Maintenance Superintendent
Are you a highly motivated individual seeking a new opportunity where you can strive for excellence in a dynamic organization? If so, are you ready to join our team? We are seeking a Maintenance Leader to join our Ashtabula, Ohio Operations team. In this role, you will provide overall leadership for the safe, reliable, legally compliant, environmentally sound and profitable maintenance of equipment for manufacture of products at this plant. This includes managing and developing internal Maintenance and I&E resources, and managing external maintenance resources. This is a salaried exempt, day shift position. It is classified as a Safety Critical role.
At INEOS Pigments, we value our people's contribution in making us one of the largest producers of titanium dioxide in North America. Providing numerous products and services to industries worldwide, from coatings to plastics to paper and other end-uses, we invest in employee development and offer a wide range of career opportunities, offering everyone the chance to broaden their experience and build a professionally rewarding career.
About the Role: Specific Job Responsibilities
- Provide leadership, guidance, coaching and decision making, to ensure employees understand company goals and have the knowledge and resources needed to accomplish them
- Manage personnel (including performance, compensation, succession planning and discipline)
- Oversee Process Engineering personnel in the process design for capital projects that meet scope intent for operational requirements on safety, rate, quality, and reliability
- Ensure an adequately staffed and trained department properly motivated to accomplish planned objectives. Develop engineer’s technical knowledge through mentoring, coaching, and job assignments. Develop and retain technical knowledge on the air separation process
- Plan, coordinate and monitor the activities of the Operations team to ensure production and quality targets are met safely and efficiently in accordance with company policies, procedures and work instructions
- Oversee monitoring and troubleshooting process and equipment; reports process deviations, equipment failures and hazards; assists in plant investigations and problem resolution
- Oversees planned maintenance activities, project engineering and technical improvements in the area
- Maintain and foster collaborative efforts with production, maintenance, reliability, engineering, other technical resource teams to identify, share, implement and maintain best practices
- Set and meet budget requirements by efficiently managing resources, inventories and raw materials
- Report on operational performance and Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)
- Utilize manufacturing engineer and other resources to troubleshoot production issues and work toward resolution in a collaborative and effective manner
- Ensure operations and Operations systems and personnel are prepared to respond to site emergencies
- Ensure robust safe work systems are in place and hazard assessments are performed (both process and behavioral)
- Ensure assets are maintained to operate within their designed parameters and appropriate standards
- Assure compliance with environmental permits and legal regulations
- Drive to SHE (including process safety) targets and demonstrate improvements for employees and contractors
About You:
- A minimum of a high school diploma or equivalent is required with extensive relative experience
- A Bachelors of Science degree is preferred
- Possess a minimum of ten (10) years of related experience in a manufacturing environment
- Experience as a supervisor/manager, with highly developed knowledge of operations or maintenance
- Leadership/management skills
- Knowledge or various electrical equipment, instruments and pneumatic devices
- Knowledge or various equipment and machinery
- Mechanical Aptitude – use of precision measurement tools and assembly techniques
- Understanding of Chemistry and Physics
- Understanding of Welding Principles
- Equipment Vibration and Alignment Experience
- API 510, 570 and 653 experience a plus
- Working knowledge of chemical/industrial equipment function, design, and regulatory requirements and PSM Mechanical Integrity
- ISO System and procedures knowledge
- Functionality with various computer programs, specifically Microsoft Office Suite and SAP
- Six Sigma training a plus
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, are required
- Excellent interpersonal skills are needed to work with people both internally and externally
INEOS Pigments offers a competitive salary with an annual bonus and a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability with the buy-up option, basic life & AD&D insurance with a buy-up option for self and dependents, 401(k) with company match.
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