Job Abstract

Enterprise Products Partners L.P. is one of the largest publicly traded partnerships and a leading North American provider of midstream energy services to producers and consumers of natural gas, NGLs, crude oil, refined products and petrochemicals. Our services include: natural gas gathering, treating, processing, transportation and storage; NGL transportation, fractionation, storage and import and export terminals; crude oil gathering, transportation, storage and terminals; petrochemical and refined products transportation, storage and terminals; and a marine transportation business that operates primarily on the United States inland and Intracoastal Waterway systems. The partnership’s assets include approximately 50,000 miles of pipelines; 260 million barrels of storage capacity for NGLs, crude oil, refined products and petrochemicals; and 14 billion cubic feet of natural gas storage capacity.

The Reliability Programs Senior Manager responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Operational Availability

· Improve asset availability by exploiting company-wide data to identify common causes for lost availability. Develop strategies and solutions to reduce asset down time. Develop companywide processes to sustain consistent focus on asset availability.

o Define, collect, and leverage data from many sources to reveal insights into common or recurring root causes of asset down time.

§ Availability data

· Define and characterize unplanned causes of asset down time

· Collaborate with Operations Analytics team to develop consistent and efficient data structures to allow aggregation of availability information across assets

§ Computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) failure data

· Help define missing elements of failure data necessary to deliver complete failure analysis

· Propose procedural changes to ensure failure data collection is robust and sustainable

· Collaborate with and provide feedback to Enterprise’s Maintenance Optimization Process team.

§ Operating data

· Operations daily reports and logs

· Findings and alerts from real-time advanced asset monitoring systems

Cross-Organization Improvements

· Identify improvement areas and champion recommendations.

· Oversee execution of improvement actions – while execution may fall under the responsibility of other teams, this role will report on status and have accountability for tracking and ensuring completion.

o Determine which issues can be assigned to existing teams for follow up and resolution, versus which require a new team to deliver sustained focus and management.

o Define new team functional and skill requirements, staffing, roles and responsibilities and job descriptions as necessary

o Ensure cross-functional coordination.

§ Collaborate with and serve as a hinge between other stakeholders, e.g., Operations Analytics, Operations, Reliability, Process Engineering, Controls Engineering, Commercial, Asset Optimization.

· Develop metrics to measure effectiveness and provide feedback on performance. Report on progress.

Asset Performance Management

· Serve as Enterprise’s lead in the development and implementation of an asset performance management initiative with external business consultants.

· Investigate highly reliable processes and companies to identify best practices for achieving high availability.

Rotating Equipment Repair Oversight and Quality Assurance

· Develop a new repair shop inspection team to provide Enterprise oversight as critical rotating equipment repairs are conducted by offsite repair companies.

· Shop inspection team duties include:

o Support key rotating equipment shop work for all operating regions.

o Provide oversight and verifications of shop repair work quality

o Leverage knowledge of shop repair loads, quality of repair work, and shop staffing to recommend shops to use for rotating equipment repairs

o Cultivate third-party shop inspection contractors & contingent workers to meet demand & geographic needs

· Improve quality and success of rotating equipment repairs by:

o Providing independent oversight of shop effectiveness and quality

o Staying abreast of the dynamic repair market and understanding which shops are available and capable

The successful candidate will meet the following qualification:

· Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering is preferred, but other engineering degrees may be acceptable with relevant experience.

· 10 years of experience in hydrocarbon processing industries, particularly in the midstream, downstream, or petrochemical sectors.

· Organizational Knowledge – Understands Enterprise’s organization and key contacts for gathering information and building consensus.

· Vision – Sets forth a vision of the future state, building upon but unencumbered by legacy processes.

· Current State Awareness – Understands the current operating environment, systems, data, and stakeholders.

· Focus – Maintains focus on key strategic program objectives; avoids diluting energy on current-day activities.

· Planner – Breaks down strategic goals into targeted tasks to create and execute a structured program.