Job Title: Maintenance Team Lead Mechanical - Process
Reporting to: Area Maintenance supervisor
Location: Kitimat
There’s never been a better time to be working with LNG Canada.
Why? We are Canada’s first large scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility, underpinned by safety, ethics and compliance and a drive to be a top quartile global scale asset. Our facility provides the world with lower carbon, made-in B.C. LNG.
This is your opportunity to be part of history, in an environment that will challenge you to apply all your skills, and where you can learn with a diverse team of highly experienced industry professionals and mentors.
With gratitude and respect LNG Canada acknowledges our facility is operated in the traditional territory of the Haisla Nation. We also gratefully acknowledge the First Nations in our project area and along our shipping route.
LNG Canada maintains a healthy, respectful, and safe environment for all our employees, contractors, partners, and communities. Protecting our people, community and our operations is our top priority. We're proud to be the catalyst for a thriving new energy sector, which sets the benchmark for economically, environmentally, and socially responsible LNG production.
Our Purpose
- Provide a secure supply of LNG at scale;
Connect Canadian natural gas to global markets.
Our Vision
- LNG Canada is a world class asset, Canada is a Top 5 global LNG producer;
Help Canada diversify its export market.
Our Values
- Lead with Honesty
- Nurture our People
- Grow our Business
- Connect with Purpose
Come join the team making Canadian history!
About the Role
The Mechanical Maintenance Team Lead for the Process area is part of the Maintenance Team in the Production Department and is responsible for executing the work plan (CM and PM) by directly supervising, developing, and coaching of Rotating equipment and Piping Maintenance Technicians as well as Contract maintenance resources.
The process trains make up LNG Canada’s main cryogenic process containing 4 aero derivative turbines driving 4 multistage centrifugal compressors, reciprocating compressors, Heat Transfer fluid pumping systems, vessels, and all associated auxiliary equipment.
Mechanical MTL is responsible for ensuring that the work is executed safely, within environmental regulations, with high quality and efficiency. This includes setting the work up to be successful, monitoring the progress of the work, intervening as necessary, seeking opportunities to supplement the scheduled work with fill in work, and communicating equipment status. Additionally, the MTL role performs field planning for work that skips the planning phase (i.e., emergency, or urgent work).
To succeed with us in Maintenance we need your enthusiasm to:
- Demonstrate personal commitment to HSSE
- Be curious and passionate about raising the bar every day to preserve and improve long term asset value
- Pride and care when dealing with people, your work, and know that every day, you have an impact on safety, your community and environment.
- Display a strong positive attitude to manage change and improvement in our processes, ways of working and our overall performance.
- Utilize flexible innovative thinking with well-developed problem-solving skills transcending into multi-disciplinary delivery.
- Drive knowledge sharing, mentoring, and coaching to accelerate team competence.
- Develop strong working relationships with your team, stakeholders to boost co-operation and a One Team approach.
- Courage to hold strong to views when challenged or challenging others.
Leadership Capabilities
- Excellent communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills that inspire and energize people and create a clear sense of direction and priorities with a ONE Team approach.
- Ability to positively influence people, effectively drive work processes and ensure compliance with policies.
- Ability to drive execution and stretch the performance of people with a wide range of capabilities.
- Comfortable with change and ambiguity such that informed decisions are made without undue delay.
- Courage to hold strong to views when challenging current practices to encourage exploration of new ideas that drive improvement, i.e., Digitization.
- Demonstrate a strong personal commitment to Diversity and Inclusion through collaboration across functional and cultural boundaries.
People and Development:
- Manage workforce allocation for day-to-day operations, major equipment outages, and turnarounds.
- Accountable to ensure shift teams and budgets (specifically with respect to overtime) are managed in accordance with applicable LNG Canada HR policies.
- Accountable for ensuring individual training plans for team members are followed and deviations are addressed with the training department.
- Provide regular performance feedback to shift team members and initiate performance improvement processes to address underperformance.
- With HR support, initiate and determine disciplinary action including suspensions, termination, etc., aligned with company policy.
- Ensure recognition program is in place, sustainable, and utilized to positively influence individual performance.
- Participate in hiring and onboarding of new team members to ensure skill alignment and behaviors.
- Staffing of teams including interviews, evaluation of candidates, and supporting hiring decisions for technician-level roles.
- Approve applications for promotion, transfer, and role assignments.
- Manage the well-being of production team members and address all people issues such as leave and overtime effectively.
You will use your expertise to:
The Mechanical Maintenance Team lead will report to the Area Maintenance supervisor and will lead a multi discipline team performing preventative and corrective maintenance activities daily.
This will include support in coordinating the maintenance schedule for their area in collaboration with operations maintenance coordinator and maintenance scheduler to ensure adequate resources are in place to meet the maintenance schedule. Ensuring tasks are performed safely, efficiently and on time, Reporting equipment status to operations team, working towards best-in-class efficiency, leading, supporting and initiating opportunities for digitalization
- Ensure safe and cost-effective maintenance execution of Maintenance Execution process
- Help with prioritization of work notifications
- Manage resourcing and ensuring scheduling information is up to date for maintenance schedulers
- Working with Operations Maintenance Coordinator, schedulers, field leads and fellow MTL’s to draft daily and weekly schedules
- Ensure scheduled work activities ready for execution by reviewing plans, using system checks to verify material and equipment as well as communicating with other groups, i.e., non-routine leads, production, central maintenance, deliveries, etc.
- Provide accurate daily updates to the schedule
- Ensure proper work order close out by reviewing and ensuring quality of equipment history and feedback
- Lead the safe execution of maintenance work plans by: ensuring quality relevant tool box talks for their team; coordinating initial incident response for assigned process unit and reports; FIM investigator for all Personnel incidents; ensuring team compliance to HSE training competencies and safety meeting attendance; identifying the need for critical task analysis (CTA), and initiate requests for CTA development, PTW field assessments, ensuring documents are in place for SWP compliance, regular field presence.
- Ensure competent personnel assigned to work tasks
- Manage the development of team by using Individual Development Plans, Job Competency Profiles and creating gap closure plans; Manage performance of work team by utilizing Performance Appraisals; Develop people through coaching and mentoring reports to achieve development targets
- Ensure timely resolution of priority work requests. This requires the MTL to allocate appropriate personnel to resolve or mitigate issue in a timely manner, coordinate path forward of mitigated issues by interfacing with stakeholders and entering follow up work request, manage impacts to daily and weekly schedules resulting from manpower being allocated to priority work
- Manage costs: employee timesheets; contractor service entries; validate and approve invoices; ensure unused material returned to warehouse; manage tools and equipment rentals for work execution
- Support commissioning of projects through craft / specialty contractors
- Support of other site initiatives such as Turnaround, Outages, Plant upsets, improvement initiatives, contract holding duties within their areas.
- Responsible to ensure quality and continuity of work and to ensure timely and accurate updates are submitted to the scheduler.
To be successful, you will have:
- Journeyperson with Red Seal or Technologist, with minimum 5 years maintenance experience in oil, heavy oil refining or closely related facility or comparable skill set.
- Experience in very Large or Mega Project environment (multi-disciplinary teams, multi culture, multi locations) would be an asset.
- Demonstrated leadership and decision-making skills. Can effectively pull groups together and coordinate action plans to drive resolution.
- Proven experience leading a multi discipline and multicultural workforce
- Able to manage project delivery through own team, contractor and vendors.
- Both fluent and articulate in English, able to manage a team in an inspiring manner.
- Demonstrated Knowledge and experience:
- Maintenance Execution Planning
- Leading diverse multi discipline teams
- CMMS Systems
- Cryogenic experience
- Turbine maintenance and overhaul experience
- Centrifugal compressor experience
- Heat Transfer Fluid Pumping systems
- Piping systems
- Hydraulic system Knowledge
- Static system – Heat exchangers, piping system, pressure relief systems
- Cooling tower Mechanical systems.
This role requires that you:
- Be legally entitled to work in Canada (i.e., by way of Canadian citizenship, permanent residency, or valid work permit)
- Live in the beautiful District of Stikine (Kitimat/Terrace). For applicants located outside of the region, you are encouraged to explore what Kitimat has to offer in terms of lifestyle including schooling, local amenities, outdoor adventure, and housing, to ensure Kitimat is where you would like to call your new home.
- Are willing to comply with LNGC’s drug-free and harassment-free work environment and comply with all safety policies and procedures.
- Undergo a pre-placement medical assessment of your fitness for duty, and Pre-Site Access testing for alcohol and specified drugs.
- Know that during Campaign Maintenance and Turnaround events will require additional effort including longer hours and shift work
- Are willing to work outdoors during inclement weather in all seasons including heavy snowfall and periods of heavy rain.
- Are able to climb ladders and stairs, work at heights and in confined spaces. Plant design conditions provide structures that are significantly taller than common in industry, individuals must be comfortable with heights as well as travel to and from the workface at heights.
- Know that this role may be expected to be on call on a rotational basis during the year and/or during site specific situations.
- Have a Valid Driver’s license
- Know that this is not a fly-in, fly-out rotation role.
We Offer:
- A comprehensive LNG Canada relocation package (if required)
- A full suite of benefits including a flexible medical and health plan.
- A defined contribution pension plan with a matching program
- A competitive vacation offering to ensure a work life balance.
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About Us:
LNG Canada is a joint venture company comprised of five global energy companies with substantial experience in liquefied natural gas (LNG) – Shell, PETRONAS, Mitsubishi Corporation, PetroChina, and KOGAS.
LNG Canada represents the largest private sector investment in Canadian history, and a once-in-a-generation opportunity to benefit local communities and provincial and national economies. It is a long-life asset with a 40-year export license that will initially export LNG from two processing units or “trains” totaling 14 million tonnes per annum (mtpa).
With our five joint venture participants, we continue to explore pathways to a potential LNG Canada Phase 2 expansion, which can unlock additional revenues to government and benefits for B.C. communities and businesses and deliver more lower carbon LNG to countries trying to achieve their energy transition goals.
Safety, shared economic value, environmental performance and social performance are our highest priorities. We have partnered with governments, local communities, and First Nations to maximize shared value.
Do you have a desire to learn and become part of an organization with a supportive and collaborative culture? Concerned you don’t meet every job requirement? Studies show diverse candidates are less likely to apply unless they feel they meet every single qualification. LNG Canada hires for character and trains for skill. We’re dedicated to attracting a diverse and inclusive workforce, representing the communities in which we live and work. We encourage you to apply today.
