Reliability Superintendent

Chevron Corporation; El Tigre; 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. You will develop and implement asset strategies to maximize availability, safety and lifecycle performance of critical production assets.

The role reports to the Optimization & Process Safety Manager and leads a team of specialists while coordinating with Operations, Maintenance, Process Safety, Engineering, Planning and Supply Chain.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Petroleum, Instrumentation or related Engineering discipline.
• 15+ years of reliability engineering, maintenance, asset integrity or asset management experience.
• Proven leadership of technical personnel and cross-functional reliability programs.
• Strong knowledge of RCA, RCM, RBI, FMEA, reliability analytics, condition monitoring and LCCA.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement reliability plans and asset strategies for critical equipment and systems.
• Establish processes to prevent/reduce failures and recurring issues.
• Lead RCA investigations and corrective actions addressing root causes.
• Apply RCM, RBI, FMEA, reliability modeling and LCCA methodologies.
• Monitor MTBF/MTTR, maintenance costs and asset performance indicators.
• Oversee condition monitoring activities including vibration, thermography, lubrication and diagnostics.
• Coordinate with Operations and Maintenance to optimize maintenance plans and spare-part strategies.
• Ensure equipment design/installation/testing meets service requirements and standards.
• Lead reliability improvements, modernization, and obsolescence evaluations.
• Manage team priorities, coaching and reliability capability development.
• Communicate asset risks and recommendations to leadership and stakeholders.

Skills

RCA

RCM

RBI

FMEA

Predictive maintenance

Condition monitoring

Cross-functional leadership

Asset performance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical/Electrical/Industrial/Petroleum/Instrumentation Engineering

Tools

SAP PM

Job description

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

1. Develop and implement reliability plans and asset strategies for critical production equipment and systems.
2. Establish processes that prevent or reduce the likelihood and frequency of failures and recurring performance issues.
3. Lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and systemic failure investigations, ensuring that corrective and preventive actions address underlying causes.
4. Apply Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), Risk Based Inspection (RBI), Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), reliability modeling and Life-Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA).
5. Monitor and steward availability, Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF), Mean Time to Repair (MTTR), maintenance cost, recurring failures and other asset performance indicators.
6. Govern condition monitoring and predictive maintenance activities, including vibration, thermography, lubrication, ultrasound and electrical diagnostics.
7. Coordinate with Operations and Maintenance to optimize preventive and predictive maintenance plans, work prioritization and critical spare-part strategies.
8. Verify that critical equipment is designed, fabricated, installed, tested, inspected, monitored and maintained consistently with service requirements, manufacturer recommendations and applicable standards.
9. Lead reliability improvement, equipment modernization, repair-versus-replace and obsolescence-management evaluations using risk, technical performance and life-cycle cost criteria.
10. Manage group and employee work to align with corporate and department objectives, set priorities, assign resources, coach team members and develop reliability capability.
11. 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.

Chevron participates in E-Verify in certain locations as required by law. Chevron Corporation is one of the world's leading integrated energy companies. Through its subsidiaries that conduct business worldwide, the company is involved in virtually every facet of the energy industry. Chevron explores for, produces and transports crude oil and natural gas; refines, markets and distributes transportation fuels and lubricants; manufactures and sells petrochemicals and additives; generates power; and develops and deploys technologies that enhance business value in every aspect of the company's operations. Chevron is based in Houston, Texas. More information about Chevron is available at www.chevron.com.