Manager - Reliability (DOT)

#WeAreONEOK – Fortune 500 company. 100+ years in business. Leading midstream service provider. Safety first. Sustainable operations. Environmentally responsible. Employee focused.

JOB SUMMARY

Looking for a career opportunity? Come join ONEOK as a Manager, Reliability in the Natural Gas Pipeline division in one of these locations Edmond, Depew, Tulsa, Oklahoma OR Lubbock, Midland, Texas. The ideal candidate will have experience in maintenance programs, develop and drive opportunities for improvement, and implement repair strategies. As our Manager of Reliability, you’ll oversee reliability and optimization goals in facilities that may include compression, storage, and pipelines. Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to make an impact! 

Job Profile Summary

Manages and oversees capabilities including personnel, tools and technology to assure integrity, reliability and optimization goals are met in an efficient manner for company facilities that may include processing, fractionation, storage, compression, pumping and/or pipelines.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Provide direction and support to employees engaged in asset integrity, reliability and/or optimization of company facilities that may include processing, fractionation, storage, compression, pumping and/or pipelines
• Deliver Mechanical Integrity and Process Safety Management (MI/PSM) compliance and drive Environmental, Health and Safety excellence as well as ensure the reliability group is engaged in driving Environmental, Health and Safety excellence. Ensure compliance with laws, regulations and industry standards. Ensure monitoring and inspection programs are effective and that key risks are identified and addressed
• Improve Reliability (metrics) of assets through optimization and modernization, including:
  • Design and implementation of preventive and predictive maintenance programs and implementation of associated work management programs
  • Assess performance of existing assets and reliability programs; develop and drive opportunities for improvement
  • Provide engineering support to all local facilities for investigation of failures, implementation of repair strategies and execution of maintenance projects
  • Manage planning, scheduling and execution of maintenance turnarounds in coordination with operations and maintenance teams
  • Evaluation and oversight of 3rd party contractors providing maintenance and repair services to the company, including failure analysis capabilities
  • Evaluation and oversight of critical spares inventory management to cost effectively support reliability and availability goals

• Support cost effectiveness of facility operations, including life cycle cost evaluation and long range budgeting and planning processes. Provide support to maintenance organizations to manage cost of equipment overhauls and repairs. Manage reliability program costs to optimize cost versus performance and assure balanced focus on growth, asset integrity and asset rationalization
• Develop and implement metrics and tools to provide visibility and transparency to quality of asset performance that may include reliability, availability, efficiency and cost effectiveness
• Ensure customer needs are effectively met. Maintain good customer relationships with the Operations and Maintenance groups through effective communications, timely support and proactive guidance
• Develop skills, morale and performance of the Reliability team, including:
  • Evaluate team skills and performance, develop challenging goals and assist in their achievement through formal and informal performance feedback
  • Address performance deficiencies through mentoring, training or corrective action plans
  • Recognize and celebrate achievements and maintain a positive work environment,
  • Ensure mechanical integrity procedures and training programs are effective and up-to-date
  • Provide oversight and direction for company maintenance and instrumentation employee training and employee development programs

• Research, analyze, prepare and monitor information, including but not limited to:
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Asset availability and reliability
  • Cost effectiveness
  • Quality assurance
  • Engineering
  • Organizational development
• Responsibilities may include Department of Transportation (DOT) covered functions, including operations, maintenance, or emergency response on a pipeline. Job duties also require the employee to be alert and respond immediately to dangerous or hazardous conditions, and where impaired performance, or failure to follow safety precautions, could result in serious injury or property damage.