Company:
INEOS Oligomers USA LLCJob title
TAR Superintendent & Maintenance Scheduler
Location
Chocolate Bayou, Alvin, TX – USA
Closing date
August 26th, 2022
Organizational context and job purpose
Organizational Context:
With LAO manufacturing facilities in the US, Canada and Belgium, INEOS Oligomers is one of the large merchant suppliers of Linear Alpha Olefins (“LAO”). LAO’s are used in a variety of industries, with main markets being comonomers for polyethylene, feedstock for production of lubricants, surfactants, lubricant additives, and paper sizing chemicals, and base stock for drilling fluids. PAO is synthetic lubricant.
As part of its growth strategy, INEOS Oligomers is operating a world scale LAO & PAO production facility located on INEOS Olefins & Polymers site in Chocolate Bayou, Alvin, Texas (“Plant”).
As a Responsible Care company, we encourage our employees to embrace the principles of Responsible Care® by actively practicing them, promoting awareness of Responsible Care® and encouraging others to commit to these principles. Responsible Care® is the chemistry industry's commitment to sustainability - the betterment of society, the environment and the economy. Its ethic and principles compel us to innovate for safer and more environmentally friendly products and processes, and to work cooperatively to identify and eliminate harm throughout the entire life cycle of their products.
This position has accountability, in keeping with the INEOS Responsible Care principles and ethics, for all aspects of the operation of the Oligomers Plant, including safety/environment, people management, cost control, quality, production planning, project and process follow-up.
This position will embrace and promote the INEOS 20 safety principles.
Purpose of the job:
The TAR Superintendent and Maintenance Scheduler is responsible for ensuring Maintenance and Outage work is planned and scheduled in a safe, effective, and efficient way. The Scheduler is responsible for the accuracy and completeness of the maintenance and outage work plans and schedules.
Environment/Context:
Internal factors:
Safety performance, specifically shop and field execution safety performance
Plant Reliability & Availability
Maintenance work order backlog and schedule compliance
Outage work order list and schedule compliance
External factors:
HSE compliance
Vendor support and know-how
Responsibilities AND Accountabilities
Principal Accountabilities
Major responsibilities for TAR Superintendent and Maintenance Scheduler include but are not limited to the following:
Work safely by following all Company and Site policies, procedures, and expectations.
Work order planning and scheduling of associated tasks
Review and validate clarity of work requests.
Visit job location and field verify work request requirements.
Develop work plans that minimize equipment downtime and maximize safe/efficient/effective use of resources.
Identify material needs.
Define scope of work for contract services.
Produce cost estimates and request budget approval as required.
Initiate procurement and track status of materials and contract services.
Produce the job package and documentation.
Develop standard plans and maintain library.
Initiate the review of plan performance for continuous improvement of the planning process.
Work order scheduling
Organize weekly work orders schedules.
Build weekly and daily schedules that minimize equipment downtime and maximize efficient/effective use of resources.
In consultation with Maintenance and Production leadership, ensure work schedules are aligned with business plan objectives.
Identify potential constraints/deficiencies/trends that could impact the schedule and recommend corrective action.
Set net capacity for the crafts based on information about the related available labor.
Receive daily schedule updates from maintenance personnel and update the weekly schedule.
Track compliance of PPM task completion and advise the Maintenance Department of issues impacting the effectiveness of the PPM program.
Facilitate daily and weekly planning & scheduling meetings.
Responsible for Routine Maintenance planning & scheduling related KPI measures and reports.
Facilitate the Outage daily schedule review and KPI review
Lead planning & scheduling of outages
Build and use sound techniques and best practices to update progress, acquire information, baseline schedules, maintain schedules, track metrics, and support maintenance and project/outage teams on a routine basis.
Work with the project management team, managers, and others to develop work-around schedules to alleviate forecasted impacts to the critical path activities.
Participate in the total project/outage planning process, verify progress and acquire information as required.
This role will be a key link with all members of the technical department to assemble what is needed to best optimize our assets at a minimal cost through strong preventative and corrective maintenance managed through extensive knowledge of SAP software and a technical background.
Utilize and update SAP data in the effort for continuous improvement.
Prepare and maintain weekly maintenance schedule and overall 4 week schedule look-ahead.
Shared responsibility for Outage over-all combined schedule (Capital & Outage) and directing third party Scheduler resources as applicable
This role will also be a back-up to the Maintenance Planner roles.
Complete other duties assigned by the Manager.
Level of education & Experience in general
High school diploma required; 2-year technical degree preferred.
Minimum 10 years in an industrial maintenance environment.
Minimum 7 years in Planning/Scheduling roles
Technical Skills
Ability to demonstrate strong working knowledge of process and personal safety and health practices applicable in the petrochemical industry. This includes energy isolation, lockout tagout, work permitting, confined space entry, working from heights, hazard communication, lifting and hoisting, incident reporting and investigation, and MOC.
Experience and knowledge of industrial static and rotating equipment inspection, maintenance, and repair techniques
Working knowledge of mechanical standards as applied in petrochemical industry and general knowledge of various Codes (e.g. API, ASME, ANSI, NFPA).
Working knowledge of safe rigging and lifting operations.
Demonstrated technical capability to assess vendor quotes against repair objectives,
Demonstrated capabilities to assess work sequencing optimize work planning, scheduling, and cost.
Knowledge and experience in executing preventive maintenance plans.
Ability to read P&IDs.Experience with maintenance work order scheduling software like Microsoft Project and/or Primavera.
Knowledge and skill in the SAP Plant Maintenance Module is required.
This includes, but not limited to, running list edit reports.
Creating and changing maintenance items and task lists, creating and changing notifications, orders, publishing weekly schedules and creating requisitions.
Publishing and issuing look ahead schedules to provide for additional maintenance execution efficiencies.
Key Skills & Knowledge
Have a strong operational, mechanical, planning/scheduling background; knowledge of fixed and rotating equipment is preferred.
Knowledge of safety, maintenance, and operations management systems.
Be able to read and understand technical drawings and documentation associated with production equipment, vessels, tankage and other process equipment.
Be able to communicate effectively both orally and written to all levels of the maintenance team as well as personnel in other departments.
Work and interact effectively as a team member.
Focuses efforts and prioritizes work to deliver business value.
Willing to provide constructive feedback to peers
Have a strong mechanical background in an industrial environment
Effectively organizes work while balancing competing priorities.
Preferred candidate will have used SAP in the performance of maintenance planning and/or scheduling
Proficient in use of SAP, Traction, MS Excel, Outlook or Lotus notes, and MS Word
Rotating Experience:
Knowledge of and experience with rotating equipment installation, inspection, maintenance and troubleshooting to include process centrifugal and diaphragm pumps, liquid ring vacuum pumps, reciprocating and screw compressors, centrifugal blowers, and axial fans.
Static Experience:
Knowledge of and experience with static equipment installation, inspection, maintenance and troubleshooting to include process piping and valves, pressure vessels, storage tanks, heat exchangers, pressure relief devices, and fired equipment.
Behavioral skills
Safety minded, demonstrated strong safety and environmental performance,
Strong customer service skills,
Strong ability to work with others, team builder,
Strong verbal as well as written communication skills (upward, lateral, and downward),
Strong bias for action to identify potential problems and co-ordinate their resolution before they become an issue,
Ability to manage work priorities to deliver performance improvements and reliability in a demanding work environment,
Good analytical and organizational skills,
Stress resistant and methodical,
Problem solver and change agent,
Inspiring and motivating,
Self-motivated, self-starter; able to work with minimal supervision.
ADA Physical requirements, visual acuity requirements and environmental conditions
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to lift at least 50lbs, walking, climbing ladders/stairs, bending, reaching, pushing, and pulling. Must be able to perform climbing, lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling and manual operation of various size valves and equipment.
The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts and/or operation of machines (including inspection); using measurement devices; and/or assembly or fabrication parts at distances close to the eyes.
Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make discriminations in sound.
Our culture is one of honesty and integrity with an emphasis on safety, health and environmental performance.On our team, people are acknowledged for embracing new practices that help create real value for customers.