Maintenance Supervisor

Join Ketjen Corporation

Are you ready to move your career forward and help shape our company's and customers' futures?

If you aspire to challenge yourself, work with the best in the industry and join a successful team where you can make a meaningful contribution, then we invite you to join us at Ketjen Corporation, a provider of advanced catalyst solutions to leading producers in the petrochemical, refining, and specialty chemicals industries. Together, we can create a legacy marked by innovation, excitement, and energy.

Job/Position Responsibilities

• Group safety awareness and performance
• Champion plant-wide improvement efforts to reduce maintenance cost and increase mechanical reliability
• MTBF improvements for mechanical seals, mag-drive pumps, centrifuges, and other rotating/fixed equipment
• Employee development, performance and satisfaction
• Implement best practices for items like equipment inspections, planning & scheduling, and lubrication
• Technical resource for root cause failure analysis, incident investigations, preventive and predictive maintenance, general maintenance, and mechanical design issues
• Lead the Albemarle Millwrights Team
• Manage timesheets, daily safety tailgates, OT list, vacations/time off, daily paperwork.
• Answer calls on off shift hours and supervisor on call.
• Manage team backlog, planning jobs, daily/weekly schedules
• Responsible for getting parts onsite and contacting support groups (Machine Shops)
• Responsible for shutdown work, schedules, contractor support, all shutdown materials.
• Constant BOM improvements and stocking critical parts.

Essential Qualifications

• Understanding of safe work practices; excellent safety history
• 5 or more years' experience in maintenance or engineering
• Supervisory skills including safety awareness of staff, budget control, scheduling, and staff development
• Leadership skills including setting goals, priorities, and performance evaluations
• General understanding of engineering standards and specifications
• Experience and knowledge of the design, selection, and application of process equipment such as centrifugal pumps, agitators, compressors, extruders, conveyors, centrifugal fans, gearboxes, calciners, belt filters, progressive cavity pumps, mechanical seals, machining of parts or equipment.
• Knowledge of maintenance work practices like planning and scheduling, rigging, pipe fitting, welding, alignments, lubrication, and work order handling
• Capital project experience including: generation of scope and estimate; design of items like plant layout and piping; equipment design and procurement; and construction
• Strong technical and problem solving skill for mechanical design, failure analysis, and maintenance best practices
• Good communication skills at all levels of the organization
• Ability to manage multiple projects with varied priorities and drive them to closure
• Functional use of the corporate computer systems including use of SAP modules for maintenance, projects, and purchasing

Desired Qualifications

• Good motivational skills; ability to influence and manage change; ability to work well with operations in a team environment
• Knowledge of pump hydraulics, seals, and troubleshooting
• Knowledge of material selection and corrosion
• Knowledge of preventive and predictive technologies like vibration analysis, oil analysis, and thermography
• Knowledge of best practices for fixed equipment inspections
• Six sigma experience

Benefits of Joining Ketjen

• Competitive compensation
• Comprehensive benefits package
• A diverse array of resources to support you professionally and personally.

Apply today and help Ketjen unleash the potential of advanced chemistry for industries that power the world.