The Opportunity
As a Operations Lead, you will play a critical role in supporting daily operations and ensuring safe, efficient, and compliant facility performance. Your responsibilities will span operational control, maintenance coordination, safety leadership, and cross-functional communication.
What you’ll do
- Assume the role of Steam Chief when designated by the Facility Manager, providing
- leadership and oversight of facility operations.
- Assist the daily on shift operations crew as required. E.g. Plant upsets, heavy workload
- Provide vacation coverage on weekdays/weekends as required
- Provide active control in plant or field locations when Ops are unavailable
- Prepare LOTO’s and permits for plant/field work as required
- Ownership of the car seal program ensuring changes are documented and P&ID’s are updated
- Act as an information conduit between the two operation crews to facilitate communication between shift changes
- Develop planned work scheduling for operating equipment including scheduling of routine PM’s and break in work orders
- Responsible for the outage coordination and execution. Working with ops to isolate and ready the plant for outages (pressure surveys/annual outages) and oversite of outage execution
- Complete isolation reviews and signoffs for outage and/or project work including Scope of Work, SMP, Tech Spec documentation
- Working directly with Pipe integrity and Cathodic Protection group for scheduling and executing the work along with field/plant isolation plan
- Provide operations perspective/expertise to Marketing/Engineering groups as requested (Thursday weekly commercial update call)
- File invoices, waste manifests, truck tickets, etc.
- Facility contact for Land crossing and contractor interaction
- Drive the safety culture for the facility by supporting the FLHA and JSA program
- Responsibility for stock inventory (filters, EG, H2O, ……) ops usually orders
- Support Corporate asks (TOP’s Review, SSI’s….)
- Be trained and competent as an Excavation Coordinator
- Operations contact for engineering/commercial teams' inquiries
- Facilitate Ops qualification assessments (annually) and training
- Operations SME for facility MOC’s
- PSSR Lead for all major facility work
- Competent in operation of plant mobile equipment
Minimum Qualifications
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Minimum 4th class power engineering certificate
- Minimum 5 years of experience in plant or field operations within oil & gas, utilities, or industrial sectors
- Strong understanding of LOTO procedures, isolation protocols, and outage coordination
- Demonstrated ability to read and interpret P&IDs and technical documentation
- Basic computer proficiency (Microsoft Office, Work Management Systems)
- Valid driver’s license and ability to operate mobile equipment
- Strong communication and teamwork skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Third Class Power Engineering Certificate or higher.
- Experience with Cathodic Protection systems and pipeline integrity programs.
- Familiarity with MOC (Management of Change) and PSSR processes.
- Prior experience supporting turnaround planning and execution.
- Excavation Coordinator certification or equivalent training.
- Knowledge of corporate systems such as SAP, Workday, and Enablon.
- Experience in facilitating training and qualification assessments.
