Prod. & Maintenance Coordinator

Suncoke; East Chicago (IN); On-site; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

SunCoke in East Chicago, IN is seeking a Maintenance Planner/Supervisor to oversee maintenance scheduling, contractor coordination, and headcount budgeting. The role ensures work orders are precise, resources are aligned, and outages are executed on time.

The ideal candidate has an associate degree with 2–5 years of related experience and supervisory/contractor management readiness. CMRP is preferred, with a focus on reliability and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Associate's degree or equivalent from two-year college or technical school.
• 2 to 5 years related experience and/or training; supervisory/contractor management preferred.
• CMRP certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Reviews all non-emergency work requests to ensure content meets process requirements and dates.
• Coordinates contractor activities while adhering to bargaining unit requirements and union meetings.
• Monitors site maintenance headcount including SunCoke and third-party services within budget.
• Elevates need to increase budgeted headcount for surge maintenance and outages.
• Facilitates weekly scheduling and aligns planned work with available resources.
• Directs minor maintenance to production technicians to optimize resource use.
• Coaches originators when work orders lack proper details or descriptions.
• Ensures Management of Change processes are followed when necessary.
• Reviews backlog to prioritize high-value, timely jobs, maintaining regulatory compliance.
• Elevates maintenance overtime to meet process unit needs and reviews daily schedules.
• Acts as liaison between operations and maintenance to resolve scheduling issues.
• Provides schedule information to Production Operators for equipment prep.
• Contributes to reliability-driven improvements and ensures the team understands workflow.
• Follows all SSEP requirements and manages the plant winterization program.

Skills

Contractor management

Scheduling

Leadership

Budgeting

Communication

Education

Associate's degree

Job description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Reviews all non-emergency work requests to ensure work order content meets process requirements and requested completion dates facilities planning lead times.

• Coordinates the site’s contractor activities while adhering to bargaining unit requirements, including meeting regularly with the union.
• Monitoring and reporting of the site maintenance headcount (SunCoke, resident contractors and third-party services) to ensure staffing levels are within budgetary constraints.
• Elevates the need to increase budgeted headcount for surge maintenance and outage events.
• Facilitates the weekly scheduling meeting and ensures that planned work is matched with available resources. The content of the weekly schedule is a collaborative effort between all plant departments with the PMC having final determination of the schedule.
• Redirecting minor maintenance activities to production technicians as time, tools, and material are available to ensure optimal use of maintenance resources
• Coaching and providing feedback to the originator when work orders are not properly entered or are entered with insufficient descriptions,
• Ensuring the Management of Change process is followed when necessary.
• Continually reviewing work order back log to ensure jobs with highest priority and added value are prioritized, planned, and executed in a timely fashion such that regulatory requirements are maintained and reliability is not jeopardized.
• The PMC elevates the need for maintenance overtime to ensure jobs will complete in time to meet the needs of the process unit
• Reviewing daily schedules to ensure they meet the plants needs
• Acts as liaison between operations and maintenance groups on any problems adhering to the schedule
• Providing schedule information to the Production Operators for equipment preparation needs.
• Participating in the identification and implementation of reliability driven improvements
• Ensure work group has a full understanding of the workflow process
• Follows all SSEP requirements
• Manages the plant winterization program.

Education Requirements / Work Experience:

Associate's degree (A. A.) or equivalent from two-Year College or technical school; 2 to 5 years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Previous supervisory experience / contractor management is preferred.

Certifications:

CMRP preferred.

This is in no way states or implies that these are the only responsibilities of, and the duties to be performed by, the employee occupying this position.