What are the responsibilities and job description for the Instrumentation and Electrical Superintendent position at Laredo Petroleum?
PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES :
- Administering preventive maintenance practices to ensure high runtimes on all measurement, electrical and instrumentation equipment are completed in accordance with schedules.
- Developing and implementing strategies for sustainable measurement and I&E reliability.
- Providing leadership for I&E technical support for both maintenance and operations personnel
- Lead and participate in root cause failure analyses.
- Maintaining proper documentation and timely execution of purchase orders, invoice approvals, email responses, meeting invites and employee performance reviews.
- Analyzing problems quickly and accurately to implement effective courses of corrective action.
- Preparing scope documents, exhibits, budgets, specifications, schedules, and Requests for Proposals (RFPs).
- Preparing operational and project budgets.
- Monitoring the effectiveness of all maintenance of volumetric, temperature, and pressure measurement equipment, programmable logic controllers (PLC), electrical and mechanical systems and equipment such as motors, pumps, switches, pneumatic controls and end devices, and related input and output devices.
- Developing programs to lower the cost of maintenance and improve runtime.
- Conducting and / or attending daily meetings and scheduling of activities with team members and contractors.
- Working with Electrical engineer and field staff to coordinate projects.
- Training foreman in management skills, decision making, safety and environmental.
- Attending and orchestrating safety meetings, holding safety stand downs.
- Assisting in the design, engineering and procurement of electrical equipment and instrumentation systems.
- Maintaining effective communications, provide ideas, raise concerns, and work with other functions including facility operations and supervision, engineering, supply chain, other I&E employees, clerical staff, and contractors.
- Coordinating operations with other personnel as required
- Accomplishing job responsibilities and duties in accordance with Vital's core values.
- Being accountable for personal safety, the safety of co-workers and promoting a safe work environment; ensuring job duties are carried out in a safe manner, with due regard for the environment and in compliance with all applicable state and federal regulations.
- Staying abreast of changing technology through training opportunities, contact with suppliers of equipment manufacturers and networking with others in the field.
EDUCATION, KNOWLEDGE, AND SKILLS :
FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES :
Continually communicate the purpose and vision for the team.
Encourage employees to have a voice by listening to understand and transforming feedback into action.
Communicate business strategies at the Department and Corporate level, especially when shifts in objectives or strategy occur.
COMPENSATION :
Salary is commensurate with experience.
WORKING CONDITIONS :
Work is normally performed outdoors where exposure to conditions of extreme heat / cold, fumes and gases is common. The noise level is moderate to loud and includes sounds of construction, equipment operations, and trucks and like equipment. Job hazards include working in normal light and heavy construction activities and working around pressured gas, oil, water, electricity, and waste lines and under all weather conditions. May work in areas where H2S is present.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS :
Work normally requires finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination to operate the computer keyboard at moderate to advanced skill level. Work may require frequent pushing, pulling, or carrying 50-to-75-pound objects such as tools, equipment work operations. Work involves standing and walking most of the time but will also involve sitting and driving for extended periods sometimes over rough terrain.
Equal Opportunity Employer / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
