Maintenance Leader

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.

This position manages the maintenance operations of the plant to ensure the company's business, economic and compliance targets are met.

• 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.
• Supports Mechanical Integrity Program of the KY Plant including vessel inspections and the LDAR program.

• 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.

• 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.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in chemical, electrical, or mechanical engineering is preferred.

Experience: Minimum ten years related experience, preferably in a chemical manufacturing environment.

• Will possess a broad technical knowledge of mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation equipment.
• Good understanding of predictive…