Senior Maintenance Engineer

We are the global leader in Oil and Gas recruitment and consulting, providing our clients with permanent and project based solutions. We employ a team of 130 professionals globally with operations in the United Kingdom, Singapore, and the United States (Houston and Florida). We have partnered with a global Oil and Gas Industry leader that is looking for a Senior Maintenance Engineer.

The Senior Maintenance Engineer role will be based in Houston.

Key Accountabilities of a Senior Maintenance Engineer:

Leading and executing the effective delivery of technical projects within their business line, as well as helping sustain and develop the business through business development support and technical sales effort. Specific requirements include:

• Deliver and manage technically challenging projects in line with contract specified targets, resources and budgets.
• Provide technical mentoring to more junior technical and operational staff.
• Assist Operations Managers in managing contract delivery responsibilities, including delivery of target margin.
• Provide support for recruiting, managing, training, developing, and motivating staff to perform and deliver to the quality required to meet client's deliverables.
• Interface with the corporate organisation and other service lines as required to provide other groups' opportunities within the area of operations.
• Help ensure all staff execute duties safely and that adequate training is identified, organised and undertaken as required by Plant Asset Management or Client HSE requirements.

Performance Factors required for the Senior Maintenance Engineer:

• Ensure financial and technical performance of projects when acting as project manager.
• Ensure consistent and appropriate technical quality is provided into projects.
• Support Business Development in preparation of technical aspects of proposals.

Maintaining and developing client relationships.

• Awareness of corporate standards, policies, and procedures.
• Responsible to ensure that own utilization is maximised and identifying line management when available for deployment on new work.
• Strong vision as to how maintenance and integrity can truly add value to the maintenance management process: who can manage and deliver maintenance strategy development projects, undertake maintenance auditing and performance improvement and have the drive and ability to work with demanding international clients to achieve this vision.

Knowledge and Experience requirements for the Senior Maintenance Engineer:

• Degree qualified or equivalent preferably having, or working towards, corporate membership of a relevant Professional Institution.
• At least 10 years' experience in industry.
• Effective team leadership skills, able to manage multi-discipline consultancy teams
• Awareness of Project Management methodology, including financial reporting and management.
• Experience in the Oil and Gas, Energy, process or Utility industry, ideally gained in operations or engineering with a strong background in the operations and maintenance of process related equipment.
• Demonstrate involvement in developing maintenance and integrity strategies and accompanying tactics based on a combination of risk analysis and experience.
• Practical application of development supporting processes and tools such as, criticality assessment, FMEA, RCM, RBI etc.
• Experience with risk based decision making.
• Continuous improvement in all necessary systems, processes and procedures relevant to the professional management of Maintenance and integrity projects.
• Possess up to date knowledge of maintenance and reliability engineering, best practices and statutory requirements, through appreciate means, i.e, review of periodicals, attendance at conferences/user groups, etc.
• Demonstrate involvement in developing maintenance and integrity strategies and based upon a combination of risk analysis, engineering practice and previous experience.