Maintenance Team Lead - Instrumentation, Controls & Electrical

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bpx energy, a major oil and gas producer in the United States, leverages its expertise in unconventional gas, including shale, to deliver hydrocarbon production and technical knowledge worldwide. With operations in Texas and Louisiana, our US onshore business has become both a premier oil and gas producer and a leader in reducing methane emissions.

As part of BP, a global industry leader, we foster a high-energy, high-intensity environment built on accountability, collegiality, innovation, and empowerment. At bpx, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment where safety, operational excellence, continuous improvement, and teamwork are valued.

Discover your place with us and help our business meet the challenges of reimagining and reinventing the future of energy.

Maintenance Team Lead, Instrumentation, Controls & Electrical

BPX Midstream

Role Synopsis

BPX is seeking an experienced Maintenance Team Lead to lead Instrumentation, Controls, and Electrical (ICE) maintenance across Midstream facilities. This position provides day-to-day leadership and technical direction to ICE technicians while coordinating priorities with Operations, Engineering, Planning, Scheduling, Projects, and contractor partners.

The successful candidate will be a visible field leader who promotes safety, operating discipline, technical excellence, and continuous improvement. This role is accountable for ensuring maintenance work is properly identified, prioritized, planned, scheduled, and executed to support safe, compliant, reliable, and efficient facility operations.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead the safe execution of preventive, predictive, corrective, and emergent ICE maintenance activities.

• Champion BPX safety expectations, Control of Work, energy isolation, and operating discipline.

• Provide daily direction, work assignments, technical support, and field leadership to ICE technicians.

• Validate work requests and ensure work is appropriately prioritized, planned, scheduled, and documented.

• Serve as the primary point of contact for emergent ICE maintenance and troubleshooting.

• Coordinate maintenance priorities and resource requirements with Operations, Engineering, Projects, and other maintenance disciplines.

• Provide technical leadership for instrumentation, automation, process control, electrical, protective, and safety systems.

• Lead or participate in Root Cause Failure Analysis investigations and ensure corrective actions are completed.

• Monitor equipment performance, recurring failures, maintenance backlog, schedule compliance, and preventive maintenance completion.

• Improve maintenance procedures, job plans, troubleshooting guides, and equipment strategies.

• Develop technician capability through coaching, mentoring, training, and competency assessments.

• Provide BPX oversight of contractors performing maintenance, testing, commissioning, and specialized technical services.

• Support facility outages, equipment upgrade, commissioning, start-up, and management of change activities.

• Promote use of condition monitoring, predictive maintenance, failure data, and performance indicators to improve reliability.

• Support maintenance budget delivery and make risk-based decisions that balance safety, reliability, production impact, and cost.

Essential Experience & Education

• High school diploma or equivalent.

• Significant maintenance experience in oil and gas, midstream, petrochemical, industrial, utility, or a related industry.

• Demonstrated experience leading maintenance personnel or serving in a senior technical leadership role.

• Strong working knowledge of instrumentation, automation, process control, and industrial electrical systems.

• Experience troubleshooting complex equipment failures and participating in root-cause investigations.

• Experience with SAP, Maximo, or a comparable computerized maintenance management system.

• Working knowledge of Control of Work, energy isolation, electrical safety, process safety, and contractor oversight.

• Ability to interpret electrical schematics, loop drawings, logic diagrams, cause-and-effect documents, equipment manuals, and maintenance procedures.

• Strong planning, prioritization, decision-making, and communication skills.

• Ability to respond to equipment failures, abnormal conditions, and operational emergencies as required.

• Valid driver's license.

Preferred Skills

• Technical certification, apprenticeship, or associate degree in instrumentation, automation, electrical technology, industrial electronics, or a related discipline.

• Experience supporting gas processing, compression, gathering, pipeline, or water-handling facilities.

• Experience with PLCs, SCADA, distributed control systems, safety systems, fire and gas systems, variable-frequency drives, motor controls, electrical distribution, and protective devices.

• Experience with predictive maintenance, reliability-centered maintenance, commissioning, management of change, and equipment startup.

• Previous supervisory, frontline leadership, project-management, or cost-management experience.

Leadership Expectations

• Put safety and operating discipline at the center of every decision.

• Maintain a visible and credible presence in the field.

• Set clear expectations and follow through on commitments.

• Develop technicians through coaching, mentoring, and meaningful field engagement.

• Promote teamwork across Operations, Engineering, Projects, and Maintenance.

• Use equipment failures and performance data to drive lasting improvements.

• Hold themselves and others accountable for work quality, documentation, and procedural compliance.

Location & Schedule

• Location: Orla, Texas

• Schedule: Rotational 14 days on 14 days off, 84hrs/week while onshift

Compensation & Benefits

• Base pay range: $143,000 - $168,000 - $193,000 USD annually

• The pay range listed for this position is a good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible base compensation at the time of posting.

• We offer a reward and wellbeing package designed to support your life both inside and outside of work. Benefits may include medical, dental, and vision insurance; paid time off; discretionary annual bonus program; long-term incentive program; and 401(k) matching program.

Legal Authorization Requirements

• Must be legally authorized to work full-time in the United States for any employer other than your current employer.

• Must not require sponsorship now or in the future for employment visa status, including H-1B, TN, or similar visa statuses.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other employment benefits and privileges. Please contact us to request accommodations.

Travel Requirement:

Up to 25% travel should be expected with this role Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation Remote Type:

This position is not available for remote working

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