Plant Based Maintenance Manager, GCPL Central Basin

Air Liquide Large Industries provides our customers with industrial gas and energy solutions that are vital to their own industrial production. We own and operate over 2,000 miles of industrial gas pipelines in the U.S. supplying mainly oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and syngas in large quantities from multiple production sources to major customers in the chemicals, petrochemicals, refining and steel industries. Our pipeline operations and industrial gas production facilities are closely monitored 24/7 within our leading-edge operations control center located in Houston, Texas. Our operations control group monitors over 89,000 data points and assists with product supply and coordination. We are constantly optimizing our supply network to provide high reliability and energy efficiencies allowing Air Liquide to adjust supply needs more quickly and effectively enabling growth to our customers.

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

The successful candidate will lead the maintenance team and reports to GCPL Central Basin Facility Manager with dotted line reporting to National Maintenance.

Area of responsibility 

• Central Basin sites includes 5 different operations & maintenance sites:

​Safety 

• Ambassador for maintenance related safety

• Regular engagements with corporate safety representatives on best practices and safety initiatives that are being implemented & rolled out

• Make suggestions to improve plant safety, efficiency, reliability and quality

• Lead by example and motivate others to excel and succeed

• Set and maintain high housekeeping standards

• Audit and verify correctness of work permits and LOTO’s issued to maintenance teams (own and contractors)

• Partake in all safety and process safety incidents investigations in the zone

• Support and comply with all Air Liquide Safety, Health and Environmental procedures/policies

Personnel management

• Leading a multidisciplinary team composed of a maintenance engineer, maintenance planners, maintenance lead hands,  Instrument & Electrical technicians,  Mechanical technicians and a warehouse technician

• Track the training and progression of every maintenance employee

• Identify successors in the maintenance field for potential larger roles in LI NAM

• Identify all the development areas for maintenance employees in the zone

• Sign off on the development of all employees on a fixed frequency

• Regularly interact with the facility manager and HR on the development and progression of the maintenance employees

• Initiate disciplinary actions when required

Operational maintenance

• Verify the asset database in Maximo is accurate and correct

• Actively participate in improving the asset management interventions

• Scheduler/Planner for loading both corrective maintenance (CM) and preventive maintenance (PM) schedules on a daily and monthly basis at the plant level for the entire Central Basin

•  verification of daily, weekly and monthly operational schedules compiled from Maximo, planning, resource allocation to the scheduled jobs (PMs, PDMs, corrective maintenance which does not require turnaround outage), 

• verification of man hour availability, loading requests for service providers to support the execution of the maintenance tasks (when required), 

• utilize and adhere to the corporate technical standards

• supervising the execution of the maintenance activities, 

• quality control & assurance of the work, 

• verification of sign off and accuracy of job completion, and 

• closing the loop in Maximo

• assist Maintenance teams in updating and maintaining equipment manuals as well as job plans in Maximo

• Identify improvement opportunities & change maintenance philosophies accordingly

• Steer maintenance teams and engineering to develop maintenance improvement projects to improve reliability and efficiency of the basin

Long term maintenance (TAR management)

• Verifying all TAR related info in Maximo is correct

• TAR preventative and corrective maintenance work orders verified and includ