Maintenance Facilitator

Evonik; Maitland; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Maintenance Manager to lead maintenance operations in a chemical manufacturing environment. This role involves ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards while driving improvements in plant performance and reliability. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in maintenance management, with a strong background in mechanical or electrical engineering. You will be responsible for planning and organizing maintenance activities, managing a team, and delivering small-scale projects. Join a forward-thinking company that values innovation and operational excellence, and make a significant impact on their maintenance strategies.

Qualifications

• 8-15 years of maintenance experience, preferably in chemical manufacturing.
• Mechanical or Electrical Engineer preferred, with leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage maintenance activities, ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards.
• Support plant performance and reliability initiatives to reduce downtime.
• Deliver small-scale projects and improve existing maintenance processes.

Skills

Maintenance Management

Mechanical Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Process Safety Management (PSM)

Root Cause Analysis

Project Management

Reliability Engineering

Risk Analysis

Equipment Calibration

Education

Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering

PEO or equivalent

Tools

SAP

Job description

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Support activities inherent to your role, complying with the requirements of the Global Code of Conduct; the Responsible Care Program; the Quality, Environment, Safety and Health Management System; Internal procedures; and ISO 9001, 14001 and 50001 standards when applicable.
• Maintain and improve plant performance in the areas of safety, operations, maintenance, reliability, quality and environmental compliance.
• Responsible for planning, managing, and organizing the maintenance team and required contractors to safely complete maintenance activities, technical changes/improvements, project implementation and shutdown planning.
• Support plant compliance requirements regarding mechanical integrity, Process Safety Systems and TSSA.
• Support and implement initiatives related to predictive, preventive, corrective maintenance and equipment calibration.
• Demonstrate competency and capacity to be identified as Site Subject Matter Expert for equipment and instrumentation to provide technical support, root cause analysis and guidance to other AO and/or other BL sites as required.
• Support the production and ESHQ team in issuing, reviewing and conducting preliminary risk analyzes, modification requests (MOCs), process failure analysis, near misses, non-conformity reports and PHA, as well as applicable actions and solutions for PSM related findings.
• Support the ESHQ area in complying with quality, health, safety, environmental procedures and standards; this role will be the key operational support to investigate and address any issues.
• Identify and carry out reliability initiatives to improve the process and utilities performance. Goals will be to increase equipment performance efficiency and availability to reduce downtime while meeting the maintenance and capital budgets.
• Analyze the correct specifications of the equipment, instrumentation and spare parts, and prioritize the acquiring critical equipment along with maintaining the site’s general spare parts requirements.
• Deliver small-scale projects while working within an established program management plan.
• Identify shortcomings and implement improvements to existing maintenance, mechanical and electrical processes, systems and procedures.
• Help develop procedures for the maintenance and engineering organization, and monitor their implementation.
• Deliver required outcomes by managing day-to-day relationships with contract service providers while working within an established contract management plan.
• Provide planning and organizing of daily, weekly and shutdown maintenance requirements for 4-7 resources in the maintenance team and external contractors as required.

Requirements:

• 8-15 years of Maintenance experience (Chemical Manufacturing Plant experience is preferred but not required).
• Mechanical or Electrical Engineer preferred but would consider other engineering backgrounds and candidates with equivalent technical and leadership experience.
• PEO or equivalent preferred but not required.

Preferred Unless Otherwise Stated:

• Plant/Maintenance Shop Floor Experience.
• Equipment and Instrument Procuring and Sizing.
• Maintenance and Shutdown Planning.
• PSM, PHA, MI and TSSA experience.
• Management of Change Systems and Processes.
• SAP.

Your Application:

To ensure that your application is processed as quickly as possible and to protect the environment, please apply online via our careers portal. Further information about Evonik as Employer can be found at https://careers.evonik.com.

Please address your application to the Talent Acquisition Manager, stating your earliest possible starting date and your salary expectations.

Your Talent Acquisition Manager:

Robin Rose

Company:

Evonik Canada Inc.