Job Title: Electrical, Instrument & Analyzers Maintenance Team Lead – Common or Process

Location: Kitimat

There’s never been a better time to be working with LNG Canada.

Why? We are Canada’s first liquified natural gas (LNG) export facility, underpinned by safety, continuous improvement, quality execution, ethics, and compliance. Our facility will provide 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 and will be 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 Vision: To be the leading LNG export company in British Columbia and the world.

Our Mission: To set the benchmark for economically, environmentally, and socially responsible LNG development in Canada.

Our Values: Respect, collaboration, integrity, and safety.

Come join the team making Canadian history!

About the Role

Reporting to the Area Maintenance Supervisor, we are seeking an Electrical, Instrumentation and Analyzer (E, I & A) Maintenance Team lead (MTL) for the Common Utilities area or Process areas. The MTL are 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 Electrical, Instrumentation and Analyzer Maintenance Technicians and Contract maintenance resources of same trade.

The LNG Common areas are comprised of high, medium, and low voltage electrical equipment, Analyzer maintenance and calibration and all instrumentation in the process area. The Common area is LNG Canadas comprised of the utility’s unit, water treatment, marine loading, and condensate storage area, including rail loading.

The LNG Process areas will work in LNG Process Trains. These trains are comprised of high, medium, and low voltage electrical equipment, Analyzer maintenance and calibration and all instrumentation in the process area. The process area is LNG Canada main cryogenic area comprised of two trains.

The MTL is responsible for ensuring that the work is executed safely, within environmental rules, 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.
• Display a strong positive attitude to manage change and improvement in our processes, ways of working and our overall performance.
• Develop strong working relationships with your team, stakeholders to boost co-operation and a One Team approach.
• Use your ability to utilize flexible thinking with well-developed problem-solving skills.
• 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.

You will use your expertise to:

• The E I&A Maintenance Team Lead-Common or Process will be accountable to manage a multi-disciplinary team of technicians performing safe, efficient, and cost-effective delivery of work in the Common facilities at LNG Canada.
• Ensure safe and cost-effective maintenance execution of ME process
• Help with prioritization of work notifications
• Manage resourcing and ensuring scheduling information is up to date for maintenance schedulers
• Working with OMC, 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 TA, 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:

• Journeyman or Technologist, with minimum 5 years leadership maintenance experience in heavy industry, oil, heavy oil refining or closely related facility or comparable skill set.
• Excellent experience and demonstrated competence:
• • Maintenance Execution Planning experience
  • Excellent knowledge and experience with High, low, and medium voltage electrical systems
  • Instrument protective functions
  • Analyzer calibration and maintenance
  • Leading diverse teams
  • Trouble shooting
  • SAP Blueprint capability
• Experience in very Large or Mega Project environment (multi-disciplinary teams, multi culture) would be an asset.
• Demonstrated leadership and decision-making skills. Can effectively pull groups together and coordinate action plans to drive resolution.
• Able to manage project delivery through own team, contractor, and vendors.

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.

• Know that during Campaign Maintenance and Turnaround events will require additional effort including longer hours and shift work

• During Operate: 40hrs per week/5/2.

• 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.

• Have a Valid Driver’s license

• 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.

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.

• See attached document for more information about Kitimat and LNG Canada.

About Us:

LNG Canada is a joint venture comprised of Shell Canada Energy (40%) and affiliates of Petronas (25%) PetroChina (15%), Mitsubishi Corporation (15%) and Korea Gas Corporation (5%). The joint venture is building a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility in Kitimat, British Columbia.

LNG Canada sets out to be a company of choice for British Columbia and Canada. 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.