Offshore Maintenance Superintendent 2 - Tullow Oil
- Sekondi-Takoradi, Western Region
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead all planned and corrective maintenance as defined in the CMMS, including job plans and work instructions.
- Manage shutdowns and major campaign maintenance work programmes.
- Ensure weekly checks on safety, production, and environmental critical equipment are performed, with deviations reported and work orders raised.
- Enforce work preparation standards (job plans, materials, permits) to improve schedule compliance.
- Ensure effective 14-day and 120-day maintenance planning windows are maintained in coordination with onshore planning teams.
- Champion the effective use of CMMS and digital maintenance tools to ensure data quality and reporting accuracy.
- Liaise with class societies and regulators on inspections, certification, and compliance audits.
- Ensure all statutory and class-related maintenance is completed and documented correctly.
- Maintain readiness for external inspections, audits, and verification activities.
- Ensure critical equipment redundancy and resilience are maintained to support production continuity.
- Oversee fault-finding, troubleshooting, and timely repair of equipment.
- Verify the availability of critical spares and materials, addressing discrepancies proactively.
- Ensure accurate documentation of all maintenance activities in compliance with facility standards and statutory requirements.
- Collaborate with engineering support teams to maintain the technical and performance integrity of the facility.
- Effectively manage work order backlogs, ensuring timely prioritization and closeout in line with maintenance strategies and risk profiles.
- Deliver monthly maintenance KPIs (e.g., schedule compliance, backlog management, equipment availability, and critical PM compliance).
- Actively coach, mentor, and support team members to build technical competence and leadership skills.
- Identify training needs and work with HR and onshore management to implement structured development plans.
- Lead succession planning and knowledge transfer to ensure sustainable national workforce capability.
- Champion and drive Tullow’s nationalization strategy within the offshore maintenance organisation, ensuring nationals are progressively developed into key supervisory and specialist roles.
- Safely and effectively manage all contractor personnel performing maintenance.
- Provide FPSO familiarisation and oversight for vendor scopes of work.
- Plan, coordinate, and supervise vendor activities to ensure quality delivery.
- Uphold Tullow’s HSEQ Code of Conduct, always ensuring safe practices and environmental stewardship.
- Promote a strong safety culture and ensure compliance with control of work, operational, and emergency procedures.
- Fulfil assigned responsibilities in the Emergency Response Plan and Muster Station Bill.
- Adhere to the Tullow Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, ensuring full compliance with policies and training requirements.
- Operate within the TGL Delegation of Authority framework.
- Manage departmental budget offshore, ensuring expenditure aligns with approved plans and is controlled within the financial delegation of authority.
- Monitor and report on performance against agreed maintenance KPIs and budget targets, implementing corrective actions where required.
- Ensure alignment of maintenance activities with production requirements through active participation in daily and weekly planning meetings.
- Prioritize work to optimize asset uptime while safeguarding safety and integrity.
- Collaborate with Operations to ensure effective management of overrides, inhibits, and equipment availability.
- Champion reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) and predictive maintenance initiatives.
- Integrate condition monitoring data (vibration, thermography, oil analysis, etc.) into maintenance planning.
- Drive continuous improvement projects to reduce failures, increase uptime, and extend asset life.
- Drive root cause analysis and reliability improvement initiatives.
- Identify opportunities for efficiency, cost reduction, and productivity improvement without compromising integrity.
- Minimum 10 years’ post-graduate industry experience, with at least 5 years in a supervisory maintenance leadership role.
- Experience in offshore oil & gas or petrochemical operations, ideally FPSO facilities.
- Strong knowledge of classification requirements for hull, machinery, and topsides.
- Proven track record in leading multidisciplinary maintenance and inspection teams to deliver safe and cost-effective results.
- Demonstrated expertise in:
- Maintenance and inspection/corrosion management plans
- Risk-based inspection (RBI), corrosion management, anomaly management, and fabric maintenance
- Shutdown planning and execution
- Root cause analysis, defect elimination, and reliability improvement
- CMMS operation and maintenance planning systems
- NDT techniques and limitations, coatings, pressure systems, and piping design/fabrication
- Strong knowledge of safety management systems, control of work, and emergency response.
- Experience in backlog management, KPI delivery, and maintenance budget control.
- Experience in workforce development, training, and leading nationalization programs highly desirable.
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