Maintenance Supervisor at OC2 Occidental Chemical Corporation — Wichita, KS

We are looking for an experienced and self-motivated individual to fill the position of Maintenance Supervisor with our Chemical Manufacturing Facility located in Wichita, Kansas.

Essential Job Duties:

• Maintain protection of the environment and the health and safety of our employees, customers, and the communities in which we operate and/or transport our products, as our highest priority.
• Set priorities on maintenance activities to assure continuing plant operations with minimum downtime while maintaining responsibility for Key Maintenance Measures (overtime, downtime, callouts, backlog, High Risk Task Force) in assigned unit.
• Coordinate with Production, Technical and other Maintenance groups to ensure accurate and efficient completion of maintenance activities.
• Assign jobs and provide field supervision to maintenance technicians on daily work activities as well as plant outages through the Maintenance Excellence Program.
• Lead and coach the maintenance technicians to ensure that through proper training all work is preformed according to job plan.
• Manage backlog of work orders to maintain plant reliability.
• Evaluate and assure material requisitions, work plans, and schedules are being utilized as planned.
• Track equipment repair progress to ensure plant reliability and capability meets production schedule.
• Participate in the design and implementation of equipment and process improvements, material of construction improvements and efficiency, and cost control improvements.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED
• Five plus years practical maintenance or production experience in manufacturing environment which includes a good working knowledge of equipment, materials, techniques, and safeguards in respective discipline for maintenance and construction.
• Prior experience leading maintenance teams is preferred.
• High proficiency in Microsoft applications (such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook) and good working knowledge of SAP.
• Must be able to respond to off hour emergencies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to read, write and speak in English.
• Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to work as part of a team.
• Must be Ability to work weekends, holidays and respond to callouts on a non-routine basis.

Physical requirements:

• Must be able to lift 40 lbs., climb ladders and stairs. Walking, bending, stooping is required. Must be able to wear personal protective equipment including the use of a respirator. Must be able to respond to visual and audible alarms.

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• Ask you to pay for applications, interviews, meetings, processing, training or for any other fees
• Use recruiting or placement agencies that charge candidates an advance fee of any kind or
• Request personal information such as passport and bank account details at an early stage of our recruitment process.