LSPT Lead Maintenance Technician

The Lead Maintenance Technician provides technical leadership and oversight for transload operations and infrastructure as well as asset maintenance across assigned locations. This role ensures equipment reliability, preventive maintenance execution, facility integrity, and technical problem-solving to support safe and efficient transloading operations. This position serves as a site-level technical lead, coordinating facility readiness, regulatory compliance, transload and maintenance execution to support operational throughput and uptime.

Responsibilities:

Transload & Facility Operations

• Maintain, inspect, troubleshoot, and repair transload systems, including pumps, piping, valves, meters, air systems, and loading/unloading infrastructure.


• Lead and oversee the operation, maintenance, and compliance of transload systems, including pumps, piping, valves, meters, air systems, and loading/unloading infrastructure


• Ensure facility and infrastructure reliability through asset inspection, repairs, and upkeep of yard, drainage, containment, utility, and access systems.


• Drive preventive and corrective maintenance programs for all terminal and transload equipment


• Identify and implement maintenance and asset reliability improvements that enhance equipment availability, safety, and lifecycle performance.

Fleet Maintenance

• Provide technical support for tractor and trailer diagnostics, repair, and PM activities


• Audit and inspect maintenance work for quality, safety, and compliance


• Support workload balancing across terminals and assists with complex fleet repairs as needed


• Serve as technical escalation point for equipment-related issues impacting operations

Technical Leadership & Coordination

• Coordinate maintenance work priorities and maintenance resources at assigned facilities


• Train and mentor technicians on facility systems, transload equipment, and maintenance processes


• Maintain maintenance records, compliance documentation, and inspection reports


• Provide maintenance expertise and recommendations to operations and leadership teams regarding equipment reliability, repair priorities and asset risks.


• Coordinate contractors and vendors performing maintenance-related work.


• Communicate maintenance status and equipment risks to terminal operations leadership.

Skills & Competencies:

• Strong knowledge of transload operations, fluid handling systems, and industrial equipment


• Working knowledge of facility maintenance systems (structural, mechanical, utility, and yard infrastructure)


• Solid understanding of tractor-trailer maintenance and fleet systems


• Ability to troubleshoot mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and piping systems


• Strong leadership, planning, and cross-functional coordination skills


• Ability to manage sites, vendors, and priorities simultaneously

Education & Experience:

• High school diploma or equivalent (Associate degree or technical certification preferred)


• 5+ years of experience in industrial maintenance, transload operations, facility maintenance, fleet maintenance or heavy equipment repair, including demonstrated experience serving as a lead technician or technical resource.


• Experience with liquid transfer systems, terminal operations, or industrial environments preferred


• Prior leadership or lead technician experience required


• Knowledge of regulatory compliance standards related to terminal operations preferred


• OEM, systems, and safety training as required

Physical Requirements and Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the team member is regularly required to sit, stand, talk, or hear. The team member regularly is required to walk and must have the ability to climb steps and ladders. The team member must be able to work in a sitting, standing, stooping, crouching, or in a prone position and work with hands over the member’s head. The team member must regularly lift and/or move equipment and fittings that weigh up to 50 pounds.

Other requirements include: the use of hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and climb or balance. Team members must possess a high degree of attention and considerable dexterity. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

LSP Transport has 20 years of experience in the chemical transportation industry. The company, which had operated under a different name until 2015, became a wholly owned subsidiary of LiquidPower Specialty Products Inc. (LSPI) and is now a private fleet dedicated to delivering product for LSPI.

LiquidPower Specialty Products Inc. (LSPI) is the global leader in the science of drag reduction. In 2014 LSPI was acquired by Berkshire Hathaway, having previously been a wholly owned subsidiary of Phillips 66. LSPI provides flow improver solutions, delivering strategic value to its customers by maximizing the flow potential of pipelines while increasing their operational flexibility, capacity and economic performance. LSPI works with companies in more than 35 countries to solve pipeline flow needs, treating more than 12 million barrels of hydrocarbon liquids a day and providing customers with a total package solution that includes flow improver products and the right injection equipment. LSPI leading brands are LiquidPower™, ExtremePower® and RefinedPower™. 

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