NES Fircroft is a leading global technical recruitment company providing professional contract and permanent staff to a diverse world-wide client base within the oil & gas Industry.

Job Title: Sr. Specialist, Operations
Location: Prince George, BC - preferred
Length: 6 Month contract to start
Rotation: Mon-Fri 40hrs per week

Description:
Provide operational expertise and leadership to ensure that projects are safely, reliably, and efficiently designed and delivered in alignment with the client’s standards and Integrated Management System requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Advise project teams on operational requirements from development through commissioning to ensure fit-for-purpose designs.
• Act as the primary operations liaison, representing operational interests across all project phases.
• Support construction execution to align with safety, environmental, and operational best practices.
• Ensure operational input is provided for training, procedures, asset maintenance, and management.
• Deliver on Operational Readiness Assurance (ORA) requirements per project timelines.
• Oversee commissioning and handover activities, ensuring scope completion and effective communication with stakeholders.
• Identify and coordinate operational resource needs; provide informal leadership to Operators and Technicians assigned to projects.
• Resolve gaps in scope, schedule, funding, or process between Projects and Operations.
• Lead resolution of post-startup deficiencies to ensure long-term operability.
• Identify and mitigate operational risks, including those with high business impact (> $1M cost avoidance).

Scope & Decision-Making:

• Holds delegated authority to make frontline operational decisions as the “asset owner” for project-related matters.
• Expected to proactively assess and mitigate safety, operational, and business risks.

Key Relationships:

• Daily engagement with internal project and operations teams, as well as external vendors and consultants.

Required Qualifications:

• 5–10 years of operations or maintenance experience in the natural gas industry.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a high-demand environment.
• In-depth experience with gas transportation systems (e.g., pipelines and compressors).
• Familiarity with gas industry standards, programs, and best practices.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with Westcoast Operations teams and familiarity with station equipment.
• Field-level leadership experience.
• Knowledge of processes such as Management of Change, Work Management, Operations Training, ORA, and Commissioning/Handover.

Working Conditions:

• Primarily office-based with up to 20% travel.
• Field visits to pipeline, measurement, and compressor stations required.
• Regular highway driving within British Columbia for site meetings and inspections.

Apply here or send your resume to trevor.parlee@nesfircroft.com

With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.