The Senior Supervisor, Engineering is a key site leadership position responsible for shaping how Surface Capital, Engineering, and Inspections support the long-term safety, reliability, and performance of the operation.
This role leads and develops a multidisciplinary team of Project Managers, Engineers, and Inspection personnel, ensuring they have the direction, capability, resources, and support required to be successful. The Senior Supervisor turns site priorities into clear capital, engineering, and inspection plans and works closely with Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Planning, Procurement, Warehousing, and other groups to deliver what is best for the site.
- Lead, coach, mentor, and develop Project Managers, Engineers, and Inspection personnel while building a culture of safety, ownership, accountability, inclusion, and continuous improvement
- Establish clear expectations, develop employee capability, recognize strong performance, and address performance gaps
- Ensure work is planned and executed safely, efficiently, and in accordance with regulatory requirements, company standards, engineering practices, and site procedures
- Lead the development and stewardship of the site’s 1-year and 5-year capital plans and manage the resulting capital portfolio, including prioritization, resource allocation, scope, forecasting, cost performance, execution and stakeholder communication. Ensure investments reflect site priorities, asset needs, risk and business objectives
- Provide leadership and technical oversight for mechanical, electrical, and structural engineering, drafting and field technical support, enabling equipment reliability, process optimization, productivity, waste reduction and cost effectiveness
- Maintain strong engineering governance, including Management of Change, engineering standards, drawing and document control, root cause failure analysis, and professional engineering requirements
- Provide leadership and oversight for structural, mechanical, and electrical integrity programs, ensuring inspections are completed and identified deficiencies and risks are prioritized, tracked, and addressed
- Support major projects and complex technical issues by helping the team remove barriers, manage risk, and make sound technical and business decisions
- Build strong working relationships across departments so Capital, Engineering, Inspections, Maintenance, Operations, and other functions remain aligned on site priorities
- Continually identify opportunities to improve safety, reliability, engineering quality, project execution, cost effectiveness, and overall site performance