Our client, who are an International Energy Operator, are recruiting for a CAPEX Engineering Superintendent on a full time basis, at their facility in Texas City, TX.

Job outline

The Engineering and CAPEX Superintendent provides leadership; coaching, resources, boundary conditions, and cost management oversight to help the asset support engineering group successfully accomplish plant reliability and availability targets as well as meet Capex goals for the site.

Duties include:

Internal:

• Organizational goals and strategies
• Maintenance and Reliability
• Budget Constraints
• Resource Allocation
• Risk Management

External:

• Market Trends
• Customer Expectations/Specifications and complaints.
• Regulations and Compliance
• Economic conditions
• Supplier Relationships

Key accountabilities:

Accountability 1: Meet all SHE objectives and comply with all governmental laws and policies for a manufacturing site.

Most important activities:

• Ensuring compliance with HSSE (Health, Safety, Security, and Environment) standards and expectations set through the Life Saving Rules and 20 Safety Principles. Set an example on HSSE responsibilities with all teams you interact with.
• Promoting safety culture through visible leadership in the field, including Safety Observation Conversations, Audits, and Near Miss reporting.
• Promotes and sponsors participation on safety programs and committees to initiatives.
• Continuously stimulates employee’s safety awareness.
• Promotes operating sustainability, tracking, reporting and deviation assessments.
• Delivering against front-end engineering KPIs and suggesting interventions for measurable improvements where required.
• Support the safe, productive, and efficient operations of the plant operations.
• Manage process safety information for the site and ensure that changes are updated in a timely manner
• Adhere to the SHE management system established for the site including participation in reporting, incident investigations, sharing of lessons learned, corrective action tracking and personnel training in support of Incident Management System.

Accountability 2: Development of people in the Engineering organization as well as provide technical support for the Asset and Asset Support personnel

Most important activities:

• Ensure alignment and clarity of roles including expectations around performance.
• Determine developmental needs of direct supports and responsible for coordinating training and development as required.
• Technical staff to provide mentoring for Asset and Asset Support personnel
• Ensure that the rest of the Engineering organization has an adequate training and development plan for employees.
• Ensure a performance management process is in place with both informal coaching of employees as needed and formalized periodic performance reviews with corrective action taken when appropriate.
• Ensure that Human Resources policies are followed and the organization is in compliance with legal requirements regarding client employees and our relationship with contractors.
• Responsible for sharing and implementing best practices learned between assets.

Accountability 3: Support the delivery of Reliability/Availability targets for the site.

Most important activities:

• Support the Asset’s yearly comprehensive reliability/availability strategy for the site.
• Manage Subject Matter Experts within Engineering disciplines to support Asset and Asset Support organizations
• Provide Technical support for Asset and Asset Support organizations in cross functional  disciplines within Engineering group
  • Rotating Equipment
  • Process Engineering
  • Power Distribution (high voltage)
  • Process Control
  • Instrument and Electrical
• Ensure resources are committed to completing and follow up on root cause failure analysis.
• Support spares management system for the site.

• Reviews MTBF failure reporting. Works with Asset Engineers to develop and implement improvement plans when needed.

Accountability 4 Provides governance, management & oversight on capital projects under $1 million.

Most important activities:

• Provide assurance that the project is ready to pass through project stage gates and following all necessary requirements.
• Engineering staff will execute small capital projects in house (<$1 million)
• Engineering staff will support all engineering study projects for the site
• Manage site Capex budget and ensure accurate forecasting of spend and take mitigating actions to ensure budget compliance at year end
• Support the site Project Engineers in monitoring project performance and advising corrective actions as appropriate.

• Maintain independent view to ensure the project team follows Project Practices and Procedures.
• Inspect what you expect with regards to all aspects of project management and execution.
• Provide and coordinate subject matter expert input to the project team regarding Project Management.
• Provide guidance to project team regarding general project matters.
• Manage all engineering contractor relationships for the site
• Optimize site and Asset capital portfolios by performing benchmarking that directly measure site performance against top performing sites.
• Based on benchmarking, setup and monitor key performance measures that serve as health check.
• Work with project managers and project engineers to provide a consolidated CAPEX progress report.
• Analyze and identify warning signs early in project lifecycle to avoid derailment.

Person Requirements:

Level of Education & Knowledge:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering
• Preferred knowledge and experience working in management capacity in a CAPEX-related role for a chemical manufacturing business or project engineering company

Experience & Technical Skills:

• 15-20 years of progressive experience in Engineering & Project Management related to the Chemical & Refining Industry.
• Experience in Project Portfolio Management is beneficial.

Competencies & Behavioral Skills

• Demonstrated leadership / supervisory capabilities
• Strong interpersonal, communication, coaching and mentoring skills
• Ability to deliver results independently, or within a team environment.
• Eagerness to exchange knowledge and information
• Develops a sense of ownership and team work.
• High level of influence skills and persuasiveness - creates vision and enrolls the broader organization in support of that vision.
• Effective communication skills at all levels – corporate through hourly employee.
• Change Agent – effective at engaging others in change agenda and driving/executing change programs.
•  Strong negotiating skills
•  Strategic, analytical and critical thinking.
•  Performance driven