Oilfield Preservation & Maintenance Lead

NES Fircroft; Louisiana (MO); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

NES Fircroft is seeking a Preservation & Maintenance Lead for a client site in the Greater New Orleans region. The role requires a strong background in maintenance, safety, and materials preservation, with extensive leadership experience and the ability to implement preservation programs for offshore assets.

You will drive planning, asset care, and HSSE compliance while coordinating with third-party contractors and internal teams.

Qualifications

• Ten (10) years required in a leadership role related to preservation and maintenance of oilfield materials.
• Five (5) years managing people - demonstrating the understanding of building and leading a diverse workforce.
• Exceptional skills proven in Health, Safety, Security, and Environmental safeguarding (HSSE).
• Five (5) or more years working with systems and materials such as offshore platform operations, drilling rigs, wellheads, and sub sea to ensure knowledge of preserving and maintaining materials.
• Experience in dealing with 3rd party service providers for facility upkeep and preservation of materials.
• Skilled in the use of IT tools and desktop software applications.
• Experience in facility management systems preferred.
• Exceptional skills in developing processes and procedures.
• Experience in managing performance by using metrics (key performance indicators), scorecards, and performance reviews.
• Strong behavioral skills, including bias towards performance, business awareness, leading, and influencing people, partnership, and teamwork, business decision making, creativity and innovation.
• Sound financial understanding including familiarity with economic analysis, financial decision-making, planning, and financial statement analysis.
• Proven strategic planning and demonstrated analytical type (troubleshooting) problem solving skills

Responsibilities

• Management of personnel – ensure training and development of Preservation and Maintenance contract personnel.
• Responsible for all aspects of Health, Safety, Security, and Environmental safeguarding (HSSE) in conjunction with the Site Manager.
• Lead JSEA’s for all maintenance activities.
• Responsible for the management of all activities required to maintain the facility, equipment and items stored at the facility.
• Responsible for the planning and scheduling of all work-orders related to regulatory (i.e. federal, state, local, OSHA, etc.) compliance.
• Facilitate the creation and approval of preservation maintenance job plans for asset owned equipment.
• Manage all aspects of third party personnel working on site including HSE, supervision and quality of work.
• Responsible for the planning, scheduling and reconciliation of all work-orders.
• Responsible for assessing equipment upon arrival to identify maintenance needs and communicate with the equipment owner to maintain a “fit for use” condition.
• Coordinate rental of special material handling equipment as required to complete PM activity.
• Proactively work with item owner to identify scrap /surplus, obsolete items.
• Communicate to customers the service levels through a robust KPI program.
• Participate in any annual planning and objective setting for the team.
• Lead and promote the identification and implementation of innovation opportunities.
• Perform duties and responsibilities as assigned by the Site Supervisor.

Skills

Leadership

HSSE

Project planning

Vendor management

KPI tracking

Strategic thinking

Communication

Budgeting

Problem solving

Team development

Tools

MS Office

Facility management systems

Job description

NES Fircroft is seeking a Preservation & Maintenance Lead for a client site in the Greater New Orleans region. The role requires a strong background in maintenance, safety, and materials preservation, with extensive leadership experience and the ability to implement preservation programs for offshore assets.

You will drive planning, asset care, and HSSE compliance while coordinating with third-party contractors and internal teams.