Maintenance Team Lead - Instrumentation, Controls & Electrical

BP; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

BPX Midstream is seeking an experienced Maintenance Team Lead to oversee Instrumentation, Controls & Electrical (ICE) maintenance across Midstream facilities in the United States. You will provide day-to-day leadership, technical guidance, and field direction to ICE technicians while coordinating with Operations, Engineering, Planning, Scheduling, Projects, and contractor partners.

The successful candidate will promote safety, operating discipline, and continuous improvement, ensuring

Qualifications

• Significant maintenance experience in oil and gas or related industries.
• Experience leading maintenance personnel or teams.
• Proficient in instrumentation, automation, process control, and electrical systems; experience with SAP/Maximo.

Responsibilities

• Lead ICE maintenance across Midstream facilities and coordinate priorities with operations, engineering, scheduling, and projects.
• Provide day-to-day leadership, technical direction, and field oversight of technicians.
• Champion safety, control of work, energy isolation, and operating discipline in all maintenance activities.
• Coordinate maintenance priorities with other disciplines and optimize preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance.
• Support outages, equipment upgrades, commissioning, start-up, and management of change activities.

Skills

Leadership experience

Maintenance planning

Troubleshooting

Communication skills

Safety and compliance

Education

High school diploma

Technical certification/Associate degree

Tools

SAP

Maximo

SCADA

Control of Work

Job description

Job Family Group:

Operations Group

Job Description:

bpx energy, a major oil and gas producer in the United States, leverages its expertise in unconventional gas, including shale, to deliver hydrocarbon production and technical knowledge worldwide. With operations in Texas and Louisiana, our US onshore business has become both a premier oil and gas producer and a leader in reducing methane emissions. As part of BP, a global industry leader, we foster a high-energy, high-intensity environment built on accountability, collegiality, innovation, and empowerment. At bpx, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment where safety, operational excellence, continuous improvement, and teamwork are valued.

Maintenance Team Lead, Instrumentation, Controls & Electrical

BPX Midstream

Role Synopsis

BPX is seeking an experienced Maintenance Team Lead to lead Instrumentation, Controls, and Electrical (ICE) maintenance across Midstream facilities. This position provides day-to-day leadership and technical direction to ICE technicians while coordinating priorities with Operations, Engineering, Planning, Scheduling, Projects, and contractor partners. The successful candidate will be a visible field leader who promotes safety, operating discipline, technical excellence, and continuous improvement. This role is accountable for ensuring maintenance work is properly identified, prioritized, planned, scheduled, and executed to support safe, compliant, reliable, and efficient facility operations.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead the safe execution of preventive, predictive, corrective, and emergent ICE maintenance activities.
• Champion BPX safety expectations, Control of Work, energy isolation, and operating discipline.
• Provide daily direction, work assignments, technical support, and field leadership to ICE technicians.
• Validate work requests and ensure work is appropriately prioritized, planned, scheduled, and documented.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for emergent ICE maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Coordinate maintenance priorities and resource requirements with Operations, Engineering, Projects, and other maintenance disciplines.
• Provide technical leadership for instrumentation, automation, process control, electrical, protective, and safety systems.
• Lead or participate in Root Cause Failure Analysis investigations and ensure corrective actions are completed.
• Monitor equipment performance, recurring failures, maintenance backlog, schedule compliance, and preventive maintenance completion.
• Improve maintenance procedures, job plans, troubleshooting guides, and equipment strategies.
• Develop technician capability through coaching, mentoring, training, and competency assessments.
• Provide BPX oversight of contractors performing maintenance, testing, commissioning, and specialized technical services.
• Support facility outages, equipment upgrade, commissioning, start-up, and management of change activities.
• Promote use of condition monitoring, predictive maintenance, failure data, and performance indicators to improve reliability.
• Support maintenance budget delivery and make risk-based decisions that balance safety, reliability, production impact, and cost.

Essential Experience & Education

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Significant maintenance experience in oil and gas, midstream, petrochemical, industrial, utility, or a related industry.
• Demonstrated experience leading maintenance personnel or serving in a senior technical leadership role.
• Strong working knowledge of instrumentation, automation, process control, and industrial electrical systems.
• Experience troubleshooting complex equipment failures and participating in root-cause investigations.
• Experience with SAP, Maximo, or a comparable computerized maintenance management system.
• Working knowledge of Control of Work, energy isolation, electrical safety, process safety, and contractor oversight.
• Ability to interpret electrical schematics, loop drawings, logic diagrams, cause-and-effect documents, equipment manuals, and maintenance procedures.
• Strong planning, prioritization, decision-making, and communication skills.
• Ability to respond to equipment failures, abnormal conditions, and operational emergencies as required.
• Valid driver's license.

Preferred Skills

• Technical certification, apprenticeship, or associate degree in instrumentation, automation, electrical technology, industrial electronics, or a related discipline.
• Experience supporting gas processing, compression, gathering, pipeline, or water-handling facilities.
• Experience with PLCs, SCADA, distributed control systems, safety systems, fire and gas systems, variable-frequency drives, motor controls, electrical distribution, and protective devices.
• Experience with predictive maintenance, reliability-centered maintenance, commissioning, management of change,