Maintenance Superintendent Full Time

Maintenance Superintendent Jobs in Texas

About the job

Essential Job Duties:

• Maintain protection of the environment and the health and safety of our employees, customers, and the communities in which we operate and/or transport our products as our highest priority.
• Prepare and administer programs, methods, systems, and practices for reducing costs and improving employee and plant efficiency, safety, productivity, and reliability.
• Coordinate all maintenance (mechanical, electrical and instrumentation) activities for proper, safe execution of multi-million dollar plant turnarounds.  Aggressively seek to minimize cost and duration of shutdown activities.
• Establish and monitor key measures to ensure that a comprehensive and effective maintenance and reliability program is in place and that the Maintenance Excellence Process is practiced.
• Direct and manage the site maintenance staff to implement best maintenance practices and provide technical expertise to reduce costs and improve process uptime and mechanical reliability.
• Direct the planning and scheduling program, and its effectiveness, through the use of established benchmarks and parameters.
• Control maintenance expenditures within budget requirements by monitoring expenditures, adjusting priorities, and forecasting maintenance needs.
• Coordinate and direct the use of outside resources assigned to the plant.

Qualifications

• B.S. Degree in engineering with a minimum of 5 yrs. of plant maintenance/manufacturing experience.
• Experience in design or maintenance of pressure vessels, heat exchangers, storage tanks and piping systems.
• Working knowledge of root cause and failure analysis.
• Ability to manage costs, design, implement, and maintain systems designed to optimize the performance of the maintenance function.
• Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to work as part of a team.
• High proficiency in Microsoft applications (such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work weekends, holidays and respond to callouts on a non-routine basis.
• Ability to read, write and speak in English.
• Physical requirements – Must be able to lift 40 lbs, climb ladders and stairs. Walking, bending, stooping is required. Must be able to wear personal protective equipment including the use of a respirator. Must be able to respond to visual and audible alarms.