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Maintenance Head

About Lubrizol
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is committed to enabling a sustainable future. Our unmatched science unlocks immense possibilities at the molecular level, driving sustainable and measurable results to help the world Move Cleaner, Create Smarter and Live Better. Our solutions are used by people every day, improving billions of lives around the world.

We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.

Role Summary:

Develop an asset maintenance & Utility management strategy that is complementary & consistent to long term capability & reliability of LZAI site, and that contributes towards translating the Lubrizol mission and vision for the site. Engineering and Maintenance head will lead both the small improvement engineering functions and the day-to-day maintenance operations Turbhe and Taloja facility. The role provides assurance for safe operation of plant and maximum availability of assets at optimum cost in make compliance of regulatory and corporate asset maintenance guidelines. The role is also responsible for maintaining the entire facility and is the primary contacts of all vendors for execution of services.

Leading effective maintenance planning and execution, this is done with best industrial practices -standards, with focus on future industrial benchmarks, regulatory expectations at best optimal cost control while ensuring the overall safe operation of the facility in compliance with all laws, regulations, and company standards of care, and with no adverse impact on employees, the environment and the community in which we operate.

Manage and develop competent maintenance team. Foster a culture of commitment, teamwork and safety excellence.

Internal contacts:

Communication: Operations (Production, Project, HSES), Procurement, Finance, Site leadership team.
Corporate – Process technology, HSES and Legal team, Corporate Process Technology & sourcing team.

External contacts:

Engineering consultants- Domain specialty chemical
Suppliers, Fabricators & service providers: - Mechanical Equipment fabricators, Electrical & instrumentations, Civil- Domain specialty chemical.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Provide leadership to multi-disciplinary team members and align all the stakeholders to meet with operation’s goals, deadlines, and schedule for flawless execution of maintenance activities & utility operation.
Lead and promote 5S, Autonomous maintenance, Kaizen improvement techniques, across organization. Minor Project Management by efficient planning and managing small modification & brown field project execution to commissioning.
Ensure collaboration among Production, Safety, Maintenance, Quality and Cross Functional teams, to enable timely project delivery by providing right resources availability and allocation.
Candidate should have good exposure to equipment selection, unit operation involved in batch processing of specialty chemical industries.

Participate in periodic Meetings with project team members to identify and resolve issues.
Define departments deliverables and ensure that they adhered with fine balance between quality, time and cost. Establishing effective communication preventive and shutdown plans and ensure their execution.
Facilitating change requests to ensure that all parties are informed of the impacts on schedule and budget.
Take part conducting post project evaluation and identifying successful and unsuccessful project elements and manage internal customer satisfaction during project transition period.

Define and implement a robust maintenance review mechanism to address escalations and mitigate risks.
Staying updated with recent energy efficient, material handling & pollution compliant practices and trends in the chemical industries.
Provide digital maintenance dashboards to senior management to track the status of deliverables (filings and milestones)

REQUIREMENTS (education, experience, competencies and specific job requirements):

Education & Experience

BE (Mech) with 20 - 25 years of demonstrated industry and project management experience in specialty chemical plant only handling complex projects.
Candidate must have at least 10 years team lead role in medium size chemical plant

Skills:

Excellent leadership skills interacting with senior leaders and team across. Experience working in a global organization.
Well experience on using computerized Maintenance management software, Excel, PPT etc. & strong root cause analysis skills.
Should have excellent communication skills with good spoken and written English.

If you’re interested in the position, we encourage you to apply. Lubrizol is always looking for candidates who embody our cultural beliefs in everything they do. If you’re All In, Lead Decisively, Take Action, Think External, and can Be Courageous, Lubrizol could be the place for you.

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10 jobs

FUNDING

Private

INDUSTRY

Chemical Manufacturing

TEAM SIZE

5001-10000

LOCATION

Hybrid, based in Wickliffe, OH

DATE POSTED

July 22, 2023