost, headcount, and time schedule
- Construction/installation and commissioning of Valmet-supplied equipment with safety features following budgets and schedule
- Ensure that relevant inspections by authorities at site are done
- Ensure customer’s readiness for the construction/installation and site operations
- Manage construction/installation and commissioning punch list before take-over
- Collect documentation of Document all work at site, e.g. check sheets, measurement records, field reports, time logs and site diary
- Provide/lead the site feedback to related functions, including comments on good designs as well as design deficiencies, and recommended improvements
HSE on-site
- Site HSE instructions and requirements are shared between relevant parties, e.g. Valmet, customer, and subcontractors
- Site-specific HSE plan and site risk assessments implemented and up to date
- Work is conducted in compliance with applicable laws and regulations, and Customer and Valmet HSE standards and rules, as more specified in Site-specific HSE plan, Site risk assessments and other related project- and site-specific instructions
- Site safety level frequently monitored and potential risks are eliminated or mitigated
- Incidents, near misses and risk observations are reported and investigated
- Identify the resources needed to complete HSE tasks and request those from respective resource owners
General Responsibilities
- Unify Valmet approach and reporting towards customer
- Seek and follow up synergy benefits between Valmet areas
- Overall schedule synchronization for Valmet deliveries
- Make decisions within frames given by MC Project Manager/Project Director
- Handle local purchases, transportations, etc. within budget frame
- Decide on the timing of Valmet resources at site, including partners
- Sign Valmet timesheets and other contractor documents
- Sign site acceptances with customer
- Enforce HSE on-site, including correction of any unsafe conditions
- Approval of changes on site within agreed frames
Reporting
Reports to the MC Project Manager/Project Director.
When everything works together
Valmet is where the best talent from a wide variety of backgrounds comes together. With over 19,000 professionals around the world, we are the leading global developer and supplier of technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries, and serve an even wider base of process industries with our automation systems and flow control solutions. Our commitment to moving our customers’ performance forward requires creativity, technological innovations, service know-how – and above all, teamwork.
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