Superintendent, Maintenance Routine Ammonia
Donaldsonville, LA - USA
Job Summary
Function:
MaintenanceThe Routine Ammonia Maintenance Superintendent is responsible for leading mechanical maintenance activities across the ammonia plants and associated support facilities. The role manages a blended workforce of CF employees and contract personnel and is accountable for the safe reliable high-quality and cost-effective execution of routine and plant-outage maintenance work. The Superintendent manages the annual maintenance budget develops employees coordinates priorities across departments and drives improvements in safe work execution productivity and cost performance.
II. Responsibilities:
Safety Environmental and Security Leadership
Provide visible field leadership and ensure maintenance activities meet environmental health safety security and housekeeping expectations.
Promote accountability for hazard recognition procedure compliance quality execution and timely correction of unsafe or noncompliant conditions.
Routine and Outage Maintenance Execution
Ensure routine and outage work requests within the area of responsibility are reviewed prioritized planned scheduled and executed.
Maintain appropriate focus on preventive maintenance corrective work emergent repairs and plant-outage preparation and execution.
Coordinate with Operations Reliability Engineering Procurement and EHS to resolve barriers affecting permits materials equipment readiness and field execution.
Monitor field progress schedule performance work quality productivity and equipment return-to-service readiness.
Reliability and Production Support
Maintain equipment in a manner that supports established production efficiency and reliability goals excluding planned events.
Partner with Operations Engineering and Reliability to address equipment risks repeat failures bad actors and maintenance-driven production losses.
Use equipment history work-order information field observations and lessons learned to improve future maintenance execution.
Support the development and consistent application of maintenance standards and best practices.
Budget and Business Plan Management
Prepare the annual maintenance budget and maintain effective cost controls for Ammonia Plants 1 through 6 and their respective support facilities.
Monitor forecasts commitments contractor spending and cost performance and take timely action when variances arise.
Balance safety reliability production needs schedule requirements and cost when establishing work priorities and allocating resources.
Provide clear status risk and cost information to plant and maintenance leadership.
Employee Leadership and Development
Set clear expectations for employees and contractors and assign resources to maximize workforce capability and effective work execution.
Develop employees through coaching feedback training development planning and meaningful work assignments.
Provide accurate and timely performance feedback for planners and other assigned employees and support succession planning.
Promote open communication collaboration accountability and respectful working relationships across departments.
Contractor Management
Oversee work performed by outside contractors and hold contractor organizations accountable for safety quality productivity staffing schedule compliance and cost.
Ensure contractor roles work boundaries technical requirements and performance expectations are clearly communicated.
Monitor contractor work in the field and address performance concerns before they affect safety quality cost or schedule.
Coordinate contractor requirements and resource needs in advance of routine work outages and other major maintenance events.
Internal Controls and Continuous Improvement
Establish and implement processes and procedures required to meet departmental internal-control requirements.
Ensure established processes and procedures are followed as designed and that required records and approvals are maintained.
Work with other departments to identify deficiencies in existing processes and revise the applicable processes or procedures as needed.
Identify opportunities to improve planning work execution productivity reliability cost control and repeatability.
III. Incumbent Attributes:
Bachelors degree in Engineering or Construction Management from an ABET-accredited university with at least seven years of chemical or refinery plant experience; or a high school diploma or equivalent with at least ten years of demonstrated chemical or refinery plant planning scheduling maintenance or supervisory experience.
Demonstrated leadership experience managing employees contractors competing priorities maintenance costs and field execution in an industrial environment.
Strong communication technical organizational analytical and decision-making skills.
Working knowledge of fixed mechanical maintenance preventive maintenance work management outage execution contractor oversight budgeting and equipment reliability.
Ability to coordinate effectively with Maintenance Operations Engineering Reliability Procurement EHS and contractor organizations.
Working knowledge of a computerized maintenance management system such as SAP and common Microsoft Office applications.
Must be able to acquire maintain and possess a valid Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC).
Must satisfy company drug- and alcohol-testing requirements including random and for-cause testing.
The statements above describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties qualifications or working conditions associated with the role.
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