Job description

Scope of the Position

As leader of the maintenance department, you will be responsible for overall utilization of plant resources to achieve strategic maintenance and reliability objectives. This includes compliance with Chemtrade Responsible Care objectives including the maintenance and reliability program, preparation and tracking of maintenance budget, implementation of capital projects, and management of all maintenance activities including the annual turnaround. The maintenance manager manages in the 1 month to 1 year time frame.

What You Need To Be Successful

5 years minimum supervisory experience in a reliability or maintenance setting in any of the following industries: Chemical, Oil Refinery, Power, or Pulp and Paper
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering from an ABET accredited university or equivalent foreign accreditation
Experience with preventative maintenance programs
Proven experience as an industrial safety leader
Competent user of all Microsoft Office programs and experience with SAP
Experience using a Computerized Maintenance Management System
Ability to “adjust on the fly” to changing priorities
Ability to manage multiple priorities

Key Responsibilities

Safety and Environmental - accountable for the entire maintenance department’s adherence to safety policies and procedures. The maintenance manager sets the example for safety in the department by leading outage hazard recognition meetings, auditing daily crew meetings, performing housekeeping audits, and maintaining excellent personal safety performance. The maintenance manager also leads or participates in incident investigation.

Plant maintenance and reliability program leader – implement and update policies and procedures and oversee the plant mechanical integrity program which includes: Vibration Analysis, RCFA, Oil Analysis, Infrared Analysis, Maintenance Work Flow, and other developing reliability programs. The maintenance manager is accountable for reliability metrics such as plant availability, and for completing the majority of the action items from the corporate database.

Maintenance budget – accountable for cost control of daily work, 1 day outages, and annual turnaround. Also responsible for budgeting, scheduling, pre-outage hazard preparation, measurement metrics, critiques, etc.

Plant Reliability and Maintenance Engineer – Perform engineering troubleshooting of plant process and/or equipment issues and also lead group troubleshooting meetings.

Capital projects - development and management of projects.

People – Hold maintenance department accountable to performance expectations – assist maintenance supervisor when needed on people issues such as answering grievances and other contract relations.

Position: Salaried-exempt

Reports to: Regional Manager

CHEMTRADE is a publically traded (TSX: CHE.UN) chemical manufacturing and handling company headquartered in Toronto, Canada with 65+ locations across North America and Brazil. Chemtrade provides industrial chemicals and services to our customers in three main business segments; Sulphur & Performance Chemicals, Water Solutions and Electrochemicals. Chemtrade is a reliable industry partner to the Oil & Gas, Pulp & Paper, Water Treatment, Food & Beverage and Pharmaceutical industries and is committed to the codes and ethics of Responsible Care 14001.

We wish to thank all applicants for their interest and effort in applying for the position; however, only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.

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