Maintenance Coordinator

ISP Chemicals LLC; Calvert City (KY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Ashland is seeking an Area Maintenance Coordinator at our Calvert City, KY site. This individual contributor role focuses on planning and coordinating maintenance activities to minimize downtime and support safe, efficient plant operations.

You will work with area personnel, maintenance teams, and engineering to schedule PMs, inspections, and unit shutdowns, while tracking KPIs and reducing emergency work orders. Strong safety leadership is essential.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in roles of manufacturing supervision, maintenance supervision, maintenance planning, or maintenance coordination is preferred.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and organization skills are required.
• Teamwork and team leadership abilities are required.
• Chemical plant operation or chemical plant maintenance experience is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in safety and safety leadership is required.

Responsibilities

• Schedule equipment to be properly prepared (clean, LOTO, etc.) and ready for maintenance while minimizing downtime.
• Schedule Preventive Maintenance (PM) work on a timely basis.
• Coordinate with Asset Integrity & Reliability Eng’g and maintenance personnel to ensure all ITPMs are scheduled and completed on time.
• Provide area input to maintenance personnel and define equipment setups for safe maintenance repair.
• Plan unit shutdowns and manage R&M spending by capitalizing repair jobs that result in equipment replacement.
• Reduce the number of emergency work orders and daily use of CMMS (Maximo).
• Estimate and plan maintenance work and its impact on plant production equipment availability.
• Schedule and manage annual unit maintenance shutdowns.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Maintenance coordination

Preventive maintenance

KPIs

Excel

Communication skills

OSHA knowledge

Safety leadership

Tools

Maximo CMMS

Job description

ISP Chemicals LLC Specialties Area Maintenance Coordinator

Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious? Are you always solving? Then we’d like to meet you and bet you’d like to meet us. Ashland has an exciting opportunity for an Area Maintenance Coordinator to join our Ashland LLC business at our Calvert City, Ky. This position will report to the Operations/Maintenance Manager.

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Work with area and maintenance personnel to schedule equipment to be properly prepared (clean, LOTO, etc) & ready for maintenance while minimizing downtime.
• Work with area and maintenance personnel to schedule Preventative Maintenance (PM) work on a timely basis.
• Coordinate with Asset Integrity & Reliability Eng’g and maintenance personnel to ensure all required ITPMs (inspections, testing & preventive maintenance) are scheduled and completed on time.
• Provide area input to maintenance personnel.
• Define equipment set ups for safe maintenance repair.
• Work with area and maintenance personnel to plan unit shutdowns.
• Manage R & M spending by capitalizing repair jobs that result in equipment replacement.
• Work with maintenance and area personnel to reduce the number of emergency work orders.
• Daily use of CMMS (Maximo).
• Estimate and plan maintenance work and its impact on plant production equipment availability.
• Schedule and manage various aspects of annual unit maintenance shutdowns.
• Actively contribute to the organizational goals by taking initiative, executing on goals and focusing on performance and safety Improve the organization capacity and capabilities through building collaborative relationships, optimizing diverse talent and utilizing positive communications and influence with others.

What This Role Is Not:

Not a management position – while you will collaborate with other team members, this is an individual contributor role with no direct reports however this position can be used for relief FLL responsibilities Not an entry level position – we need a candidate to hit the ground running with solid experience and a background to prove it

In order to be qualified for this role, you must possess the following:

• Significant experience in roles of manufacturing supervision, maintenance supervision, maintenance planning, or maintenance coordination is preferred.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and organization skills are required.
• Teamwork and team leadership abilities are required.
• Chemical plant operation or chemical plant maintenance experience is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in safety and safety leadership is required.
• Strong mechanical aptitude and experience is required.
• Demonstrated responsible and ethical behavior at all times.
• The ability to help the company drive greater value through understanding the business, making complex decisions and creating the new and different.

The following skill sets are preferred by the business unit:

• Three or more years of maintenance planning, coordination, or supervisory experience in an industrial manufacturing environment.
• Proficiency with CMMS (Maximo) software and maintenance scheduling.
• Strong knowledge of preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
• Experience managing maintenance KPIs, labor utilization, and spare parts inventory.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Outlook, and other Microsoft Office applications.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Understanding of OSHA requirements and industrial safety practices.
• Experience supporting continuous improvement and reliability initiatives.

Third party recruiters and agencies (“Agency”) should not contact employees of Ashland or its subsidiaries directly. Any resumes sent by an Agency to a hiring manager, recruiter or submitted to Ashland’s career portal are considered unsolicited and property of Ashland. Ashland will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume, unless the Agency has a signed contract with Ashland’s Human Resources/Procurement department in advance of submitting a candidate for consideration. Verbal and written approvals will not be considered a valid contract for service.

In more than 100 countries, the people of Ashland LLC. (NYSE: ASH) provide the specialty chemicals, technologies and insights to help customers create new and improved products for today and sustainable solutions for tomorrow. Our chemistry is at work every day in a wide variety of markets and applications, including architectural coatings, automotive, construction, energy, personal care and pharmaceutical. Visit www.ashland.com to see the innovations we offer.

At Ashland our vision is to be a leading, global specialty chemicals company whose inspired and engaged employees add value to all we touch. In fact our people, employees, customers and vendors define who we are. They are the driving force behind everything we do. Not only do we value our customers but we value our employees, and we work to offer them a dynamic and challenging environment. We hold ourselves to high standards at Ashland, and we value integrity and honesty.

Ashland has a history of attracting the best people and keeping them. The reasons are simple: industry competitive salary and benefits, pay-for-performance incentive plans and a diverse work environment where employees feel challenged and valued. People come to Ashland and stay. As a growing Fortune 500 specialty chemicals company, we offer opportunities for development and advancement throughout our global organization.

Our values define who we are and what we care about as a company. If you are looking for a relationship with a company instead of simply a job, this may be a great fit.

Ashland is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

NOTE: We do not accept resumes from external staffing agencies or independent recruiters for any of our openings unless we have a signed recruiting agreement in place to fill a specific position.

Infinite possibilities Creating good chemistry isn’t just about what happens when you add the right ingredients together. It’s about what happens when the right people are one of the ingredients. Good chemistry – the kind that can transform a market or a world – is what makes Ashland different and what makes us better. If you’re passionate about the infinite possibilities created through good chemistry, we have a rewarding and challenging opportunity for you to help us make great things happen every day for our customers, our communities, our investors and our colleagues around the world.