Senior Manager, Reliability Programs

Job Description

Description

Enterprise Products Partners L.P. is one of the largest publicly traded partnerships and a leading North American provider of midstream energy services to producers and consumers of natural gas, NGLs, crude oil, refined products and petrochemicals.

• Our services include : natural gas gathering, treating, processing, transportation and storage; NGL transportation, fractionation, storage and import and export terminals;
• crude oil gathering, transportation, storage and terminals; petrochemical and refined products transportation, storage and terminals;

and a marine transportation business that operates primarily on the United States inland and Intracoastal Waterway systems.

The partnership’s assets include approximately 50,000 miles of pipelines; 260 million barrels of storage capacity for NGLs, crude oil, refined products and petrochemicals;

and 14 billion cubic feet of natural gas storage capacity.

The Reliability Programs Senior Manager responsibilities include, but are not limited to :

Operational Availability

Improve asset availability by exploiting company-wide data to identify common causes for lost availability.Develop strategies and solutions to reduce asset down time.

Develop companywide processes to sustain consistent focus on asset availability.

oDefine, collect, and leverage data from many sources to reveal insights into common or recurring root causes of asset down time.

Availability data

• Define and characterize unplanned causes of asset down time
• Collaborate with Operations Analytics team to develop consistent and efficient data structures to allow aggregation of availability information across assets

Computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) failure data

• Help define missing elements of failure data necessary to deliver complete failure analysis
• Propose procedural changes to ensure failure data collection is robust and sustainable
• Collaborate with and provide feedback to Enterprise’s Maintenance Optimization Process team.

Operating data

• Operations daily reports and logs
• Findings and alerts from real-time advanced asset monitoring systems

Cross-Organization Improvements

• Identify improvement areas and champion recommendations.
• Oversee execution of improvement actions while execution may fall under the responsibility of other teams, this role will report on status and have accountability for tracking and ensuring completion.

oDetermine which issues can be assigned to existing teams for follow up and resolution, versus which require a new team to deliver sustained focus and management.

oDefine new team functional and skill requirements, staffing, roles and responsibilities and job descriptions as necessary

oEnsure cross-functional coordination.

Collaborate with and serve as a hinge between other stakeholders, e.g., Operations Analytics, Operations, Reliability, Process Engineering, Controls Engineering, Commercial, Asset Optimization.

Develop metrics to measure effectiveness and provide feedback on performance.Report on progress.

Asset Performance Management

• Serve as Enterprise’s lead in the development and implementation of an asset performance management initiative with external business consultants.
• Investigate highly reliable processes and companies to identify best practices for achieving high availability.

Rotating Equipment Repair Oversight and Quality Assurance

• Develop a new repair shop inspection team to provide Enterprise oversight as critical rotating equipment repairs are conducted by offsite repair companies.
• Shop inspection team duties include :

oSupport key rotating equipment shop work for all operating regions.

oProvide oversight and verifications of shop repair work quality

oLeverage knowledge of shop repair loads, quality of repair work, and shop staffing to recommend shops to use for rotating equipment repairs

oCultivate third-party shop inspection contractors & contingent workers to meet demand & geographic needs

Improve quality and success of rotating equipment repairs by :

oProviding independent oversight of shop effectiveness and quality

oStaying abreast of the dynamic repair market and understanding which shops are available and capable

Qualifications

The successful candidate will meet the following qualification :

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering is preferred, but other engineering degrees may be acceptable with relevant experience.
• 10 years of experience in hydrocarbon processing industries, particularly in the midstream, downstream, or petrochemical sectors.
• Organizational Knowledge Understands Enterprise’s organization and key contacts for gathering information and building consensus.
• Vision Sets forth a vision of the future state, building upon but unencumbered by legacy processes.
• Current State Awareness Understands the current operating environment, systems, data, and stakeholders.
• Focus Maintains focus on key strategic program objectives; avoids diluting energy on current-day activities.
• Planner Breaks down strategic goals into targeted tasks to create and execute a structured program.
30+ days ago