Maintenance Excellence Leader

Clariant Corporation; Louisville (KY); On-site; USD 95,940 - 127,920; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Holidays

PTO with carry-over

Tuition Reimbursement

Wellness Program

EAP Program

Spending and Savings Accounts

Life/AD&D Insurance

Disability Insurance

Pet Insurance

Auto/Home Insurance

Identity Theft Protection

Legal Services Plan

Job summary

Clariant Corporation is seeking a Maintenance Excellence Leader to drive safe, compliant, and reliable plant operations at our Louisville, KY facility. You will lead maintenance planning, scheduling, and execution, leveraging CMMS, data-driven insights, and continuous improvement to strengthen preventive and predictive maintenance culture.

Responsibilities include aligning maintenance with production priorities, ensuring SAP data accuracy, managing spare parts and resources, and guiding

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead maintenance planning and scheduling to ensure compliant, timely maintenance aligned with plant priorities and uptime targets.
• Ensure compliance with local legal requirements and safety policies, managing risk and corrective actions.
• Own SAP data accuracy, documentation, material lists, work orders, task plans, and SAP utilization.
• Ensure parts, materials, and labor resources are available ahead of execution to improve backlog health.
• Support shutdown and outage planning to minimize downtime and enable reliable start-ups.
• Apply RCM and root cause analysis to define effective repair strategies and reduce repeat failures.
• Drive continuous improvement through KPI tracking and PDCA cycles.
• Build a preventive/predictive/corrective maintenance culture through coaching and training.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Maintenance scheduling

Outage management

Root cause analysis

Reliability-centered maintenance

KPI tracking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering

Tools

SAP CMMS

Job description

Job ID: 41251 | Location: Louisville, Kentucky, USA | Expected Salary Range*: $95,940.00 - $127,920.00 | Work Model: Onsite

Clariant is seeking a Maintenance Excellence Leader to support the Catalysts Business Unit at our Louisville, KY production facility. This role drives safe, compliant, and reliable plant operations through best-in-class maintenance planning, scheduling, and execution. Leveraging CMMS technology, data-driven insights, and continuous improvement practices, the Maintenance Excellence Leader ensures work is well-defined, properly resourced, and executed on time. The position plays a key role in strengthening preventive and predictive maintenance culture, and aligning maintenance activities with operational priorities and BU performance goals. If you're passionate about reliability, operational excellence, and making a measurable impact, we encourage you to apply!

Responsibilities

• Lead maintenance planning and scheduling to ensure all critical equipment has compliant, timely maintenance aligned with plant priorities, uptime targets, and budgets
• Ensure compliance with all local legal requirements, permits, and Clariant safety and environmental policies, proactively managing risk and corrective actions
• Own maintenance of SAP data accuracy and documentation, material lists, work orders, task plans, and SAP utilization
• Ensure parts, materials, and labor resources are available ahead of execution, improving backlog health and work order readiness
• Establish and enforce scheduling freeze periods to maximize plant uptime while managing changing production demands
• S upport shutdown and outage planning and execution to minimize downtime and enable reliable vertical start-ups
• Apply reliability-centered maintenance and root cause analysis to define effective repair strategies and reduce repeat failures
• Drive continuous improvement through KPI tracking, PDCA cycles, gap analyses, and structured look-back reviews
• Build and sustain a preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance culture through coaching, training, and accountability

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering is preferred
• 5+ years of experience in maintenance planning, scheduling, and outage management
• 3+ years of experience applying reliability-centered maintenance methodologiesStrong technical aptitude with proven root cause analysis capability
• Experience with SAP or similar CMMS platforms and continuous improvement methods

Whats in it for you?

• Paid Holidays
• PTO time with a carry‑over benefit
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Wellness Program
• EAP Program
• Spending and Savings Accounts
• Life/AD&D Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• Pet Insurance
• Auto/Home Insurance
• Identity Theft Protection
• Legal Services Plan
• *Includes base salary and annual incentive bonus; final offer based on skills, experience and internal equity.

Clariant Corporation is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected Veteran status, or any other protected class as established by law.