Maintenance Excellence Leader

Maintenance Excellence Leader

Clariant is seeking a Maintenance Excellence Leader to support the Catalysts Business Unit at our Louisville, KY production facility. This role drives safe, compliant, and reliable plant operations through best-in-class maintenance planning, scheduling, and execution. Leveraging CMMS technology, data-driven insights, and continuous improvement practices, the Maintenance Excellence Leader ensures work is well-defined, properly resourced, and executed on time. The position plays a key role in optimizing shutdowns and outages, strengthening preventive and predictive maintenance culture, and aligning maintenance activities with operational priorities and BU performance goals. If you're passionate about reliability, operational excellence, and making a measurable impact, we encourage you to apply!

Responsibilities:

• Lead maintenance planning and scheduling to ensure all critical equipment has compliant, timely maintenance aligned with plant priorities, uptime targets, and budgets
• Ensure compliance with all local legal requirements, permits, and Clariant safety and environmental policies, proactively managing risk and corrective actions
• Own maintenance of SAP data accuracy and documentation, including SAMACO material lists, work orders, task plans, and SAP utilization
• Ensure parts, materials, and labor resources are available ahead of execution, improving backlog health and work order readiness
• Establish and enforce scheduling freeze periods to maximize plant uptime while managing changing production demands
• Lead or support shutdown and outage planning and execution to minimize downtime and enable reliable vertical start-ups
• Apply reliability-centered maintenance and root cause analysis to define effective repair strategies and reduce repeat failures
• Drive continuous improvement through KPI tracking, PDCA cycles, gap analyses, and structured look-back reviews
• Build and sustain a preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance culture through coaching, training, and accountability

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering
• 5+ years of experience in maintenance planning, scheduling, and outage management
• 3+ years of experience applying reliability-centered maintenance methodologies
• Strong technical aptitude with proven root cause analysis capability
• Experience with SAP or similar CMMS platforms and continuous improvement methods

Whats in it for you?

• Medical/Dental/Vision Insurances
• Paid Holidays
• PTO time with a carry-over benefit
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Wellness Program
• EAP Program
• Spending and Savings Accounts
• Life/AD&D Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• Pet Insurance
• Online discount Mall
• Auto/Home Insurance
• Identity Theft Protection
• Legal Services Plan
• *Includes base salary and annual incentive bonus; final offer based on skills, experience and internal equity.