Maintenance Lead - Carrizo Springs, Texas (South Texas)

Company Overview

Iron Oak Energy Solutions, formed from the strategic combination of Covia Energy and Black Mountain Sand to create a premier frac sand mining company, delivering superior products and solutions to diversified oil and natural gas markets across North America. The combination positions Iron Oak Energy with unmatched scale, reliability, and deliverability to customers in all major oil and gas shale plays.

Our team of industry experts offer technical and engineering support through bespoke customer relationships, and our experienced and accomplished management team is dedicated to ensuring operational excellence and innovation. With a solid foundation of expertise, our leadership brings decades of experience, unwavering commitment, and a proven track record in the energy services sector.

Position Summary

The Maintenance Lead manages our team of maintenance workers, maintains equipment and facilities, and ensures compliance with all company, state and federal polices and regulations. The Maintenance Lead will coordinate with plant production employees to successfully and safely execute our work plan.

Responsibilities:

• Supervise: Direct maintenance staff, assign tasks, and ensure jobs are completed efficiently and safely. Nothing is complete until the paperwork is done
• Safety: mentor, coach, and train our maintenance staff in our safety policies and procedures
• Maintain: oversee and perform routine preventative maintenance, repairs and inspections to minimize downtime
• Problem Solve: troubleshoot equipment issues and identify solutions, collaborating with maintenance technicians, supervision, production, and management
• Plan: collaborate with supervision and planning to successfully develop and execute maintenance plans
• Inventory Management: learn and utilize our computerized maintenance management system for creation of and closing of work orders, and materials utilization
• Safety Management: learn and utilize our digital safety management platform

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Sufficient education or experience, to troubleshoot, repair and perform preventative mechanical maintenance on plant systems, including pumps, conveyors, screens, all rotating equipment and structure or an equivalent combination of experience, education and training that provides the desired knowledge, skills, and characteristics
• ability to complete written documentation and records
• ability to perform complex mathematical equations using fractions and decimals, safely use hand tools, power tools, fine measuring tools, laser alignment tools, and other labor tools
• Senior level maintenance skills sufficient to inspect equipment and complete repairs
• Ability to apply mechanical knowledge and experience to a wide variety of situations, recommend solutions to complex problems
• Effective communication skills: ability to speak, read and write in English, having the ability to be able to communicate in Spanish will be an advantage
• Must be a team player with high level self-motivation requiring minimal supervision
• Willingness to work any shift, overtime, weekends, and holidays as nature of plant schedule may fluctuate.
• Ability to wear a respirator, safety harness and all other required personal protective equipment
• Ability to work outdoors and be exposed to the elements
• Ability to sit, stand, walk, or sit for extended periods of time; grip, climb, reach, shovel, squat, crawl, pull and push
• Ability to safely lift, move, or position up to 50lbs
• Must be authorized to work in the US and be at least 18 years of age
• Please note Corporate Housing facility not available at this location.

Safety Sensitivity

This classification is a “safety Sensitive” position as defined by the mine safety and health administration drug and alcohol testing regulations, the Texas Standards for workplace drug and alcohol testing act and/or Texas medical marijuana laws. As a “safety sensitive” classification, you will be subject to drug and alcohol testing, including random testing. Marijuana is one of the substances included in drug panel screening. Possession of a medical marijuana license will not excuse you from the testing process, or the consequences of testing positive for marijuana.

Disclaimers

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by candidates applying for the role of Maintenance Lead. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of candidates hired for Maintenance Lead.

Iron Oak Energy an EEO Employer and E-Verify participating employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, or veteran status.