Reliability Superintendent

About the role

Chevron Venezuela is hiring a Reliability Superintendent in El Tigre. The role leads the Reliability function for PP Upstream, developing and implementing reliability and asset management strategies to maximize the availability, integrity, safety and life-cycle performance of critical production assets. It reports to the Optimization & Process Safety Manager, leads a specialist team of individual contributors and coordinates across Operations, Maintenance, Process Safety, Engineering, Planning and Supply Chain.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and implement reliability plans and asset strategies for critical production equipment and systems
• Establish processes that prevent or reduce failures and recurring performance issues
• Lead root cause analysis and systemic failure investigations, with corrective and preventive actions addressing underlying causes
• Apply RCM, RBI, FMEA, reliability modeling and LCCA
• Monitor availability, MTBF, MTTR, maintenance cost and other asset performance indicators
• Govern condition monitoring and predictive maintenance (vibration, thermography, lubrication, ultrasound, electrical diagnostics)
• Coordinate with Operations and Maintenance on preventive and predictive maintenance plans, work prioritization and spare parts strategy
• Verify critical equipment meets service requirements, manufacturer recommendations and applicable standards
• Lead reliability improvement, modernization, repair-versus-replace and obsolescence evaluations
• Manage group and employee work, set priorities, assign resources, coach team members and build reliability capability
• Communicate asset risks, performance gaps and recommendations to PP Upstream leadership

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Petroleum, Instrumentation or a related engineering discipline
• 15+ 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
• Spanish and English proficiency sufficient for technical documentation and interaction with corporate and international stakeholders

Required skills

• RCA, RCM, RBI, FMEA, reliability analytics, condition monitoring, predictive maintenance, asset integrity, criticality analysis, failure elimination and LCCA
• Computerized maintenance management system such as SAP PM or equivalent
• Preferred: upstream production facilities and well-related surface equipment, rotating/electrical/instrumentation/automation/fixed equipment reliability strategies, technical-economic evaluations, spare parts strategies, and ability to influence across organizational boundaries in a joint-venture environment