Maintenance & Reliability Manager

Ashland Specialty Ingredients, GP

Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious?

Are you always solving?

Then we’d like to meet you and bet you’d like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a Maintenance & Reliability Manager to join our team at the Hopewell, VA plant. This has a significant role in the Company and its maintenance function. This position will report to the site manager.  The position is accountable for providing maintenance and reliability engineering support to Ashland’s Hopewell plant.  This includes developing, implementing, and monitoring all the plant maintenance programs, managing mechanical integrity programs, and contract maintenance workers.  Also, oversees project work as appropriate.

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Works with Site Leaders and Corporate Engineering to establish maintenance and reliability engineering goals, financial performance targets, and objectives for the site.
• Participates in Safety and Environmental initiatives that will contribute to compliance with State/Federal regulations and improve existing Company programs.  Provides supplemental safety training as appropriate.
• Utilizes effective leadership to maximize employee productivity and contributions across the site.
• Manages the maintenance budget, which includes approving expense and capital spending budgets, to ensure completion of current and forecasted projects while staying within established budget guidelines.
• Utilizes experience and expertise in preventive and predictive maintenance methods, Process Safety Management, and Mechanical Integrity to ensure safe and productive operations and equipment suitability.
• Ensures mechanical reliability programs and procedures are utilized effectively to support plant operations.  Direct activities of the site’s Reliability Engineers and mechanical integrity program to ensure compliance with all PSM regulations.

• Manages site Storeroom daily activities and spare parts inventory to ensure effective utilization of maintenance activities.

• Keep the plant’s union and management personnel working cohesively to ensure efficient operations.

• Trains and develops staff to provide management depth and skill base for a safe, well-maintained production facility. Recognizes the successful efforts of employees to increase productivity, reduce costs, and improve work processes.

• Demonstrates experience by leading, influencing, building, and developing diverse and cross-functional teams across various experience levels and skill sets.
• A committed member of the Site Leadership Team (SLT)

In order to be qualified for this role, you must possess the following:

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline with a minimum of 7 years’ chemical plant manufacturing experience OR 20 years of plant experience with a minimum of 7 years in a maintenance manager role.
• Well-versed in a combination of plant maintenance standards, engineering and project standards, Process Safety Management, current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP), environmental compliance standards, Quality Process Management, Management of Change, budget preparation, and project management.
• Must be able to lead and manage others effectively, communicate effectively, and interface well with employees at all levels, especially with Site Department Managers and Corporate Management.  
• Must be able to respond appropriately during site emergencies as directed by the Site Emergency Manager. 
• Must promptly evacuate the manufacturing process areas should an emergency arise. 
• Must also be able to wear and adequately utilize appropriate personal protective equipment if required to work or visit within the manufacturing process area.  This may include a hard hat, safety glasses, respirators, ear plugs, steel-toed shoes, or other equipment as required by the work performed and the location where the work is being performed. 
• Be able to endure walking throughout the plant, climbing stairs, bending, stooping, kneeling, or reaching depending on the work activity required.  Work is performed in an office/plant environment with trips to the operating areas to supervise maintenance work or projects, make inspections and collect data.
• Training or networking required to perform the job properly requires this position to travel within Texas and around the United States of Amer