Operational Readiness Lead

Location: The Woodlands, TX

Schedule: 9/80

Travel: Offshore and onshore travel required

We are seeking an experienced Operational Readiness Lead to serve as a key interface between Operations and Project teams. This position will help ensure new facilities, equipment, and systems are designed, commissioned, and transitioned into Operations with a strong focus on safety, operability, reliability, maintainability, and long-term asset performance.

• Serve as a liaison between Field Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Construction, and Project teams.
• Ensure Operations and Maintenance requirements are identified and addressed throughout each phase of the project.
• Participate in project and design reviews with a focus on safety, operability, maintainability, reliability, and long-term asset performance.
• Review equipment layouts, process designs, operating philosophies, and operating strategies.
• Identify potential operational challenges, startup risks, and maintainability concerns.

• Participate in HAZOPs, JHAs, PSSRs, and other project risk assessments.
• Provide an Operations perspective on project risks, safeguards, and risk-reduction opportunities.
• Support Management of Change (MOC) activities as required.

• Review work execution plans, construction strategies, and project execution activities.
• Review and provide operational input to work packs.
• Ensure Operations requirements are incorporated into project turnover and handover plans.
• Participate in readiness walkthroughs and track action items through completion.

• Participate in Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) for critical equipment and systems.
• Coordinate with Field Operations leadership to support appropriate Operations participation in FAT activities.
• Verify equipment functionality, operability, maintainability, and compliance with project and operational requirements prior to shipment.

• Ensure Maintenance requirements are incorporated into equipment and maintenance strategies.
• Lead or participate in critical-spares reviews and ensure required spare parts are identified prior to startup.
• Verify preventive maintenance programs, equipment hierarchies, criticality information, and asset data are established in SAP/CMMS prior to operational handover.
• Support long-term reliability and asset-management planning.

• Support development of Operations and Maintenance training plans and competency requirements.
• Review training materials for alignment with actual field operating requirements.
• Review and provide input to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), operating instructions, and startup documentation.

• Review commissioning plans, procedures, and startup strategies from an Operations perspective.
• Support commissioning and startup activities.
• Track operational-readiness milestones and action items.
• Verify operational acceptance requirements are satisfied prior to final handover.
• Support mechanical/system completion and punch-list management as required.

• Participate in OPEX and Total Installed Cost (TIC) reviews.
• Identify opportunities to improve reliability, maintainability, and operating efficiency.
• Support project decisions that optimize long-term asset performance and lifecycle cost.

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Petroleum, Chemical, or Electrical Engineering preferred.

• Minimum 10 years of Oil & Gas industry experience.
• Significant offshore Operations and/or Maintenance experience.
• Deepwater Gulf of America platform experience strongly preferred.
• Experience supporting capital projects, commissioning, startup, operational readiness, turnover, or handover activities strongly preferred.

• Ability to read and understand P&IDs, PFDs, equipment data sheets, and 3D models.
• Strong working knowledge of offshore production, utility, and safety systems.
• Working knowledge of MOC, HAZOP, and PSSR processes.
• Familiarity with SAP or similar CMMS platforms, including preventive maintenance strategies, equipment hierarchies, asset data, and criticality rankings.
• Understanding of critical-spares identification and provisioning.
• Knowledge of commissioning and startup sequences, mechanical/system completion, and punch-list management.
• General understanding of project…