Robert Farthing

Background

About Robert Farthing

Exceptional technical and people leadership experience and abilities in building and leading highly effective multidiscipline engineering teams to provide technical oversight, setting and executing strategy, lead through change, align priorities and initiatives, motivate, engage and foster integration for effective collaboration and delivering results support and direction for operating equipment and project-related initiatives: • Chartered and lead Suncor’s Enterprise Technical Strategy initiative to increase and improve technical capability across the organization; alignment with ELT and SVP’s across Suncor’s business units, resulting in increased cost efficiencies associated with effective and efficient technical services that align with the enterprises vision, purpose and values • Chartered, implemented and managed Suncor’s Gas Turbine Centre of Excellence - lead a team of cross functional resources from Maintenance, Commercial, Operations, Supply Chain and Engineering Technical to develop and implement Suncor’s Gas Turbine maintenance, asset lifecycle management and operations strategy – resulting in risk reduction, increased asset reliability and availability • Technical Lead for Suncor’s Asset Performance Management Initiative – designed and implemented advanced analytics solution for condition and performance monitoring and real time optimization across the enterprise to drive increased availability and reliability across key critical assets, process and technologies; resulted in significant reduction in unplanned functional failures, maintenance cost reductions, and performance optimization • Technical Advisor for Suncor’s Technical Competency program, including developing discipline and technology specific technical competency maps, job architecture for technical positions, technical competency gap assessments and development plans for individual roles, as well as technical competency bench strength assessments for required competencies within business units or functions • In depth knowledge, experience and understanding in asset integrity management, equipment strategy and lifecycle optimization, rotating equipment reliability and availability improvement programs, and maintenance, turn-around and execution programs • Registered APEGA P.Eng and Responsible Member (RM) for Suncor; lead development and implementation of Suncor’s Professional Practice Management Plan (PPMP) including revisions for compliance with APEGA’s Authenticating Professional Work Products Practice Standard