Maintenance Leader
Apply NowCompany: Zeon Chemicals
Location: Louisville, KY 40214
Description:
Who We Are
Do you want to work for a company named to the Best Places to Work in Rubber and Plastics? Zeon Chemicals is the leading developer and supplier of innovative polymers, including synthetic elastomers and specialty chemicals and other selected products used in countless applications worldwide. We develop superior elastomers for the hottest parts of automotive engines, polymers for longer lasting laser printer rolls, synthetic rubber to survive oil wells' most aggressive fluids and cyclo-olefin plastics for today's advanced medical and electronic applications.
Our team is outstanding at what they do, and we enjoy a great company culture and work environment! This combination truly makes us a best place to work!
Purpose:
This position manages the maintenance operations of the plant to ensure the company's business, economic and compliance targets are met.
Job Functions/Accountabilities (Essential & Marginal):
Leadership
- Under the direction of the Plant Manager, sets tactical and strategic direction for the maintenance department.
- Provides SHE (Safety/Health/Environmental) leadership and direction by actively and positively supporting and developing initiatives for SHE improvement.
- Ensures safe operation of maintenance team providing training and enforcing safety rules and procedures.
- Accurately evaluate employee performance, coaching as necessary to achieve optimum potential.
- Manages maintenance work planning/scheduling processes. Develop, implement, and track processes/procedures/metrics.
- Manages site maintenance, storeroom, and utility costs/budget.
- Identifies ideas and execute initiatives to improve operational performance
- Manages turnaround planning and execution process, including equipment overhauls and major inspection / maintenance activities.
- Develops strategy to improve and achieve world class maintenance performance.
- Aligns maintenance performance indicators with overall business objectives.
- Oversees contractor activities to insure they comply with established company standards.
- Develops and manages maintenance capital and expense projects from ideation through execution, ensuring startups are safe, on time and within the approved project cost.
- Participates in the development of the plant's capital spending budget.
- Supports CAD function for KY Plant
- Support Mechanical Integrity Program of the KY Plant including vessel inspections and the LDAR program.
Mechanical Reliability
- Provides tools and work processes to maximize plant uptime and minimize maintenance costs by improving equipment mean-time-between-failure and mean-time-to-repair rates.
- Ensures planned maintenance inspections (PM/PdM/MI) are completed in accordance with established schedules.
- Monitors and executes upon identified improvement opportunities.
- Performs life cycle cost analysis on design modification and equipment upgrade options.
- Maintains an equipment replacement forecast and monitors end of service life trends.
- Benchmarks maintenance capabilities across Zeon to identify best practices and improve performance.
- Monitors maintenance activities for repetitive maintenance items and top reliability issues, then initiates improvement projects as necessary.
- Track / publish standard maintenance, reliability, storeroom performance metrics in order to drive continuous improvement.
- Troubleshoots equipment performance issues, evaluates equipment repair versus replacement and recommends corrective actions.
Mechanical Integrity
- Maintains equipment records and documentation for site equipment.
- Ensures the Management of Change (MOC) and Mechanical Integrity (MI) requirements under OSHA's Process Safety Management regulation are met.
- Ensures mechanical integrity practices are aligned with Zeon corporate standards.
- Reviews all PSM Mechanical Integrity inspection results for completeness and initiates appropriate corrective action as necessary to ensure reliability and regulatory compliance.
- Maintains all PSM equipment records in audit ready condition.
Qualifications:
Education:
Bachelor's degree in chemical, electrical, or mechanical engineering is preferred.
Experience:
Minimum ten years related experience, preferably in a chemical manufacturing environment.
Special Qualifications:
Will possess a broad technical knowledge of mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation equipment. Good understanding of predictive and preventive maintenance techniques. Must possess knowledge of current applicable PSM and MI regulations to the industry (OSHA 1910.119, API-510, API-570, API-653).
Work Conditions:
Office environment/Chemical Manufacturing Plant environment. Extensive time will be spent in the plant environment. Plant office environment with significant exposure to Plant elements. Plant environment is a multi-acre site that includes high noise levels, some exposure to fumes and dust, and at times working with hazardous materials. This position is expected to spend a significant portion of each shift walking through the plant up and down stairs and ladders as required to adequately direct activities in a large multi-acre facility.
Benefits:
Zeon employees enjoy growth opportunities as well as a highly competitive salary and benefits program.
Zeon Chemicals does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, physical or mental disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Do you want to work for a company named to the Best Places to Work in Rubber and Plastics? Zeon Chemicals is the leading developer and supplier of innovative polymers, including synthetic elastomers and specialty chemicals and other selected products used in countless applications worldwide. We develop superior elastomers for the hottest parts of automotive engines, polymers for longer lasting laser printer rolls, synthetic rubber to survive oil wells' most aggressive fluids and cyclo-olefin plastics for today's advanced medical and electronic applications.
Our team is outstanding at what they do, and we enjoy a great company culture and work environment! This combination truly makes us a best place to work!
Purpose:
This position manages the maintenance operations of the plant to ensure the company's business, economic and compliance targets are met.
Job Functions/Accountabilities (Essential & Marginal):
Leadership
- Under the direction of the Plant Manager, sets tactical and strategic direction for the maintenance department.
- Provides SHE (Safety/Health/Environmental) leadership and direction by actively and positively supporting and developing initiatives for SHE improvement.
- Ensures safe operation of maintenance team providing training and enforcing safety rules and procedures.
- Accurately evaluate employee performance, coaching as necessary to achieve optimum potential.
- Manages maintenance work planning/scheduling processes. Develop, implement, and track processes/procedures/metrics.
- Manages site maintenance, storeroom, and utility costs/budget.
- Identifies ideas and execute initiatives to improve operational performance
- Manages turnaround planning and execution process, including equipment overhauls and major inspection / maintenance activities.
- Develops strategy to improve and achieve world class maintenance performance.
- Aligns maintenance performance indicators with overall business objectives.
- Oversees contractor activities to insure they comply with established company standards.
- Develops and manages maintenance capital and expense projects from ideation through execution, ensuring startups are safe, on time and within the approved project cost.
- Participates in the development of the plant's capital spending budget.
- Supports CAD function for KY Plant
- Support Mechanical Integrity Program of the KY Plant including vessel inspections and the LDAR program.
Mechanical Reliability
- Provides tools and work processes to maximize plant uptime and minimize maintenance costs by improving equipment mean-time-between-failure and mean-time-to-repair rates.
- Ensures planned maintenance inspections (PM/PdM/MI) are completed in accordance with established schedules.
- Monitors and executes upon identified improvement opportunities.
- Performs life cycle cost analysis on design modification and equipment upgrade options.
- Maintains an equipment replacement forecast and monitors end of service life trends.
- Benchmarks maintenance capabilities across Zeon to identify best practices and improve performance.
- Monitors maintenance activities for repetitive maintenance items and top reliability issues, then initiates improvement projects as necessary.
- Track / publish standard maintenance, reliability, storeroom performance metrics in order to drive continuous improvement.
- Troubleshoots equipment performance issues, evaluates equipment repair versus replacement and recommends corrective actions.
Mechanical Integrity
- Maintains equipment records and documentation for site equipment.
- Ensures the Management of Change (MOC) and Mechanical Integrity (MI) requirements under OSHA's Process Safety Management regulation are met.
- Ensures mechanical integrity practices are aligned with Zeon corporate standards.
- Reviews all PSM Mechanical Integrity inspection results for completeness and initiates appropriate corrective action as necessary to ensure reliability and regulatory compliance.
- Maintains all PSM equipment records in audit ready condition.
Qualifications:
Education:
Bachelor's degree in chemical, electrical, or mechanical engineering is preferred.
Experience:
Minimum ten years related experience, preferably in a chemical manufacturing environment.
Special Qualifications:
Will possess a broad technical knowledge of mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation equipment. Good understanding of predictive and preventive maintenance techniques. Must possess knowledge of current applicable PSM and MI regulations to the industry (OSHA 1910.119, API-510, API-570, API-653).
Work Conditions:
Office environment/Chemical Manufacturing Plant environment. Extensive time will be spent in the plant environment. Plant office environment with significant exposure to Plant elements. Plant environment is a multi-acre site that includes high noise levels, some exposure to fumes and dust, and at times working with hazardous materials. This position is expected to spend a significant portion of each shift walking through the plant up and down stairs and ladders as required to adequately direct activities in a large multi-acre facility.
Benefits:
Zeon employees enjoy growth opportunities as well as a highly competitive salary and benefits program.
Zeon Chemicals does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, physical or mental disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.