Maintenance Superintendent

At INEOS Pigments, we value the contribution of our people in making us one of the largest producers of titanium dioxide in North America. Providing numerous products and services to industries around the globe, from coatings to plastics to paper and other end-uses, we invest in employee development and offer a wide range of career opportunities, offering everyone the chance to broaden their experience and build a professionally rewarding career.

The Maintenance Superintendent role provides the overall planning and execution oversight in the repair, replacement, rebuild, fabrication, construction, troubleshooting, and preventative maintenance of rotating equipment, fixed equipment, mobile equipment, instrumentation, analyzers, electrical and general facility maintenance to maximize plant availability in a sustainable cost-effective manner, minimizing operational risks to ensure safe, reliable, legally compliant, environmentally sound and profitable plant operation. The Maintenance Superintendent reports directly to the ASH Maintenance Manager. This is a salaried exempt, day shift position. It is classified as a Safety Critical role.

Accountability 1 : SHE Excellence

Most important activities:

• Champion for the INEOS 20 principles of process and Behavioral Safety and Life Saving Rules

• Ensure assets are maintained to operate within their designed parameters and appropriate standards
• Ensures safety performance of the team within area of responsibility.

• Drive to SHE (including process safety) targets and demonstrate improvements for employees and contractors
• Complete all computer based safety training ensure that employees in area of responsibility do likewise
• Attend scheduled safety meetings and ensure that employees in area of responsibility do likewise

Accountability 2: Performance in Role

Most important activities:

• Effective maintenance planning and efficient execution of maintenance activities
• Ensure staff are competent on all policies and regulations
• Adherence to API, ASME and ANSI standards and industry practices
• Leads planning and organization alignment processes and activities between site Operations, Mechanical Integrity and Reliability Teams to improve the manufacturing organization performance.
• Support and implement availability improvement strategies
• Develop, support, and implement cost reduction strategies
• Forecast spending pattern for the year
• Set and meet budget requirements by efficiently managing resources
• Report on maintenance performance and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Participate in and lead improvement teams assembled to improves the safety, reliability, and cost of operating plant equipment
• Other duties as assigned

Accountability 3: Leadership & Employee Development

Most important activities:

• Provide leadership, guidance, coaching and decision making, to ensure employees understand company goals and have the knowledge and resources needed to accomplish them
• Manage personnel (including performance, compensation, succession planning and discipline)

• Ensure an adequately staffed and trained department is in place and motivated to accomplish planned objectives.

• Provide guidance and long term planning to encourage employee development

• Assure compliance with HR policies and applicable state/federal laws
• Lead hiring process for maintenance organization
• Develop leadership skills of Team Leaders
• Develop technical skills of direct and indirect reports

Accountability 4 : Reliability & Cost Control

Main performance indicators:

• Plant Reliability
• Controllable costs including system/equipment installation, maintenance and supply expenses, as well as labor expenses
• Comparison of budgeted and actual projects costs, time line, and deliverables
• Review post outage and equipment failure with your team and implement blocking actions to continue to improve the process and prevents premature equipment failures

Level of education & experience in general

• A Bachelors of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering or other relevant degree is preferred
• In lieu of educational requirement, minimum high school diploma or equivalent and 10 years of relevant leadership experience in a manufacturing
• Experience as a supervisor/manager, with highly developed knowledge of operations or maintenance
• Maintenance Management: Knowledge of the maintenance requirements of chemical processing plant units; ability to apply this in developing maintenance processes, procedures and systems to achieve prescribed process safety, health, environmental, reliability and product quality standards.
• People Management: Knowledge of people management processes; ability to lead, motivate, evaluate and reward personnel at the workplace.
• Leadership/management skills
• Knowledge or various electrical equipment, instruments and pneumatic devices
• Knowledge or various equipment and machinery
• Mechanical Aptitude – use of precision measurement tools and assembly techniques
• Understanding of Chemistry and Physics
• Understanding of Welding Principles
• Equipment Vibration and Alignment Experience
• Experience and knowledge of API, ANSI, ASME Industry Standards
• Working knowledge of chemical/industrial equipment function, design, and regulatory requirements and PSM Mechanical Integrity
• ISO System and procedures knowledge
• Functionality with various computer programs, specifically Microsoft Office Suite and SAP
• Six Sigma training a plus

Technical skills

• Operational Safety: Knowledge of methods, accepted practices, considerations and regulatory requirements associated with safety and protection of workers, environment, and site.
• Maintenance Management: Knowledge of the maintenance requirements of chemical processing plant units; ability to apply this in developing maintenance processes, procedures and systems to achieve prescribed process safety, health, environmental, reliability and product quality standards.
• Organizational Awareness: Knowledge of the organizations vision and goals, major functional processes, operating principles and requirements, values and code of ethics; ability to apply this understanding appropriately to diverse situations.
• Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Understanding of the issues related to the decision-making process; ability to analyzse situations fully and accurately and reach productive decisions.
• People Management: Knowledge of human resource and people management processes; ability to lead, motivate, evaluate and reward personnel at the workplace.
• Business Planning: Tactical & Strategic – ability to contribute or operational, tactical and strategic planning in support of the overall business plan.

Behavioral skills

• Safety Leadership: Knowledge of the factors that support and drive strong Health & Safety culture and performance; ability and desire to maintain and continuously improve SHE awareness and practice and inspire the same in others.
• Executes for Results: Takes responsibility to meet business objectives and deliver results. Takes ownership of business priorities, actions and results. Operates with discipline and creates environment for excellence.
• Active Decision Making: Makes timely decisions, balancing analysis with decisiveness and strong bias for action.
• Mobilizes Change: Champions change to achieve business results. Energizes the organization and leads others to accept and embrace change. Considers and understands the impact of change.
• People Champion: Develops people capabilities and enables them to grow and flourish. Develops self and others to realize potential. Holds people accountable and fairly manages performance.
• Leads Collaboratively: Actively builds effective working relationships and seeks to create shared purpose among colleagues and team members. Builds effective working relationships, facilities team work and promotes sharing of knowledge/expertise across the organization.
• Enterpreneurial Strategic Thinking: Envisions the future and thinks strategically with strong passion.

Our Ashtabula, Ohio Complex, consisting of two plants just south of Lake Erie, is a state of the art manufacturing complex with leading technology and more than 45 years of manufacturing excellence.

INEOS Pigments offers a competitive salary with an annual bonus and a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability with the buy-up option, basic life & AD&D insurance with a buy-up option for self and dependents, 401(k) with company match.

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