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Maintenance Craft Lead
Department: Operations
Employment Type: Contract
Location: Bahamas
Description
px Americas is a leading provider of commissioning, start-up and operations-readiness services for LNG assets and energy sectors across North America and beyond. As we expand our footprint into the Bahamas we are recruiting for a Maintenance Craft Lead.
Reporting to the Operations & Maintenance Coordinator, the Maintenance Craft Lead provides dedicated maintenance execution and readiness support during site mobilization, startup, and transition to steady-state operations.
Reporting to the Operations & Maintenance Coordinator, the Maintenance Craft Lead provides dedicated maintenance execution and readiness support during site mobilization, startup, and transition to steady-state operations.
The role is established to provide additional front-end maintenance capability during the high workload startup phase, leading establishment of maintenance systems, CMMS structures, contractor readiness, and maintenance work processes, while providing hands-on cross-discipline maintenance support to enable safe and reliable terminal operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide additional maintenance leadership and execution support during startup and early operations to supplement the Operations & Maintenance Coordinator during the high-workload transition period
- Support establishment and implementation of maintenance systems, CMMS structures, work management processes, and maintenance readiness activities to enable safe and reliable terminal operations
- Coordinate planned, corrective, and emergent maintenance activities to support plant reliability, operational continuity, and safe work execution
- Support contractor coordination, maintenance resource readiness, materials planning, and work execution quality across maintenance activities
- Provide hands-on cross-discipline maintenance support across mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and general maintenance activities as required
- Maintain visible field presence to support troubleshooting, procedural discipline, maintenance quality, and safe work execution
- Monitor maintenance backlog, defect management, and maintenance performance to support asset reliability and operational readiness
- Support transition of maintenance systems, processes, and responsibilities into the long-term operating model as site operations mature
- Support setup and lead administration of CMMS structures, asset records, maintenance workflows, reporting routines, and work management processes
- Coordinate preventive, corrective, and emergent maintenance activities, including work prioritization, scheduling, and execution readiness
- Support development of maintenance procedures, work instructions, planning tools, and maintenance execution standards
- Coordinate permits, isolations, materials, contractor readiness, and worksite execution requirements for maintenance activities
- Provide hands-on troubleshooting, repair support, and defect resolution across plant systems where required
- Coordinate contractor mobilization, supervision, worksite execution, and maintenance quality oversight
- Support startup, commissioning punch list close-out, maintenance readiness, and transition into steady-state operations
- Support workforce training, procedural implementation, and practical knowledge transfer during startup and early operations
Core Competencies
- Maintenance Execution & Work Management
- CMMS Administration & Maintenance Planning
- Cross-Discipline Technical Capability
- Control of Work Discipline & Risk Awareness
- Contractor Coordination & Quality Oversight
- Troubleshooting & Continuous Improvement
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Minimum 5+ years of relevant industrial maintenance experience in LNG, oil & gas, petrochemical, or comparable industrial environments.
- Broad cross-discipline maintenance experience with the ability to support mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation activities.
- Strong working knowledge of CMMS systems, maintenance planning, work management, asset records, and reporting processes.
- Experience supporting startup, commissioning, mobilization, or transition into operational service.
- Strong understanding of Control of Work, Permit to Work, isolation management, and safe maintenance execution practices.
- Demonstrated hands-on troubleshooting, defect resolution, and maintenance execution capability.
- Experience coordinating contractors, maintenance execution activities, and field work delivery in safety-critical environments.
Desirable
- Experience supporting the establishment of maintenance systems, work management processes, or CMMS implementation within new or developing operations.
- Experience supporting startup readiness, commissioning support, or transitioning into steady-state operations.
- Experience developing maintenance procedures, work instructions, or maintenance planning tools.
- Experience supporting workforce training, mentoring, and competency development.
- Experience contributing to asset reliability improvement, defect elimination, or maintenance performance monitoring.
Additional information
- Work schedule: Days with flexibility to support project startups.
- Travel required for training, audits, and stakeholder meetings as necessary.
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the Bahamas or willing to relocate with employer-sponsored permits.
- Must be able to drive.