Maintenance Supervisor

Westlake; Prairie (MS); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Westlake is seeking a Senior Maintenance/Plant Manager to direct repair, maintenance, and installation of machinery and facilities at the Prairie Plant in the United States. The role oversees a team, drives safety, and coordinates with engineering, quality, and management to optimize operations.

The candidate will lead preventative maintenance programs, manage capex input, and ensure timely work orders, training, and performance metrics across maintenance and facilities teams.

Qualifications

• High school diploma with an approved Instrument/Electrical course or equivalent field experience.
• 8+ years of plant maintenance/repair experience.
• Proven supervisory/administrative abilities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Proficient in SAP (S/4) and MS Office.
• Ability to communicate with all management levels.

Responsibilities

• Safety & environment: support accident prevention and environmental excellence; inspect machines for standards; resolve safety issues with management and engineering.
• Supply Chain: review spares inventories and procure critical spares.
• Production: plan, develop, and implement methods to improve operations and reduce costs; discuss equipment needs with project engineer.
• Control: supervise skilled workers maintaining equipment, structures, and utility systems; participate in strategic planning.
• Quality: supervise reliability engineer and maintenance staff; ensure timecards and work plans are accurate; review backlogs and set priorities.

Skills

Excellent communication

Supervisory skills

Influence skills

SAP knowledge

Education

High school diploma + Instrument/Electrical course

Tools

SAP

Job description

Westlake offers you the potential to enrich your work life and career experience in an entrepreneurial environment. We work together to enhance peoples’ lives through our products and presence in the communities in which we operate.

SUMMARY

Direct and coordinates activities of workers engaged in repair, maintenance, and installation of machines, tools and equipment, and in maintenance of buildings, grounds and utility systems of included in the Prairie Plant by performing the following duties personally or through subordinate supervisors.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

May include, but are not limited to, the following:

Safety, Environment:

• Support and drive, accident prevention and environmental excellence.
• Inspect operating machines and equipment for conformance with operational standards.
• Confers with management, engineering, and quality control personnel to resolve safety issues and maintenance problems and recommends measures to improve operations and conditions of machines and equipment.

Supply Chain:

• Reviews equipment spares inventories and ensures that critical spares are procured.

Production:

• Plans, develops, and implements new methods and procedures designed to improve operations, minimize operating costs, and effect greater utilization of labor and materials.
• Reviews new product plans and discusses equipment needs and modification with project engineer.

Control:

• Manages and coordinates activities of a team of skilled workers engaged in maintaining and repairing equipment, structures, utility systems, buildings, and grounds.
• As a member of the senior management team at the Prairie facility, participates in team meetings, strategic planning and PIP.
• Develops preventative maintenance program in conjunction with reliability engineering and maintenance staff.
• Writes AFE’s and supports Capex efforts annually.

Quality:

• Directly supervises the reliability engineer, maintenance supervisor, and maintenance planner ensuring that metrics and goals are achieved within each contributor’s purview.
• Directly supervises the maintenance department; oversees the performance management, attendance and training functions.
• Coordinates activities of workers fabricating or modifying machines, tools, or equipment to manufacture new products or improve existing products.
• Review backlog of new Work Orders with maintenance supervisor & maintenance planner weekly to confirm priorities for planning.
• Ensures storeroom is neat and orderly.
• Evaluate and assure accurate timecards, material requisitions, work plans, and schedules are being utilized.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

• High school diploma or equivalent required, plus completion of an approved Instrument/Electrical course or equivalent field experience and 8+ years plant experience.
• Good working knowledge of equipment, materials, techniques, and safeguards in respective discipline for maintenance and construction of a compounding plant.
• Proven supervisory/administrative skills.
• Excellent communications skills, both verbal and written is mandatory
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Windows and knowledge of SAP (S/4).
• Must be able to communicate to all levels of local management and to other departments to explain problems and proposed solutions.
• Ability to impact and influence, and to persuade others to a particular course of action

Westlake is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristics protected by applicable legislation.

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