Sr R&O Maintenance Supervisor

Solstice Advanced Materials•Colonial Heights, VA

About The Position

As Sr R&O Maintenance Analyst Supervisor at Solstice Advanced Materials, you will oversee facility maintenance operations in Colonial Heights, Virginia. You will be responsible for maximizing equipment reliability, uptime, and safety while optimizing operational costs. You will lead technicians and supervisors and promote a proactive maintenance culture through rigorous planning, scheduling, and execution supported by data-driven decisions in SAP. The role combines team development and safety leadership with preventive and predictive maintenance, equipment troubleshooting, SAP maintenance data management, budget oversight, and supplier and contractor management. You will work closely with Production and Operations to coordinate maintenance activities and shutdowns, improve reliability, and support plant goals.

Requirements

At least 5 years of industrial manufacturing experience.
Ability to manage multiple concurrent priority activities requiring coordination and follow-through, and to meet requirements autonomously.
Proficiency with Kronos, SAP, and Microsoft PowerPoint, Teams, Excel, Outlook, and Word.
Ability to work efficiently and effectively in a high-stress, high-pressure environment.
Ability to maintain a high degree of confidentiality.
Proven ability to influence others, drive organizational change, and connect business objectives with employee development.
Competent user of SAP Maintenance, including setting up FLOCs, equipment, and materials.
Must be a U.S. person as defined for compliance with U.S. export control laws and regulations: a U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident, or person with protected status in the U.S. under asylum or refugee status.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience in a disciplined environment such as the military or a police department.
A degree in business, active enrollment in a business program, or a degree or studies in a related field.
Ability to develop and improve new and existing processes.

Responsibilities

Champion a shift from reactive maintenance to a proactive, ownership-driven reliability culture.
Mentor, coach, and establish career progression pathways for technicians, planners, and supervisors; identify skill gaps and implement technical and leadership training.
Promote psychological safety and high accountability, supporting a zero-incident safety culture in which near-misses are reported, investigated, and used for learning.
Foster collaboration among maintenance, production, and safety teams to achieve plant goals.
Establish, refine, and enforce preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
Oversee the maintenance backlog and prioritize tasks according to operational risk, resource availability, and material lead times.
Coordinate planned shutdowns with Production and Operations to minimize effects on manufacturing schedules.
Ensure maintenance work is performed safely, efficiently, and to a high standard of technical quality.
Provide leadership during critical equipment breakdowns and ensure root-cause analysis is conducted to prevent recurrence.
Lead cross-functional troubleshooting of complex asset failures and implementation of long-term reliability solutions.
Serve as the site subject matter expert for the SAP Maintenance Module (PM).
Ensure work orders, equipment histories, parts consumption, and labor hours are accurately tracked and documented in SAP.
Use SAP data to track and report KPIs, including MTBF, MTTR, and preventive maintenance compliance.
Develop, justify, and manage the annual plant maintenance budget.
Monitor maintenance expenditures, identify cost-saving opportunities, and manage spare-parts inventory to optimize working capital without risking equipment uptime.
Negotiate contracts and manage relationships with external contractors and parts suppliers to secure high-quality service at competitive rates.