Refinery Shift Superintendent
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Total years of experience :41 years, 5 Months
The Refinery Shift Superintendent performs the following functions and is responsible for:
• Ensuring that the planned production targets and quality specifications are met. Identify unit limitations and where possible eliminating or minimizing losses on production, energy, creation of unnecessary works and product giveaways.
• Reviewing the product quality in storage needed to meet the requirement of marketing.
• Coordinating with Trading/Supply regarding the arrivals of all import/export vessels.
• Coordinating with the Product Supply and Distribution about product lifting through the Oil Pipeline.
• Ensuring that maintenance work is carried-out as per schedule and works are performed in conformance with the established industry safety standards.
• Performing Daily Walkabout Inspection of the whole Complex.
• Ensuring that routine on-line and off-line testing of unit emergency instrumentation is carried-out and is performed in accordance with the established procedures.
• Doing Performance Appraisals of all personnel on his shift.
• Recommending training and developmental assignment of unit personnel.
• Checking and ensuring that unit equipment are operated and maintained in accordance with industry standards, corporate policies, licensor’s guidelines, manufacturer’s recommendation, company practices and procedures.
• Conducting mentoring and coaching sessions for employees with performance deficiencies.
• Keeping unit operating and emergency procedures are updated and lead his shift during its monthly review.
Train the Plant Operators regarding basic plant operation and specific operating area skills.
• Provides all the necessary plant information and work with Trident Computer Resources in building the training Simulator.
• Configure the DCS Operator Station Display, which includes graphics, Instrument Control groups, Trend Groups and the hierarchy level of the display.
• Perform the factory and site acceptance test of the training simulator.
• Train CDU Complex Process Improvement Engineers on DCS Operations, handling unit start-up, shutdown, unit upsets and emergencies.
He leads a multi-disciplined Area Team managing the operation of East Process Area. He manages all aspects of day to day production and ensures maximum availability of plant equipment with the following responsibilities:
1. Review unit performance against the planned production targets and quality specifications control.
2. Confers with Area Team members to identify short term underachieve production and quality control deficiencies.
3. Works with Area Team members to identify long term production constraints and devising ways of overcoming plant restrictions.
4. Reviews day-to-day operating and maintenance issues in daily production meetings with the Refinery Management Team.
5. Responsible for identifying, minimizing and where possible eliminating all preventable losses on production, inventory, personnel, energy, loss of community respect and image, loss of market share, equipment loss, creation of unnecessary works and product giveaways.
6. Investigate and issued reports for all incidents.
7. Breakdown Maintenance - Liaises with the Maintenance Supervisor for the prioritization on repair of unit equipment.
8. Confers with the Maintenance Supervisor, Reliability Engineers and unit operators on the reliability issues of unit equipment and instruments.
9. Plans, schedules and organizes equipment preparation for maintenance.
10. Coordinate the activities of the Shutdown Core Team during Unit Turnaround and Inspection.
11. Conducts Walkabout Inspection of the Operating Area with the Area Manager and unit personnel.
Initiates, plans and leads field-based exercises to verify knowledge and understanding of unit emergency procedures.
12. Member of the Refinery Safety Committee and participate in the regular meetings to discuss safety related issues and identify, correct safety deficiencies.
13. Coordinates routine on-line and off-line testing of unit emergency instrumentation to ensure maximum availability.
14. Acts as Operations Field Commander during Refinery emergency, organizing fire teams, coordinating with the process units, Power Plant and OMS Area Teams and liaising with the Headquarters Command.
15. Reviews and establishes budget targets with the Area Manager
16. Maintain close liaison with the Area Team members to define, monitor and control fixed and variable costs to obtain optimum utilization of available funds.
17. Review with Area Team members the viability of proposed investment items, reviewing the justification, return on capital, lower cost alternatives, scheduling and implementation plan.
18. Set the work schedule of Process Improvement Engineers and other unit personnel to ensure sufficient opportunity, time and resources are made available.
19. Do Performance Appraisals of Area Team members and discuss performance ratings with the Area Manager.
20. Recommends training and developmental assignment of unit personnel and Area Team members.
21. Supports and Promotes Optimum Team Performance and responsible for the overall performance of the Crude Unit Complex against the set performance targets.
22. Check that the Area Team operate and maintain equipment in accordance with industry standards, corporate policies, licensor’s guidelines, manufacturer’s recommendation, company practices and procedures.
23. Assumes the responsibility for the occupational health and safety of all personnel working in the Crude Complex Area.
24. Maintains multi directional communication with other Area Teams, Area Manager, Refinery Management Team and support departments.
25. Conducts mentoring and coaching sessions for employees with performance deficiencies.
26. Coordinates Area Team operating and safety reviews of all proposed changes to process plant, equipment, work practices and procedures. Convene team members for Hazop study as required.
27. Liaise with Area Teams and other departments to ensure plant documentations are kept up to date.
He is responsible for the planning and execution of the unit shutdowns in accordance with operating and maintenance procedures as well as the turnaround philosophy. He has the following jobs and responsibilities:
• Ensure the operational interface of the turnaround planning and execution in accordance with the operating and maintenance procedures.
• Develop the unit shutdown and restart-up procedures.
• Identify isolation points for the unit and equipment and ensure that all isolations are properly identified and controlled prior to and during the turnaround.
• Assist with identifying and developing work items that conform to the Turnaround criteria for work list items and turnaround philosophy.
• Assist in the development of the critical path schedule for project execution to include all pre-shutdown, shutdown and post shutdown activities.
• Coordinate and facilitate planning and scheduling meetings at the work group, asset area and cross-functional levels as part of the planning/execution process cycle.
• Develop comprehensive work plans, identify process bottlenecks and identify potential solutions to ensure the unit / equipment is properly isolated and gas free and the unit is shut down and started up in a safe and efficient manner.
The Operations Coordinator is responsible for the replacement and upgrade of the Vacuum Furnace from horizontal-fired into vertical-fired heater and the first major equipment of the Refinery to be controlled using the DCS System. The project scope covered the instrument hot cut-over works, which includes instrument pre-commissioning checks, loop acceptance test and doing its documentations while the unit is in operation.
Manage the operations of all the Process Units during off-hours.
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