Maintenance Execution Team Lead

NES Fircroft are currently seeking a Maintenance Execution Team Leader for a major operational oilfield in Iraq.

This is a maintenance leadership role, with a number of direct reports, including:

• Maintenance Scheduler
• Maintenance Specialists
• Area Construction Lead
• Site Maintenance Advisors
• Maintenance Coordinators

Role intent:

• Functional leadership for maintenance execution in operating area
• Day to day supervision of Maintenance Execution Team and oversight of work execution.
• Deliver safe, effective and efficient maintenance execution
• Training and coaching of the local workforce as needed to comply with international standards and improve delivery

Key Accountabilities:

• Promotes a culture of open safety reporting and continuous improvement.
• Accountable for the safe execution of maintenance activities in support of standards, values, and behaviours.
• Accountable for effective and efficient area maintenance, covering multi-discipline Preventative (PM) & Corrective (CM) maintenance activity.
• Owns and maintains a zero tolerance for overdue safety critical maintenance (SCE and Anomaly management) to reduce risk to production /personnel / plant and environment.
• Budget Holder and Contract account manager (CAM) for area maintenance execution budget and appropriate contracts
• Accountable for TAR maintenance input and train outages.
• Responsible for effectiveness of condition monitoring program and completing condition monitoring anomalies on time
• Sets annual team and personal objectives for team members
• Performance manage team
• Own schedule delivery and activity readiness for all maintenance executed activity
• Monitors the agreed KPIs and takes appropriate actions to close any deviations from target.
• Recommend activity set beyond the 12 week window to OSM
• Participates in line Self Verification and conducts regular leadership site visits
• Inputs to the choke model to ensure Vulnerabilities are understood and assessed to reduce risk and optimise production.
• Responsible for driving plant and equipment availability and supporting leading reliability improvement initiatives and initiating RCFA investigations, ensuring timely closure of any allocated station actions.
• Ensure change management (MOC) issues are identified and Engineering Queries (EQ’s) are raised in a timely manner to resolve and meet business objectives.
• Champion Continuous improvements (CI) by standardizing best practice activities across site and maintenance teams,
• optimize Maintenance Strategy.
• improvements to maintenance build.
• optimize Materials Look-up and Staging.
• Develop competence map for Maintenance co-ordinator (MC) and drive delivery through maintenance advisors.

Desired experience:

• Above 15 Years experience in O&G industry (Preferable with IOC’s direct or contract)
• Technical degree or HNC certificate in engineering.
• Experience in previous Maintenance lead role (MTL / Maint Superintendent capacity)
• Practical exposure to production facilities
• Leadership Skills – leading and managing multi-discipline and multi-cultural workforce.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Driven to deliver continuous improvement.
• Strong bias for being proactive and getting results
• Strong understanding of Computerised maintenance management systems (CMSS – Maximo)
• Contribute to an environment in which all team members are respected regardless of their individual differences and are motivated to improve both their individual and team contributions to achieve desired business results
• Strong interpersonal and influence skills
• Skilled in behaviour change management
• Strong understanding of contracts and contractor management

With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.