Supervisor - Electrical & Instrumentation

Sibanye Stillwater • Columbus, MT

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Supervisor - Electrical & Instrumentation leads assigned employees and contractors and supports the planning, scheduling, and coordination of safe, resource-ready electrical and instrumentation maintenance work for the Metallurgical Complex. The position translates approved plant priorities and schedules into daily assignments and directs work execution to support safe, reliable performance, quality, cost control, and continuous improvement.

The role ensures maintenance is performed in accordance with applicable safety, environmental, electrical, instrumentation, and site requirements. It verifies safe work conditions, personnel qualifications and authorizations, tools and testing equipment, permits, and work controls. The supervisor communicates priorities and expectations, assigns work based on approved priorities and available resources, and provides accurate field and work-readiness information to Planning.

The supervisor also ensures preventive, predictive, condition-based, statutory, calibration, testing, and regulatory maintenance is completed and documented on time, and that work orders are closed with accurate labor, materials, equipment condition, failure, testing, calibration, follow-up, and variance information.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Five years of relevant industrial electrical, instrumentation, process-plant, fixed-plant, or related heavy-industrial maintenance experience, including experience coordinating work and leading employees or contractors; alternatively, an associate or bachelor's degree in a related field and three years of relevant experience.
• Experience leading, training, directing, or supervising employees or contractors.
• Leadership, coaching, delegation, instructing, social perceptiveness, conflict resolution, and performance-management skills.
• Strong prioritization, time-management, and organizational ability to balance competing short- and long-term demands.
• Technical literacy to interpret electrical drawings, schematics, piping and instrumentation diagrams, manuals, specifications, protection settings, test records, and equipment history.
• Proficiency with standard office software, computerized maintenance management systems, enterprise resource planning systems, and maintenance-reporting tools.
• Knowledge of applicable OSHA requirements, NFPA 70, NEC standards, electrical safe-work practices, energy control, arc-flash, switching, grounding, permitting, and environmental requirements.
• Knowledge of industrial electrical distribution, motor control, protection, PLC, industrial electrical equipment, instrumentation, communication, and process-control system operation and maintenance.
• Knowledge of electrical and instrumentation inspection, troubleshooting, testing, calibration, commissioning, preventive maintenance, restoration, and return-to-service practices.
• Working knowledge of maintenance planning and scheduling processes, including work screening, field scoping, backlog prioritization, work-package readiness, schedule compliance, shutdown coordination, and work-order closeout.

Nice To Haves

• Two or more years of frontline supervisory or lead experience in a processing, manufacturing, metallurgical, chemical, utility, or other heavy-industrial maintenance environment.
• Experience supervising electrical distribution, motor-control, process-control, instrumentation, and fixed-plant maintenance and collaborating with planners and schedulers.
• Experience with shutdowns, turnarounds, major repairs, preventive and predictive maintenance, reliability processes, commissioning, testing, calibration, and contractor coordination.
• Experience using a computerized maintenance management system and/or JD Edwards.

Responsibilities

• Lead safe electrical and instrumentation work in accordance with applicable OSHA requirements, NFPA 70, NEC standards, company procedures, environmental requirements, energy-isolation requirements, and site-specific electrical and instrumentation standards.
• Conduct field inspections, pre-job reviews, risk assessments, and observations to verify safe conditions, qualified and authorized personnel, appropriate tools and testing equipment, permits, and effective work controls.
• Communicate maintenance priorities, safety expectations, electrical and instrumentation work requirements, daily assignments, results, and escalation requirements to employees and stakeholders.
• Assign work based on approved priorities, employee qualifications, electrical authorization, available labor, equipment access, work readiness, and operating conditions.
• Ensure safety inspections, training verifications, electrical authorizations, incident follow-up, and corrective actions are completed on time and work is executed in accordance with applicable requirements.
• Provide Planning with accurate and timely field scope, asset-condition, priority, labor-availability, access, risk, electrical-control, testing, calibration, and work-readiness information.
• Ensure preventive, predictive, condition-based, statutory, calibration, testing, and regulatory maintenance is completed and documented within required timeframes.
• Ensure work orders are closed promptly and accurately, documenting actual labor, materials, equipment condition, failure details, test and calibration results, follow-up needs, and execution variances for planning and reliability improvement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: High school or GED