Area Superintendent Maintenance Head

Area superintendent - maintenance head

KBR Sustainable Technology Solutions (STS) provides holistic and value-added solutions across the entire asset life cycle. These include world-class licensed process technologies, differentiated advisory services, deep technical domain expertise, energy transition solutions, high-end design capabilities, and smart solutions to optimize planned and operating assets.

KBR is looking for an area superintendent - maintenance head to guarantee that daily refinery maintenance activities, including corrective, preventive, and predictive for mechanical, I/E, and rotating equipment, are carried out in compliance with safety, environment, and quality rules to assure sector availability, reliability, and operation continuity.

Saudi nationals preferred

Responsibilities:

• Manage and lead overall department functions, provide direction to employees, evaluate, coordinate, and ensure completion of project tasks within set timelines in accordance with the organization's policies.
• Participate in the development and implementation of goals, objectives, policies, procedures, and priorities.
• Prepare, optimize, and track preventive maintenance schedules of equipment; minimize breakdowns with effective monitoring and scheduling maintenance programs to ensure operational availability of equipment.
• Manage day-to-day activities of SS (welding and fabrication shop, scaffolding and insulation workshop, heavy lift and rigging division). Manage planned or unplanned equipment repairs.
• Manage resources, equipment, and machinery to the site for routine and emergency situations.
• Review work plans and job request priorities to allocate resources, monitor workflow, methods of statement, and procedures; meet and discuss with the team to identify gaps and resolve problems.
• Review weekly plans and provide feedback to the planning team to achieve schedule compliance.
• Coordinate with internal departments, external workshops, and OEM dealers for repairs, parts, and any issues.
• Manage and lead to ensure all equipment and workshop facilities are maintained and meet HSE standards.
• Conduct regular safety audits to identify potential hazards and implement corrective actions.
• Manage, recommend, and schedule employees’ safety and technical trainings.
• Manage and review daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance performance reports, timesheets, KPIs, etc.
• Respond promptly in case of emergency. Ensure reporting of any incident, accident, or violation.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, or related field.
• Previous experience as a maintenance engineer in a refining environment or equivalent.
• 12+ years of refinery plant experience.
• Good knowledge of refinery equipment.
• Experience piloting maintenance contracts.
• Strong understanding of safety rules.
• Proven ability to resolve problems as a leader within large organizations.
• Well organized, proactive, and strong communication skills.
• Maturity of judgment under pressure.
• Strategic mindset that is open to new ideas.
• Demonstrated capacity to achieve positive results while working in a multicultural environment.
• All other duties as assigned.

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