Maintenance Manager

Elementis is a global specialty chemical company, with 1,300 employees operating 17 manufacturing sites across the globe. At Elementis, we bring a distinctive combination of expertise, innovation, and teamwork to every formulation challenge. We create high-value specialty additives that enhance the performance of our customers' products and make a positive change in the world. Combining our leading positions in the science of materials flow, surface modification, and formulation with access to unique natural materials, Elementis delivers unique chemistry, sustainable solutions to customers in a wide range of markets, including cosmetics, anti-perspirants, decorative and industrial coatings, automotive and ceramics.

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

Works safely, maintains a safe work environment, attends safety training and other related meetings. Ensures safe completion of projects by both Elementis Personnel and contractors.

• Direct supervision of Plant Maintenance employees
• Check completed installations to ensure compliance with statutory, regulatory and company standards.
• Actively participates in all safety programs:
• Knows all safety policies and procedures (especially the life critical - LO/TO, Confined Space, Working From Heights, Hot Work, Line Breaking, and Emergency Response)
• Reports all safety incidents immediately
• Oversees Management of Change program
• Participates in monthly safety and communications meetings. May be required to make presentations.
• Works to keep an environmentally sound facility:
• Knows and follows Emergency Response Plan
• Reports all environmental incidents immediately
• Identify area capital requirements and execute projects to completion.
• Support production as required including off-shift, night and weekend support as needed.
• Champion area JD Edwards system improvements including: procurement, storeroom, maintenance work order system, and production planning.
• Oversee plant preventive maintenance and predictive maintenance programs
• Oversees relationship with local machine and fabrication shops to ensure equipment is repaired in a timely and cost efficient manner.
• Work closely with maintenance working supervisors, unit team leader, and senior plant engineer to implement and track outage plans. Identify, scope, plan, and implement maintenance improvement projects.
• Confer with employees to resolve mechanical problems using Root Cause Failure Analysis practices.
• Generate equipment inspection checklists in conjunction with technical and hourly maintenance/ operations personnel to ensure best use of planned and unplanned downtime and highest possible process stability.
• Act as outage coordinator or advisor to such for various shutdowns throughout the plant, working to ensure maximum efficiency and best use of resources toward P/PdM needs.
• Stay abreast of products and services to improve plant maintenance system including cross-site "best practice".
• Participate in monthly safety and communications meetings, weekly maintenance team meetings, and daily production meetings.

Additional Job Description

Knowledge / Experience / Skills Required

• Demonstrated ability to establish new culture in operations facility, and be an effective driver of change. Work experience in a union environment preferred.
• Degree in relevant discipline
• Three to Five years of managerial experience with budgetary responsibility in a chemical or allied industry.
• Ideally from a chemical manufacturing environment, with strong focus on maintenance programs
• Proven management experience in process plant.
• Worked in an environment of leading organization capabilities.
• Demonstrated ability to create and implement innovative solutions to complex problems.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, direct and positively motivate others.
• Strong ability to identify, develop and encourage talent.
• Demonstrated results in process improvement.
• Proven ability to measure performance and deliver against objectives.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills, with ability to influence all levels of the organization.

Working relationships:

Internally: reporting to the Plant Manager, working directly with other department managers onsite; indirectly working with other Company functions where applicable.

Externally: with suppliers, trade unions and local community.

Level of Autonomy:

• Work is assigned within defined objectives. Job holder will need to consult with Plant Manager regularly and when there is major deviation from standard practice, or when significant opportunity arises that needs immediate attention.
• Ability to represent Elementis Specialties in contract negotiation with regards all manufacturing or financial activities.
• Control, setting and monitoring of targets / objectives of Maintenance Staff.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Elementis does not discriminate in hiring or in the terms and conditions of employment because of an individual's race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, arrest record, citizenship or other category protected by federal, state or local laws.

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