Sr. Maintenance Manager Job

Job Summary

This position reports to the Plant Manager.  This position leads the Maintenance Department for the Arkema Beaumont Site.   Reporting to this position are: Maintenance Engineer, Maintenance Superintendent, Maintenance Scheduler/Warehouse Superintendent.   In addition, this role has indirect responsibility for 22 hourly employees and 10 nested contract employees.

 

This role provides overall strategic direction for the Maintenance Department for the Beaumont facility.  Drives the Equipment reliabilty through the Arkema Maintenance Operational Excellence program.  Ensures all work is completed within Arkema Safety policies.  Responsible for controlling multi-million dollar yearly RPE and warehouse inventory budget.  Work’s together with Good and Service Purchasing (GASP) to (1) select contractors (2) award contracts and (3) assure all contractors work is (A) performed in compliance with applicable codes, standards and procedures and (B) completed in a timely manner and within budget.  Coordinate contractor maintenance activities with production and maintenance to ensure as little disruption as possible.  Responsible for complying with all AIMS HESQ policies & practices including ISO-9001, OHSAS-18001 and RCMS.  This includes compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements. For example, OSHA, EPA, TCEQ, etc.  SMART (Arkema OPEX) champion for maintenance.

 

This role is part of the Site Leadership Team.

 

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

 

Maintenance Leadership 50%

• Responsible for providing safety leadership, management, and maintenance safety performance. This includes setting safety expectations and goals, developing safety programs and practices, monitoring safety program compliance, providing safety training, design and construction safety, pre-job safety analysis and process safety management, and performing safety audits and inspections for both Arkema and Nested contractors.
• Develop and Implement world class maintenance work processes to improve maintenance efficiencies, improve productivity and reduce maintenance costs (Arkema Maintenance Operational Excellence Process).
• Develop and maintain departmental procedures and guidelines. Provides direction, oversight, coaching and assistance to maintenance organization on an on-going basis.
• Develop contractor management plan and monitor contractor performance. Develop and share both Arkema and Contractor Maintenance Performance Measurements (KPI’s) with Maintenance organization and site leadership team to track improvement progress.
• Responsible for providing oversite, leadership, direction and management of the Maintenance activities in the plant. This includes developing maintenance strategies, annual plans, setting goals, expectations and priorities, reviewing and establishing the organizational structure.
• Review new technologies and initiatives to improve work efficiency. Interact with Arkema and the Industry to identify best work practices and ensure consistent implementation at all sites.
• Seeks creative and innovative ways to reduce maintenance costs, improve productivity, and other value added items to maximize overall maintenance performance.

 

Maintenance Control 20%

• Responsible for establishing maintenance cost control systems for department cost management.
• Monitors cost performance and resources and provides continous feedback to the site manager and team members.
• Support maintenance with yearly budget preparations and budget compliance through out the year. Support enhancements to improve cost plans and forecasts.
• Track Maintenance Performance Measurements (KPI’s) with maintenance organization and site leadership team to track improvement progress.
• Perform maintenance benchmark and wrench time assessments to identify gaps and gap closure ideas to reduce cost and improve productivity.
• Analyze data and identify actionable items. Develop improvement plans, prepare presentations, and share information with maintenance organization and site leadership team. Implement recommendations and validate by performing regular audits.

 

Personnel Development 15%.

• Develop training master plan to provide adequate training at all levels within the maintenance organization. This plan needs to include both technical and personal development training.
• Work with site manager to develop succession plan for the Maintenance Organization and identify training needs for each person. Develop and implement forward thinking strategies for enhancement of craft workforce quality and availability.

Manages and provides direction to the