Maintenance Supervisor

As we create a colorful, capable and cleaner world through chemistry, we invite you to join our team to harness the power of chemistry to shape markets, redefine industries and improve lives for billions of people around the world.

At Chemours, our people are redefining how the world thinks of chemistry by approaching everything we do with a commitment to delivering Trusted Chemistry that creates better lives and helps communities thrive. That begins with how we use our science, data, and unmatched technical expertise to develop market-leading products with the highest levels of performance, sustainability, and safety in the industry.

Powered by chemistry, our products are used in applications that make the products we rely on, processes, and new technologies possible. In key sectors such as clean energy, advanced electronics, high-performance computing and AI, climate friendly cooling, and high-quality paints and coatings for homes and industrial infrastructure---sustainable solutions and more modern living depend on Chemours chemistry.

Chemours is seeking a Maintenance Front Line Supervisor to join our growing Maintenance and Reliability team! This position will report directly to the Maintenance and Reliability Manager at our La Porte, TX location.

This position has single focused accountability for leading the site maintenance team in support of day-to-day plant operations and associated maintenance requirements. Continuously improve daily maintenance activities, processes and procedures. Works with Maintenance Planners and Coordinators to schedule and coordinate job plans to ensure high equipment reliability and safe plant operations.

Supervise and prioritize shop floor mechanic team based on availability and site needs. Assist Maintenance Manager in managing Chemours and contract labor necessary for daily maintenance and shutdown schedule execution.

• Ensure an EHS&S focus by the maintenance team and contractors.

• Execute the daily maintenance schedule in support of plant operations.

• Utilize SAP (CMMS) for recurring predictive/preventive maintenance work, to track equipment maintenance history and to review and prioritize work orders.

• Coordinate with Operations, plan and execute critical, unplanned maintenance work due to equipment failures.

• Coordinate maintenance activities with Planning, Safety and Operations; ensure proper priority is communicated, understood and executed for all maintenance tasks.

• Update maintenance metrics and formulate action plans for negative trend items.

• Support Mechanical Integrity and “bad actor” investigation efforts.

• Assist with the collection and storage of maintenance equipment records.

• Ensure equipment is maintained in proper operating condition to preserve production and minimize downtime.

• Work with Maintenance Manager to manage the site Maintenance and Repairs budget.

• Provide maintenance perspective on capital projects as appropriate to ensure site maintenance considerations are included.

• Participate in the identification of critical spare parts and appropriate maintenance stores inventory levels.

• Implement and enforce good housekeeping practices within the maintenance department.

• Responsible for training, maintaining and enforcement of safety and work rules among maintenance team.

• Utilize Kronos and good scheduling practices to maintain available workforce on a weekly basis.

• Conduct annual performance reviews for the Chemours maintenance team.

• Responsible for ensuring compliance with the Asset Care Policy including the establishment of policies and procedures, assigning responsibilities and tracking progress.

• Minimum of ten years of experience in the maintenance department of a chemical manufacturing plant or similar experience in a chemical manufacturing plant.

• Proven team player with good peer, subordinate, and superior relationship skills.

• Investigate and recommend capital projects to improve plant reliability and reduce maintenance spending.

• Budgeting and accounting skills necessary to effectively manage project and maintenance costs.

• Due to the safety, sensitive nature of this job, the incumbent must take and pass regular and routine chemical dependency tests.

• Proven “hands on” skills that include measuring and improving process performance and leading, instructing, and training others in those improvements.

• Requires the physical ability to reach all work areas in the plant (i.e. climb ladders, negotiate catwalks, handle heights to 50 feet, etc.), to lift, twist and turn up to 50 lbs. (i.e. open and close large valves, inspect equipment, don emergency equipment, etc.) and to expeditiously lead plant emergencies.

• B.S. in Chemical, Mechanical or related Engineering field preferred

• Demonstrated field experience in analyzing and determining needed corrective action in maintenance and project areas including leadership abilities.

• Supervisory skills including motivational as well as disciplinary.

• Successful record of new and maintenance repair project completion.

• Proven ability to set and achieve goals, perform annual performance reviews, and hold team accountable.

• Working knowledge of personal computers and Microsoft software.

• Experience applying Lean methodologies to maintenance processes and supporting the implementation of business systems

We’re a different kind of chemistry company because we see our people as our biggest assets. Instead of focusing just on what our employees do each day, we look at how they do it—by taking a different approach to talent development, employee engagement, and culture. Our goal is to empower employees to be their best selves, at Chemours and in life.

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Chemours we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace for our employees. So if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the position description, we encourage you to apply anyways.

You may just be the right candidate for this or other opportunities.

In our pursuit to be the greatest place to work, we know that a critical element to enhancing our employee experience is to assure we’re operating with a solid foundation of trust. At Chemours, this means being transparent about how we pay our employees for the work that they do.

The pay range and incentives listed above is a general guideline based on the primary location of this job only and not a guarantee of total compensation. Factors considered in extending a compensation offer include (but are not limited to)

responsibilities of the job, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, and alignment with market data. The incentive pay is dependent on business results and individual performance and subject to the terms and conditions of the specific plans.