Maintenance Superintendent

Sun Chemical Corporation•City of Peekskill, NY

1d•Onsite

About The Position

This position provides maintenance leadership and management to the execution teams for the Peekskill Site. This position leads and directs the activities of Sun Chemical and Contract employees for the safe, efficient, and effective execution of routine and outage maintenance. This includes mechanical, instrument, and electrical maintenance, along with the work processes. This position ensures a culture of continuous improvement employing LEAN Manufacturing tools.

Requirements

BS degree in an Engineering discipline and a minimum of 5 years of manufacturing, maintenance, and/or reliability experience, or a minimum of 10 years of manufacturing, maintenance, and/or reliability experience in a chemical/ petrochemical or other similar manufacturing operation is required.
Working knowledge of functions and design of plant equipment, process, and products; methods development and procedures; industrial and personnel administration; labor relations; repair and maintenance of machinery and equipment.
Ability to prepare, administer, and monitor departmental budgets.
Ability to communicate effectively with facts and figures, along with the ability to influence, persuade, and negotiate. Strong interpersonal skills are required in this position.
Working knowledge of high temperature and corrosive environments.
Ability to work collaboratively with diverse multiple stakeholders, including Production, Engineering, Maintenance, Procurement, Stores, Accounting, Project Engineers, Engineering Managers, Human Resources, Site Leadership Team, Manufacturing Support Services, etc.
Ability to balance priorities across the site and situations within resource constraints, while preserving a maintenance and engineering perspective and intent.
Ability to influence, motivate, and coach personnel and teams in a professional leadership role, including the ability to support and effect change.

Responsibilities

Lead the development of maintenance goals, ensure implementation, monitor effectiveness, and take necessary actions to meet overall business objectives.
Set goals for staff, consistent with business and department needs, and hold them accountable for delivering results. Provide coaching and direction to ensure that they successfully meet individual objectives. Track Team Performance for success (KPIs / Metrics).
Manage talent development and succession planning for staff, including team development and building/maintaining an engaged workforce.
Coach staff and support mutually agreed upon development needs and training opportunities.
Conduct job assignments considering developmental opportunities, train and coach so employees can be successful.
Support the development of reliability targets, consistent with business needs, and recommend necessary actions to achieve committed results.
Ensure that required capabilities, essential skills and precision work practices are maintained for all Sun Chemical and imbedded contract maintenance personnel.
Manage personnel items including: performance reviews, compensation programs, discipline, conflict resolution, consistent enforcement of rules and policies, change management, on-boarding of new employees, and engage in effective and clear communication.
Ensure all aspects of the maintenance execution work processes are being followed including notification, prioritization, planning, scheduling, execution, feedback, and reliability
Ensure all routine and outage maintenance is executed in a safe, efficient, and effective manner.
Manage the work execution of Sun Chemical and Contract employees. Ensure work execution productivity (Time on Tools) and first-time repair quality supporting optimized maintenance cost.
Establish and monitor defined maintenance metrics and KPIs.
Ensure the application of all safety rules, assuring Maintenance personnel are aware of and employing safe working practices and promoting safety programs and behaviors.
Monitor accomplishments, validate, and report performance-to-plan in order to show trends and provide analyses with an emphasis on early performance indicators for the site.
Identify continuous improvement opportunities to enhance the overall maintenance work process and improve cost effectiveness and efficiency. Share with other areas and communicate lessons learned. Ensure consistent, use of best practices within maintenance execution.
Provide communication on status of maintenance activities to appropriate stakeholders via reports, and oral and written communications where and when appropriate.
Ensure all master data in the CMMS is maintained.
Develop and implement the maintenance strategy for the site, in partnership with technical maintenance leadership.
Implement the reliability strategy for the site, in partnership with technical maintenance leadership.
Monitor and help to identify continuous improvement opportunities to enhance the overall maintenance work process and improve cost effectiveness and efficiency.
Define and deliver the required level of maintenance to the operating units working in conjunction with technical maintenance leadership.
Recognize the need for and develop outside specialty services contractors.
Understand, champion, and implement LEAN activities via role modeling activities, sharing best practices, and holding staff accountable.
Develop and optimize maintenance execution, reliability, and work processes.