Rotating Equipment Engineer/Planning Supervisor

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You will work on exciting and challenging topics together with a team in an ultra-modern, innovative and creative environment. Intensive on-the-job training with expert colleagues guarantees you will quickly become familiar with your duties and perform them independently. Performance related pay and the opportunity for personal and professional development are of course part of the package.

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Directs activities for the pump shop and supports the technical teams within the maintenance organization for increased effectiveness and efficiency toward achieving best practices. Provides tactical and some strategic direction to the maintenance work force daily under the direction of management and equipment owners. The incumbent will have a deep interest in activities of other partner groups and/or crafts and their needs. Works with customers to eliminate bad actors and implement improvements.

Directs activities for the planning department. Oversees all planning for the Mobile site. Includes IE, Mech, Civil, Insulation, Paint, and Reliability planning. Sets the overall standard, establishes processes and procedures, and ensures compliance. Support sitewide shutdowns and TAR’s. This position provides tactical and strategic guidance to the planning department.

Responsibilities

• Support site Strategic Partnerships with customers as it relates to rotating equipment and planning services.
• Responsible for the completion of employee’s formal performance evaluations. Use the performance evaluation as the means to steer the work force to a high level of efficiency and productivity.
• Applies disciplinary measures as needed and/or required under HR policies and procedures.
• Fulfills administrative responsibilities approving vacation, time off and supporting accuracy of time sheets for Evonik and contract technicians working in assigned area.
• Develops technician work force by identifying training needs and facilitating technical resources for the timely training application.
• Responsible for the effective execution of all maintenance work within assigned area with a high level of demonstrated safety and environmental awareness.
• Coaches and mentors technicians by providing tactical direction for the routine and preventive maintenance activities.
• Oversee small Cap Ex and Maintenance projects for departmental needs and chronic problem resolution.
• Design/Modify maintenance strategies, procedures and methods.
• Carry out routine scheduled maintenance work and responding to equipment faults.
• Diagnose breakdown problems.
• Carry out quality inspections for jobs, ensure proper reporting, and low levels of rework.
• Act as a liaison with customers and engineering or production colleagues.
• Monitor and control maintenance costs in his/her area of responsibility.
• Coordinate emergency work, unplanned problems and repairs.
• Uphold and improve Environmental, Health, Safety and Quality policies and procedures.
• Working with specialized equipment and Technicians as needed to solve or detect problems.
• Modify maintenance plans, strategies or procedures as needed.
• Ensure that there is proper coverage to repair machinery or equipment in case of breakdowns.
• Provide guidance to the mechanical maintenance personnel in the repair, maintenance and installation of process equipment including problem-solving and measurement activities that support continuous plant operations.
• Manages work load, by distributing maintenance labor and coordinating manpower in assigned area.
• Leads the assigned technical team to operate consistently in a continuous improvement environment.
• Manages maintenance system controls, area budgets, KPIs, and related maintenance support services to achieve maximum efficiencies and overall effectiveness.
• Provides feedback to other groups including, but not limited to, production, technical, engineering, etc; in support of continuous improvement efforts.
• Works with the Maintenance Teams to optimize departmental effectiveness.
• Supports site efforts in the development, management and implementation of planning activities.
• Checks jobs for completeness and additional work.
• Reviews employee performance formally and informally on a regular basis.
• Develops and maintains metrics for departmental progress and performance.
• Uses a collaborative approach to solve chronic problem issues for plant equipment.
• Assists in breakdown investigations using root cause analysis, 5-Why, and/or other analytic techniques.
• Supervises the planning department for the site. Includes daily and shutdown planning for all crafts on site. (IE, Mech, Pipe, Civil, Insulation, Paint, & Reliability)
• Implement tools, techniques, procedures required to improve overall site planning efforts.
• Overall responsible for development of and adherence to the site work order planning process.
• Ensure proper planning for site shutdown and TAR efforts.
• Work with TAR Management and Scheduling professional to ensure adherence to the overall schedule requirements.
• Work to remove inefficiencies and obstacles as it relates to your areas of responsibilities.
• Establish KPI’s and/or audits to monitor adherence to established processes and procedures.
• Coaches and mentor’s technicians/planners by providing tactical direction for the routine and preventive maintenance activities.
• Regional support to the region as it relates to planning, scheduling and rotating equipment.
• Drives increased efficiency by maximizing Wrench Time across all crafts including contractor resources, and helping technicians remove “roadblocks” in their daily work by frequently visiting work sites in the field.
• Creates daily schedules and balances resources to the weekly schedule in coordination with other S6 Maintenance Coordinators on the site.
• Works with planners to ensure planners are allowed to perform planner duties.
• Assist the maintenance manager with evaluation of manpower estimations and planning.
  
  

Requirements

• Engineering degree (mechanical, electrical or chemical) and five (5) years experience as a Maintenance Engineer or Supervisor are preferred.
• Supervisory experience preferred.
• SAP knowledge required.
• Preferred incumbent should possess broad based skills in all maintenance crafts.
• The incumbent must be results oriented, decisive, and have good interpersonal skills.
  
  

The Evonik Group adopts an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) approach. Candidates are assessed based on their educational qualifications, experience, job competencies and potential and shall not be discriminated against on the basis of race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, nationality, disability or sexual orientation or other classifications protected by local, state, or provincial regulations.

Your Application

To ensure that your application is proceeded as quickly as possible and to protect the environment, please apply online via our careers portal. Further information about Evonik as Employer can be found at https://careers.evonik.com.

Please address your application to the Talent Acquisition Manager, stating your earliest possible starting date and your salary expectations.

Your Talent Acquisition Manager:

Emma Martinez [C]

Company is

Evonik Corporation