Supervisor Operational Controls - Houston TX

Military Spouse Corporate Career Network•Houston, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Supervisor, Operational Controls leads a team supporting process safety and operational-control activities across GTM Operations. The role provides leadership and technical oversight for Asset Management of Change (AMOC), event evaluation and notification, process hazard reviews, and Operational Readiness and Assurance. It strengthens consistent execution, governance, tools, and learning across GTM Operations. The position leads team members and oversees complex, higher-risk AMOCs from scoping through risk review, approval, implementation readiness, post-implementation verification, and effectiveness follow-up. It supports process safety governance, process hazard reviews, event analysis and notifications, project turnover readiness, operational performance measurement, reporting, and continuous improvement. The supervisor promotes a strong safety and learning culture through timely escalation, risk-informed decisions, knowledge sharing, and incorporation of lessons learned into standards, tools, and work practices.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in engineering and 7 years of relevant work experience.
Progressively responsible experience in natural gas transmission, midstream, pipeline, compression, storage, processing, engineering, technical operations, or a comparable high-hazard operating environment.
Working knowledge of process safety principles and process hazard review methods, including HAZOPs, safeguards, risk assessment, and action tracking.
Working knowledge of management of change across development, risk review, authorization, implementation, verification, documentation, and closeout phases.
Experience supporting event evaluation, event notifications, causal or event analysis, corrective actions, and organizational learning.
Experience developing or administering performance metrics, scorecards, dashboards, management reports, or data-quality controls.
Strong judgment, analytical thinking, facilitation, written communication, presentation, stakeholder-management, and change-leadership skills.
Ability to manage multiple complex priorities, make risk-informed decisions, and escalate significant safety, compliance, quality, or execution concerns.
Competence using Microsoft Office applications and enterprise workflow, data, and reporting tools.

Nice To Haves

Experience facilitating or participating in HAZOP, PHA, LOPA, or similar structured process-hazard reviews.
Experience with regulations, records, and audits, including internal audits and work with external regulators such as PHMSA, CER, FERC, and state and local regulators.
Experience with AMOC workflow configuration, business-process design, data governance, or enterprise performance-reporting solutions.
Project management, continuous improvement, assurance, and change-management experience.
Demonstrated ability to implement sustainable governance improvements across geographically distributed operations.

Responsibilities

Provide day-to-day leadership, direction, workload prioritization, coaching, performance feedback, and development for direct reports.
Build a capable, collaborative, and accountable Operational Controls team.
Support governance of the Asset Management of Change (AMOC) process, including requirements, roles, decision rights, quality expectations, assurance activities, and consistent application across GTM Operations.
Lead complex and higher-risk AMOCs from initial development and scoping through risk review, approvals, implementation readiness, post-implementation verification, and effectiveness follow-up.
Improve the structure, usability, integration, data quality, and reporting capability of AMOC tools, templates, workflows, dashboards, and guidance.
Translate process safety expectations into practical operational controls, consistent execution practices, and measurable outcomes.
Provide governance and oversight for Process Hazard Assessments (PHA) and other process hazard reviews, including preparation, facilitation support, documentation quality, action development, and follow-through.
Evaluate process safety events and potential process safety events for consistent classification, escalation, reporting, trend analysis, and systemic improvement opportunities.
Support GTM event analysis and event notifications by ensuring timely, accurate, decision-useful information, stakeholder engagement, and follow-through on findings and actions.
Provide governance and support for Operational Readiness and Assurance activities ahead of and through turnover of Projects to Regional Operations teams.
Support development and reporting of GTM Operations performance metrics, including definitions, data governance, validation, reporting, trend analysis, and leadership insights.
Develop and maintain dashboards, management reports, and performance narratives connecting process safety, AMOC, event, and operational performance data to risks, priorities, and improvement actions.
Lead continuous improvement initiatives related to process safety support, AMOC governance and execution, event learning, notifications, and performance measurement.
Promote a strong safety and learning culture through timely escalation, disciplined risk-based decisions, effective challenge, knowledge sharing, and incorporation of lessons learned into standards, tools, and work practices.