CF Industries Holdings

Superintendent, Maintenance - Routine Ammonia

CF Industries Holdings$100K — $120K *
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Construction Management with 7+ years in chemical/refinery plants, or a high school diploma with 10+ years of maintenance experience.
  • Leadership experience managing diverse teams and contractors in industrial settings.
  • Strong communication and analytical skills, alongside decision-making competencies.
  • Knowledge of maintenance processes including preventive and fixed mechanical maintenance.
  • Proficiency with computerized maintenance management systems (like SAP) and Microsoft Office applications.
  • Ability to obtain a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) and comply with drug and alcohol testing requirements.

Responsibilities

  • Lead safety and environmental compliance initiatives on-site.
  • Review, prioritize, and schedule routine and outage maintenance tasks.
  • Coordinate across departments to resolve permit and equipment readiness issues.
  • Oversee the progress and quality of maintenance work in the field.
  • Manage maintenance budgets and address cost variances promptly.
  • Provide performance feedback and development opportunities for team members.
  • Supervise contractor activities to adhere to safety and quality standards.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and training.
  • Collaborative work environment fostering open communication.
  • Exposure to large-scale industrial maintenance operations.
  • Hands-on experience with innovative maintenance technologies.
  • Promotions based on performance and effective leadership.
Full Job Description
Function:
Maintenance

Job Summary:

I. Job Summary:
The Routine Ammonia Maintenance Superintendent is responsible for leading mechanical maintenance activities across the ammonia plants and associated support facilities. The role manages a blended workforce of CF employees and contract personnel and is accountable for the safe, reliable, high-quality, and cost-effective execution of routine and plant-outage maintenance work. The Superintendent manages the annual maintenance budget, develops employees, coordinates priorities across departments, and drives improvements in safe work execution, productivity, and cost performance.

Job Description:

II. Responsibilities:

Safety, Environmental, and Security Leadership
• Provide visible field leadership and ensure maintenance activities meet environmental, health, safety, security, and housekeeping expectations.
• Promote accountability for hazard recognition, procedure compliance, quality execution, and timely correction of unsafe or noncompliant conditions.

Routine and Outage Maintenance Execution
• Ensure routine and outage work requests within the area of responsibility are reviewed, prioritized, planned, scheduled, and executed.
• Maintain appropriate focus on preventive maintenance, corrective work, emergent repairs, and plant-outage preparation and execution.
• Coordinate with Operations, Reliability, Engineering, Procurement, and EHS to resolve barriers affecting permits, materials, equipment readiness, and field execution.
• Monitor field progress, schedule performance, work quality, productivity, and equipment return-to-service readiness.

Reliability and Production Support
• Maintain equipment in a manner that supports established production, efficiency, and reliability goals, excluding planned events.
• Partner with Operations, Engineering, and Reliability to address equipment risks, repeat failures, bad actors, and maintenance-driven production losses.
• Use equipment history, work-order information, field observations, and lessons learned to improve future maintenance execution.
• Support the development and consistent application of maintenance standards and best practices.

Budget and Business Plan Management
• Prepare the annual maintenance budget and maintain effective cost controls for Ammonia Plants 1 through 6 and their respective support facilities.
• Monitor forecasts, commitments, contractor spending, and cost performance and take timely action when variances arise.
• Balance safety, reliability, production needs, schedule requirements, and cost when establishing work priorities and allocating resources.
• Provide clear status, risk, and cost information to plant and maintenance leadership.

Employee Leadership and Development
• Set clear expectations for employees and contractors and assign resources to maximize workforce capability and effective work execution.
• Develop employees through coaching, feedback, training, development planning, and meaningful work assignments.
• Provide accurate and timely performance feedback for planners and other assigned employees and support succession planning.
• Promote open communication, collaboration, accountability, and respectful working relationships across departments.

Contractor Management
• Oversee work performed by outside contractors and hold contractor organizations accountable for safety, quality, productivity, staffing, schedule compliance, and cost.
• Ensure contractor roles, work boundaries, technical requirements, and performance expectations are clearly communicated.
• Monitor contractor work in the field and address performance concerns before they affect safety, quality, cost, or schedule.
• Coordinate contractor requirements and resource needs in advance of routine work, outages, and other major maintenance events.

Internal Controls and Continuous Improvement
• Establish and implement processes and procedures required to meet departmental internal-control requirements.
• Ensure established processes and procedures are followed as designed and that required records and approvals are maintained.
• Work with other departments to identify deficiencies in existing processes and revise the applicable processes or procedures as needed.
• Identify opportunities to improve planning, work execution, productivity, reliability, cost control, and repeatability.

III. Incumbent Attributes:
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Construction Management from an ABET-accredited university with at least seven years of chemical or refinery plant experience; or a high school diploma or equivalent with at least ten years of demonstrated chemical or refinery plant planning, scheduling, maintenance, or supervisory experience.
• Demonstrated leadership experience managing employees, contractors, competing priorities, maintenance costs, and field execution in an industrial environment.
• Strong communication, technical, organizational, analytical, and decision-making skills.
• Working knowledge of fixed mechanical maintenance, preventive maintenance, work management, outage execution, contractor oversight, budgeting, and equipment reliability.
• Ability to coordinate effectively with Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, Reliability, Procurement, EHS, and contractor organizations.
• Working knowledge of a computerized maintenance management system, such as SAP, and common Microsoft Office applications.
• Must be able to acquire, maintain, and possess a valid Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC).
• Must satisfy company drug- and alcohol-testing requirements, including random and for-cause testing.

The statements above describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, qualifications, or working conditions associated with the role.

About CF Industries Holdings

CF Industries, a global leader in nitrogen fertilizer manufacturing and distribution, owns and operates world-scale nitrogen complexes and serves agricultural and industrial customers through its best-in-class distribution system.

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Join the dynamic team at CF Industries Holdings, a leading global enterprise in the agricultural industry, and contribute to feeding the world sustainably. Our company is at the forefront of agricultural innovation, and we are looking for talented individuals to help us continue our mission.

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Learn more about CF Industries Holdings
Size
3,000 employees
Market Cap
$17 billion
Industry
Net Income
$317 million
Founded
1946
5 Year Trend
+12.2%
Revenue
$4.1 billion
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