Senior Maintenance Superintendent - Asset Reliability Lead

KBR, Inc; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 420,000 - 580,000; Full time

Job summary

KBR, a global engineering and technology leader, seeks an Area Maintenance Superintendent to lead day-to-day upkeep across welding, fabrication, scaffolding, insulation, and heavy lift operations on site. You will drive maintenance planning, resource allocation, and safety compliance to ensure high equipment availability.

The ideal candidate has a engineering degree and 12+ years in refinery environments, with strong leadership, problem-solving, and contractor management skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field.
• Previous experience as a maintenance engineer in refining environment or equivalent.
• 12+ years of refinery plant experience.
• Good knowledge of refinery equipment.
• Piloting of maintenance contracts.
• Safety rules.
• Proven ability to resolve problems as a leader within large organizations.
• Well organized, proactive and strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead overall department functions, direction to employees, evaluation, coordination and ensure to complete the project task within set timeline in accordance with organization's policies.
• Participate in development and implementation of goals, objectives, policies, procedures and priorities.
• Prepare, optimize and track PM schedule of equipment, minimize breakdowns with effective monitoring and scheduling maintenance program to ensure operational availability of equipment.
• Manage day-to-day activities of SS (welding & Fabrication shop, Scaffolding & Insulation workshop, Heavy Lift & Rigging Division).
• Manage planned or unplanned equipment repairs.
• Manage resources/equipment/machinery to the site for routine and in emergency situations.
• Review work plan, job requests priorities to allocate resources, monitor workflow, MOS and procedures, meet and discuss with team to identify gaps and resolve problems.
• Review weekly Plan, feedback to the Planning team to achieve the schedule compliance.
• Coordinate with internal department, external workshop, OEM dealer for repairs, parts, any issues.
• Manage and lead to ensure all equipment, workshop facilities are maintained and meet HSE standards.
• Conduct regular safety audits to identify potential hazards and implement corrective actions.
• Manage and recommend and schedule EE’s safety and technical trainings.
• Manage and review daily, weekly and Monthly maintenance performance reports, time sheet, KPIs etc.
• Respond promptly in case of emergency.
• Ensure reporting of any incident/accident or violation occurs.

Skills

Leadership

Maintenance planning

Safety compliance

Problem solving

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field

Job description

KBR, a global engineering and technology leader, seeks an Area Maintenance Superintendent to lead day-to-day upkeep across welding, fabrication, scaffolding, insulation, and heavy lift operations on site. You will drive maintenance planning, resource allocation, and safety compliance to ensure high equipment availability.

The ideal candidate has a engineering degree and 12+ years in refinery environments, with strong leadership, problem-solving, and contractor management skills.