Reliability Superintendent

Chevron; Barcelona; On-site; VES 105,727,000 - 158,590,000; Full time

Job summary

Chevron Venezuela is seeking a Reliability Superintendent in El Tigre to lead the reliability function for PP Upstream and drive asset management strategies to maximize availability, integrity and life-cycle performance of critical production equipment.

The role reports to the Optimization & Process Safety Manager and leads a cross-functional team while coordinating with Operations, Maintenance, Process Safety, Engineering, Planning and Supply Chain to deliver measurable reliability improvements.

Qualifications

• B.S. degree in mechanical, electrical, industrial, petroleum, instrumentation or related engineering.
• 15+ years in reliability engineering or asset management.
• Experience leading cross-functional reliability improvement programs.
• Experience with RCA, FMEA, RBI, and reliability analytics.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement reliability plans and asset strategies for critical production equipment and systems.
• Lead RCA and systemic failure investigations.
• Coordinate with operations and maintenance to optimize preventive and predictive maintenance.
• Monitor asset performance indicators (MTBF, MTTR, maintenance cost).
• Communicate asset risks and recommendations to leadership.

Skills

RCA

RCM

RBI

FMEA

Reliability analytics

Condition monitoring

Predictive maintenance

Asset integrity

Life-Cycle Cost Analysis

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Engineering degree (B.S.) in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Petroleum, or Instrumentation

Tools

SAP PM

Job description

Total Number of Openings

1

Chevron Venezuela is accepting online applications for the position Reliability Superintendent in El Tigre.

The Reliability Superintendent leads the Reliability function for PP Upstream and is responsible for developing and implementing reliability and asset management strategies to maximize the availability, integrity, safety and life-cycle performance of critical production assets. The position reports to the Optimization & Process Safety Manager and leads a specialist team of individual contributors while coordinating across Operations, Maintenance, Process Safety, Engineering, Planning and Supply Chain.

Responsibilities for this position may include but are not limited to:

• Develop and implement reliability plans and asset strategies for critical production equipment and systems.

1. Establish processes that prevent or reduce the likelihood and frequency of failures and recurring performance issues.
2. Lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and systemic failure investigations, ensuring that corrective and preventive actions address underlying causes.
3. Apply Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), Risk Based Inspection (RBI), Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), reliability modeling and Life-Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA).
4. Monitor and steward availability, Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF), Mean Time to Repair (MTTR), maintenance cost, recurring failures and other asset performance indicators.
5. Govern condition monitoring and predictive maintenance activities, including vibration, thermography, lubrication, ultrasound and electrical diagnostics.
6. Coordinate with Operations and Maintenance to optimize preventive and predictive maintenance plans, work prioritization and critical spare-part strategies.
7. Verify that critical equipment is designed, fabricated, installed, tested, inspected, monitored and maintained consistently with service requirements, manufacturer recommendations and applicable standards.
8. Lead reliability improvement, equipment modernization, repair-versus-replace and obsolescence-management evaluations using risk, technical performance and life-cycle cost criteria.
9. Manage group and employee work to align with corporate and department objectives, set priorities, assign resources, coach team members and develop reliability capability.
10. Communicate asset risks, performance gaps, decisions and recommendations to PP Upstream leadership and coordinate execution with key stakeholders.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Petroleum, Instrumentation or a related Engineering discipline.
• 15 or more years of experience in reliability engineering, maintenance, asset integrity, production operations or asset management, preferably in oil and gas or another major-hazard industry.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical personnel and cross-functional reliability improvement programs.
• Strong working knowledge of RCA, RCM, RBI, FMEA, reliability analytics, condition monitoring, predictive maintenance, asset integrity, criticality analysis, failure elimination and LCCA.
• Experience with a computerized maintenance management system such as SAP PM or equivalent.
• Spanish proficiency and English proficiency sufficient for technical documentation and interaction with corporate and international stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting upstream production facilities and well-related surface equipment.
• Experience developing reliability strategies for rotating, electrical, instrumentation, automation and fixed-equipment systems.
• Experience with technical-economic evaluations, maintenance optimization, reliability improvement projects and critical spare-parts strategies.
• Demonstrated capability to influence across organizational boundaries and make risk-based decisions in a joint-venture operating environment.

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