Our INVISTA Victoria, TX facility is seeking entrepreneurial, innovative leaders to join our team as a Mechanical Superintendent.
Our Team
You will have a span of control of 40-50 direct employees. Your focus will be to drive the capability growth within your team to directly impact asset availability and reliability.
What You Will Do
- Responsible for the Safety and Environmental performance of the Maintenace Group.
- Ensure safe workplace practices are always followed and drive safety awareness by leading by example.
- Drive safety excellence through promoting employee involvement, ownership, and accountability to proactively identify hazards and implement the appropriate mitigating strategies based on the risk involved.
- Lead the maintenance team through the transition to team-based maintenance and Transformation.
- Enable your team to act towards creating the most value possible and increasing the overall fulfillment of the group.
- Grow and develop the Machinery capability to troubleshoot, scope repairs, perform repairs and overhauls, and learn and apply maintenance strategies that support the industry's best Mean Time between failures.
- Own and drive reliability practices in your group. Core work processes, KIR Workflow, RCFA, and Precision Maintenance.
- Establish aggressive targets and groups accountable to measures in backlog, PMs, efficiency, and quality.
- Lead and continually advance the maintenance organization -- including predictive, preventive, and proactive rotating maintenance analysis.
- Manage the rotating and general maintenance support staff in a way that cultivates our management philosophy, fosters teamwork, and produces results.
- Lead and support continuous improvement processes through decision-making, employee involvement, systems, and training.
- Support the Maintenance Manager in aligning maintenance costs within the vision of the department's spending plan.
- Monitor the quality of craft work and provide direction to crew members to maximize production efficiency; assist with troubleshooting production issues; provide safety training to crew members; coaching; team development/performance management; data entry and completing/generating reports.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- 7+ years of refining/process industry experience
- Direct supervisory/leadership experience to troubleshoot, maintain, and monitor rotating equipment including compressors, turbines, pumps, blowers, centrifuges, gearboxes etc.)
- Experience maintaining an environment that promotes continuous improvement in: EH&S, craftsmanship, and employee development
- Able to lead Root Cause investigations and implement solutions that support the industry's best mean time between failure
- Strong focus and understanding of "precision maintenance"
- Direct work experience driving reliability programs
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Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
As a Koch company, INVISTA has a long history of working to make the world around you a better place. From parts for the automotive industry to medical equipment, airbags, food packaging, and clothing, our ingredients in the nylon 6,6 and polypropylene value chains help bring many of life's essential products to market.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf