Engineering and Measurement Operations Director

Overview

An exciting career awaits you
At MPC, we’re committed to being a great place to work – one that welcomes new ideas, encourages diverse perspectives, develops our people, and fosters a collaborative team environment.

The Operations Director leads the Operations Engineering team and provides guidance for engineering support tied to day-to-day operational needs. In addition, the role provides leadership oversight to the Measurement team for the East region, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and system reliability. The position leads a team of 3 engineering managers, SMEs and a team of 15 engineers as well as two measurement leaders, total span of control is 46.

This role provides strategic and technical leadership to ensure engineering solutions align with operational goals, safety standards, regulatory requirements, and company procedures. The role serves as the primary engineering interface with Operations, providing technical direction, problem-solving support, and project oversight while bridging coordination between operations-based engineers and field operations teams.

• Creates and maintains a culture of safe, compliant, reliable and cost-efficient operations.
• Enables Operational Excellence by driving Operational Discipline. Champions sound operational practices, including adherence to site and corporate operational policies, and effective procedure management and use while ensuring compliance with Federal, State, and local regulations.
• Develops and sustains culture of high performance and accountability by setting expectations, organizing, planning, and leading team activities. Identifies and pursues opportunities for personal and team development to meet business and career objectives.
• Drives production-centered Operations by ensuring successful implementation of production plan through planning, communication, and management of Area resources. Develops and utilizes operational reports and metrics to make plan adjustments when appropriate.
• Serves as main point of contact for internal resources such as HES&S, Integrity/Reliability and Business Development as well as key external stakeholders such as Producer customers, local officials, and critical vendors/contractors.
• Establishes and communicates clear expectations for organizational behavior and manages performance of team members through coaching, mentoring and constructive feedback.
• Oversees Opex and maintenance capital budget development, ensures grant of authority policy compliance and tracks budget performance versus forecast. Forecasts outage requirements/impacts and outage performance against plan.
• Supports growth by establishing a proper design basis for capital projects, driving cross-functional participation in hazard/design reviews, and ensuring rigorous functional checkout and commissioning of equipment prior to startup.
• Coordinates, directs, and documents Emergency Preparedness and Response activities, drills, and training. Serves as Incident Commander and/or other Command Staff role as appropriate during an emergency response.
• Serves as responsible official for all compliance reporting within area of responsibility.

• High School Diploma or GED required;
  Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Ten (10) years leadership experience; experience leading a mid-size organization with geographical diversity preferred.
• Ten (10) years oil and gas industry experience required; midstream preferred.
• Valid Drivers License is required.
• Knowledge of natural gas gathering, compression, processing and marketing required.

As an energy industry leader, our career opportunities fuel personal and professional growth.

Cadiz, Ohio

Additional locations:
Bridgeport, West Virginia;
Canonsburg, Pennsylvania;
Jewett, Ohio

Job Requisition :

43050 Industrial Park Rd

Education:

High School (Required)

Employee Group:
Full time

Employee Subgroup:
Regular

Marathon Petroleum Company LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth,…