Daily Maintenance Leader

Ashland Specialty Ingredients, GP

Daily Maintenance Leader

Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious?

Are you always solving?

Then we'd like to meet you and bet you'd like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a Daily Maintenance Leader to join our Ashland LLC, Specialty ingredients business at our Hopewell, VA site.

This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and the Maintenance function.

This position will report to Maintenance Manager .

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:


* Leader - Culture change/developer
+ Model and exemplify excellent leadership behaviors
+ Lead/Facilitate/Develop Tier 1 meetings - report out at Tier 2 mtgs
+ Provide coaching, create a high accountability culture
+ Ensure adherence to stewardship and quality rules
+ Provide operational feedback regarding policies/rules that don't appropriately fit operational capabilities
+ Facilitate an effective union/company relationship
+ Conduct 1:1 with employees


* Daily Maintenance Workflow Leader
+ Own the site daily maintenance work flow process (Identify the need, approval, prioritization, scoping, planning, scheduling, execution, close out, and learning
+ Establish decision rights, standard work, meeting cadence, escalation pathways, and performance expectations across maintenance disciplines
+ Align daily maintenance execution with plant safety, compliance, quality, production, and cost priorities (in that order)
+ Ensure supervisors, planners, schedulers, engineers, crafts, contractors, and Operations work through one disciplined process


* Safety, Compliance & Field Leadership Owner
+ Set and reinforce expectations for safe work planning, permitting, LOTO, line breaking, confined space, hot work, lifting, and other high-hazard activities
+ Maintain visible field leadership through job-site engagement, verification of controls, and removal of barriers to safe execution
+ Ensure maintenance work complies with site procedures, mechanical integrity requirements, environmental obligations, and quality standards
+ Lead response to significant safety concerns, events, and changing field conditions


* Work Prioritization & Schedule Governance Leader
+ Lead cross-functional prioritization of maintenance work through partnerships with Operations (engineering and operators), Reliability (engineering and SMEs), and Maintenance (engineering and technicians).
+ Approve the daily and weekly maintenance schedule and protect schedule stability from avoidable...