Maintenance Supervisor

Maintenance Supervisor

Position Summary: This position leads the Texas City Maintenance execution team, including direction-setting, personnel development, oversight of work quality, development and implementation of improvements, and measurement of results. This position is responsible for providing oversight and coordination of routine and major maintenance activities at several facilities in the Texas City Area. This position is responsible to act as the primary interface for Operations with the maintenance personnel and engineering by approving, prioritizing, and scheduling work notifications. This position also has primary accountability for ensuring the safety and efficiency of these service personnel while on site.

Essential Functions: Acts as a champion of the maintenance execution work process in support of the business goals and safe, quality and reliable maintenance services. Provides overall management of maintenance and operations work orders including creation (as needed), prioritization, release, review of plan and closure. Optimizes maintenance execution practices and procedures to achieve cost-effective results, including efficient scheduling of resources, proper training and performance of craft personnel, and high-quality execution of work with a focus on Safety and Reliability. Leads execution of planned and unplanned unit shutdowns executed by the Maintenance team, including job plans and critical path schedule development, and tracking and closeout activities. Accountable for execution of major and minor plant turnarounds (TAR Coordinator on the team runs the effort). Performs regular review of execution quality and efficiency. Responsible for implementation and utilization of disciplined maintenance execution practices and standards. Assists in the development of the maintenance budgets, and in controlling spending through appropriate tracking, forecasting, and adjustments. Supports the use of high-quality Maintenance and Reliability Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) along with other input to drive performance and implementation of improvements as appropriate. Approves and prioritizes maintenance work notifications in EAM to ensure that maintenance is properly directed toward the goals of plant reliability and availability in a cost effective, productive manner. Responsible for eliminating unnecessary or redundant work and for managing the backlog of approved work. Responsible for developing weekly schedule, conducting weekly backlog and schedule meetings. Communicates daily with the Facility Managers and Shift Supervisors to clarify work priorities and to react to schedule breaks. Provides troubleshooting support to operations personnel as needed, and works with various departments as required to obtain technical and procurement support. Participates in root cause failure analyses and in corrective actions for bad actors.

Key Accountability Metrics: % Overtime Maintenance Cost Maintenance Schedule compliance Maintenance Execution Efficiency Emergency Work Order reduction Repetitive failures Contractor and maintenance personnel safety performance Maintenance backlog efficiency Work order completion as expected by priority setting

QualificationsQualification Requirements: Minimum 10 years relevant experience in industrial maintenance, engineering and reliability activities, and must have demonstrated strong leadership capabilities . Key skills include communication, interpersonal relationships, facilitation, influencing, negotiating and the ability to work within a matrix organization. Successful candidate must be able to develop others and foster diverse relationships throughout the organization. Must have a detailed understanding of equipment and overall plant manufacturing processes. Technical background preferred (Instrumentation/Electrical, Mechanical, Operations, etc.) Requires familiarity with environmental, safety, and health procedures and issues. In-depth understanding of mechanical and instrument equipment and their maintenance, mechanical integrity, and the inspection process. Requires familiarity with turnaround execution, maintenance programs, work processes and best practices. Must have technical competencies of troubleshooting, root cause failure analysis, general computer skills, work planning and estimating. Must be able to manage multiple priorities, drive issues to completion, and obtain results. Must be proficient in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.