Supervisor, Maintenance

INEOS; Pasadena (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

INEOS Oxide is seeking a Mechanical Maintenance Supervisor to direct and optimize maintenance activities for our petrochemical plant. You will lead safety-focused execution, ensure reliability targets, and coordinate with operations and contractors to maintain asset integrity.

The role requires extensive maintenance experience in a chemical environment, strong SAP Plant Maintenance skills, and leadership capability to mentor teams while driving continuous improvement and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of maintenance or operations experience in a petrochemical facility.
• Strong SAP experience especially in Plant Maintenance.
• Proven safety leadership and safety program adherence.
• Excellent communication and cross‑functional collaboration.
• Experience supervising and developing maintenance teams.

Responsibilities

• Direct maintenance execution including preventative, predictive, and corrective tasks.
• Ensure compliance with safety, environmental, and process safety requirements.
• Lead incident investigations, audits, and risk assessments.
• Coordinate work with operations, maintenance crews, and vendors.
• Manage maintenance planning, scheduling, and cost control.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Safety leadership

SAP Plant Maintenance

Team leadership

Budget management

Asset reliability

Communication

Education

High School diploma or GED

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Office

Job description

INEOS Oxide

Interested in joining a winning team? A team whose employees share in the ownership of the business and are empowered to make a difference?

Organizational context

and job purpose

INEOS Organization :

INEOS is a global manufacturer of petrochemicals, specialty chemicals and oil products. It comprises 15 businesses each with a major chemical company heritage. Its production network spans 65 manufacturing facilities in 16 countries throughout the world. INEOS products make a significant contribution to saving life, improving health and enhancing standards of living for people around the world. Its businesses produce the raw materials that are essential in the manufacture of a wide variety of goods: from paints to plastics, textiles to technology, and medicines to mobile phones - chemicals manufactured by INEOS enhance almost every aspect of modern life.

Business Context:

INEOS Oxide is one of the most diverse, dynamic and successful businesses within INEOS. We operate 5 manufacturing sites in Europe and North America (Antwerp BE, Köln DE, Lavéra FR, Plaquemine US, Bayport, US). We produce a broad range of 200+ products which spread across five key value chains (Ethylene Oxide, Propylene Oxide, Oxoalcohols, Acetic Acid, and ENB), and on many of our products we are the European market leader. Our total manufacturing capacity is above 3 million tonnes per annum generating an annual EBITDA of ~300 M€. INEOS Oxide is an energetic business which is growing actively on a global level, with projects to extend our production base to new sites in North America and Asia in addition to continued investment on our existing platforms. We are committed to resourcing the Procurement team accordingly to deliver on this ambitious growth agenda.

Purpose of the Job:

The Mechanical Maintenance Supervisor directs the execution of all asset maintenance activities including preventative, predictive, and reactive/corrective maintenance tasks in support of meeting the plants asset production targets and reliability strategies.

Internal and External Factors:

Internal:

• Condition of equipment
• Production and reliability targets
• Fixed cost reductions in annual budget
• Maintenance management software capability (SAP)
• Predictive tools and equipment capability
• Interface daily with multiple departments – including operations, maintenance craft workers, reliability and process specialists.

External:

• Availability of qualified labor (both contractors and employees) in a market with intense competition
• Regulatory requirements (e.g., OSHA, TCEQ, API Standards)
• Effectiveness of nested maintenance contractor (monthly review) and other third party service providers
• Vendor material availability and transit times
  

Responsibilities And Accountabilities

Accountabilities:

• Ensure all maintenance activities are executed in a safe and efficient manner consistent with the INEOS 20 Safety Principles, Life Saving Rules, INEOS Group Guidance Notes (IGGNs) and site policies/standards.

• Ensure all maintenance activities are planned and executed in compliance with site environmental compliance requirements (reporting, LDAR repair timing, etc).

• Manages asset compliance with process safety and personnel safety inspections and testing completed by asset maintenance resources (precision instrument calibrations, turbine overspeed, relief valve testing, etc).

• Be a safety leader through visible leadership in the field, including safety observation conversations, audits, and near miss reporting.

• Adhere to the SHE incident management system established for the site including participation in reporting, incident investigations, sharing of lessons learned, corrective action tracking and personnel training.

• Knowledgeable of the specific process and maintenance execution hazards within the unit to be able to plan work and communicate those hazards to execution forces.

• Verifies clear understanding of work scope, carefully reviews the type of work and potential safety or process reliability hazards.

• Takes appropriate action to initiate proper safety reviews (e.g., temporary job plan, confined space, hot work, etc.) when reviewing the work scope.

• Participate in the development of maintenance procedures and training materials.

• Support PSM and Environmental efforts including Process Hazard Analyses (PHAs), Management of Change process, Risk Assessments and incident investigations.

• Understand and lead by example for all safety and environmental programs..

• Conduct routine AsCare tours and participate in audits.

• Adhere to and uphold all safety policies and standards

Development and Leadership

• Ensure alignment and clarity of roles including expectations aroundperformance.
• Determine developmental needs of Maintenance Technicians and nested Contractors in the Asset and execute plan to provide training and development as required.
• Maintain team compliance with routine safety training requirements.
• Ensure a performance management process is in place with both informal coaching of employees as needed and formalized periodic performance reviews with corrective action taken when appropriate.
• Ensure that Human Resources policies are followed and the organization is in compliance with legal requirements regarding INEOS employees and our relationship with contractors.
• Responsible for ensuring execution forces time has been entered and approved prior to payroll processing.
• Responsible for sharing and implementing best practices learned between assets.
• Drives ownership of asset equipment and associated maintenance strategies amongst employees.

Coordination of Work

• Serve as the primary contact for Execution Forces and Outside Vendors to maintain clear understanding of work/jobs ongoing and pending.
• Reviews, optimizes, and ensures the maintenance workflow process is followed.
• Ensure Operations is informed of scheduled work by Execution Forces and communicate special preparations. Follows up with Production/Maintenance Coordinator as needed when equipment preparation is not completed per schedule.
• Ensure priority of work is understood by Execution Forces for planned work and schedule breaker work.
• Proactively communicate changes in schedule to impacted groups.
• Communicate with Scheduler and Production/Maintenance Coordinator to ensure prioritization of scheduled work aligns with business needs and provide work execution updates for schedule progression.
• Communicate with SHE group about work that could affect environmental requirements and incorporate SHE needs in work scope.
  

Cost Control

• Ensures maintenance activities are performed safely, without environmental impact, costs of repairs are justified, and equipment is repaired in a manner that ensures reliable operation.
• Works with the Procurement department to procure and expedite materials and services as needed and makes decisions on cost impact to production.
• Drives maintenance cost improvements in conjunction with the department management team. Primary focus on budget performance, quality of work, and maintenance efficiency.
• Enters all invoice Service Entries in SAP for Maintenance driven Service Purchase Orders and resolves blocked invoices for out-of-funds Purchase Orders.
• Follows the progress of the projects ensuring that the IE &A isinstalled correctly with all parameters being properly set for the desired operation

Skills/Competencies:

Level of Education & Experience in general

• At least 5 years of maintenance or operations related experience in a petrochemical manufacturing facility.
• Supervisory experience with demonstrated leadership competencies preferred; prior supervisory experience (including with other companies) required if less than 5 years’ experience in plant operations within the company.
• Minimum 18 Years of Age with a High School diploma or GED
• Possess a current, valid license to operate a motor vehicle in the United States.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis without visa sponsorship (U.S. citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident)

Technical Skills

• Significant experience in supporting asset operations.
• Working knowledge of maintenance activities for fixed and rotating equipment.
• Expertise in the maintenance work flow process.
• Strong knowledge of site operating standards/procedures and relevant HSE legislation.
• Effective communication skills, dealing with all levels in the organization.
• Strong SAP experience in areas of Plant Maintenance
• Ability to utilize Microsoft Office Suite tools
• Ability to maintain knowledge of asset as new technology is implemented.

Behavioral Skills

• Ability to drive change and continuous improvement within and across teams
• Ability to maintain the reliability of the asset while working within a designated budget
• Interpersonal skills to work effectively with diverse employees spanning a wide range of disciplines, grades, etc. to accomplish tasks
• Self-initiated learning

Outside

Light Work: Exerting up to50pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to50pounds of forcefrequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects

• The worker is subject to inside environmental conditions: Protection from weather conditions, but not necessarily for temperature changes.

• The worker is subject to outside environmental conditions: No effective protection from the weather.

• The worker is subject to both environmental conditions: Activities occur inside and outside.

• The worker is subject to extreme cold: Temperatures below 32 degrees F for periods of more than one hour.

• The worker is subject to extreme heat: Temperatures above 100 degrees F for periods of more than one hour.

• The worker is subject to noise: There is sufficient noise to cause the worker to shoutin order tobe heard above the ambient noise level.

• The worker is subject to hazards: Includes a variety of physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, electrical current, working on scaffolding and high places, exposure to high heat or exposure to chemicals.

• The worker is subject to atmospheric conditions: One or more of the following conditions that affect the respiratory system or the skin: fumes,Odors, dusts, mists, gases, or poor ventilation.

• The worker is subject to oils: There is air and/or skin exposure to oils and other cutting fluids.

• The workeris required towear a respirator.

• The workeris required todon a gas mask.

Inside:

Sedentary Work: Exerting up to50pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of forcefrequentlyor constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time.

Subject to inside environmental conditions: Protection from weather conditions, but not necessarily from temperature changes

Employeemust have the ability to see written documents, computer screens, and to adjust focus.

Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction.Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and to makediscriminationsin sound.

PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

• Achieve SHE metric targets for safety and environmental incidents
• Meet or exceed plant production goals
• Meet or exceed asset reliability
• Meet or exceed schedule compliance
• AsCare, 20P, MOC/PSM compliance achieved
• Meet or exceed efficiency targets
• Achieve plant department and personal metrics as defined in annual performance assessment

Our culture is one of honesty and integrity with an emphasis on safety, health and environmental performance. On our team, people are acknowledged for embracing new practices that help create real value for customers.