Arkema · 2 weeks ago
Sr. Maintenance Manager Job
Clear Lake, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
15+ years expArkema is a leading company in the petrochemical industry, and they are seeking a Sr. Maintenance Manager to oversee the Maintenance Department at their Clear Lake facility. This role involves providing strategic direction for maintenance operations, ensuring compliance with safety policies, managing budgets, and leading a team to improve maintenance efficiencies and performance.
IndustrialManufacturingPlastics and Rubber Manufacturing
Responsibilities
Responsible for providing safety leadership, management, and maintenance safety performance. This includes setting safety expectations and goals, developing safety programs and practices, monitoring safety program compliance, providing safety training, design and construction safety, pre-job safety analysis and process safety management, and performing safety audits and inspections for both Arkema and Nested contractors
This position is also responsible for continuous improvement initiatives in safety performance, equipment uptime, and cost management
Develop and Implement world class maintenance work processes to improve maintenance efficiencies, improve productivity and reduce maintenance costs (Arkema Maintenance Operational Excellence Process)
Develop and maintain departmental procedures and guidelines. Provides direction, oversight, coaching and assistance to maintenance organization on an on-going basis
Develop contractor management plan and monitor contractor performance. Develop and share both Arkema and Contractor Maintenance Performance Measurements (KPI’s) with Maintenance organization and site leadership team to track improvement progress
Responsible for providing oversite, leadership, direction and management of the Maintenance activities in the plant. This includes developing maintenance strategies, annual plans, setting goals, expectations and priorities, reviewing and establishing the organizational structure
Best work practices and ensure consistent implementation at all sites
Seeks creative and innovative ways to reduce maintenance costs, improve productivity, and other value-added items to maximize overall maintenance performance
Responsible for establishing maintenance cost control systems for department cost management with direct responsibilities of $17MM budget
Monitors cost performance and resources, adjusting priorities and forecasting maintenance needs. Provides continuous feedback to the site manager and team members
Support maintenance with yearly budget preparations and budget compliance throughout the year. Support enhancements to improve cost plans and forecasts
Track Maintenance Performance Measurements (KPI’s) with maintenance organization and site leadership team to track improvement progress
Perform maintenance benchmark and wrench time assessments to identify gaps and gap closure ideas to reduce cost and improve productivity
Analyze data and identify actionable items. Develop improvement plans, prepare presentations, and share information with maintenance organization and site leadership team. Implement recommendations and validate by performing regular audits
Develop training master plan to provide adequate training at all levels within the maintenance organization. This plan needs to include both technical and personal development training
Work with site manager to develop succession plan for the Maintenance Organization and identify training needs for each person. Develop and implement forward thinking strategies for enhancement of craft workforce quality and availability
Manages and provides direction to the Maintenance groups
Manages safety performance and activities of nested and non-nested contractors
Works with purchasing department to devise contracts and service agreements
Participates in the planning and leads all craft related shutdown work
Select, train and oversees a work force that is motivated, flexible in skills, cross-trained and technically astute ensuring an effective and motivated team
Counsel on performance as appropriate
Identify skills development and training needs to maintain highly competent employees
Active member in plant leadership team driving safety, operational, and cost excellence
Create and execute yearly plant goals to meet or exceed business unit needs
Assist with the roll-out of all corporate programs to ensure continuity and alignment between the site and maintenance department
Take a leadership role in the Arkema Integrated Management System (AIMS)
Take a leadership role in the SMART (Arkema Operational Excellence Program)
Create a positive and proactive teamwork culture. Promote good communication and interaction among all the departments
Qualification
Required
Minimum 15 years' of relevant experience in petrochemical manufacturing environment
Minimum 7 years' direct experience in leading and managing people/teams
Minimum 5 year's experience in budget management including Capital projects, Reliability, Budget development, TARs (budget/ schedule compliance), MI Compliance
Resourceful in helping achieve KPI targets
Thorough understanding of plant engineering, industrial engineering, and tooling
B.S in Engineering or related field
Excellent communication skills required with an emphasis on employee relations, presentation skills and leadership competencies
Proven leadership of teams, organizations, projects, etc
Excellent verbal and written communications skills to communicate with hourly workforce, business leaders, customers, and company's technical organization
Proficient in SAP PM as well as Microsoft Office suite
Demonstrated success in building and managing strong teams/organizations
Ability to shift priorities and meet deadlines while showing tolerance to stress
Solid judgment and problem analysis skills are required
Ability to understand and troubleshoot chemical processes
Highly motivated team player able to work at a fast-paced environment
Coaching, mentoring, training engineering staff
Responsible for following all AIMS HESQ policies & practices (ISO 9001, 14001, 45001, and 50001)
Supports the site HES policy and complies with all regulatory and internal requirements
Participates in HES activities provided by site management and Arkema Inc. (e.g., Behavioral Base Safety, SMART, etc.)
Supports and promotes the reporting of all health, safety, environmental, near-miss, accident, or injury incidents
Understands and supports the Clear Lake Facility's HSEQ Commitment
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Company
Arkema
Arkema produces speciality chemicals.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.47B2025-09-02Post Ipo Debt· $584.71M
2025-05-20Post Ipo Debt· $450.07M
2024-03-14Post Ipo Debt· $435.31M
Leadership Team
Thierry Le Hénaff
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Marie-José Donsion
Group CFO
Recent News
2026-01-15
2026-01-14
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