Operation Maintenance Coordinator (OMC)

Westlake•Longview, WA

4d•$94,000 - $122,000

About The Position

Westlake offers you the potential to enrich your work life and career experience in an entrepreneurial environment. We work together to enhance peoples' lives through our products and presence in the communities in which we operate. SUMMARY The Operations Maintenance Coordinator (OMC) is responsible for the coordination of operations and maintenance activities and is the one point of contact between operations and maintenance.

Requirements

B.S. in Chemical Engineering or 10 years of experience in production.
Minimum 2 years of industry experience desired (with a Bachelor’s degree), preferably in a PSM covered, continuous chemical manufacturing process facility
Works successfully under moderate supervision
Has the ability to apply and interpret statistical tools and applications for the optimization of large systems and processes
Ability to successfully manage small to mid-size projects, processes, or work groups
Demonstrates leadership skills and has ability to lead small teams
Process Safety Management experience desired
Strong communication skills; both verbal and written are required
SAP experience preferred

Nice To Haves

Chlor-alkali experience a plus

Responsibilities

Screening work requests and approving valid work orders.
Rejecting invalid work requests and informing the originator.
Define the relative urgency and importance of new work orders to determine if any should break into the current daily or weekly schedule.
Ensuring work request is written properly; require an MOC? Equipment number correct? Work location clearly identified, etc.
Determine if it is a duplicate work order, Will it affect any other work orders, Will other work conflict with this job, are other work orders in backlog which should be done in conjunction with, are there any safety or environmental concerns?
Determining the final priority status.
Setting planning priorities by familiarizing themselves with all open maintenance work orders and determining priorities.
Dictating weekly maintenance schedule by familiarizing themselves with all Job Ready maintenance work orders and setting scheduling priorities.
Serving as a liaison between operations and maintenance.
Determine if equipment can be safely shut down and locked out to perform work.
Run reports on all planned and unplanned outages to determine if other work should be completed during outage.
Determine priority and scope of all planned plant outages.
Preparing and publishing work order status reports for operations.
Working with the planner on work order backlog.
Prepare and publish report from the SAP PM module.
Work with maintenance and engineering to troubleshoot equipment.
Work with performance engineers to identify potential cost savings projects.
Work with plant engineering and maintenance to prepare for plant shutdown and startup events.
Coordinate, delegate, review and approve plant standard operating procedures.
Obtain and maintain technical competence in all plant operating positions.
Create SAP Work Notifications.
Create MOC's as needed to facilitate plant changes.
Review work order and preventative maintenance backlog.
Work directly with shift supervisors determining plant needs.
Communicate work that is potential threats to production.
Communicate to transportation department of any maintenance work that affects any loading processes.
Request contractor support as needed to complete required maintenance.
Communicating upcoming work scope to shift supervisor for proper maintenance preparation.
Conduct weekly work management meeting, with prepared reports from SAP reviewing preventative maintenance backlog, corrective maintenance backlog and metrics.
Knowledge of process equipment and operation.
Ability to troubleshoot mechanical and process issues.
Work with Operations Outage Coordinator and the Outage Coordinator for schedule building and work order scheduling.
Assist shift supervisors in day to day operation as needed.
Work with Cellroom Engineer to support cell renewal process and cell replacements to ensure adequate mechanic time is scheduled weekly.
Provide work order status to shift supervisors and operators.
MOC coordinator for small changes requested by shift supervisors
MDG user for operations group