Maintenance Manager - Valdez Refinery

The Maintenance Manager provides leadership of the maintenance department at the Petro Star Valdez Refinery. This position is responsible for the overall utilization of refinery resources to achieve strategic maintenance and reliability objectives. This position includes compliance with the company's goals, including the maintenance and reliability programs, PSM and Safety programs, preparation and tracking of the maintenance budget, and management of all maintenance activities, including all turnarounds.  Repair or replacement of refinery equipment and systems safely, efficiently, and in a environmentally sound manner.

• Initiate, implement, and manage the refinery maintenance program based on best practices in the refining industry.  Emphasis should be placed on planning and scheduling to ensure efficient and timely maintenance.
• Serve as the refinery reliability program leader.  This role plays a critical role as site champion of the refinery Defect Elimination Program.  The DE program identifies impairments in the refinery’s ability to perform and produce business results.  As the site leader, the Maintenance Manager ensures new defects are identified, tracked in the DE database, and that action items are pursued to final elimination of the defect.  The Maintenance Manager participates and often leads the weekly DE site meeting.
• Lead planning and execution of the refinery Turnaround activities.  This will focus on scope development, maintenance job planning (with contractors), bids and contractor selection, materials acquisition and tracking, cost estimating and tracking, and oversite of the turnaround execution.  
• Supervise refinery maintenance personnel ensuring safe, environmentally responsible efficient execution of plant maintenance. 
• Build the capabilities of the maintenance team through training and development.  Set annual goals for each employee and conduct semiannual reviews (minimum). 
• Oversee the work order flow and tracking via Computer Maintenance Management System (CMMS), critical and non-critical spare parts inventory, equipment records, and preventative maintenance tasks. 
• Participate in the morning operations meeting prepared to discuss ongoing maintenance needs and provide a forward look at upcoming maintenance. 
• Develop the annual routine and major maintenance expense budget/plans.
• Responsible for stewarding and implementing Mechanical portions of the Process Safety Management (PSM) Policy and Procedures.
• Ensure that maintenance technicians are adequately trained, equipped, and motivated to accomplish the maintenance program safely, timely, and cost-effectively.
• Communicate regularly with all maintenance employees, individually and as a group, to ensure good two-way communication concerning any safety or maintenance issues.
• Assist in developing and managing maintenance procedures and training manuals for the maintenance department.
• Review the operation of refinery equipment and process systems routinely to minimize unplanned downtime. Anticipate problems and be proactive in identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Initiate, develop and carry out projects that improve efficiency and reduce operating costs.
• Ensure full compliance with all health and safety regulations relating to the maintenance department.
• Directs, maintains, and enforces the safety program for the maintenance department; reviews safety records to uphold standards of maximum safety for all maintenance employees.
• Develop and Implement programs and procedures required to ensure refinery cleanliness.
• Assist with planning and implementing refinery improvements and expansions.

Carry out managerial responsibilities per the organization's policies and applicable laws. Supervise all employees within the department. Responsibilities include: interviewing, hiring, disciplining, coaching, and training, addressing and resolving employee concerns, planning, assigning, directing work, assessing job performance, and holding accountable for same.

ASRC’s Core competencies include Leading Self, Leading People and Leading the Organization. In addition to our core competency model, our framework includes competencies specific to the various levels of positions within our company. For more information on our core competencies please contact the HR Department and reference the ASRC Leadership Framework.

Customer Focus

• Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.

Drive for Results

• Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.  

Problem Solving

• Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions; probes all fruitful sources for answers; can see hidden problems; is excellent at honest analysis; looks beyond the obvious and doesn't stop at the first answers.

Priority Setting

• Creates focus by spending their time, and the time of others, on what’s important.

Motivating Others

• Creates an environment where people want to do their best.  Makes each individual feel their work is important and can motivate many kinds of direct reports and team members.

1. Associate's degree from a two-year college in a related technical field. Certificate/diploma from trade school in a related field and ten years of experience in the maintenance or operation of a process manufacturing facility preferred. 
2. Five years minimum supervisory experience in a reliability or maintenance setting in the following industries: Chemical, Oil Refinery, Power, or Pulp and Paper preferred. 
3. Equivalent combination of education and experience.
4. Excellent computer skills; Windows, MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, etc.) Experience with SQL & Destiny preferred
5. Experience using a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
6. Knowledge of Process Safety Management Techniques (Management of Change, HAZOP, PHA, hazardous area classification) preferred. 
7. Turnaround and Project management experience preferred.
8. Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects required.
9. Proficient project coordination, preventative maintenance programming, and management skills required

Ability to read and accurately interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals, write routine reports and correspondence and speak effectively before groups of employees or customers.

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form and resolve problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

The physical demands described herein represent those that an employee must meet to perform this position's essential functions successfully.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear.  The employee is frequently required to sit; reach with hands and arms; and to use hands to finger, handle, or feel.  The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, climb or balance.  The employee must frequently lift and move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and move up to 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include the ability to adjust focus. Some of this work is performed outside; this location experiences adverse weather conditions.

This position req

The work environment characteristics described here represent those an employee encounter while performing this job's essential functions.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

NOTE:  This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise. The statements contained herein are intended to describe the principal functions of this position, the level of knowledge and skill typically required, and the scope of responsibilities. Still, they should not be considered an all-inclusive listing of work requirements.

Petro Star Inc., a division of ASRC, is a drug free workplace and pre-employment drug testing is part of the hiring process.

ASRC and its family of companies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability, protected veteran status or any other legal protected status.  EOE:  M|F|D|V

Petro Star Inc. is the refining division of Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, an Inupiat-owned corporation created as a result of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.

ASRC's family of companies apply a shareholder preference in employment, to the maximum extent feasible, as authorized by law.