Senior Manager - Maintenance and Reliability
Summit Midstream Corporation · Greater Houston · 4 wk ago
On-siteProject ManagementFull-time
About the role
Summit Midstream Corporation is a value-driven corporation focused on developing, owning and operating midstream energy infrastructure assets. The Senior Manager - Maintenance & Reliability is responsible for the strategic leadership, execution, and continuous improvement of maintenance and reliability programs across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Lead development and execution of preventive, predictive, and reliability-centered maintenance strategies to improve asset availability, safety, and lifecycle performance.
- Establish reliability programs focused on criticality analysis, failure elimination, bad-actor identification, and continuous improvement.
- Ensure maintenance activities comply with regulatory, safety, and asset integrity requirements.
- Partner with Operations and Engineering to minimize unplanned downtime and support safe, reliable operations.
- Provide functional and strategic leadership to the EAM System Manager – Maximo, ensuring alignment between maintenance processes and enterprise system capabilities.
- Establish EAM governance, standards, data quality expectations, and controls across the organization.
- Use EAM metrics, dashboards, and KPIs to drive performance management and executive-level reporting.
- Define and monitor asset performance metrics including backlog, schedule compliance, MTBF, MTTR, cost performance, and reliability trends.
- Drive continuous improvement using data-driven insights and structured problem-solving methodologies.
- Promote standardization of maintenance practices and best practices across sites and asset classes.
- Lead, coach, and develop maintenance, reliability, and EAM leadership team members.
- Collaborate with IT, Finance, Compliance, Safety, and Operations to align maintenance and reliability strategy with enterprise objectives.
- Support organizational change management and adoption of standardized maintenance processes and enabling technologies.
- Provide maintenance and reliability input to capital projects, commissioning, and asset handover activities.
- Support contractor and vendor oversight related to maintenance services, inspections, and reliability programs.
- Ensure maintenance systems and processes scale effectively to support business growth.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Maintenance Management, or related technical discipline preferred.
- Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in maintenance, reliability, or asset management roles.
- Minimum of 5 years of leadership experience with accountability for multi-disciplinary teams and enterprise programs.
- Demonstrated experience leveraging EAM/EAM systems (preferably Maximo) to drive maintenance and reliability performance.
Skills
- Strong leadership presence with the ability to influence at all organizational levels.
- Deep understanding of asset lifecycle management, reliability engineering, and maintenance best practices.
- Proven ability to translate strategy into executable programs and measurable results.
- Advanced knowledge of maintenance KPIs, analytics, and continuous improvement methodologies.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Benefits
- Company Paid Holidays
- Discretionary Performance Bonus
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Employer supplemented Health Savings Account
- Flexible Benefit Plan
- Basic Term Life Insurance
- Voluntary Term Life and AD&D Insurance
- Employer Short & Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Employee Assistance Plan (EAP)
- Hospital Indemnity, Critical Illness and Accident Insurance
- Wellness Incentive Program
- 6% Retirement Plan Match
Pay and Schedule
The company offers a comprehensive benefits package and a hybrid schedule (office/remote). Travel up to 20–30% as required to support operational sites and projects.