Baytown Maintenance Superintendent

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Are you a results-driven maintenance leader with a passion for optimizing operations and leading high-performing teams? Air Products is seeking a Maintenance Superintendent at our Baytown, TX facilities who embodies a safety-first mentality, takes ownership for getting results and can complete daily operating and maintenance activities. If this sounds like you, come grow with us as we continue to build a sustainable tomorrow together!

The Baytown complex is comprised of HyCO and ASU facilities. The HyCO site is tied into an existing hydrogen pipeline system that spans from New Orleans to the Houston Ship Channel and supplies hydrogen to the integrated supply network for consumption by customers across the Gulf Coast Franchise.

Our Maintenance Superintendent is a key member of the West Gulf Coast Leadership Team and has responsibility for a broad range of duties focused on ensuring all elements of operational discipline are in place and functioning properly at the Facility.

The incumbent will report to the Regional Maintenance Manager and will be required to gain an understanding of all aspects of the site's operations with a specific focus on leadership skills as a site leader. They will be responsible for the overall maintenance of the Baytown facilities including safety, plant reliability, implementing productivity improvements, budget management, customer interface and turnarounds.

This is a safety sensitive role

What's In It for You:

At Air Products we foster a culture of inclusion where every voice is heard, and everyone feels they belong and matter. Additionally, we offer competitive pay and great benefits for our employees. Check out some of our benefits below!

• Affordable Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (day 1 of employment)
• 401k with 100% vested company core and match
• Paid Vacation, holidays + sick time
• Paid Parental leave (Up to 8 weeks)
• Backup Child and Adult Care benefit
• Adoption assistance
• Flexible spending accounts (medical, dependent daycare)
• Life Insurance (AD&D- Paid for by Air Products), Supplemental AD&D
• Legal Plan & Identity theft coverage
• EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
• Many more supplemental benefits available

Required Skills / Abilities:

• Strong leadership abilities coupled with excellent broad-based technical skills, interpersonal skills, communication skills and business acumen.
• Excellent organizational, planning and time management skills are a must. Project management skills as well as experience creating and implementing structured work processes are a plus for this role.
• Prior budgetary management and development experience is a plus.
• Prior SAP experience is preferred, and quick proficiency is considered critical to success.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Work with the operations and maintenance teams to drive the best solutions for the business from a maintenance SAFETY, reliability, and production impact perspective daily.
• Lead a Maintenance team of 12 to develop site talent through coaching, training and progression boards.
• Develop fiscal year maintenance budget for each facility. Track and report monthly maintenance costs.
• Work with the maintenance and operations teams to prioritize, develop, schedule, and communicate all daily, weekly, and long-term maintenance activities. Work with these groups to ensure maintenance execution readiness from a maintenance planning/ resourcing and operations equipment readiness perspective.
• Drive the maintenance team towards compliance with maintenance performance metrics such as PM compliance, Compliance Management, maintenance backlog, monthly spending vs budget and safety program participation. Ensure 100% compliance with regulatory and very high priority maintenance activities.
• Work with technical engineering support teams to drive towards innovative solutions to maintenance issues as well as capital project recommendations for end-of-life assets and design upgrades.
• Proactively look for and mitigate safety concerns within all aspects of our maintenance activities.
• Manage the site's Basic Safety Process and Process Safety Management.
• Ensure environmental compliance in accordance with Air Products Corporate and Government regulations.
• Understand safe operating, design, permit limits of site equipment.
• Investigate incidents and near misses, understand and correct the root cause of failures.
• Collaborate with customers and the Air Products commercial team.

Minimum Hiring Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in a petrochemical or manufacturing environment with maintenance, and/or operations roles is desired.
• Demonstrated leadership and decision-making skills are critical to the position.
• Degree in technical trade school for instrumentation, mechanical, electrical, or Military technical training will be considered a plus. Relative experience will be given strong consideration in lieu of formal education.

Work Hours & Benefits:

• Able to respond and support plant issues on a 24/7 basis.

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At Air Products, we work in an environment where we put safety first, diversity is essential, inclusion is our culture, and each person knows they belong and matter. To learn more, visitAbout Air Products.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including paid holidays and vacation, affordable medical, dental, life insurance and retirement plans. You will be eligible for benefits and also be 100% vested in your retirement benefits on your first day of employment.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer (U.S.).You will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, citizenship, gender, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, or veteran status.

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