Maintenance Engineer

The Chemours•Louisville, KY

About The Position

As we create a colorful, capable and cleaner world through chemistry, we invite you to join our team to harness the power of chemistry to shape markets, redefine industries and improve lives for billions of people around the world. CREATING ESSENTIAL CHEMISTRY THAT THE WORLD NEEDS At Chemours, our people are redefining how the world thinks of chemistry by approaching everything we do with a commitment to delivering Trusted Chemistry that creates better lives and helps communities thrive. That begins with how we use our science, data, and unmatched technical expertise to develop market-leading products with the highest levels of performance, sustainability, and safety in the industry. Chemours is seeking a Maintenance Engineer to join our growing Operations team! This position will report directly to the Maintenance and Reliability Manager at our Louisville, KY location. The Maintenance Engineer will have responsibility for maintenance execution, planning, stores, contract administration, reliability, mechanical integrity and quality assurance in a high hazard operation. The successful candidate must demonstrate strong change leadership and team building skills. The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related discipline.
At least 3 years’ experience in the chemical manufacturing industry, leading maintenance and reliability programs, managing direct reports OR Military Equivalent Experience
Experience with Process Safety Management (PSM), specifically the safe management of design changes at a plant, PHAs and Mechanical Integrity programs.
Strong technical, analytical, team building and organizational change leadership skills.
Ability to define current states, opportunities, strategies, and a plan to achieve future improved states.
Strong Interpersonal and Influence Management skills.
Candidates must be able to perform all duties listed with or without accommodation
Immigration sponsorship (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant status) is not currently available for this position

Nice To Haves

Experience in project leadership/ management and continuous improvement (Six Sigma or Lean).
Professional Reliability Certification, ex. CRE, CRP, CRL, CMRP, RE Certificate
Previous experience within contract management
Strong working knowledge of SAP-PM, SAP-MM & Maintenance Work Management Systems
High Hazard Process manufacturing experience
Familiar with national standards such as API 510 & 570 & 653

Responsibilities

Assist with site-level reliability strategy, plan and actions to support improved production capabilities and ensure prioritized, efficient and cost-effective maintenance activities.
Develop a 5-year improvement plan for the maintenance team and programs.
Maintain a maintenance metric dashboard to drive improvement and prioritize actions.
Develop a strong cost management structure for Maintenance that identifies opportunities to improve our business and provides for short and long-term actions that reduce cost.
Develop direct reports, and other leaders and subordinates through training, extensive use of task teams and collaborative problem solving.
Lead the development of asset management plans, preventive/predictive maintenance programs, and long-term maintenance outages in support of business objectives
Primary interface with all contracted work within the area, which includes both cost and capital work.
Develop an appropriate spare equipment and spare parts strategy and plan to optimize production capability and working capital.
Ensure maintenance and reliability work management processes are effectively implemented, utilized and improved, driving strong stewardship of activities / cost and strengthening links to business cost/earnings performance.
Ensure the CMMS (computer maintenance management system) is effectively integrated into Management of Change Processes, utilized, and improved as a fully integrated part of the reliability and maintenance work management processes.
Ensure long-term maintenance outages/turnarounds are effectively planned and executed, partnering closely with Operations to deliver on budget, scope and schedule.
Represent Louisville on corporate reliability and maintenance networks to influence development and local implementation of corporate best practices.
Support and advance Organizational Health within the reliability and maintenance team.
This day-based position may sometimes require nights and weekends to support production.