Maintenance Excellence Leader

Clariant SE; Louisville (KY); On-site; USD 96,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Holidays

PTO carry-over

Tuition Reimbursement

Wellness Program

EAP Program

Life/AD&D Insurance

Disability Insurance

Pet Insurance

Auto/Home Insurance

Identity Theft Protection

Legal Services Plan

Annual incentive bonus

Job summary

Clariant seeks a Maintenance Excellence Leader at our Louisville, KY facility to drive safe, reliable plant operations through better planning, scheduling, and execution. You will leverage CMMS data and continuous improvement to optimize outages, prevent failures, and align maintenance with business goals.

You will lead planning, ensure SAP data integrity, manage resources, and coach teams to sustain a preventive and predictive maintenance culture while supporting safe operations and regulatory

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering required.
• 5+ years of experience in maintenance planning, scheduling, and outage management.
• 3+ years applying reliability-centered maintenance methodologies.
• Strong root cause analysis capability.
• Experience with SAP or CMMS platforms and continuous improvement methods.

Responsibilities

• Lead maintenance planning and scheduling to ensure compliant, timely maintenance aligned with plant priorities and budgets.
• Ensure compliance with local legal requirements and Clariant safety policies; manage risk and corrective actions.
• Own SAP data accuracy and documentation, including SAMACO material lists, work orders, and task plans.
• Ensure parts and labor resources are available ahead of execution to improve backlog health.
• Establish and enforce scheduling freeze periods to maximize plant uptime.
• Lead or support shutdown and outage planning and execution to minimize downtime.
• Apply reliability-centered maintenance to define effective repair strategies.
• Drive KPI tracking, PDCA cycles, gap analyses, and look-back reviews.
• Coach and train teams to sustain preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance culture.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Outage management

Root cause analysis

Reliability-centered maintenance

SAP / CMMS experience

Data-driven improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering

Tools

SAP

CMMS

Job description

Job ID: 41764 | 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 optimizing shutdowns and outages, strengthening preventive and predictive maintenance culture, and aligning maintenance activities with operational priorities and BU performance goals.

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, including SAMACO 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
• Lead or support 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
• 5+ years of experience in maintenance planning, scheduling, and outage management
• 3+ years of experience applying reliability-centered maintenance methodologies
• Strong technical aptitude with proven root cause analysis capability
• Experience with SAP or similar CMMS platforms and continuous improvement methods

What's 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.

Mahogany McClurkin
Talent Acquisition Partner
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Clariant is a Swiss-based global specialty chemicals company, which is concentrated and developed in three business units: Care Chemicals, Catalysts and Adsorbents & Additives. Our purpose as a company is reflected in our tagline "Greater chemistry - between people and planet", which considers the principles of customer, innovation and people orientation, as well as a focus on creating solutions to foster sustainability in different industries by offering high-value and high-performance chemical specialties.
At Clariant, we believe that diversity, equity and inclusion are essential to our success. We strive to cultivate a workplace where all employees feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued. Our diverse workforce allows us to tap into a wealth of perspectives, experiences, and capabilities that drive innovation. We are committed to ensuring equal opportunities for professional growth and advancement across all levels of the organization, based on objective criteria and regardless of gender, gender identity, race, ethnicity, religion, protected veteran status ,age, disability, sexual orientation or other aspects of diversity in accordance with the relevant governing laws. By bringing together talented individuals with diverse backgrounds and viewpoints, we gain the agility to meet the evolving needs of our global customers and communities. Join our team to help advance our mission of fostering a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive.

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.

We at Clariant are aware of our responsibility. Our purpose "Greater chemistry - between people and planet" describes the role we can play in the world if we align our thinking and all future decisions with it.