Technical Coordinator

Evonik; Etowah (TN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Evonik is seeking a site Maintenance/Operations Coordinator in Etowah, TN to oversee downtime management, schedule technical work, and lead energy-efficiency efforts. You will collaborate with maintenance, materials, and production teams to maximize uptime and drive continuous improvement.

The role requires a Bachelor's in engineering with at least seven years in industrial maintenance or reliability, strong leadership, and familiarity with SAP and Lean methods. An ISO-50001 focus is a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related technical discipline.
• Minimum of seven years of progressive industrial maintenance, reliability, or engineering experience with leadership.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate downtime and backlog management to maximize plant availability.
• Schedule daily work for the technical team aligned with production plans.
• Lead energy initiatives, monitor consumption, and drive ISO-50001 implementation.
• Track OEE and provide improvement recommendations across production lines.
• Ensure safety, regulatory compliance, and effective communication among maintenance, materials, and production teams.

Skills

Leadership

Industrial maintenance

Energy management

Planning

ISO 50001

Root Cause Analysis

SAP

Project management

Lean manufacturing

5S

Kaizen

A3 Problem Solving

Regulatory compliance

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

Microsoft Project

SAP

Microsoft Office

Job description

What We Offer

At Evonik, you're part of a global chemical company working in many sectors that go beyond chemistry. From lipids for tomorrow's medicines, biosurfactants for green detergents, additives for plastics recycling or membranes to help drive forward the energy transition, you'll play an essential part in helping the world's most essential industries succeed.

Our success hinges on a diversity of ideas powered by people, not egos. Whether you're a scientist or engineer, new to the team or established, in business, production, or anything in between – we cheer each other on. Because we believe we can do anything. Explore everything. And Be Part of Something Special!

Find out more about the many benefits we offer:

https://www.evonik.com/en/careers/why.html

Act as coordinator for activities for the site to maximize all downtime associated in the production areas. Ensure work notifications are entered, converted to orders, planned, scheduled, and executed in the most effective manner relative to schedule and costs. This includes PM's, CAPEX, outages, daily work, and industrial cleaning activities. Position will support the creation of and maintain a prioritized work list from production, ensure communication between maintenance, materials management, and production for schedules, coordinate delivery of critical components, and assist with resource needs to all stakeholders. This includes gatekeeping for all new orders and backlog management for the site. Also, this role will track and report OEE for the production lines for the site. Finally, this person will lead the energy team, monitoring energy consumption and recommend efforts to reduce energy consumption including implementation of ISO-50001.

Meet the team and get to know the people behind Evonik:

https://www.evonik.com/en/news/meet-the-team.html

REQUIREMENTS

• Manage downtime on production equipment to minimize impact to available hours.

This includes

• a. Gatekeeping and Backlog Management – Ensure that Maintenance and Production Planning schedules are coordinated to maximize downtime in the plant.
• b. Schedule daily work in the plant for the technical team and publish the schedule in conjunction with the production schedule.
• c. Product Changeovers – Maximize effectiveness of changeovers, cleanouts, scheduled maintenance work.
• d. Scheduled outages – schedule work to fill allotted downtimewith the maximum amount of resources and tasks to improve reliability of equipment (including majorturnarounds).
• e. Unplanned equipment availability – ensure a list of opportunity work that is planned and ready to implement if availability arises.
• f. Bad actors – Identify "bad actors" by tracking repeated repair costs or down time and assist in development of long-term solutions.
• g. Compliance – Place priority on scheduling compliance work dictated by Mechanical Integrity, ISO, GMP, etc.

• Monitor energy consumption, reduction, and reporting efforts for the site. Act as liaison between the site utilities and Evonik teams regarding energy. Lead implementation and monitoring of ISO-50001 Implementation for ETO
• Ensure compliance with all environmental, health, and safety policies and applicable governmental regulations.
• Monitor KPI's with production, maintenance, and materials management to track opportunities for improvement. Track OEE for the site on production lines and provide recommendations for improvements to site
• Complete other activities as assigned.

REQUIREMENTS

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related technical discipline required. Minimum of seven years of progressive industrial maintenance, reliability, or engineering experience with demonstrated leadership and technical achievement.

Skills/Training:

• Proven ability to lead, develop, and engage technical teams in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong organizational, planning, and prioritization skills with the ability to manage competing business priorities.
• Excellent organizational and prioritization skills. Highly developed conflict management skills
• Ability to relate to and work with various personalities across multiple departments
• Working knowledge of safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements applicable to industrial operations.
• Experience utilizing reliability improvement tools, including Root Cause Analysis, Failure Elimination, and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications including Project; SAP experience is essential.
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing principles, including 5S, Kaizen, A3 Problem Solving, and Continuous Improvement methodologies preferred.
• Familiar with ISO programs and compliance; trained as an auditor is a plus

The Evonik Group adopts an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) approach. Candidates are assessed based on their educational qualifications, experience, job competencies and potential and shall not be discriminated against on the basis of race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, nationality, disability or sexual orientation or other classifications protected by local, state, or provincial regulations.

Your Talent Acquisition Manager:

Emma Martinez [C]

Company is
Evonik Corporation