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Maintenance Supervisor Roles and Responsibilities:

Air Products and Chemicals has an immediate open position for a Maintenance Supervisor for our IG South Subregion. 

The Regional Maintenance South Supervisor will be responsible to oversee and provide technical direction for the Louisiana Downriver Maintenance Team. 

The Primary plant focus will be on the New Orleans, Convent, Belle Chasse, Chalmette, Brookhaven, New Augusta, and shared responsibility for the Claiborne facility. This to include technical direction for the maintenance team for the day-to-day execution of overall maintenance activities within the expanded Louisiana Downriver Region. Further responsibilities will extend into the Greater Gulf Coast area which could include some supervision responsibilities for other sites within the IG South Subregion. The Supervisor will work closely with Operations, Engineering, and Technical teams, with a focus on driving consistency in maintenance activities.

This includes improving execution efficiency, utilizing effective maintenance tools and methodologies, and developing talent. The expectation of the Regional Maintenance South Supervisor is to improve plant reliability, increase uptime, and decrease costs in direct support of the Business Area. This position reports to the IG South Subregion Maintenance Manager.

Required Skills / Abilities:

• Actively lead the Louisiana Downriver Maintenance Organization providing input on the daily schedule and execute maintenance activities. Provide oversight of the overall Maintenance Process. Approve time, allocations, expense reports, vacation requests, etc.
• Work closely with Engineering, Projects, Plant Personnel, Line Management, and Technical Teams with a focus on driving consistency in maintenance activities.
• Improve job execution efficiency by utilizing effective maintenance tools, CMMS Program through SAP, and Coordination with other teams within the PRO’s Organization.
• Work closely with the Electronic Condition Monitoring (ECM) Team to proactively monitor machine health.
• Use KPIs to monitor BAD ACTORS so that Expense and Capital Budgeting can effectively be executed across the region.
• Apply appropriate maintenance techniques, inspections, PdM, and PM’s to realize the full life expectancy of equipment.

Safety

• Continue a high commitment to Safety in all tasks across the Region. Utilize Event Management, RCA’s, and Best Practices to further develop Continuous Improvement in Safety related areas.
• Responsible for fostering a safe work culture both directly and through peer influence.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for safe completion of work at facilities through scope planning, execution, and training of personnel.
• This role is a safety sensitive position.

Cost

• Collaborate with Operations, Line and Plant Management to establish the Fiscal Year Maintenance Budget
• Develop the maintenance expense and capital long term strategic plan for assigned plants.
• Accountable for the major maintenance spending of assigned plants.
• Approve and appropriately allocate (expense vs. capital) all major maintenance spending.
• Responsible for accurate and timely forecasting of Major and Routine maintenance spending, as well as plant capital spending.
• Responsible for outage budgeting and spending results.

Leadership

• Streamline process for collaborating with site teams on outage planning, including ownership of some parts of the process.
• Champion the consistent use of maintenance systems including budgeting and forecasting tools, SAP, outage planning, and resource scheduling.

Plant Support / Coordination

• 24/7 availability for operational emergencies
• Provide or resource the necessary technical skills to support each activity.
• Actively drive resolution to technical problems including scheduling meetings and interfacing with engineering teams
• Identify and resolve systemic plant maintenance problems.
• Initiate and drive improvement projects.
• Locate and develop regional contractors for plant support.
• Identification and delivery of maintenance training needs for plant and staff.
• Provide ongoing optimization of preventive maintenance and predictive analysis programs.
• Coordination with Materials Management and support refurbishment activities on complex spare parts.
• Travel (~10%) within the Primary and IG South Region as necessary.

Education and Licensing Requirements:

• Candidate must possess a strong safety focus and background.
• SAP (Proficiency Required)
• 5 years in a petrochemical or manufacturing environment with maintenance, operations or outage execution experience is desired.
• Degree in a technical trade school for instrumentation, mechanical, electrical, or military technical training is a plus. Related engineering degrees are also a plus. Relative experience will be given strong consideration in lieu of formal education.
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Strong leadership abilities, interpersonal skills, communication stills and business acumen.
• Strong organizational planning skills with the ability to set priorities.
• Strong working knowledge of operating plant systems including Maintenance, Machinery, Electrical, and Instrumentation.
• Broad technical familiarity with motors, pumps, compressors, turbines, fans, cooling towers, pressure vessels, and piping systems.

Work Hours & Benefits:

This is a plant-based position.

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