Occidental Petroleum Corporation

Maintenance Superintendent

Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering
  • 5+ years of plant maintenance/manufacturing experience
  • Strong cost management and optimization skills
  • High proficiency in Microsoft Office
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong interpersonal skills and teamwork ability
  • Physical ability to meet job demands

Responsibilities

  • Ensure environmental and employee safety as top priority
  • Develop programs for cost reduction and efficiency improvement
  • Oversee mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation maintenance activities
  • Monitor key metrics for maintenance effectiveness
  • Manage maintenance staff to implement best practices
  • Control maintenance budget and expenditures
  • Coordinate capital project executions with engineering teams

Benefits

  • Competitive pay and benefits
  • Career development opportunities
  • Safe and supportive workplace culture
  • Recognition and rewards for top performers
  • Commitment to employee well-being
Full Job Description
We are looking for an experienced and self-motivated individual to fill the position of Maintenance Superintendent with our Ingleside Plant located in Gregory, Texas.

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.
  • Prepare and administer programs, methods, systems, and practices for reducing costs and improving employee and plant efficiency, safety, productivity, and reliability.
  • Coordinate all maintenance (mechanical, electrical and instrumentation) activities for proper, safe execution of multi-million-dollar plant turnarounds. Aggressively seek to minimize cost and duration of shutdown activities.
  • Establish and monitor key measures to ensure that a comprehensive and effective maintenance and reliability program is in place and that the Maintenance Excellence Process is practiced.
  • Direct and manage the site maintenance staff to implement best maintenance practices and provide technical expertise to reduce costs and improve process uptime and mechanical reliability.
  • Direct the planning and scheduling program, and its effectiveness, through the use of established benchmarks and parameters.
  • Control maintenance expenditures within budget requirements by monitoring expenditures, adjusting priorities, and forecasting maintenance needs.
  • Coordinate and direct the use of outside resources assigned to the plant.
  • Coordinate with engineering group(s) for capital project executions to ensure effective use of capital funds.


Minimum Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering with a minimum of 5 years of plant maintenance/manufacturing experience.
  • Ability to manage costs, design, implement, and maintain systems designed to optimize the performance of the maintenance function.
  • High proficiency in Microsoft applications (such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook).
  • 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.
  • 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.


Additional Desired Qualifications:
  • Good working knowledge of SAP.
  • Prior supervisory experience.

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Learn more about Occidental Petroleum Corporation
Size
11,678 employees
Market Cap
$56.5 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$14.8 billion
Founded
1920
5 Year Trend
+20.7%
Revenue
$17.9 billion
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