Maintenance & Reliability Manager

Ashland Specialty Ingredients, GP

Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious?

Are you always solving?

Then we'd like to meet you and bet you'd like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a Maintenance & Reliability Manager to join our team at the Hopewell, VA plant.

This has a significant role in the Company and its maintenance function.

This position will report to the site manager.

The position is accountable for providing maintenance and reliability engineering support to Ashland's Hopewell plant.

This includes developing, implementing, and monitoring all the plant maintenance programs, managing mechanical integrity programs, and contract maintenance workers.

Also, oversees project work as appropriate.

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:


* Works with Site Leaders and Corporate Engineering to establish maintenance and reliability engineering goals, financial performance targets, and objectives for the site.


* Participates in Safety and Environmental initiatives that will contribute to compliance with State/Federal regulations and improve existing Company programs.

Provides supplemental safety training as appropriate.


* Utilizes effective leadership to maximize employee productivity and contributions across the site.


* Manages the maintenance budget, which includes approving expense and capital spending budgets, to ensure completion of current and forecasted projects while staying within established budget guidelines.


* Utilizes experience and expertise in preventive and predictive maintenance methods, Process Safety Management, and Mechanical Integrity to ensure safe and productive operations and equipment suitability.


* Ensures mechanical reliability programs and procedures are utilized effectively to support plant operations.

Direct activities of the site's Reliability Engineers and mechanical integrity program to ensure compliance with all PSM regulations.



* Manages site Storeroom daily activities and spare parts inventory to ensure effective utilization of maintenance activities.



* Keep the plant's union and management personnel working cohesively to ensure efficient operations.



* Trains and develops staff to provide management depth and skill base for a safe, well-maintained production facility.

Recognizes the successful efforts of employees to increase productivity, reduce costs, and improve work processes.



* Demonstrates experience by leading, influencing, building, and developing diverse and cross-functional teams across various experience levels and skill sets.


* A committed member of the Site Leadership Team (SLT)

In order to be qualified for t...