Overview

Arxada is a pioneering leader with a powerful legacy: Over 120 years of creating specialty chemicals and solutions that potentiate the performance of our customers and their products. Our solutions, our expertise and our support help them to perform better - to be more efficient, more effective and more sustainable. We are passionate about empowering high performance and enabling our employees, partners and customers to realize their full potential. Together we make daily life safer, cleaner, healthier and greener. If you like making a difference, we are the company for you!

Lead and direct the maintenance department’s mechanical maintenance and reliability initiatives. Provide technical assistance to the maintenance department. Lead predictive and preventative maintenance programs based on solid asset management fundamentals and reliability centered maintenance practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead or support appropriate studies to improve reliability and cost structure through optimization of maintenance plans and practices while acting as a mentor to maintenance personnel
• Implement corporate Mechanical Integrity program at the site.
• Engineering design and plant operations support utilizing reliability centered maintenance strategies, condition-based maintenance techniques and monitoring, and good engineering practices
• Evaluate and generate design alternatives to help arrive at optimal choices, especially during the early stage of engineering projects
• Analyze failure mechanisms and failure trends. Implement tools to monitor asset conditions and anticipate failures
• Calculation of reliability centered maintenance KPI’s (MTBF, MTTR)
• Develops solutions to repetitive failures and other problems that could adversely affect plant operations. These problems include capacity, quality, cost or regulatory compliance issues
• Identify and manage asset reliability risks, identify critical spare parts. Initiate and document PM programs
• Provide reliability and maintainability perspectives during new equipment design phase
• Ensure engineering design complies with governing codes, regulatory requirements, and client standards
• Provides technical support to maintenance technicians
• Identify technical training needs and help coordinating training program
• Develop, plan and coordinate projects from inception to completion ensuring efficient implementation, timely completion, and compliance to budget. Contributes on larger capital projects (CAPEX)
• Participate in site efforts to implement Process Safety Management elements at the site
• Participate in Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) initiatives working safely with all activities to prevent injuries, process, distribution and environmental incidents and participate in company-required training programs

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, or related field of study
• Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP) and/or Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP), preferred
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Project)
• Ability to analyze large amounts of data in excel
• Proficient in problem solving including root cause analyis and countermeasure implementation
• Working knowledge of asset management and reliability centered maintenance practices
• Knowledge of capital project development, execution, and field implementation
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Possess good interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated commitment to a participative work environment

Arxada - Potentiating Performance 

Arxada is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a qualified individual with disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.