Lead Maintenance Specialist – Upstream Craft Mechanical Job

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Roles & Responsibilities

The Upstream Mechanical Craft Lead Specialist is part of the Upstream Maintenance Execution Team supporting continuous improvement in fixed and rotating equipment availability and productivity for the ND upstream wells and pads assets. Working in a team environment, it carries responsibilities for implementing reliability best practices, drives maintenance execution, stewards the maintenance work management system, and oversees all fixed and rotating equipment maintenance activities for the upstream wells and pads assets conducted by both Hess and contract workforce.  This role interacts closely with the Maintenance, Operations, Reliability Engineering, Supply Chain, and EHS functions in support of equipment maintenance planning, scheduling, coordination, execution, and continuous improvement.

The primary areas of focus for this role include: 

Operational Control

• Leads safety culture including ensuring the embedment of Hess safety procedures, best practices, and standard work.  This includes but isn’t limited to strong pre-job planning, recognition and management of hazards introduced from evolving job scopes, daily after-action reviews, strong safety meeting participation, recognition of positive safety behaviors, accident investigations, safety audits and related activities.
• Provides daily leadership in support of Reliability and Maintenance in areas such as:
• Oversees equipment troubleshooting, predictive, preventative, and corrective maintenance activities for wells and pads performed by both Hess and contractor personnel.
• Stewards work management practices including maintenance execution, planning, scheduling, and ensures all closure / reliability data is promptly input for each job.
• Leads and directs mechanics by scheduling of assignments, monitoring progress, providing direction, guidance and coaching.  Ensures assignments are completed safely, timely, and with quality.
• Participates in the development of the daily and weekly maintenance work schedules.
• Coordinates maintenance work with maintenance and operations specialists to provide continuity of maintenance planning and leads to the least possible down time.
• Coordinates with reliability engineering and operations / maintenance leadership in preparing PM programs for the facility and ensure that the programs are functioning properly and that required records are kept.
• Ensures that the department is equipped with the proper tools, instruments, workspace, and other necessary implements to perform all work safely and with quality.
• Responds to breakdown, emergencies, or any abnormal operating conditions to expedite repairs.
• Ensures workforce has the required information & specifications to complete work with a high degree of quality and precision.
• Works with Craft Logistics Specialist to ensure the management of spare parts and bills of material.
• Works with operations and maintenance leadership with developing the annual budget and monthly forecast.
• Accountable for cost tracking and performance against budget and forecast; responsible for driving tool time efficiencies.
• Accountable for contractor performance against contract terms.
• Ensures all regulatory records are kept as required by agencies and that requirements are adhered to through PM scheduling.
• Helps in the field during facility startups, shutdowns, or upsets.
• Monitors and tracks staffing conditions, work hours and overtime, job rotation, and absenteeism.
• Accountable for maintenance activities outside normal working hours including safety, cost, and productivity.
• Performs other duties related to this function to help ensure the ongoing reliability of rotating equipment.

Continuous Improvement

• Collaborates with maintenance specialists, condition monitoring, reliability engineering, planning, and leadership to ensure proper priorities are placed on deficiencies and continuous learning/improvement process is fostered.
• Collaborates with operations personnel to assist in troubleshooting, identification of gaps in operating practices which impact equipment reliability, improve maintenance effectiveness (i.e. equipment readiness, permitting robustness), and commissioning support.
• Provide feedback to maintenance planning, operations, scheduling, and supply chain to ensure continuous improvement with maintenance planning, scheduling, and execution processes and procedures.
• Demonstrates strong continuous improvement capabilities and/or ability to learn following skills:

• Lead standardized work development; continuously seek to make standardized work more efficient and safer while ensuring work quality.
• Lead structured problem solving using 5-Whys and Problem Solving A3s.
• Supports operations and maintenance leadership with developing / maintaining key maintenance KPIs.

• Develop robust kaizen culture through direction setting and empowering team members to look for ways to make their jobs easier.

Leadership / People Development

• Ensures further development of all team members through performance evaluation, development of training plans, feedback, and coaching.  Work with Competency Assurance and Learning (CAL) and the Craft Logistics Specialist to update training matrices, schedule any needed training, and assure training is effective and corrects sub-standard performance. 
• Works with Craft Logistics Specialist to identify, develop, and deliver routine technical training to maintenance and operations personnel.
• Assign tasks and training considering each mechanics development and career goals.
• Develops mentor/coach relationships to ensure development of embedded mechanics and contractor support.
• Participates in the development of troubleshooting, repair, and inspection instructions for fixed and rotating equipment.
• Provide direction to team members emphasizing quality, efficiency, productivity, cost reduction, environment/health/safety, and morale.
• Develop and maintain positive team member relations centered on mutual trust, dignity, respect, fairness, consistency, two-way communication, teamwork, and harmony.

Core Behaviors

• Demonstrates Leading at Hess Competencies including but not limited to:

• Able to build and maintain a positive and safety-based team culture.
• Able to coach/mentor/develop team members including ability to respectfully hold personnel accountable for their daily duties and resolve conflict as it arises.
• Able to influence without authority across organizational boundaries.
• Able to lead change with various stakeholders.
• Able to set direction and lead a team to deliver results.
• Able to drive daily kaizen to address improvements/gaps identified through observation of work performance, work planning / scheduling feedback, and various team SQDC and/or YTT meetings.
• Able to build trusted partnerships with peers & strategic partners to allow for best practice sharing & strong teamwork
• Able to teach individual contributors in fundamental skills and facilitate job instruction training

Work Environment 

• Field based role (Tioga / Keene) 5/2 (9/80) work schedule.  Expectations for this role include a heavy field presence to ensure jobs are being performed safely and the workforce is trained properly.

Experience/Skills   

• 5+ years of rotating equipment maintenance experience in refining, petrochemical, oil and gas industry experience or equivalent industry related experience such as energy, military maintenance, mining or other heavy manufacturing. 
• 2+ years of leadership experience as formal people leader in production environment preferred.
• Basic proficiency in the following areas:

• Knowledge of industry codes and standards for machinery (ASME, API, ANSI).
• Troubleshooting and repair of fixed and rotating equipment not limited to vessels, tanks, valves, piping, pumps, pumping units/artificial lift types and other fixed and rotating equipment in the asset.
• Machinery component failure analysis.
• RCM based Predictive and Preventive Maintenance strategies.

• Strong knowledge of work management system, corrective/preventative maintenance planning, and equipment master data utilization.
• Strong knowledge of applicable EHS procedures/practices such as Permit to Work, Energy Isolation, Respiratory Protection, PPE, Emergency Response.
• Proficient computer skills / business system knowledge (SAP, Microsoft Suite).
• Possess strong written and verbal communications skills with ability to lead, coach, and train others.
• Excellent collaboration and interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong analytical, technical, and problem-solving skills.
• Able to work in fast-paced, constantly changing production environment.
• Must be available outside normal working hours for technical support if needed.
• Strong organization, time management, prioritization, and planning skills and able to manage multiple tasks with tight deadlines for self and team.

Education/Training

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Associate or bachelor’s degree preferred.

Competencies

The Hess Way of Working refers to competencies considered absolute pre-requisites for success. How you deliver results is as important as what you achieve. Every employee is expected to demonstrate the behaviors within these competencies to be considered an effective performer and, ultimately, earn career growth opportunities.

• Builds Trusted Relationships
• Develops Talent
• Creates Effective Teams
• Thinks Strategically
• Inspires Innovation
• Demonstrates Courage
• Drives Continuous Improvement
• Makes Quality Decisions
• Delivers High Performance

Hess is an equal opportunity employer; we welcome diversity in all forms of expression and thought

WHAT WE OFFER

Hess provides a comprehensive range of compensation and benefit programs that help you to take care of your health, protect your income, and build savings for the future. Our compensation philosophy is simple – we pay for performance.  The better you and the company perform, the more you can earn.  Here are a few highlights:
 

Base Salary

• Base salaries are competitive, and market based, with pay increases based on objective measures and upward moves.

Annual Incentive Plan

• Every employee participates in our Annual Incentive Plan, which awards a bonus based on how well we fare as a company on our annual performance scorecard and the person’s level of contribution.

All Employee Share Plan

• All employees are Hess stockholders, so they share in the success they help create for the company. Shares are granted to new employees who do not receive stock as part of their compensation package.

Benefits

• Hess cares about your well-being and wants to help you be your best self.  That’s why we offer a compelling benefits package that’s among the best in our industry. Highlights include: medical, dental, and vision coverage; a health savings account; 401 (K) and pension plan; a nationally recognized wellness program; and company paid basic life and disability insurance.

Learn more about our programs at https://hessbenefits.com/.

Learning & Development 

• We believe in lifelong learning and provide a suite of on-demand and instructor-led learning opportunities, in addition to a tuition reimbursement program, designed to help you achieve your professional goals.  Learning encompasses on-the-job interaction with highly skilled colleagues, self-guided study, training, mentoring and participation in formal networks (e.g., technical and employee resource groups.)

WHY HESS?

We aim to be the world’s most trusted energy partner. Modern life and continued human prosperity depends upon access to affordable and secure energy and all forms of energy are required for an orderly and just future. Hess is ideally positioned to provide low-cost oil and gas reliably to help meet the world’s growing energy needs in a way that protects the health and safety of our people, safeguards the environment, and makes a lasting positive impact in the communities where we do business. 

Everything we do is guided by six core values – Integrity, People, Performance, Social Responsibility, Value Creation, and Independent Spirit, from how we treat our employees to how we interact with our neighbors, suppliers and business partners.  They are the basic building blocks of our culture and represent our company’s collective conscience. While our strategy changes over time based on business conditions, our values are enduring. 

We are an industry leader in the Bakken shale play in North Dakota, one of the largest producers in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico and a critical natural gas producer and supplier to Malaysia and Thailand. Our exploration and appraisal activities are offshore Guyana, one of the industry’s largest oil discoveries in the past decade, as well as in the Gulf of Mexico and Suriname. 

We are recognized around the world as an industry leader in environmental, social and governance performance and disclosure. 

Hess provides challenging and rewarding opportunities for personal growth. We are always looking for talented professionals who share our values and are passionate about making a difference in the world and in their careers. Unlike much larger companies, we are agile and every member of the team, regardless of level or position, plays an important role. 

We invite you to learn more about what makes us a special place to work.  Click here (www.hess.com) 

Hess is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion.  We are an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. Hess is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation, click here or send an email to MyHR@Hess.com.

Posting Notes: Hina Patel | Employee | Field/Plant Operations | United States| North Dakota | Tioga | | No | 27333