Manager, Pipe Integrity

At South Bow we do one thing and we do it well: safely moving oil between some of the worlds most critical building our high-performing team with versatile thinkers who thrive on solving big challenges youre ready for a position where your skills are highly valued and your work is incredibly important we want to meet you. Bring your talents to a new streamlined energy company dedicated to operational commercial and safety excellence as we pursue our critical purpose of delivering the energy people need.

The Opportunity

South Bow is seeking an experienced and diligent Manager Pipe Integrity to lead the team responsible for the safety reliability and compliance of our pipeline assets. Reporting to the Director Pipeline Integrity this role provides technical and people leadership across integrity threat management engineering assessments preventative and mitigative programs and long-term asset risk strategy. This leader will lead subject matter experts in integrity welding materials damage prevention and data to further develop our teams high-performance culture. They will foster continuous improvement in our management of processes standards and specifications to keep us safe and competitive. They will interface and influence regulators (Canada and the USA) and industry associations to help the industry succeed in our safety goals. They will make recommendations on complex integrity matters and work across the organization to reduce failures prevent unplanned outages and improve asset performance.

What Youll Do

• Lead the Pipe Integrity team in identifying assessing and mitigating integrity threats across the pipeline asset lifecycle.
• Oversee engineering assessments analysis troubleshooting and timely response to urgent integrity issues that could affect safe operations or throughput.
• Develop and advance long-term threat management strategies integrity plans preventative and mitigative programs and operations and maintenance plans.
• Establish priorities resources and performance measures for integrity programs including tracking key performance indicators and driving continuous improvement.
• Provide governance and subject matter expertise for growth reliability and maintenance projects risk assessments mitigation decisions and the management of change process.
• Guide the optimization and maintenance of engineering specifications standards procedures and technical practices.
• Build team capability through clear expectations coaching performance management development planning mentorship and staffing decisions.
• Partner with Operations Projects Regulatory and other Engineering teams to resolve integrity issues and support safe reliable asset performance.
• Participate in field and site visits provide on-call support as required and support controlled response to abnormal or emergency conditions.
• Interface and influence Canadian and American regulators and industry associations to help the industry succeed in our safety goals.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Engineering.
• Registered or eligible to register with APEGA as a Professional Engineer (.) in good standing.
• 15 or more years of experience across engineering pipeline integrity and management. .
• Demonstrated experience leading professional engineers and technical specialists including formal accountability for performance development and staffing.
• Experience solving complex ambiguous and cross-disciplinary technical problems with broad operational safety or regulatory impact.
• Experience developing and executing pipeline integrity programs threat management strategies engineering assessments and risk mitigation plans.
• Regulatory and industry influence experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading integrity work across the full pipeline asset lifecycle including inspection assessment repair mitigation and ongoing monitoring.
• Knowledge of pipeline integrity management systems engineering governance management of change technical standards and regulatory compliance practices.
• Proven ability to influence decisions negotiate outcomes and gain alignment among stakeholders with differing technical or business perspectives.
• Experience using performance measures and asset data to improve program maturity data quality reliability and risk reduction outcomes.

This position requires candidates to:

• Have and maintain a valid drivers licence and provide a drivers abstract for review.
• Travel to company field or remote locations including occasional overnight travel.
• Work occasionally in outdoor and industrial environments where noise hydrocarbons chemicals dust or fumes may be present.
• Be part of an on-call rotation and provide support outside regular hours as required.
• Successfully complete all applicable pre-employment screening and background checks.

About our business

South Bows existing oil & liquids pipeline infrastructure connects Alberta crude oil supplies to U.S. refining markets in Illinois Oklahoma Texas and the U.S. Gulf Coast. We remain committed to meeting the energy needs of North Americans today while advancing our Liquids Pipelines System for the demands of the future. Connecting growing Canadian and U.S. crude oil supply to key markets leveraging existing assets and seeking new opportunities to continue to provide our customers with access to the destinations they need.

South Bow is an equal opportunity employer and participates in the E-Verify program supervised by the U.S. government.

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Thank you for choosing South Bow in your career search.

* Depending on qualifications the successful candidate may be offered a position at a more appropriate level and/or ladder.

* Applicants must have legal authorization to work in the country in which the position is based with no restrictions.

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