Senior Gas Plant Manager

AlphaStaffHCM

Pecos, TX

Estimated pay: Est. $27–$44/hr (market estimate, not employer-stated)

A client of AlphaStaffHCM™ is looking for a **Senior Gas Plant Manager**. This individual will provide operational leadership and strategic oversight for a natural gas processing facility while ensuring safe, reliable, and efficient plant operations. The Senior Gas Plant Manager will partner closely with Operations, Engineering, Commercial, Maintenance, and Environmental Health & Safety teams to optimize plant performance, maximize reliability, maintain regulatory compliance, and support overall business objectives.

**Day to day:** The Senior Gas Plant Manager is responsible for leading all aspects of plant operations, maintenance, safety, compliance, and performance while driving continuous improvement initiatives across the facility.

• Lead the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of a natural gas processing facility, including compression, amine treating, dehydration, cryogenic NGL recovery, fractionation, and residue gas systems.
• Promote and maintain a strong safety culture while ensuring compliance with company policies, OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM) requirements, and industry best practices.
• Provide leadership and direction to plant operations, maintenance, and technical personnel while fostering employee development and accountability.
• Ensure compliance with all environmental permits and regulatory requirements, including EPA, DOT/PHMSA, OSHA, and applicable industry standards.
• Direct plant operations to meet throughput targets, product specifications, recovery goals, and customer commitments.
• Oversee maintenance strategies, mechanical integrity programs, and turnaround planning activities to maximize asset reliability and operational uptime.
• Develop and manage operating and capital budgets while identifying opportunities to improve operational efficiency and profitability.
• Support capital projects, plant expansions, tie-ins, startup activities, and facility improvement initiatives.
• Lead incident investigations, root cause analyses, and corrective action programs to continually improve safety and operational performance.
• Maintain emergency response preparedness through planning, training, drills, and coordination with local agencies and emergency responders.
• Monitor plant performance metrics and implement continuous improvement initiatives to enhance safety, efficiency, reliability, and operational effectiveness.
• Collaborate with Commercial, Gathering, Engineering, Pipeline, and EHS teams to align facility operations with business objectives.
• Represent the facility with regulatory agencies, contractors, landowners, customers, and community stakeholders as needed.
• Promote a culture of operational excellence, workforce development, and continuous improvement.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

**Must Have's:**

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, or a related technical field. Equivalent industry experience may be considered.
• Minimum of 12 years of experience within natural gas processing, midstream operations, refining, petrochemicals, or a related hydrocarbon processing industry.
• Minimum of 5 years of leadership experience managing operations, maintenance, or technical personnel.
• Hands-on experience supporting natural gas processing facilities, including cryogenic plants, compression, amine treating, dehydration, and NGL recovery systems.
• Strong understanding of OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM) programs, environmental compliance requirements, and regulatory standards.
• Experience leading Process Hazard Analyses (PHAs), Management of Change (MOC) processes, audits, and incident investigations.
• Experience developing and managing operating and capital budgets.
• Strong understanding of mechanical integrity, reliability programs, maintenance planning, and turnaround execution.
• Ability to analyze plant performance data and make operational decisions to improve safety, reliability, and profitability.
• Excellent leadership, communication, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.

**Plusses:**

• Previous experience serving as a Plant Manager, Assistant Plant Manager, Operations Manager, or similar leadership role within a gas processing facility.
• Experience with fractionation, NGL product handling, and multi-train processing facilities.
• Experience leading major turnarounds, capital projects, facility expansions, tie-ins, and startup activities.
• Experience supporting unionized workforces and/or multi-site operations.
• Knowledge of commercial processing operations, plant balancing, contracts, and product marketing interfaces.
• Experience supporting interstate pipeline operations and FERC Standards of Conduct compliance.
• Strong track record of driving continuous improvement and operational excellence initiatives.
• Experience managing relationships with regulatory agencies, contractors, and community stakeholders.

**Benefits:**

• Compet