Sr. Maintenance Manager

Job Summary

The Maintenance Manager reports directly to the Plant Manager. The individual manages (directly and indirectly) a Maintenance Department of approximately 20 Arkema employees and approximately 60 embedded contract employees. The Arkema employees include a Maintenance Administrative Assistant, Maintenance Superintendent, IE&A Manager, Maintenance Specialist, Maintenance Coordinator (2), Maintenance Planner (2), Scheduler, Senior Machinist, Machinist, Instrument & Electrical Technician (3), Analyzer Technician (2), Electrical Technician Lead, Instrumentation Technician Lead, Analyzer Technician Lead, Reliability Refrigeration Lead, and an Invoice Specialist/ Marshaller.

Provides overall strategic direction for the Maintenance Department for the Clear Lake facility. Drives the equipment reliability through the Arkema Maintenance Operational Excellence program. Ensures all work is completed within Arkema Safety policies. Responsible for controlling multi-million-dollar yearly RPE and warehouse inventory budget. Works together with Good and Service Purchasing (GASP) to (1) select contractors (2) award contracts and (3) assure all contractors work is (A) performed in compliance with applicable codes, standards and procedures and (B) completed in a timely manner and within budget.

Coordinate contractor maintenance activities with production and maintenance to ensure as little disruption as possible. Responsible for complying with all AIMS HESQ policies & practices. This includes compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements such as OSHA, EPA, and TCEQ. SMART (Arkema OPEX) champion for maintenance.

This role is part of the Site Leadership Team.

• Responsible for providing safety leadership, management, and maintenance safety performance. This includes setting safety expectations and goals, developing safety programs and practices, monitoring safety program compliance, providing safety training, design and construction safety, pre-job safety analysis and process safety management, and performing safety audits and inspections for both Arkema and Nested contractors.
• This position is also responsible for continuous improvement initiatives in safety performance, equipment uptime, and cost management.
• Develop and implement world class maintenance work processes to improve maintenance efficiencies, improve productivity and reduce maintenance costs (Arkema Maintenance Operational Excellence Process).
• Develop and maintain departmental procedures and guidelines. Provides direction, oversight, coaching and assistance to the maintenance organization on an ongoing basis.
• Develop contractor management plan and monitor contractor performance. Develop and share both Arkema and Contractor Maintenance Performance Measurements (KPI’s) with the maintenance organization and site leadership team to track improvement progress.
• Responsible for providing oversight, leadership, direction and management of the Maintenance activities in the plant. This includes developing maintenance strategies, annual plans, setting goals, expectations and priorities, reviewing and establishing the organizational structure.
• Best work practices and ensure consistent implementation at all sites.
• Seeks creative and innovative ways to reduce maintenance costs, improve productivity, and other value-added items to maximize overall maintenance performance.

• Responsible for establishing maintenance cost control systems for department cost management with direct responsibilities of a $17MM budget.
• Monitors cost performance and resources, adjusting priorities and forecasting maintenance needs. Provides continuous feedback to the site manager and team members.
• Support maintenance with yearly budget preparations and budget compliance throughout the year. Support enhancements to improve cost plans and forecasts.
• Track Maintenance Performance Measurements (KPI’s) with maintenance organization and site leadership team to track improvement progress.
• Perform maintenance benchmark and wrench time assessments to identify gaps and gap closure ideas to reduce cost and improve…