Position Details

This position manages and coordinates all the Maintenance, Utility, Environmental, Wastewater Treatment Plant, and Utility Engineering activities for the Willow Island Plant in a safe cost-efficient manner. This job description reflects assignment of essential functions; it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Qualifications

• Strong management skills.
• Effective leadership skills
• Excellent organizational and planning skills.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to prepare and present concise, informative presentations to Management and Senior Leadership.
• Practical and decisive decision-making ability.
• Critical reasoning skills.
• Ability to understand budget formulation and management.
• Computer and software literate
• Understanding of Safety Management and terminology.

• Understanding of Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Qualifications Continued

• Understanding of all associated regulatory requirements
• Strong understanding of OSHA 1910-119 PSM regulations, especially as it pertains to mechanical reliability and inspection.
• Strong understanding of ASME Code Repair Work
• Strong understanding of utilities including process air, instrument air, chilled water, tower water, etc.
• Strong understanding of all aspects of maintenance including reliability, preventative and predictive maintenance, mechanical and instrument work.
• Strong experience in capital execution to maintain a maintenance and utilities department.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Performs the responsibilities of this job to ensure that the plant can reliably manufacture products at a cost lower than our competitors.
• Provides associated technical expertise and consultation.
• Responsible for proper organization and functioning of assigned personnel.
• Ensures the highest reliability of the plant equipment through proper utilization of the equipment, Maintenance Management System, technician expertise, and continued improvement of the plant’s preventive and predictive maintenance.
• Promotes sound labor relations management within the plant.
• Performs all relative aspects of this position in a manner that protects the health and safety of our employees, plant, plant neighbors, customers, and the environment in which we live.
• Ensures that all utilities are supplied to the plant without interruption.  This includes steam, air, natural gas, WWTP, well water, tower water, refrigeration, electricity, and potable water.
• Maintains a positive relationship with Syensqo to ensure efficient operation of WWTP.

Essential Duties and Responsibilites Continued

• Promotes teamwork, continuous improvement, and total productive maintenance throughout all levels under this direct supervision.

• Assists in the preparation of work plan or schedule for the Maintenance, Utility, WWTP Functions.
• Makes certain that WWTP and all utility equipment is properly maintained and readily available.
• Responsible for major decisions on utility outages to avoid unsafe operations and equipment damage.
• Initiates projects, suggests equipment and promotes high reliability.
• Prepares annual maintenance, utility, WWTP, and environmental budgets and manage these budgets throughout the year.
• Responsible for ensuring facility compliance with WWTP and environmental issues as they relate to manufacturing.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities Continued

• Provides all production areas with necessary utilities on a consistent basis.
• Promotes and effective safety and housekeeping program to ensure safe work conditions.
• Responsible for justification, selection, training, and discipline of supervisory and operational personnel.
• Responsible for identifying maintenance work and maintaining an effective backlog list.

• Provides management with competent supervisory assistance to coordinate and monitor operations.

Additional Skills and Responsibilities

LANGUAGE SKILLS:  Ability to write documents such as operating Standard Operating Procedures and PMs.  Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.  Ability to speak effectively before groups of contractors, designers, consultants, employees of the organization, and/or senior members of company Steering Team.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percentage and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: This position works independently with no direct supervision.  This position has responsibility for professional, engineering, support, maintenance, and utilities personnel.  This position will interact with all levels of plant and divisional personnel regarding capital projects, maintenance, engineering, and utilities.  Budget responsibility for Maintenance, Engineering (Shared), Utilities, and Wastewater Treatment Plant of approximately $15,000,000.

Key Competencies

Skills

Education & Experience

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.  Preferably in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering.  Master’s Degree or MBA preferred. Seven (7) years of maintenance management experience, preferably dealing with utilities, and maintenance relative to chemical-based manufacturing.  Five (5) years supervisory experience with responsibility for professional and non-professional employees.

Physical Requirements