Director, Maintenance & Reliability
Summit Midstream Corporation
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Summit Midstream Corporation seeks a Director of Maintenance & Reliability to lead enterprise maintenance strategies and the Maximo EAM program. You will partner with Operations, Asset Integrity and Safety to set standards, reduce downtime, and improve asset performance across multiple sites.
The role requires deep reliability engineering expertise, executive-level leadership, and a track record in implementing organization-wide maintenance programs with data-driven decision making.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering Maintenance Management, Reliability Engineering or a related technical discipline.
- Typically 12 years of progressive experience in maintenance reliability, asset management, engineering or related operational disciplines.
- Typically 7 years of leadership experience with accountability for multi-disciplinary teams, enterprise programs, or multiple operating locations.
- Demonstrated experience developing and implementing enterprise maintenance and reliability strategies across complex industrial, energy, pipeline, or infrastructure assets.
- Demonstrated experience leveraging EAM platforms, preferably IBM Maximo, to improve maintenance execution, asset performance, data quality and decision making.
- Experience with capital projects, asset lifecycle management, contractor strategy, budgeting and organizational transformation.
Responsibilities
- Develop and lead the enterprise maintenance and reliability strategy, standards and roadmap across the organization’s assets and operating locations.
- Establish consistent preventive, predictive, condition-based and reliability-centered maintenance practices to improve asset availability, safety and lifecycle performance.
- Set enterprise standards for asset criticality, maintenance strategies, failure mode analysis and reliability improvement.
- Partner with Operations, Engineering, Asset Integrity and Safety to identify and mitigate reliability risks and minimize unplanned downtime.
- Ensure maintenance and reliability programs align with regulatory requirements, company standards, asset integrity objectives and operational risk priorities.
- Provide executive-level leadership and direction to the EAM System Manager (Maximo) and the enterprise asset management strategy.
- Establish EAM governance, data quality requirements, controls and accountability across business units and operating locations.
- Ensure Maximo configuration, workflows, mobile capabilities, integrations and reporting support work management, maintenance execution, reliability analytics, inventory and compliance.
- Lead the evolution of EAM capabilities to support business growth, digital transformation, predictive maintenance and data-driven decision making.
- Establish dashboards and reporting that show maintenance performance, asset health, risk, cost and reliability trends.
- Define and govern enterprise maintenance and reliability KPIs including backlog, schedule compliance, PM compliance, MTBF, MTTR, asset availability, maintenance cost and reliability trends.
- Use asset and maintenance data to identify systemic performance opportunities, prioritise investments and drive measurable improvement.
- Lead structured continuous improvement initiatives using root cause analysis, reliability engineering, Lean/Six Sigma and other methodologies.
- Standardize maintenance practices and performance expectations across sites and asset classes while allowing asset-specific requirements.
- Develop and maintain an enterprise reliability improvement pipeline with clear priorities, ownership, timelines and measurable outcomes.
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Headquartered in Houston Texas Summit Midstream Corporation NYSE SMC is a value driven corporation focused on developing owning and operating midstream energy infrastructure assets that are strategically located in unconventional resource basins primarily shale formations in the continental United States We currently operate natural gas crude oil and produced water gathering systems in four unconventional resource basins the Williston Basin in North Dakota which includes the Bakken and Three Forks shale formations;the Denver Julesburg Basin which includes the Niobrara and Codell shale formations in Colorado and Wyoming;the Fort Worth Basin in Texas which includes the Barnett Shale formation; andthe Piceance Basin in Colorado which includes the liquids rich Mesaverde formation as well as the emerging Mancos and Niobrara Shale formationsOur systems and the basins they serve are as follows the Polar & Divide system which serves the Williston Basin;the DFW Midstream system which serves the Fort Worth Basin; the Grand River system which serves the Piceance Basin; andthe Niobrara G&P system which serves the DJ BasinSMC has an equity investment in and operates Double E Pipeline LLC which is natural gas transmission infrastructure that provides transportation service from multiple receipt points in the Delaware Basin to various delivery points in and around the Waha Hub in Texas We generate a substantial majority of our revenue under primarily long term and fee based gathering agreements with our customers The majority of our gathering agreements are underpinned by areas of mutual interest AMIs and minimum volume commitments MVCs Our AMIs provide that any production drilled by our customers within the AMIs will be shipped on our gathering systems The MVCs are designed to ensure that we will generate a minimum amount of gathering revenue over the life of each respective gathering agreement The fee based nature of the majority of the gathering agreements enhances the stability of our cash flows and limits our direct commodity price exposure Since our formation in 2009 our management team has established a track record of executing this strategy through the acquisition and subsequent development of DFW Midstream Grand River Polar & Divide Niobrara G&P and Double E Pipeline
Summit Midstream is proudly committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse and inclusive workforce As an Equal Opportunity Employer we do not discriminate based on race religion color national origin gender including pregnancy childbirth or related medical condition sexual orientation gender identity gender expression age status as a protected veteran status as an individual with a disability or other applicable legally protected characteristics
Relocation No Relocation assistance provided Work schedule hybrid schedule officeremote Work Sponsorship Summit Midstream will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States
Any offer of employment is contingent upon the Company receiving satisfactory results from a pre employment drug screening a criminal background check and reference checks and your satisfaction of all other applicable fitness for duty requirements
The Director Maintenance & Reliability provides enterprise leadership and strategic direction for the organizations maintenance reliability and enterprise asset management programs The role is accountable for developing and executing a standardized data driven maintenance and reliability strategy that improves asset availability operational performance safety compliance and lifecycle value The Director establishes governance performance standards and best practices across the asset portfolio; leads the continued optimization of Maximo and related EAM capabilities; and partners with Operations Engineering Safety Asset Integrity Finance IT and other functions to ensure maintenance and reliability priorities support the companys business strategy and growth This role also provides leadership for maintenance and reliability capability development major projects contractor strategy and continuous improvement initiatives across the organization
- Develop and lead the enterprise maintenance and reliability strategy standards and roadmap across the organizations assets and operating locations
- Establish consistent preventive predictive condition based and reliability centered maintenance practices to improve asset availability safety and lifecycle performance
- Set enterprise standards for asset criticality maintenance strategies failure mode analysis bad actor elimination root cause analysis and reliability improvement
- Partner with Operations Engineering Asset Integrity and Safety to identify and mitigate reliability risks and minimize unplanned downtime
- Ensure maintenance and reliability programs are aligned with regulatory requirements company standards asset integrity objectives and operational risk priorities
- May act as lead person or technical expert and provide leadership and direction to less experienced compliance and operations staff
- Maintains or acquires and maintains expert knowledge of Summit Midstream Plans surrounding Operator Qualification Integrity Management and Public Awareness This is accomplished through extensive reading of the statutes and regulations and consultation with other members of the Asset Integrity department responsible for the PlansProvide executive level functional leadership and direction to the EAM System Manager Maximo and the organizations enterprise asset management strategy
- Establish EAM governance process standards data quality requirements controls and accountability across business units and operating locations
- Ensure Maximo configuration workflows mobile capabilities integrations and reporting effectively support work management maintenance execution reliability analytics inventory and compliance
- Lead the evolution of EAM capabilities to support business growth digital transformation predictive maintenance and data driven decision making
- Establish executive level dashboards and reporting that provide visibility into maintenance performance asset health risk cost and reliability trends
- Define and govern enterprise maintenance and reliability KPIs including backlog schedule compliance preventive maintenance compliance MTBF MTTR asset availability maintenance cost and reliability trends
- Use asset and maintenance data to identify systemic performance opportunities prioritize investments and drive measurable improvement
- Lead structured continuous improvement initiatives using root cause analysis reliability engineering LeanSix Sigma principles and other appropriate methodologies
- Standardize maintenance practices and performance expectations across sites and asset classes while allowing for asset specific requirements
- Develop and maintain an enterprise reliability improvement pipeline with clear priorities ownership timelines and measurable outcomes
Bachelors degree in Engineering Maintenance Management Reliability Engineering or a related technical discipline required; advanced degree preferred
Typically 12 years of progressive experience in maintenance reliability asset management engineering or related operational disciplines
Typically 7 years of leadership experience with accountability for multi disciplinary teams enterprise programs or multiple operating locations
Demonstrated experience developing and implementing enterprise maintenance and reliability strategies across complex industrial energy pipeline or infrastructure assets
Demonstrated experience leveraging EAM platforms preferably IBM Maximo to improve maintenance execution asset performance data quality and decision making
Experience with capital projects asset lifecycle management contractor strategy budgeting and organizational transformation
- Executive presence and demonstrated ability to influence leaders and stakeholders across a complex geographically dispersed organization
- Deep knowledge of asset lifecycle management reliability engineering maintenance strategies work management and asset performance management
- Strong business acumen with the ability to translate enterprise strategy into executable programs resource requirements priorities and measurable results
- Advanced knowledge of maintenance and reliability analytics KPIs performance management and continuous improvement methodologies
- Strong understanding of EAM governance Maximo functionality maintenance data reporting and digital enablement
- Exceptional communication collaboration negotiation and change management skills
- Ability to balance safety reliability cost risk and operational priorities in a complex asset environment
- Travel approximately 20-30% as required to support operational sites projects strategic initiatives and leadership engagements
- Ability to work effectively in both corporate office and field environments including periodic visits to operating facilities and construction project locations
- Office setting; ability to sit for prolonged periods of time
- Able to view computer terminal for long periods of time
- Manual dexterity for operating computer and office equipment
- Company Paid Holidays
- Discretionary Performance Bonus
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Employer supplemented Health Savings Account
- Flexible Benefit Plan
- Basic Term Life Insurance
- Voluntary Term Life and AD&D Insurance
- Employer Short & Long Term Disability Insurance
- Employee Assistance Plan
- EAPHospital Indemnity
- Critical Illness and Accident Insurance
- Wellness Incentive Program
- 6 Retirement Plan Match
Summit Midstream Corporation will not pay a fee of any kind to any third party agency without a valid Summit Midstream Corporation Master Service Agreement MSA authorized and signed by Human Resources Any resume application or other form of candidate submission to any employee of Summit Midstream Corporation without a valid MSA on file will be considered property of Summit Midstream Corporation and no fee will be paid
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