Sr. Specialist, Operations

NES Fircroft is a leading global technical recruitment company providing professional contract and permanent staff to a diverse world-wide client base within the oil & gas Industry.

Job Title: Sr. Specialist, Operations

Location: Prince George, BC - preferred

Length: 6 Month contract to start

Rotation: Mon-Fri 40hrs per week

Description:

Provide operational expertise and leadership to ensure that projects are safely, reliably, and efficiently designed and delivered in alignment with the client’s standards and Integrated Management System requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Advise project teams on operational requirements from development through commissioning to ensure fit-for-purpose designs.
• Act as the primary operations liaison, representing operational interests across all project phases.
• Support construction execution to align with safety, environmental, and operational best practices.
• Ensure operational input is provided for training, procedures, asset maintenance, and management.
• Deliver on Operational Readiness Assurance (ORA) requirements per project timelines.
• Oversee commissioning and handover activities, ensuring scope completion and effective communication with stakeholders.
• Identify and coordinate operational resource needs; provide informal leadership to Operators and Technicians assigned to projects.
• Resolve gaps in scope, schedule, funding, or process between Projects and Operations.
• Lead resolution of post-startup deficiencies to ensure long-term operability.
• Identify and mitigate operational risks, including those with high business impact (> $1M cost avoidance).

Scope & Decision-Making:

• Holds delegated authority to make frontline operational decisions as the “asset owner” for project-related matters.
• Expected to proactively assess and mitigate safety, operational, and business risks.

Key Relationships:

• Daily engagement with internal project and operations teams, as well as external vendors and consultants.

Required Qualifications:

• 5–10 years of operations or maintenance experience in the natural gas industry.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a high-demand environment.
• In-depth experience with gas transportation systems (e.g., pipelines and compressors).
• Familiarity with gas industry standards, programs, and best practices.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with Westcoast Operations teams and familiarity with station equipment.
• Field-level leadership experience.
• Knowledge of processes such as Management of Change, Work Management, Operations Training, ORA, and Commissioning/Handover.

Working Conditions:

• Primarily office-based with up to 20% travel.
• Field visits to pipeline, measurement, and compressor stations required.
• Regular highway driving within British Columbia for site meetings and inspections.

Apply here or send your resume to trevor.parlee@nesfircroft.com