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Maintenance Team Leader

Reference Number
T&T0272

Maintenance Team Leader

Closing date for applications
16 March 2014
Country
Trinidad & Tobago
City
Port of Spain
Function/Discipline
Operations
Employment Category
This is a permanent role
This role is offered on local conditions
Working Hours
40
Full/Part-Time
Full Time
Number of Roles Available
1
Salary
Competitve salary package offered

The Organisation

Our assets in Trinidad and Tobago are vitally important to BG Group, with gas being supplied to the domestic market and fed into Atlantic LNG for export, primarily to North America. We supply gas to three of four LNG trains at Atlantic LNG in which we are also a shareholder. This represents fully integrated projects involving production and liquefaction, shipping and re-gasification for onward sale into the US market. Our current exploration focus is the phased development of the North Coast Marine Area.

Position Summary

The Maintenance Team Lead is accountable for the day to day planning and supervision of maintenance personnel and maintenance work activities on BG Trinidad & Tobago production sites. The role supports delivery of safe and optimal production.

- Supports the Operations Team Lead by ensuring well planned and executed maintenance work resulting in high plant availability.

- Oversees any Project Construction works at site.

- Plans and prepares for shutdown works.

- Deputies for Offshore/Onshore Installation Manager when required.


The jobholder will also ensure that maintenance activities comply with BG Advance standards and BG Trinidad & Tobago policies, procedures and standards.

Key Accountabilities

HSSE
Ensures safe maintenance activity.
Engender a culture of continuous HSSE performance improvement.
Controls all work activities through the BG-Group Safe Systems Of Work (SSOW) with respect to the Permit to Work system.
Accountable for safe maintenance of all facility production plant. Act as Performing Authority for SSOW and PTW systems (as outlined in BG T&T PTW procedures).
Actively participates and supports the OIM in leading Behaviour based safety, reporting on unsafe conditions and other safety initiatives pioneered by BG
Ensures that OIM is advised when any Safety Critical Equipment has failed to meet the performance standard.
Contributes to the development of production related emergency response training scenarios.
Actively contributes to the operations team achieving outstanding performance in meeting BG Group HSSE targets and performance metrics
Complies audit schedules as per BG policies, procedures and guidelines.
Maintenance Management
The Maintenance Team Lead is part of the site operations team and is accountable for maintenance and reliability of the facility and the plant infrastructure.
Manages maintenance performance activities (daily, weekly, monthly, 90-day and 2-yearly), to maximize the integrity, reliability and availability of plant.
Optimizes operational activities by critically evaluating maintenance practices in association with Operation Team Lead, OIM and the Maintenance Manager
Seeks out gaps in maintenance and reliability activities and processes with the responsibility for leading, influencing, and delivering maintenance and reliability improvement.
Ensures effective maintenance forecasting for the assigned BG T&T production site.
Ensures Safety Critical Routines are completed on time and compliance targets are met.
Maintains Safety Critical Equipment backlog at zero
Maintains non Safety Critical backlog to an absolute minimum.
Provides detailed maintenance data, equipment history and trends to aid in Root Cause Analysis of all unplanned production outages and ensures measures to avoid repeats are implemented.
Executes Reliability Centred Maintenance and Failure Mode Effect Analysis.
Manages Work Management Systems, ensuring that the facilities achieve the required integrity, reliability, and availability levels to enable business and asset integrity targets and KPIs are met.
Owns maintenance reporting tools, enabling effective vendor management; cost, progress against work programmes and safety competence.
Ensures safety critical spares are available to assure maximum availability and integrity
In conjunction with opposite Maintenance Team Lead seeks out gaps in maintenance activities with responsibility for contributing to and delivering maintenance improvements.
Anticipates maintenance activities for the facility and proactively advises of potential impacts to forecasted production rates.
Develops and reviews maintenance procedures to ensure their fitness for purpose
Shutdown planning and maintenance.
FinancialsMonitors and controls expenditure for annual budget to avoid deviations against forecast
Assists with the development of annual budgets for maintenance activities
Processes and systems
Responsible to the Offshore/Onshore Installation Manager for all reportable occurrences and maintenance difficulties, which could affect the safe and continuous production of hydrocarbons from the facility
Ensures Work Management System contains comprehensive and accurate maintenance and historical data by continual review and audit of completed work orders.
Ensures compliance with maintenance plans.
Prioritizes, and measures unplanned work scopes.
Schedules interventions to improve performance over weekly, monthly and annual cycles.
Optimizes maintenance man-hours and minimizes equipment breakdown by critically assessing maintenance practices in association with the Operation Team Lead, and the Maintenance Manager.
Promotes system and cost ownership mindset across maintenance teams.
People and Organisation
Manages maintenances resources effectively to optimize maintenance and equipment reliability.
Manages the performance of maintenance contractors, and vendor personnel.
Ensures maintenance services are delivered cost effectively and support BG T&T business plans.
Ensures that all maintenance staff are adequately trained for their respective job roles
Develops maintenance personnel to achieve their full potential. Leads performance and development activities to support improvement and strengthening of individual and team performance. Including the effective implementation of HR Cycle;
Contribute to performance and development activities to support improvement and strengthening of individual and team performance under the direction of the Offshore/Onshore Installation Manager.

Unique Knowledge, Skills, Experience and Attribute

BG Behaviours
Demonstrates a duty of care and concern for the safety of others.
Able to manage own time and apply relevant time management techniques to ensure timely delivery of work activities.
Good communication skills, particularly updating relevant parties on active work scopes.
Interact with others in a sensitive way, respectful of differences in approach style and culture.
Actively participates in the attainment of team goals, putting team goals ahead of functional and self interest.
Track record of continuing professional development to keep abreast of latest developments relevant to discipline and industry.
Invests time in staying up to date with external technology and environmental/safety issues to apply to own work area.
Maintains an openness to learning, actively looking for new ways to improve own and others capabilities and performance.
 
Knowledge
A degree qualified in relevant engineering discipline (Mechanical, Electrical, Controls and Instrumentation) or an equivalent combination of qualifications and experience.
Good understanding of relevant industry legislation.
Fully conversant with all forms of maintenance engineering and management documentation, including block diagrams, PFD’s, P&ID’s, Data Sheets and Computer Maintenance Management Systems.
Conversant with national and international codes and standards applicable to the design, construction, and operation of process plant including rotating and reciprocating machinery.
Shall be competent in identified Safety Critical Tasks in the following areas including but not limited to Supervisory, Ops HSSE, Logistics, HSSE, and Maintenance.
Shall conduct an approved minimum number of Safety Critical Task assessments of Frontline Staff to ensure sustainability of the Competence Assurance Process.
Skills
Proven capability in leading maintenance staff
Proven capability in measuring, reporting and analyzing data to deliver performance and maintenance improvements.
Proven skills in problem solving in relation to equipment faults and maintenance issues.
Safety Critical Role
Perform in an emergency response role as defined in Company procedures, contributing to managing and delivering emergency response actions in the event of accidents or incidents under the direction of the OIM.
Assimilate diverse and fragmented information and identify contingencies.
Monitor and respond effectively to situation changes.
Committed to the highest standards of HSSE, working continuously for improvement both in own activities and in those of the assets, projects or other business activities in which they are involved.
Ability to take control of an emergency

Additional Information for External Candidates

BG Group values diversity and is committed to equal opportunities; applications are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates.
 
Please note that after the closing date you will no longer be able to apply for the vacancy. The specific time of closing is midnight UK time on the date displayed. BG Group also reserves the right to close vacancies before the advertised closing date without prior notice.