Maintenance Superintendent

PF Holdings; Shreveport (LA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

PF Holdings is seeking a Maintenance Superintendent to oversee plant maintenance and project activities, schedule work, and lead a team to ensure safe, timely, cost-efficient production.

The role requires several years in sand plant environments and prior supervision experience, with emphasis on preventive maintenance, budgets, and safety training. This full-time on-site position offers growth opportunities within a manufacturing setting.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Three (3) or more years’ experience working sand plant.
• One (1) or more years’ experience supervising, coordinating, managing, and training maintenance personnel.

Responsibilities

• Oversee supervisory responsibilities including hiring, training, scheduling, and performance counseling.
• Ensure adherence to HR and HSE policies and procedures.
• Engage in proactive communication with supervisory team and maintenance personnel.
• Examine systems to determine needed installations, services, or repairs.
• Requisition materials and replacement parts.
• Work to reduce downtime by identifying root causes and implementing action plans.
• Analyze costs and benefits of maintenance, capital growth, and shutdowns; recommend strategies to minimize interruptions.
• Prepare and manage departmental budgets for maintenance and MOB capital.
• Interpret specifications and blueprints to lay out templates for workers.
• Train staff in safety, repair, and maintenance techniques.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

The Maintenance Superintendent ensures the plant’s maintenance activities meet the needs for optimal plant production efforts. Oversees all maintenance and project activities, including determining schedules, sequences, and assignments for work activities, based on work priority, quantity of equipment and skill of personnel and ensure each are completed in safe, timely, cost-effective, and efficient.

Responsibilities:

• Makes recommendations as part of a full range of supervisory responsibilities including hiring, training, scheduling of work, grievances, performance counseling, and recommendations for promotions, demotions, and termination of employment.

• Ensures that all relevant Human Resources and HSE policies and procedures are followed and adhered to.

• Engage in proactive communication with supervisory team and maintenance personnel.

• Examines objects, systems, or facilities, and analyzes information to determine needed installations, services, or repairs.

• Requisitions materials and supplies, such as tools, equipment, and replacement parts.

• Work to continuously improve production capacity by identifying root causes of downtime and implementing action plans to reduce recurrences.

• Analyzes costs and benefits of equipment maintenance, capital growth and improvements, and production unit maintenance shutdowns. Recommends strategies that minimize production interruptions and optimize production capacity.

• Prepares, maintains, and controls departmental expense and maintenance-of-business (MOB) capital budgets to meet company objectives.

• Interprets specifications, blueprints, and job orders to construct templates and lay out reference points for workers.

• Conducts and enforces worker training in safety, repair, and maintenance techniques, operational procedures, or equipment use.

• Performs other related duties as required.

Other Requirements:

• High School Diploma or GED required.

• Three (3) or more years’ experience working sand plant.

• One (1) or more years’ experience with supervising, coordinating, managing, and training maintenance personnel.

Mental and Physical Requirements:

• Able to read, speak and write English.

• Frequently required to Lift/Carry or Push/Pull 75 lbs.

• Work performed in a plant environment. Exposure to inclement weather as most work will be performed outside.

• Comply with and enforce Company Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) policy.

• Auditory and fall protection applicable when required.

• Sensitive to confidential information.

• Must work independently and as a member of a team.

This job description should not be interpreted as an exhaustive list of responsibilities or as an employment agreement between the employer and employee. The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification and is subject to change as the needs of the employer and requirements of the job change. Any essential functions of this position will be evaluated as necessary should an employee/applicant be unable to perform the functions or requirements due to a disability as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Reasonable accommodation for the specific disability will be made for the employee/applicant when possible.