Senior Maintenance Program Manager

Buckeye is the premier infrastructure and logistics provider for the world's energy needs, both today and tomorrow. Since 1886, we have successfully navigated transitions in the way energy has been distributed to continually meet the needs of an evolving market and industry environment. Our people are a critical element to the success and longevity of our operational history and our future as we seek to thrive through the energy transition.

We own and operate a diversified global network of integrated assets providing midstream logistic solutions, primarily consisting of the transportation, storage, processing, and marketing of liquid petroleum products. We are committed to safely and responsibly providing world-class service to meet the continually evolving energy needs of our customers and the communities we serve. As part of this commitment to our customers, we are continually diversifying our platform and service offerings to enable less carbon intensive energy solutions and undertaking decarbonization efforts on our operations.

Buckeye Partners is currently seeking a Senior Maintenance Program Manager with experience in field operations and engineering in the Oil & Gas Industry to join our growing team in either of our corporate headquarters.

Role Summary:

The Program Manager is responsible for the planning, budgeting, and oversight of the enterprise MCAP (Maintenance Capital) and MEXP (Maintenance Expense) portfolio program, ensuring that the overall objectives of the company plan are being met. There are dozens of individual program managers, multiple program owners, and project managers who execute the various MCAP and MEXP projects along with support from Reginal Leadership, PMO (Project Management Office), and Accounting who require a leader to direct the overall program to success.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities include:

Portfolio Management

• Leadership role in the preparation of the annual MCAP and MEXP budgets.
• Plan, budget, monitor, and control maintenance costs.
• Coordinate program level updates with PMO, Program Owners, Program Managers, Reginal Leadership, Project Managers, Directors of Project Execution and SMEs in OPPM (Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management).
• Assess monthly progress (spend vs forecast, units of work complete) against maintenance plan.
• Report progress to Vice President of Engineering & Director of PMO.
• Liaising with Operations, Integrity, ARES, and Capital Projects construction colleagues.
• Drive portfolio planning and ensure execution of programs and projects are aligned with portfolio goals.

Strategic Development

• Assist in long term MCAP and MEXP cost evaluation of proposed acquisitions.
  
  
  
  • Also known as TCAP (Transition Capital)
  
  
  
  
• Participate in the identification and execution of continuing improvements of pipelines and facilities, reducing the incidence of costly breakdowns.
• Support ARES to develop strategies to improve overall reliability and safety of maintenance processes, ultimately driving MCAP and MEXP efficiency.
• Function as a catalyst for innovation by evaluating current practices and identifying opportunities for improvement in efficiency and effectiveness.
• Drive innovation adoption of new technologies and ways of working.
• Analyzes maintenance performance indicators and develop strategies and tactics for improving performance
  
  
  
  • Forecasting
  • Units of Work
  • KPIs
  
  
  
  
• Work with Director of Optimization to identify cost-reduction opportunities from maintenance project portfolio. Assist in estimating and justifying these projects as return capital.
  
  
  
  • Also known as CRCAP (Cost Reduction Capital)
  
  
  
  

Risk Management

• Ownership and continuous improvement of risk-based maintenance prioritization process used within the AMP (Asset Maintenance Policy)
• Understand risk across disciplines and maintain an objective, unbiased perspective on all project requests, validating most efficient reduction in risk for available budget

General

• Drive continuous improvement through process standardization, training, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Benchmark best practices across facilities and integrate learnings from experience to elevate internal standards.
• Ensure the standardization of practices and processes are utilized across assets in area of responsibility.
• Be a technical contributor within the overall Engineering and Construction Team
• Other duties as assigned.

Position Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering (or of similar equivalence).
• Master's degree in business administration is beneficial.
• 10+ years in Pipeline, Terminal, Midstream and/or Refining Industries.
• Proven experience managing significant data.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct various business groups into playing the same tune.

Certificates & Licenses:

• Professional Engineering License is beneficial.
• Applicable industry certifications are beneficial. (API, AMPP, NEC, PMP)

Other Skills, Attributes and Abilities:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
• Experience in portfolio or program management roles.
• Ability to work independently in high-demand environments.

About You:

To be successful in the Buckeye culture, our employees must possess a demonstrated commitment to environmental responsibility and regulatory compliance. Excellent communication, both written and verbal, as well as strong organizational skills are paramount. You must work independently and be able to exercise tact, discretion, and professionalism when dealing with internal and external customers, and when handling sensitive and confidential information. Buckeye wants to create and reward an organizational focus that stimulates the creative and entrepreneurial actions of its employees that result in innovative ways of reducing costs, generating revenues, improving productivity, or improving processes.

Our People First Culture:

From managing over 5,000 miles of pipeline to commercializing clean energy projects, our people collaborate to provide world-class service and meet the changing energy needs of our customers. Our employee-first culture means that we invest in our employees and equip them to be fully contributing members of high performing teams. We are focused on collaboration, inclusion, empowerment, accountability, and professional development. We want the best in you to bring out the best in us.Join us as we work together to build a business that is responsive to the needs of the future while continuing to serve the energy needs of communities today.

In addition to its pipeline and terminal operations, Buckeye invests in energy transition initiatives and decarbonization efforts and provides merchant services at several of its major facilities.