Technical Coordinator

Evonik • Etowah, TN

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About The Position

The Technical Coordinator manages site activities to maximize production-area downtime. The role ensures work notifications are entered, converted to orders, planned, scheduled, and executed effectively in relation to schedules and costs. Work includes preventive maintenance, capital projects, outages, daily work, and industrial cleaning. The coordinator maintains a prioritized work list, supports communication and coordination among maintenance, materials management, and production, coordinates delivery of critical components, and assists stakeholders with resource needs. The position also gatekeeps new orders and manages the site backlog, tracks and reports production-line OEE, and leads the energy team by monitoring consumption and recommending and implementing reductions, including ISO 50001 implementation for ETO.

The role coordinates maintenance and production schedules; schedules daily plant work alongside production; optimizes changeovers, cleanouts, and scheduled maintenance; fills outage windows with reliability-focused work; maintains ready-to-implement opportunity work for unplanned equipment availability; identifies recurring equipment problems and supports long-term solutions; and prioritizes compliance work. It monitors energy and operational KPIs, liaises with site utilities and Evonik teams on energy, supports improvement recommendations, and ensures compliance with environmental, health, and safety policies and applicable regulations. Other activities may be assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical discipline.
• At least seven years of progressive industrial maintenance, reliability, or engineering experience, with demonstrated leadership and technical achievement.
• Proven ability to lead, develop, and engage technical teams in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong organizational, planning, and prioritization skills, including the ability to manage competing business priorities.
• Highly developed conflict-management skills.
• Ability to relate to and work with varied personalities across multiple departments.
• Working knowledge of safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements applicable to industrial operations.
• Experience using reliability-improvement tools, including Root Cause Analysis, Failure Elimination, and continuous-improvement methodologies.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Project.
• SAP experience.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing principles, including 5S, Kaizen, A3 Problem Solving, and continuous-improvement methodologies.
• Familiarity with ISO programs and compliance.
• Auditor training.

Responsibilities

• Manage downtime on production equipment to minimize its impact on available production hours.
• Gatekeep new orders and manage the site backlog; coordinate maintenance and production planning schedules to maximize plant downtime.
• Schedule daily plant work for the technical team and publish the schedule in conjunction with the production schedule.
• Maximize the effectiveness of product changeovers, cleanouts, and scheduled maintenance work.
• Schedule work during outages to make effective use of allocated downtime and resources and improve equipment reliability, including during major turnarounds.
• Maintain a list of planned, ready-to-implement opportunity work for periods of unplanned equipment availability.
• Identify recurring equipment problems (“bad actors”) by tracking repair costs or downtime and assist in developing long-term solutions.
• Prioritize and schedule compliance work required by Mechanical Integrity, ISO, GMP, and other applicable requirements.
• Monitor site energy consumption, reduction, and reporting efforts; liaise between site utilities and Evonik teams on energy matters.
• Lead implementation and monitoring of ISO 50001 for ETO.
• Ensure compliance with environmental, health, and safety policies and applicable governmental regulations.
• Monitor KPIs with production, maintenance, and materials management to identify improvement opportunities.
• Track site production-line OEE and provide recommendations for improvement.
• Complete other activities as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level