Lead MR&I Surface Engineering – Midstream Job

HYBRID ELIGIBILITY

This position works a hybrid schedule, spending time remotely and in the office in Tioga, ND. The current hybrid schedule provides flexibility to collaborate in the office Tuesdays through Thursdays and work from home Mondays and Fridays. With our 9/80 feature you get time off every other Friday when you work at least 80 hours over the preceding nine days.

POSITION SUMMARY
This role is responsible for leading the reliability strategy for the midstream assets of Hess.  This position is a key leadership role and part of the MS leadership team.  This role leads maintenance and reliability engineers supporting all midstream assets in addition to leading condition monitoring and repair/refurbishment reliability engineering for all upstream and midstream assets.  This team is accountable to improve equipment reliability and productivity in support of the asset’s safety, environmental, production, and cost targets.

This role works in conjunction with multiple other teams including Operations, Maintenance, Upstream Reliability Engineering, Integrity, Infrastructure, EHS, Finance, GSC, Central functions and the Technical Authority network.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop, maintain and assure Maintenance Strategies
  • Optimize preventative, predictive, and condition-based maintenance based on failure history, inspections, and definitive analysis of cost and benefits
• Lifecycle Cost Optimization 
  • Develop, implement, and sustain an evergreen reliability roadmap for assigned equipment based on equipment criticality, and system/equipment availability and vulnerability.  
  • Utilize a data-driven approach to understand true life cycle costs of equipment.  This teams as an operational representative to the Front-End Engineering design review teams that will include the data for selection of best equipment for service.
  • Develops and manages critical metrics to Identify asset/equipment reliability performance and bad actors lists.  Through data analysis priorities are established to identify improvement focus areas.
• Root Cause Analysis
  • Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) according to business rules, confirm implementation and effectiveness of countermeasures, and establishing priority for performed work based on data-driven approach.   Looks at trends of equipment failures to adjust existing strategies to address systemic gaps of equipment performance.   Make sure equipment failures are properly determined and tracked
• Maintenance Failures / Repairs
  • Provide technical expertise to Ops & Crafts on troubleshooting failures, repairs, and evaluating whether equipment is designed to meet its intended or existing service conditions
  • During repairs, closely follow jobs to ensure that repair details such as clearances, tolerances, materials of construction, welding procedures, etc. are provided and documented.  Provide technical support and involve asset SMEs and suppliers/vendors as needed
  • Ensure repair techniques, repair procedures, and equipment specific training are documented and made available
  • Work with Infrastructure and Reliability Operations to determine opportunities for repurposing equipment 
  • Develop and implement preservation strategies for critical spare equipment and parts that are stored on-site or off-site for extended periods of time
• Equipment Surveillance
  • Provide equipment surveillance to assure performance as expected or impending issues are recognized and acted proactively. 
  • Provide situational vibration, thermographic, IR, oil analysis, beta, PD, AMS surveys on problematic equipment
  • Develop reliability driven metrics for equipment such as MTBF, MTTR, etc.
• Enables and assists in the training of Operators, Mechanics, and other team members to convey the “why” of equipment related issues
• Key engagement in capital projects to assure RCM principles are integrated into new builds.
• Identifies when additional focus needs to be placed to drive reliability culture and institutionalizing best practices across the organization
• Maintain awareness of emerging technology, assessing applicability to improve reliability and performance, or to reduce maintenance cost 
• Able to maintain on-call flexibility to control abnormal conditions (e.g. IMT and night/weekend support as needed) 

QUALIFICATIONS
Experience

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in refining, petrochemical, upstream in oil and gas or industrial industry 
• 3 years of leadership experience as formal people leader in production environment preferred
• Strong experience in a progressive reliability organization a must with strong maintenance experience and operations experience a plus.  
• Strong knowledge of applicable EHS procedures/practices such as Permit to Work, Energy Isolation, Emergency Response
• Strong understanding of industry codes and standards and processes (i.e. ASME, API, ANSI, Lean, RCM, FMEA)
• Significant knowledge on rotating, fixed, electrical, instrumentation and controls equipment
• Strong understanding of business drivers, management of change requirements, reliability processes, and maintenance workflow
• Proficient computer skills / business system knowledge (SAP, Spotfire, Excel)
• Strong analytical, technical, and problem-solving skills
• Drive transformational approach to reliability, ability to deliver & follow through on strategic objectives

Education, Training & Certifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in an engineering discipline is required   

Competencies

• Demonstrates strong Lean knowledge and/or ability to learn following skills:
  • Teach/coach:  Standardized Work development, 5-Whys, Problem Solving A3s, Mistake Proofing, Swimlanes, Dashboards, Conditions of Satisfaction, Last Planner System
  • Lead/facilitate: Leader Standard Work, Value Stream Mapping, Rapid Improvement Events, Business Planning (A3)
• Demonstrates Leading at Hess Competencies including but not limited to:
  • Focus for and capability 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 set direction and lead a team to deliver results
  • Able to build trusted partnerships with peers, vendors, suppliers, and contractors to allow for best practice sharing & strong teamwork
     

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: Tony Vasut | Employee | Production / Operations Engineering | United States| North Dakota | Tioga | | No | 27372