Senior Machine Shop Maintenance Lead

Deer Park Refining Limited Partnership; Deer Park (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Deer Park Refining Limited Partnership in Deer Park, TX, seeks a Maintenance Supervisor for the Central Machine Shop to lead rotating-equipment repair programs, ensure safety, quality, and on-time execution. You will supervise machinists and coordinate with outside shops, vendors, and maintenance teams to deliver reliable refinery performance, optimize costs, and drive continuous improvement.

Candidates should have extensive machine shop leadership experience, hands-on machining knowledge, and

Qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership experience in a machine shop, rotating-equipment repair shop, industrial maintenance organization, or similar environment.
• Practical knowledge of pumps and other rotating equipment.
• Experience in teardown, inspection, repair, and rebuild of rotating or mechanical equipment.
• Machining parts using manual lathes, mills, boring equipment, grinders, or similar machine tools.
• Ability to interpret mechanical drawings, fits, clearances, tolerances, dimensional inspection results, and repair documentation.
• Strong safety, quality, accountability, and continuous improvement mindset.

Responsibilities

• Provide visible safety leadership and maintain a safe, professional, clean, and orderly shop environment.
• Lead daily shop tailgate meetings and communicate work priorities, risks, constraints, and expectations.
• Supervise, coach, and develop represented machinists and the Outside Shops Coordinator.
• Set clear expectations for safety, quality, productivity, accountability, and teamwork, including recognition of high performance and management of underperformance.
• Plan, prioritize, assign, and monitor inside shop work based on plant needs, equipment criticality, available resources, and required completion dates.
• Oversee equipment teardown, inspection, machining, repair, assembly, testing, preservation, and documentation.
• Ensure repairs comply with company standards, engineering requirements, approved specifications, and equipment manufacturer recommendations.
• Coordinate technical reviews and document required approvals when repairs deviate from established standards or scopes.
• Oversee equipment and components sent to outside shops for machining, welding, nondestructive examination, balancing, heat treatment, and other specialty services.
• Monitor outside-shop performance related to safety, quality, cost, schedule, communication, and documentation.
• Maintain visibility of equipment status, repair scope, material needs, costs, constraints, and expected completion dates. Communicate updates to stakeholders regularly.
• Ensure repair records, inspection reports, dimensional measurements, drawings, approvals, and other required documentation are complete and accurate.
• Provide final quality assurance for shop repairs, including verification of completed work scope and all associated documentation.
• Track rework, quality issues, recurring delays, and repeat failures. Lead or support root cause reviews and implementation of corrective actions.
• Manage shop productivity, labor utilization, repair costs, vendor expenditures, and budget performance.
• Identify and implement improvements to shop workflow, standard work, tooling, documentation, employee capability, and vendor performance.
• Build effective working relationships with employees, technical stakeholders, suppliers, equipment manufacturers, contractors, and repair vendors.

Skills

Leadership

Rotating equipment knowledge

Pumps knowledge

Machining & repair

Problem solving

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Associate degree / technical certification in machining or industrial maintenance

Tools

CMMS

Procurement software

Job description

Deer Park Refining Limited Partnership in Deer Park, TX, seeks a Maintenance Supervisor for the Central Machine Shop to lead rotating-equipment repair programs, ensure safety, quality, and on-time execution. You will supervise machinists and coordinate with outside shops, vendors, and maintenance teams to deliver reliable refinery performance, optimize costs, and drive continuous improvement.

Candidates should have extensive machine shop leadership experience, hands-on machining knowledge, and