Suncor Energy

Team Lead Pipefitting

Suncor Energy$90K — $110K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Technical diploma, Pipefitter trade certificate, or degree required
  • High School Diploma or GED essential
  • 5+ years of industrial maintenance experience
  • Prior leadership or supervisory experience in heavy industrial maintenance or operations essential
  • Willingness to consider transferable skills if not all qualifications met

Responsibilities

  • Supervise a team of Pipefitters with an emphasis on employee engagement and safety
  • Lead incident investigations and risk assessments to ensure compliance with safety protocols
  • Administer personnel policies and collective agreements fairly and consistently
  • Utilize SAP to manage maintenance functions accurately during shifts
  • Execute maintenance work schedules to minimize plant downtime while ensuring safety
  • Collaborate with operations and planning teams to optimize production and equipment performance

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation with annual bonuses and financial rewards
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits for employees and their families
  • Generous paid vacation and personal time-off for work-life balance
  • Talent development programs including internal mobility and training opportunities
Full Job Description
Are you looking for a new role to lead a team of Pipefitters? In this role, you will be responsible for supervising a team of Pipefitters, ensuring safe work practices, supporting employee development, and managing performance fairly and consistently. It also oversees shift maintenance execution through SAP, incident investigations, risk assessments, and coordination with operations and planning to maximize productivity, reliability, and safety.

What we offer:

We recognize your contribution and offer a range of rewards and development opportunities designed to support your success. Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Suncor and the region where you work.
  • Strong compensation: we offer competitive compensation, regional-based uplifts, annual bonuses, and long-term financial rewards. We also help you save for your future by offering pension programs, and savings plans with company matching
  • Benefits: utilize an employee assistance program and comprehensive company-paid health, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family to support your mental, physical, and financial well-being
  • Generous time-off: enjoy generous paid vacation time and personal time-off to recharge and maintain a healthy work-life balance
  • Talent development programs: Internal mobility, succession planning, and employee training and development programs are just a few ways we're dedicated to your development

Minimum Requirements:
  • A valid technical diploma, Pipefitter trade certificate or degree
  • A High School Diploma or General Education Diploma (GED)
  • Five or more years in industrial maintenance experience
  • Leadership or supervisory experience within maintenance or operations in a heavy industrial environment


Don't have all the qualifications listed? That's ok! Apply anyway. We acknowledge the value of transferrable skills.

Responsibilities:
  • Provide supervision to a team of Pipefitters while maintaining a visible field presence to foster employee engagement, assess work process effectiveness, and ensure a strong, well-adapted approach to safety
  • Lead incident investigations and field-level risk assessments to ensure risk protocols, permitting, hazardous energy isolation, and mitigation processes are properly followed, while implementing corrective actions and developing practical solutions to prevent reoccurrence
  • Ensure the administration of the collective agreement and our personnel policies occurs in a fair and consistent manner
  • In accordance with the Suncor Maintenance process, perform all functions within the SAP computerized maintenance system to accurately detail, approve and assign the work that is performed on shift
  • Ensure that all maintenance work assigned by planning and scheduling is executed during each shift and ensure plant outage durations are minimized, by maximizing the application of resources without compromising worker safety or longer-term plant reliability
  • Interact with the operations and planning department to optimize production; establish work priorities and provide feedback to the operating groups on equipment performance, planning effectiveness and concerns


Location and other Key Details:
  • You will work out of our Edmonton Refinery in Alberta, located at 801 Petroleum Way, Sherwood Park, AB
  • Hours of work are on an earned day off schedule, Monday to Friday 7:30-5:00pm with set Fridays off, and with the potential for extended work hours based on business needs
  • This position is safety sensitive


Think we are a fit? Apply now!

About Suncor Energy

Suncor pioneered commercial development of Canada's Athabasca oil sands — one of the world's largest petroleum resource basins. Since then, Suncor has grown to become a globally-competitive, Canadian-based integrated energy company with a balanced portfolio of high quality assets, a strong balance sheet and significant growth prospects.

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Diversity and inclusion are at the core of our employment philosophy. At Suncor, every employee, from interns to senior professionals, brings unique perspectives that are vital for our innovative endeavors. We believe in building a workplace where everyone can thrive, supported by a culture that fosters acceptance and teamwork.

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