Maintenance Excellence Leader: Reliability & Cost Optimizer

Olin Chemicals; Freeport (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

All-In Benefits

Travel opportunities up to 10%

Competitive compensation and benefits

Job summary

Olin Chemicals in Freeport, TX is seeking a Maintenance Excellence Manager to lead the site's maintenance governance and strategy, aligning routine maintenance, turnarounds and capital projects with Operations, Engineering and Reliability.

You will drive reliability, cost performance, and continuous improvement by developing KPIs, overseeing work execution, and partnering with contractors to deliver safe, efficient plant operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering plus 10+ years of leadership experience or a high school diploma with 15+ years in industrial leadership.
• Experience across large maintenance organizations and cross-functional teams.
• Experience implementing maintenance governance and performance metrics.

Responsibilities

• Develop and drive the site's maintenance excellence strategy, standardizing processes and leading continuous improvement to enhance reliability, productivity, and cost performance.
• Advance reliability and predictive maintenance programs to improve equipment performance, reduce downtime, and optimize asset lifecycle management.
• Provide oversight of turnaround planning and execution, establishing performance standards and integrating turnaround, maintenance, and capital project activities.
• Optimize contractor utilization, provide performance oversight, and improve integration between routine maintenance, turnarounds, and capital projects.
• Drive maintenance cost performance through budgeting, forecasting, spending analysis, and identification of cost improvement opportunities.
• Develop dashboards and KPIs to monitor maintenance performance and support business decision-making.
• Establish maintenance governance processes, lead performance reviews, and facilitate root cause analysis and corrective action planning.
• Lead and develop maintenance excellence teams while fostering cross-functional collaboration, accountability, and a culture of continuous improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional teams

Financial acumen

Maintenance governance

Predictive maintenance

Reliability improvement

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

High school diploma with 15+ years leadership

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Office

Power BI

Job description

Olin Chemicals in Freeport, TX is seeking a Maintenance Excellence Manager to lead the site's maintenance governance and strategy, aligning routine maintenance, turnarounds and capital projects with Operations, Engineering and Reliability.

You will drive reliability, cost performance, and continuous improvement by developing KPIs, overseeing work execution, and partnering with contractors to deliver safe, efficient plant operations.