Maintenance Supervisor (Offshore)

New Fortress Energy; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

New Fortress Energy seeks a Maintenance Supervisor for its offshore FLNG asset, with potential Houston Office responsibilities. The role requires leadership of a multi-disciplinary team to sustain safe, reliable operations and continuous improvement.

You will drive preventive and corrective maintenance, manage work orders, and ensure compliance with safety standards while coordinating with onshore and regional resources. A strong background in oil and gas maintenance is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years at a supervisory level or higher.
• 7+ years experience with surveillance, inspection, troubleshooting, repair and reinstatement of oil and gas equipment.
• 5+ years hands-on experience in a maintenance discipline.
• Knowledge of safety in maintenance execution.
• Experience with predictive maintenance techniques.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a multi-disciplinary maintenance team (Planner/Schedulers, Controls, Instrumentation, Electrical, Mechanical).
• Coordinate and assign maintenance services safely, reliably, and cost-effectively.
• Prioritize and execute Work Orders with proper permits and safety.
• Collaborate with discipline resources to ensure task understanding and risk awareness.
• Develop spare parts evaluation and selection processes.
• Support planning to ensure efficient use of personnel and resources.
• Ensure maintenance schedule adherence with focus on safety and regulatory compliance.
• Maintain backlog to target levels and lead on-site for turnarounds/outages.
• Provide timely reports on performance gaps and improvement opportunities.
• Interface with onshore resources to align with regional maintenance initiatives.

Skills

Offshore maintenance supervision

Supervisory leadership

Predictive maintenance

Safety compliance

CMMS familiarity

Electrical & mechanical tech

Turnaround planning

Tools

CMMS Applications

Job description

New Fortress Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:NFE) is one of the world’s leading downstream natural gas-to-power companies with a $10+ billion market cap. We are a publicly traded, global energy infrastructure company, and a recognized leader in accelerating the world's transition to clean energy.

We develop, finance, and operate natural gas facilities, power plants and logistics solutions to rapidly deliver fully integrated, turnkey energy solutions to our customers. Our energy solutions spur economic growth, enhance environmental stewardship, and transform local industries and communities.

Our world-class team has expertise across power, infrastructure, transportation, logistics and LNG, and we have developed a proven track record building and operating liquefaction facilities, onshore and offshore regasification terminals, pipelines, power plants, and innovative LNG delivery solutions.

As part of our efforts to accelerate the transition to clean energy, we have also launched a cutting-edge initiative – which we call Zero – to replace natural gas with green hydrogen so that our energy solutions produce no carbon emissions within the next 10 years.

We believe that everyone should have access to affordable, cleaner energy. However, billions of people around the planet still lack this critical element for quality of life and economic growth. We are driven by our vision of a world in which electricity is no longer a luxury good, and we are looking for talented, driven individuals to help us light the world with cleaner, more affordable energy solutions.

The Role:

We are seeking a Maintenance Supervisor to be based on the company's offshore Fast LNG asset. This position may, from time to time, also require incumbents to work at the Houston Office location. As a company, we are entrepreneurial, fast- moving, and motivated by a desire to change the way that energy and electricity are delivered around the world. We are looking for a motivated, highly experienced individual with shared beliefs and passion to come and help drive the journey.

As the Maintenance Supervisor, you will be a self-starter with a solution-oriented mentality to help guide our team towards being a learning organization through defect elimination and continuous improvement.

What you will do:

• Embracing and encouraging a safety culture that results in Zero harm to people, the facility or the Company’s reputation.
• Be an integral part of the site leadership and support the development and execution strategies towards world class, safe, reliable, and cost-effective operations
• Supporting the development of Preventive and Corrective Maintenance Procedures and ensuring its compliance
• Ensure continuous availability and high levels of equipment functionality and reliability to the facility
• Supervise, and Mentor a multi-disciplinary maintenance team including Planner/schedulers, Controls, Instrumentation, Electrical and Mechanical Technicians.
• Coordinate and assign all maintenance support services in a safe, reliable, and cost-effective manner
• Ensure that Work Orders are properly prioritized, permitted, and executed in a safe and effective manner
• Work collaboratively with discipline resources and support services to ensure understanding of tasks to be performed, risk awareness and permitting requirements
• Support the development and implementation of the spare parts evaluation and selection.
• Support Planning and Scheduling efforts to ensure safe and efficient use of personnel and other Company resources.
• Ensure high level of compliance to maintenance schedule with focus on equipment relative to safety, critical elements, and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure that maintenance backlogs are kept to target levels
• On-site lead for facility Turnarounds and outages
• Support activities among all regional facilities
• Support OIM in achieving stated goals and targets.
• Provide timely and accurate reports and updates to make visible performance levels, gaps, and opportunities for improvement.
• Focus on continually improving maintenance execution efficiency, planning accuracy, and schedule attainment.
• Develop annual budgets for the facility maintenance program.
• Facilitate the planning and of all overhauls or significant maintenance interventions on the facility.
• Interface with onshore resources to ensure alignment with regional maintenance and reliability initiatives.

What You Bring:

• Available to work offshore on a 21/21 rotation schedule on FLNG facilities
• 5+ years of experience at a Supervisory level or higher
• 7+ years experience with the surveillance, inspection, troubleshooting, repair, removal and reinstatement of oil and gas equipment, preferable in LNG or other cryogenic facilities
• 5+ years hands on experience in a Maintenance discipline
• In depth knowledge regarding safety in the execution of maintenance activities.
• Experience in carrying out predictive maintenance techniques and initial evaluation
• Conversant with best practices for high availability of Power Management and electrical devices, process control devices, and fixed and rotating mechanical equipment.
• Familiarity codes and standards for fixed and floating offshore facilities will be a plus.
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) a plus
• Knowledge and experience in the development of CMMS Applications and maintaining high levels of compliance to Schedules, high quality execution of work and timely reporting
• Ability to lead and motivate maintenance craft as well as contract maintenance support personnel to create a culture of safety and excellence.

Work Conditions:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is often required to stand, walk, sit, climb stairs, work at height above ground on stairs and catwalks, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, talk or hear, smell, type and write.
• Must be able to board a ship via a gangway, climb to the top of a tank (200+ steps), scale vertical steel ladder up to forty feet or more in height and lift and move objects weighing up to 30 pounds.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee will work indoors & outdoors, and be exposed to year-around weather conditions, ocean environment, and noise. There is a considerable number of outdoor activities involved.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
• Required to pass regularly scheduled physical examinations mandated by regulatory authorities.
• Required to obtain mandated certification by attending Company-sponsored training in basic first aid, CPR, AED & LNG firefighting.

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion

New Fortress Energy is an equal opportunity employer and promotes a diverse and inclusive workplace. NFE considers all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, disability, veteran status, gender identity, genetic information, or sexual orientation or any other status protected by applicable law.