Job Description
Shift Supervisor
Department: LNG
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: US TX Houston - Technip Office
About Us:
The Caturus platform founded by Kimmeridge – an alternative asset manager focused on the energy sector – supports Kimmeridge’s overarching goal of providing low-cost energy on demand with the lowest carbon footprint.
Kimmeridge’s vision in creating Caturus is to build the only independent, fully integrated natural gas and LNG export platform in the U.S. through a combination of its upstream operations and via Commonwealth LNG, a 9.5 million tonnes per annum liquefied natural gas export terminal in southwestern Louisiana on the U.S. Gulf Coast. The combined entities are committed to delivering responsibly sourced, low-emission fuel to domestic and international markets.
Caturus is a Houston-based, private exploration and production company seeking to materially grow production through development of deep, high pressure, dry gas windows of the Eagle Ford and Austin Chalk, as well as Haynesville formations located in Texas and Louisiana while maintaining a relentless focus on safety.
Commonwealth LNG was founded by industry veterans who decided to re-engineer the LNG construction model. Using proven best practices, Commonwealth is committed to building a world-class LNG export facility while focusing on safety, managing risk and achieving best-in-class environmental standards.
Reporting to the Manager, Operations, the LNG Shift Supervisor is a senior operations professional responsible for delivering operational support across the pre-commissioning, commissioning, and startup phases of the LNG facility. Working within the Operations team, the Shift Supervisor helps ensure the safe and efficient transition from construction to operation of the LNG plant and its utility systems.
Key Accountabilities:
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Operations Support and Assurance: Deliver operational support as defined in the RFO plan and project needs for assigned systems, ensuring the facility meets licence-to-operate and regulatory requirements; provide input to operational philosophies, strategies, and procedures; and ensure the required level of operational competence and capability prior to Ready for Start-Up (RFSU).
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Factory Acceptance Testing & Design Reviews: Represent operations at nominated Factory Acceptance Tests (FATs) and vendor/OEM site visits; participate in 3D model reviews, design reviews, HAZOPs, HAZIDs, PHAs, and LOPAs, providing operational input on operability, maintainability, access, and isolation; and review HMI graphics and operator interfaces for alignment with operating philosophy and safe operator response.
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Commissioning & Startup: Provide operational support to commissioning, module startup, and plant startup activities, including system walk-downs, punch listing, and PSSR reviews and walkdowns, and support system handovers from commissioning to operations.
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Liquefaction Operations: Provide operations expertise for the startup, cooldown, warmup, and steady-state operation of the liquefaction train, including protection against thermal shock and differential-temperature excursions and safe management of refrigerant systems.
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Alarm Management & Control Systems: Provide operational input to DCS/HMI configuration, control strategies, and setpoints, and to alarm management design and rationalization aligned with project alarm management standards to support effective control room response during startup and normal operations.
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Process Safety, Risk & Compliance: Demonstrate Process Safety leadership; identify and assess operational risk; and ensure safety, environmental, and regulatory compliance throughout design, testing, startup, and normal operations.
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Control of Work / Permit to Work: Develop, establish, and implement Control of Work (CoW) / permit-to-work (PTW) and Safe Isolation and Return to Service systems, including procedures for PTW, energy isolation, and lock-out/tag-out (LOTO), and support their rollout, training, and audit ahead of and through startup.
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Procedures, Training & Knowledge Transfer: Develop and review operating procedures for utility systems and LNG process units; contribute to training programs to support RFSU; capture lessons learned from commissioning and startup; and facilitate knowledge transfer between operations, vendors, and technology licensors.
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Supervisory Transition (Normal Operations): As the facility reaches stable production, transition into an operations/shift supervisory role — directing production across process, utilities, storage, and loading to meet production targets and quality specifications; supervising board and field operators; functioning competently as a Shift Supervisor and/or Board Operator when required; optimizing plant availability and reliability; coordinating planned and unplanned maintenance; and providing leadership during emergency and abnormal situations.
Qualifications
Education, Certificates, and Licenses:
- 10+ years of equivalent LNG or gas plant operations experience; relevant technical or process operations training an advantage.
- Advanced training or certification in process safety or operations management preferred.
- Vendor-specific training for key LNG equipment (e.g., Air Products/Honeywell LNG, Linde, Baker Hughes) preferred.
- Must maintain a valid TWIC card.
Experience:
- 10+ years of experience in process operations or engineering within LNG or similar complex process plants, including experience in an operational position.
- Demonstrated experience across handover, pre-commissioning, commissioning, and startup activities.
- Hands-on operational experience with LNG liquefaction operations, including cooldown, warmup, and refrigerant management.
- Proven experience collaborating with engineering teams, EPC contractors, and vendors on LNG or major capital projects.
- Control room operations experience, with the ability to lead board and field operators through startup, normal, and abnormal operating scenarios.
- Familiarity with FERC/PHMSA regulatory requirements preferred.
- Knowledge of LNG liquefaction processes (e.g., APCI, C3MR, SMR, Cascade), cryogenic equipment commissioning and startup, and gas turbine and compressor operations preferred.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Strong technical skills in process control, instrumentation, and automation, including DCS/PLC configuration and tuning and HMI/graphics review.
- Experience in alarm management and rationalization.
- Strong knowledge of Process Safety Management, permit-to-work / control of work systems, isolation-point verification, and complex LOTO programs.
- Experience participating in risk assessment methodologies (HAZOP, LOPA) and incident investigation.
- Demonstrated leadership, coaching, and mentoring ability, with the potential and intent to progress into an operations/shift supervisory role.
- Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to handle complex situations.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and earn credibility across all levels of the organization, including contractors.
- High level of HSE knowledge.
- Experience with PI or similar data historian software, 3D modeling software for plant walk-throughs, and CMMS.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite.
