Maintenance Superintendent

Maintenance Superintendent

Linde Inc.

East Chicago, IN, United States

What you will enjoy doing:

• Leading daily maintenance operations for Air Separation and Liquid Hydrogen production facilities
• Planning, prioritizing, scheduling, and directing maintenance activities to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient equipment performance
• Managing CMMS processes, maintenance backlog, and work execution workflow
• Optimizing maintenance and reliability programs through preventive/predictive maintenance, workforce development, resource planning, KPI analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Directing planned and unplanned shutdowns while coordinating with operations, engineering, contractors, procurement, and leadership teams
• Providing technical troubleshooting support, leading root cause failure analyses, and implementing corrective actions
• Managing maintenance budgets, contractor performance, and spare parts inventory
• Collaborating closely with site leadership and subject matter experts to align maintenance priorities and drive productivity improvements
• Supporting both office and field operations, including equipment inspections, working at elevated heights, entering confined spaces, responding to off-hours maintenance needs, and traveling overnight up to 10%

What makes you great:

• An Associate degree in Engineering with more than five (5+) years of industrial maintenance/reliability experience, or ten (10)+ years of progressive industrial maintenance and reliability experience; Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Engineering Technology preferred
• More than three (3+) years of supervisory experience leading maintenance personnel, mentoring teams, and driving performance in an industrial environment
• Strong knowledge of rotating and fixed equipment, including compressors, pumps, cooling towers, piping systems, heat exchangers, control valves, instrumentation, motors, electrical distribution systems, and associated maintenance practices
• Experience developing and managing preventive, predictive, and reliability-centered maintenance programs, including predictive technologies such as vibration and oil analysis
• Proven ability to lead maintenance operations, turnarounds, shutdowns, work processes, backlog management, and long-term asset reliability strategies
• Experience conducting root cause analyses (RCA), implementing corrective actions, trending operational performance, and driving continuous improvement initiatives
• Strong project management, organizational, communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities in a matrix organization
• Experience managing maintenance budgets, contractors, suppliers, and environmental, health, and safety compliance requirements, including knowledge of applicable regulations and standards such as NFPA 70E
• Proficiency with CMMS platforms (Infor EAM, ProCal, or similar), Microsoft Office, and maintenance scheduling tools such as MS Project or Primavera
• Experience in the chemical, air separation, or similar industrial manufacturing industries and Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification preferred

Why you will love working with us:

Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2025 sales of $34 billion. We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high-quality solutions, technologies and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain, decarbonize and protect our planet.

Linde serves a variety of end markets such as chemicals & energy, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, metals and mining. Linde's industrial gases and technologies are used in countless applications, enabling space exploration and launch technologies, delivering ultra-high-purity and specialty gases for semiconductor manufacturing, providing life-saving medical oxygen and enabling clean hydrogen production and carbon capture to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Linde also delivers state-of-the-art gas processing solutions to support customer growth, efficiency improvements and emissions reductions.

What we offer you!

Linde offers competitive compensation and an outstanding benefits package. Enjoy access to health, dental, disability, and life insurance, paid holidays and vacation, 401(k) matching, pension benefits, an employee discount program, and opportunities for educational and professional growth. Build your future with us while making an impact every day!

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other reason prohibited by applicable law. Linde Inc. acts responsibly towards its shareholders, business partners, employees, society and the environment in every one of its business areas, regions and locations across the globe. The company is committed to technologies and products that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable development.