Reliability Superintendent
About The Position
The Maintenance Superintendent - Reliability is responsible for providing the leadership necessary to improve site operations in the areas of safety, environmental, quality, cost and productivity through increased asset reliability with direct responsibility for reliability engineers and reliability technicians. Key areas of responsibility include management and mentoring of the site reliability engineers, reliability KPI development and monitoring, understanding of the maintenance work management system, technical support during unit turnarounds, assist in maintenance cost analysis and development of 5 year major maintenance and capital plans. Focus on rotating assets including pumps, compressors, turbines, gearboxes, and associated systems. This person will interface between operations, maintenance, craft maintenance groups and the project engineering group.
Requirements
- B.S. in Engineering required
- Minimum of 8 years of reliability experience in a chemical or manufacturing plant.
- Familiarity with API codes and standards
- Supervisory experience also required, with supervision of professionals preferred.
- Good understanding of preventive and predictive maintenance technologies, asset strategies and reliable manufacturing.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills; Good computer skills, particularly with Microsoft Office Suite.
- This position also requires a high degree of organizational skills and the ability to perform cost tracking and data analysis.
- Successful candidates must satisfy background screening, including motor vehicle record screening, drug testing & pre-employment physical requirements before starting work.
Responsibilities
- Support and drive accident prevention and environmental excellence
- Enforce all plant safety rules and regulations and participate in regular safety meetings.
- Responsible for the rotating reliability group
- Participate in departmental budget preparation; exercise cost control measures necessary to meet the budget requirements. Understand potential and actual impact to maintenance costs from reliability engineering efforts.
- Support and drive development of detailed asset strategies for improved asset reliability.
- Drive implementation of lubrication best practices.
- Champion development and implementation of basic care rounds by mechanics, lubricators and operators.
- Drive continuous improvement through Root Cause Analysis and implementation of corrective actions.
- Responsible for development of preventative, predictive and condition based maintenance asset strategies.
- Participate in identifying needs and developing craft skills training.
- Participate in various improvement or benchmarking projects as required.
- Support Maintenance Management with cost analysis & reliability improvement plans.
- Assist in developing and maintaining five (5) year maintenance and capital improvement plans.
- Assist with onboarding, training, and mentoring of new maintenance & reliability personnel.
- Responsible for performance appraisals of all personnel within the reliability engineering group.
- Responsible for keeping maintenance personnel abreast of advancing technology in diagnostic techniques, repair procedures and preventative measures to assure optimum performance at minimum cost.
- Responsible for developing maintenance procedures and processes site wide for Process Safety Management.
- Develop training and career development plans for all reliability engineers.
- Champion reliability training and awareness across the site for improved understanding and individual ownership.
- Set expectations for precision installations and precision alignments
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
