Superintendent, Instruments & Controls

Instrument And Controls Superintendent

The Instrument and Controls Superintendent provides technical, administrative, and people leadership for the Maintenance Instrumentation, Analyzer, and DCS Controls teams. The position is accountable for safe and reliable execution of instrumentation and controls maintenance; translation of Engineering strategies and technical recommendations into executable field work; discipline maintenance strategy, equipment health, and lifecycle planning; and effective stewardship of budget, contracts, workforce, and business performance.

Working as the primary interface among Maintenance, Reliability/Engineering, Operations, Planning and Scheduling, Projects, and Supply Chain, the Superintendent ensures instrumentation and control systems are maintained in compliance with HSSE, regulatory, and company requirements while supporting plant availability, reliability, and cost objectives.

This position will be located in Hackberry, Louisiana. Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) is required.

Responsibilities/Duties:

Technical and Reliability Leadership:

• Serve as the Maintenance technical leader for the instrumentation and controls discipline and the primary Maintenance interface with Reliability/Engineering for field issues, equipment strategies, risk-based decisions, and long-term improvements.

• Own the overall performance and effectiveness of the Instrumentation, Analyzer, and DCS Controls maintenance teams, while maintaining accountability for equipment health, reliability, workforce capability, backlog, preventive-maintenance performance, and work execution.

• Provide technical direction during complex troubleshooting and plant recovery involving process instrumentation, control valves and actuators, online analyzers, metering, DCS/PLC systems, safety instrumented systems (SIS), emergency shutdown systems (ESD), and fire and gas systems; coordinate specialist and vendor support when required.

• Translate Engineering recommendations, reliability strategies, design changes, and project scopes into safe, maintainable, and executable work; ensure field observations, failure history, and lessons learned are communicated back to Engineering.

• Review and approve the technical content of maintenance procedures, preventive and predictive maintenance tasks, calibration and test methods, job plans, quality hold points, and acceptance criteria for instrumentation and controls work.

• Lead or actively support root cause analyses, 5-Why studies, bad-actor reviews, and chronic defect elimination; assign and track corrective actions and verify their effectiveness.

• Use equipment criticality, condition information, work history, failure data, and field experience to evaluate the effectiveness of established maintenance strategies and recommend changes to Engineering when maintenance tasks, frequencies, or methods are not achieving the desired reliability or risk objectives; provide discipline input to spare-parts requirements and lifecycle or obsolescence plans. Review Management of Change packages, design documents, vendor submittals, project turnover packages, commissioning plans, and start-up activities for maintainability, reliability, constructability, and operational readiness.

• Ensure required inspection, calibration, proof testing, functional testing, and maintenance records for critical instrumentation, protective systems, analyzers, and controls are completed and documented in accordance with approved requirements.

• Establish technical quality expectations for contractors and service providers and oversee field quality, testing, commissioning, documentation, and final acceptance of work.

• Partner with Engineering, Document Control, Materials Management, and Planning to maintain accurate drawings, logic and cause-and-effect documentation, equipment records, bills of material, spare-parts data, and vendor technical information.

Administrative and Business Management:

• Develop the annual Instrumentation and Controls maintenance budget and long-range cost outlook; prepare monthly forecasts, monitor actual costs and commitments, explain variances, and implement…