Maintenance Superintendent

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Compensation Grade

ACE-USD-SAL

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.

Environment:

Internal:

• Budget Management

• Preventative Maintenance

• Maintenance Availability

• Equipment Reliability

• Physical condition monitoring

External:

• Regulatory Agencies

• Economic Environment/Business Climate

• Audits and compliance

• Contractor availability and proficiency

• Houston Area Safety Counsel

• Industry Standards

• Benchmark and incorporate Best Practices

Accountabilities of the job:

The position is accountable for understanding and putting into practice the INEOS 20 Principles. Additionally, the Superintendent has a special responsibility to cascade the understanding of these principles through their team.

Accountability 1: Meet all SHE objectives and comply with all governmental laws and policies for a manufacturing site.

Most important activities:

• Ensuring compliance with HSSE (Health, Safety, Security, and Environment) standards and expectations set through the INEOS 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.

• Development/implementation and monitoring of a comprehensive inspection & integrity program that is compliant to all governmental regulations and internal company policies.

• Promotes operating 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.

• Implementation and monitoring of a comprehensive SHE training program to meet OSHA requirements and skill training to ensure competency of workforce.

• Adhere to the SHE management system established for the site including participation in reporting, incident investigations, sharing of lessons learned, corrective action tracking and personnel training in support of Incident Management System.

Accountability 2: Development of people in the Maintenance organization

Most important activities:

• Ensure alignment and clarity of roles including expectations around performance.

• Instill ownership and responsibility to create a superior maintenance organization in the maintenance supervisors, maintenance planners, and hourly trade employees.

• Determine developmental needs of direct supports (Maintenance Supervisors, Contract Services) and responsible for coordinating training and development as required.

• Ensure that the rest of the Maintenance organization has an adequate training and development plan for employees.

• Maintain team compliance with routine safety training requirements (management of change acknowledgements, etc.)

• Ensure a performance management process is in place with both informal coaching of employees as needed and formalized periodic performance reviews with corrective action taken when appropriate.

• Ensure that Human Resources policies are followed, and the organization follows legal requirements regarding INEOS employees and our relationship with contractors.

• Ensures the after-hours maintenance on call system is adequate for the site.

• Responsible for ensuring compliance of Collective Bargaining Agreement and Grievance procedure with execution forces. Work with HR as Union issues arise towards resolution.

• Responsible for sharing and implementing best practices learned between assets.

Accountability 3: Delivery of Reliability/Availability targets for the site.

Most important activities:

• Develop/implement and execute a yearly comprehensive reliability/availability strategy for the site.

• Ensure measurement system is in place to for tracking reliability/availability and causes for deviation understood by the organization.

• Develop and implement 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.

• Ensure resources are committed to completing and follow up on root cause failure analysis.

• Ensure an appropriate spares management system is in place.

• Assists the Mfg. and Engineering and CAPEX Superintendent 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.

• 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.

• Develop KPIs for the maintenance group that are attainable and measurable while constantly enhancing cost effectiveness.

• Ensure shared Maintenance resources are effectively managed to provide adequate support to the plant's overall needs, including large plant shutdowns or non-routine maintenance.

• Oversee the creation of reusable job plans (in SAP) by site maintenance planners.

• Ensure job preparation and planning processes are updated with current data obtained during the execution of the work in the field.

Accountability 4: Ensure adequate cost controls are in place to allow the site to meet its financial obligations.

Most important activities:

• Develop an annual Maintenance and NMFC budget plan and ensure it is understood by the organization.

• Monitor performance vs. plan and investigate deviations, taking corrective action when necessary.

• Ensure appropriate priorities are established for work, work is planned and estimated and actual costs vs. estimates are reviewed.

• Work with procurement manager to optimize warehouse stock, spares obsolescence, and materials ordering process.

• Communicates and champions cost control. Reviews monthly maintenance cost reports proactively, identify improvement opportunities and develop plans to implement.

Accountability 5: Contractor Management

Most important activities:

• Manage embedded contractor relationships including staffing, budget, and annual reviews.

• Manage outside support contractors for I/E, Civil/Structural and others as needed.

• Develop in conjunction with procurement third party contracting strategies.

• Work with procurement to document and provide follow up on contractor performance, obtain waivers as required.

• Manage site approved manufacturers/vendor list, including vetting quality of repair shops as necessary.

Required profile:

Level of Education & Knowledge:

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical engineering or chemical engineering.
• 10+ years' experience in a similar manufacturing environment required.
• 5+ years' experience supervisory experience required.

Experience & Technical Skills:

• PTA manufacturing experience.

• 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.

• Knowledge of Risk Management tools like PHA, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Equipment Criticality Analysis, Root Cause Analysis.

• Experience in Process Safety Management (PSM) especially in areas pertaining to asset integrity

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.