Maintenance Superintendent

Maintenance Superintendent

Must Have: Chemical, Petrochemical, or Industrial Gas Manufacturing

Location: Geismar, LA

Salary: $145-160K

Bonus: YES

Job Overview: Maintenance Superintendent

The Maintenance Superintendent is responsible for leading and managing the maintenance execution team across multiple facilities throughout the Southeast US. This role encompasses setting direction, fostering personnel development, ensuring high-quality work, driving continuous improvements, and measuring performance outcomes. The position involves overseeing routine and major maintenance activities, serving as the primary interface between Operations, maintenance personnel, and engineering teams. The Maintenance Superintendent will approve, prioritize, and schedule work orders while ensuring safety, efficiency, and adherence to best practices.

Qualifications: Maintenance Superintendent

• Minimum 10 years relevant experience in maintenance repairs, engineering and reliability activities, and must have demonstrated strong leadership capabilities in the Chemical, or Petrochemical, or Industrial Gas Manufacturing.
• Key skills include communication, interpersonal relationships, facilitation, influencing, negotiating and the ability to work within a matrix organization.
• Successful candidate must be able to develop others and foster diverse relationships throughout the organization.
• Must have a detailed understanding of equipment and overall plant manufacturing processes.
• Requires familiarity with environmental, safety, and health procedures and issues.
• Must have understanding of mechanical and instrument equipment and their maintenance, mechanical integrity, and the inspection process.
• Requires familiarity with turnaround execution, maintenance programs, work processes and best practices.
• Must have technical competencies of troubleshooting, root cause failure analysis, general computer skills, work planning and estimating.
• Must be able to manage multiple priorities, drive issues to completion, and obtain results.
• Must be proficient in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Primary Responsibilities: Maintenance Superintendent

• Acts as a champion of the maintenance execution work process in support of the business goals and safe, quality and reliable maintenance services.
• Provides overall management of maintenance and operations work orders including creation (as needed), prioritization, release, review of plan and closure.
• Assures and optimizes maintenance execution practices and procedures to achieve cost-effective results, including efficient scheduling of resources, proper training and performance of craft personnel, and high-quality execution of work with a focus on Safety and Reliability.
• Leads execution of planned and unplanned unit shutdowns executed by the Maintenance team, including job plans and critical path schedule development, and tracking and closeout activities.
• Accountable for execution of major and minor plant turnarounds (TAR Coordinator on the team runs the effort).
• Responsible for implementation and utilization of disciplined maintenance execution practices and standards.
• Assists in the development of the maintenance budgets, and in controlling spending through appropriate tracking, forecasting, and adjustments.
• Supports the use of high-quality Maintenance and Reliability Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) along with other input to drive performance and implementation of improvements as appropriate.
• Approves and prioritizes maintenance work notifications in EAM to ensure that maintenance is properly directed toward the goals of plant reliability and availability in a cost effective, productive manner.
• Responsible for eliminating unnecessary or redundant work and for managing the backlog of approved work.
• Communicates daily with the Facility Managers and Shift Supervisors to clarify work priorities and to react to schedule breaks.
• Provides troubleshooting support to operations personnel as needed. Participates in root cause failure analyses and in corrective actions for bad actors.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $145,000.00 - $160,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Application Question(s):

• Do you have experience at a Hydrogen-Carbon Monoxide facility?

Experience:

• Maintenance Repairs: 10 years (Required)
• chemical, Petrochemical manufacturing: 10 years (Required)
• root cause failure analysis (RCFA): 8 years (Required)
• troubleshooting: 8 years (Preferred)
• Microsoft Word: 5 years (Preferred)
• Microsoft Excel: 5 years (Preferred)
• KPI: 5 years (Preferred)
• hydrogen plant: 10 years (Required)
• Maintenance Superintendent: 5 years (Required)

Ability to Commute:

• Geismar, LA 70734 (Preferred)

Ability to Relocate:

• Geismar, LA 70734: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $145,000 - $160,000