Operations Supervisor

Bangl - Pearsall Area Operations Supervisor

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Marathon Pipe Line Company

The BANGL Operations Supervisor leads a team of six Operations Technicians in the 24-hour, 365-day operation of the BANGL Area pipeline operations. The Operations Supervisor provides direct supervision and leadership for the hourly Operations Technicians. The work is very diverse and includes supervisory activities involving the operations of pipeline systems for safe and efficient transportation services. These activities range from scheduling day-to-day personnel work activities, educating the public, taking care of customer needs, protecting assets on the right of way, emergency response, and interfacing with pipeline system owners. Training and developing the work group is a significant part of the responsibilities of this position. The position also requires the commitment to a Structured Safety Process, support of various Marathon Pipe Line processes, encouraging continuous improvement and managing risk for incident prevention.

Key responsibilities :

• Establishes a culture of safety and governance excellence by modeling appropriate behaviors.
• Supervises day-to-day field activities of operations technicians and pipeline systems to ensure safe and efficient storage or movement of NGLs.
• Interacts with pipeline scheduling to optimize downtimes for inspection, maintenance, or projects. Ensures downtime schedules are accurate and effective. Manages unscheduled activities as required while minimizing downtime.
• Shares on-call responsibilities with leadership team. Manages 24 / 7 operations requiring flexible work schedule, on-call responsibilities, and emergency response. Initiates initial response to emergencies such as accidents, spills, or injuries involving pipeline or contract personnel.
• Supports MPL 6, Region, and Area Goals. Demonstrates the ability to collaborate with diverse groups including corporate SMEs, engineers, contractors, landowners, community stakeholders, and farmers.
• Builds and maintains trust with internal and external stakeholders.
• Monitors company time keeping systems to ensure accuracy and overtime hours are reasonable compared against work orders closed.
• Maintains a safe and healthy work environment by following, implementing, and enforcing Company safety standards, practices and procedures and complying with legal regulations.
• Responsible for developing, training, coaching, and mentoring team members in support of a high performing organization.
• Provide technical assistance to employees toward expedient problem resolution.
• Meets operational standards by implementing productivity and quality field practices to ensure proficient utilization of work group and equipment.
• Effective meeting facilitation while working to build consensus across multiple business units when needed.
• Leverages technology to pursue opportunities for innovation, efficiency, and continuous improvement.

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Location : Pearsall, Texas