At INEOS Pigments, we value the contribution of our people in making us one of the largest producers of titanium dioxide in North America. Providing numerous products and services to industries around the globe, from coatings to plastics to paper and other end-uses, we invest in employee development and offer a wide range of career opportunities, offering everyone the chance to broaden their experience and build a professionally rewarding career.

The Production Maintenance Coordinator (PMC) coordinates the daily activities between the Operations and Maintenance groups to ensure the safe, cost efficient, and environmentally sound execution of plant maintenance work. Ensures all types of approved work requests, including HSE, regulatory, quality, and reliability add value and are prioritized, planned, and scheduled ready for execution by the maintenance organization in the most cost-effective way. This role reviews the work requested for appropriate scope and justification and provides maintenance with the appropriate priorities based upon business needs, production needs and budget constraints. It is classified as a Safety Critical Role.

• Follow and be a role model demonstrating the Behavioral and Process Safety Principles and Life Saving Rules
• Ensure assets are maintained to operate within their designed parameters and appropriate standards
• Assure compliance with environmental permits and legal regulations
• Complete all computer based safety training
• Attend scheduled safety meetings
• Develop schedules and detailed work order specifications and coordinates execution of work orders, change orders, inspections and repairs
• Set up plant maintenance schedule, ensuring that materials, equipment and staff are available
• Arrange for delivery and distribution of supplies and parts to expedite workflow and meet agreed schedules
• Monitor priorities, backlogs, breakdowns, and other aspects affecting planned scheduling.
• Work with the cost center manager to manage unit maintenance costs by tracking / forecasting monthly spending and approving discretionary spending
• Work with maintenance and operations personnel on daily basis to prioritize maintenance jobs in compliance with the site’s job prioritization matrix
• Serves as the central communication/coordination hub for priority 1 jobs
• Ensure that scope of work addresses all critical issues concerning production, maintenance and plant reliability while minimizing downtime
• For Complex and/or non-routine jobs not covered by SOP’s, create written operations plans that systematically outlines equipment preparation procedures, including necessary details
• Provide key leadership for planning and execution of minor and major turnarounds; includes day-by-day work flow planning, ensuring schedule compliance, and coordination of post-turnaround audits to ensure improvements are incorporated into future turnaround strategies
• Work with maintenance and operations to refine/optimize job plans for the efficient execution of all maintenance and RFC work
• Attend daily/weekly planning and scheduling meetings and communicates information on equipment criticality, product scheduling requirements, outage opportunities, and any problems affecting quality or utility
• Review the daily maintenance schedule to ensure that the scope of each job meets the plant needs
• Ensure accountability for executing work per the schedule, by pointing out deficiencies/inefficiencies to operations and maintenance supervision in an honest and professional manner
• Review all RFC packages issued from the technical group to understand the scope of the project, its intended objective, and any safety, environmental or operational implications; may call on other operational resources to review RFC before implementation
• Proactively seek opportunities to improve existing work processes by updating procedures and or proposing and implementing better methods
• Reliability & Cost Control
• Other duties as assigned

About You

You should possess:

• High school diploma or equivalent required.  Post-secondary education in a related discipline is a plus
• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in a chemical manufacturing environment
• Experience as a Production or Maintenance Supervisor is a plus
• A thorough understanding of the plant chemical processes, plant equipment, operating economics, as well as a good mechanical aptitude and general knowledge of maintenance processes.
• The ability to create, maintain data and use reporting features of SAP and Microsoft Office Products
• Excellent knowledge of SAP with specific knowledge in the maintenance, storeroom, and purchasing module
• Production Operations & Maintenance: Knowledge of day-to-day and strategic issues, operational requirements and management of a production facility.
• Process Management: Knowledge of business process improvement tools and techniques and ability to understand, monitor, update, or enhance existing business or work process.
• Information Capture: Knowledge of the processes and the ability to identify, capture and document relevant business information in an auditable, organized, understandable and easily retrievable manner
• Technical Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, and techniques for recognizing and resolving technical (mechanical, electrical, systems or operational) problems
• Operational Safety: Knowledge of methods, accepted practices, considerations and regulatory requirements associated with safety and protection of workers, environment and site
• Change Control (Operations): Knowledge of and experience effectively managing changes to the operational environment and process.
• Operations Regulatory Environment: Knowledge and understanding of federal, state and local laws and regulations affecting operational practices and activities in chemical processing or mining industries
• Risk Management: Knowledge of processes, tools and techniques for assessing and controlling an organization's exposure to risks of various kinds; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations

Schedule/Hours

This is a salaried exempt day shift position.

Our Ashtabula, Ohio Complex, consisting of two plants just south of Lake Erie, is a state of the art manufacturing complex with leading technology and more than 45 years of manufacturing excellence.

INEOS Pigments offers a competitive salary with an annual bonus and a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability with the buy-up option, basic life & AD&D insurance with a buy-up option for self and dependents, 401(k) with company match.

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