Operations Superintendent

Operations Superintendent

Requirements

• Minimum high school diploma or equivalent required.
• Minimum 5 years’ refining, chemical or petrochemical industry experience required.

Responsibilities

• Establishes and maintains culture of safety and environmental excellence by modeling appropriate behaviors and ensuring all employees conduct work in accordance with company policies and procedures.
• Drives compliance with process safety management (PSM) requirements, including, but not limited to, Process Hazard Analysis (PHAs), Management of Change (MOC), and pre-startup safety reviews (PSSRs), ensuring good practices are followed and participating as appropriate.
• Supervises and communicates day-to-day operations of assigned process units to optimize production.
• Regularly provides clear guidance and relevant information to the shift team via night letters and standing orders.
• Leads development, communication, and execution of action plans with support from the area team in response to unit upsets, unplanned shutdowns, etc.
• Proactively identifies risks to process and equipment reliability and leads resolution/management of risks as appropriate.
• Manages unit performance and equipment availability and clearly communicates constraints to support implementation of production plan.
• Achieves unit reliability and production goals through support and coordination with maintenance, capital projects and turnaround activities.
• Leads development of TAR/outage scope within assigned area, ensuring compliance with Plan of the Plan (POP) tasks and deadlines.
• Supports culture of high performance and continuous improvement through training, coaching, and mentoring.
• Ensures adequate operator crew job coverage within assigned area and collaborates with Shift Supervisor, Ops Excellence Specialists, and Training Specialists to ensure appropriate progression of operator training.
• Ensures personnel issues are addressed and resolved in a consistent and timely manner.
• Leads various special projects at the direction of the Area Team Manager.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous operations supervision or process engineering experience preferred.