Production Maintenance Coordinator

Production Maintenance Coordinator role at INEOS Pigments

At INEOS Pigments, we value the contribution of our people in making us one of the largest producers of titanium dioxide in North America. Providing numerous products and services to industries around the globe, from coatings to plastics to paper and other end-uses, we invest in employee development and offer a wide range of career opportunities, giving everyone the chance to broaden their experience and build a professionally rewarding career.

The Production Maintenance Coordinator (PMC) coordinates daily activities between the Operations and Maintenance groups to ensure safe, cost‑efficient, and environmentally sound execution of plant maintenance work. The role reviews work requests for appropriate scope and justification and provides maintenance with the priorities based on business needs, production needs, and budget constraints.

• Follow and be a role model demonstrating the Behavioral and Process Safety Principles and Life Saving Rules.
• Ensure assets are maintained to operate within their designed parameters and appropriate standards.
• Assure compliance with environmental permits and legal regulations.
• Complete all computer‑based safety training.
• Attend scheduled safety meetings.
• Develop schedules and detailed work order specifications and coordinate execution of work orders, change orders, inspections and repairs.
• Set up plant maintenance schedule, ensuring that materials, equipment and staff are available.
• Arrange for delivery and distribution of supplies and parts to expedite workflow and meet agreed schedules.
• Monitor priorities, backlogs, breakdowns, and other aspects affecting planned scheduling.
• Work with the cost center manager to manage unit maintenance costs by tracking/forecasting monthly spending and approving discretionary spending.
• Work with maintenance and operations personnel on a daily basis to prioritize maintenance jobs in compliance with the site’s job prioritization matrix.
• Serve as the central communication/coordination hub for priority 1 jobs.
• Ensure that the scope of work addresses all critical issues concerning production, maintenance and plant reliability while minimizing downtime.
• For complex and/or non‑routine jobs not covered by SOPs, create written operations plans that systematically outline equipment preparation procedures, including necessary details.
• Provide key leadership for planning and execution of minor and major turnarounds, including day‑by‑day workflow planning, ensuring schedule compliance, and coordination of post‑turnaround audits.
• Work with maintenance and operations to refine/optimize job plans for efficient execution of all maintenance and RFC work.
• Attend daily/weekly planning and scheduling meetings and communicate information on equipment criticality, product scheduling requirements, outage opportunities, and any problems affecting quality or utility.
• Review the daily maintenance schedule to ensure that the scope of each job meets the plant needs.
• Ensure accountability for executing work per schedule, by pointing out deficiencies/inefficiencies to operations and maintenance supervision in an honest and professional manner.
• Review all RFC packages issued from the technical group to understand scope, objectives, and safety, environmental or operational implications.
• Proactively seek opportunities to improve existing work processes by updating procedures or proposing and implementing better methods.
• Reliability & Cost Control.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Engineering background 0‑2 years (preferred).
• High school diploma or equivalent required; post‑secondary education in a related discipline is a plus.
• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in a chemical manufacturing environment.
• Experience as a Production or Maintenance Supervisor is a plus.
• A thorough understanding of plant chemical processes, plant equipment, operating economics, mechanical aptitude and general maintenance knowledge.
• Ability to create, maintain data and use reporting features of SAP and Microsoft Office products.
• Excellent knowledge of SAP, especially maintenance, storeroom, and purchasing modules.
• Knowledge…