Maintenance Specialist
Company | Ascend Performance Materials |
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Location | Friendswood, TX, USA |
Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
Type | Full-Time |
Degrees | |
Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- High School diploma or equivalent
- 3-5 years’ experience working with Vendor management systems (TRACK, CMS and other ERP systems) preferred
- Minimum 5 years in maintenance/operations, reliability and/or turnaround activities in chemical, petrochemical or refinery industry
- Working knowledge of maintenance and turnaround work processes and associated central maintenance management systems (CMMS)
- Working knowledge of typical contracting strategies, contracting terms and conditions and contractor staffing/roles in an industrial setting
- Demonstrated performance and value improvement in work process related matters
- Able to quickly respond in challenging situations
- Owners’ mindset to identify and deliver improved performance
- Excellent oral and written communication skills as well as strong computer skills in several software systems
- Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
- Contract execution and issue resolution abilities
- Ability to work with various groups of people (i.e. accounting, information technology, operations management, contract personnel, etc.)
- Ability to build/maintain effective working relationships
- Must be able to work independently and cooperatively within a team in a fast-paced work environment
- Experience with MS Office Suites (i.e. Outlook, Excel, Word, etc.)
- Track and/or myTrack experience is a plus
- Knowledge of SAP system (Notification, W/O Creation, Purchasing and Requisition creation basic planning)
Responsibilities
- Track proper contractor headcount daily against authorized headcount
- Drive performance improvement with each contracting organization by building relationships
- Perform invoice audits routinely and provide training and feedback to approvers
- Establish contractor targets and milestones for each contractor organization
- Implement site processes that ensure contract work across the site is conducted in a safe, responsible, and cost-effective manner
- Develop and lead a process to account for each contractor personnel on site daily
- Understand each contractor’s contract and ensure compliance with the contract
- Develop contract summaries and training to help field management/invoice approvers understand contractor agreements and how they are best utilized to drive down contractor costs
- Works with contractor leadership to ensure resource levels are adequate to cover service requirements and that personnel exit site when the requirements have been met
- Ensure appropriate contractor paperwork is maintained
- Complete vendor performance reviews
- Identify and implement opportunities to create value for the business
- Provides effective communication with the service providers and the client
- Build effective working relationships with contractors, contractor management, supervision, and field roles
- Facilitates key maintenance work process and productivity improvement projects as necessary to meet department goals and targets
- Aware of onboarding, offboarding and overall onsite vendor productivity and contract compliance
- Serve as the Track Coordinator back up
- Provide backup for contractor entry access
- Establish/Facilitate routine meetings for Contract Management Team (ESSH Representative, My Track Coordinator, Contract Manager)
- Must complete Ascend Job Representative (AJR) qualifications
- Support day-to-day facilities operations (permitting, auditing work for safety and performance)
- Provide oversite and facilitate nested and non-nested contractors within facilities
- Overseer’s facility projects and provides updates and status reports
- Willingness to learn and follow the Maintenance Work Process
Preferred Qualifications
- 3-5 years’ experience working with Vendor management systems (TRACK, CMS and other ERP systems) preferred