Our client, who are an International Energy Operator, are recruiting for a Maintenance Superintendent on a full time basis, at their facility in Texas City, TX.

Job outline

The Maintenance Superintendent provides leadership, coaching, resources, boundary conditions, cost management, and budget development to guide the Maintenance group to successfully accomplish plant and group performance goals, meet reliability and safety targets, as well as assure a competent workforce.

Duties include:

Internal:

• Budget Management
• Preventative Maintenance
• Physical condition monitoring

External:

• Regulatory Agencies
• Audits and compliance
• Industry Standards

Key accountabilities:

SAFETY:

• Ensuring compliance with HSSE (Health, Safety, Security, and Environment) standards and expectations set through the Life Saving Rules and 20 Safety Principles. You’ll set an example on HSSE responsibilities with all teams you interact with.
• Promoting safety culture through visible leadership in the field, including Safety Observation Conversations, Audits, and Near Miss reporting.
• Promotes and sponsors participation on safety programs and committees to initiatives.
• Continuously stimulates employee’s safety awareness.
• Leader for emergency response or incident command scenarios.
• Promotes operating envelopes sustainability, tracking, reporting and deviation assessments.
• Delivering against front-end maintenance KPIs and suggesting interventions for measurable improvements where required.

• Ensure the safe, productive, and efficient operations of the Plant operations.

Leadership:

• Provide leadership, guidance, coaching, and decision making, to ensure employees understand company goals and have the knowledge and resources needed to accomplish them.
• Provides oversight of on-site contractors and provide assurance of competency, safety, and productivity.
• Aids in the development of third-party contracting strategies working with procurement.
• Supervises the Maintenance teams by coaching and motivating team members to display desired behaviors and leading by example.
• Provides leadership training and maintain expectations of delivery by the team leads.
• Establishes boundaries and ensures ownership, accountabilities and priorities are set for team members to achieve results.
• Interfaces with Manufacturing Teams and other customers regularly to ensure operational needs are met reliably.
• Maintain and foster collaborative efforts with production, maintenance, reliability, engineering, other technical resource teams to identify, share, implement and maintain best practices.
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Maintenance and Planning:

• Develops the yearly Maintenance strategy for the plant and provide input into the development of the yearly reliability strategy.

• Develops and implements execution plans to efficiently deliver the maintenance and reliability strategies.
• Monitors and assures the ten-year inspection plan is implemented to maintain overall plant integrity.
• Assists the Reliability Supervisor in the development of a ten-year maintenance and reliability plan.
• Develops and implements methodologies for improving Maintenance performance with particular emphasis on increasing MTBF.
• Reviews MTBF failure reporting. Works with Reliability Engineering to develop and implement improvement plans when needed.
• Develops and executes the yearly Maintenance budget including maintenance cost forecasting.
• Communicates and champions cost control. Reviews monthly maintenance cost reports proactively, identify improvement opportunities and develop plans to implement.
• Ensures completion of scheduled PM and other repair activities in accordance with the weekly schedule.
• Oversee monitoring and troubleshooting process and equipment; reports process deviations, equipment failures and hazards; assists in plant investigations and problem resolution.
• Report on operational performance and Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)

Person Requirements:

Level of Education & Knowledge:

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical or electrical engineering

Experience & Technical Skills:

• 5+ years experience managing a function and supervising people.
• PTA manufacturing expertise.
• Experience working with SAP to manage maintenance work, assign resources, and monitor progress.
• Experience establishing leading and lagging metrics to monitor health of maintenance performance.

Competencies & Behavioral Skills

• Demonstrated success applying systematic principles to improve effectiveness.
• Makes sound decisions through analysis of complex and/or incomplete data.
• Effective interpersonal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrates understanding of business context.
• Effectively builds strong working relationships to enable communication and cooperation across all levels of the organization.
• Technical awareness of impact of manufacturing operations on maintenance issues.
• Ability to initiate and drive change.