Maintenance Supervisor, Machine Shop

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Full Time First/Mid Level Mgr Deer Park, TX, US

Job Summary

The Maintenance Supervisor for the Central Machine Shop at PEMEX Deer Park is a front-line leadership role that is responsible for the safe, timely, cost effective, and high-quality repair of rotating and ancillary mechanical equipment at the site.

The Machine Shop Supervisor has direct reports that include hourly machinists and an outside shops coordinator. The position oversees work performed inside the refinery machine shop as well as repairs completed by equipment manufacturers, outside machine shops, and other specialty vendors in support of the refinery’s operational and business needs.

The role works closely with teams from across the organization to deliver successful outcomes, including maintenance, engineering, procurement, warehouse logistics personnel, external suppliers, equipment manufacturers, contractors, and repair vendors.

Success in this role requires strong leadership, practical shop experience, rotating-equipment knowledge, sound judgment, and a continuous improvement mindset.

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Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

• Provide visible safety leadership and maintain a safe, professional, clean, and orderly shop environment.
• Lead daily shop tailgate meetings and communicate work priorities, risks, constraints, and expectations.
• Supervise, coach, and develop represented machinists and the Outside Shops Coordinator.
• Set clear expectations for safety, quality, productivity, accountability, and teamwork, including recognition of high performance and management of underperformance.
• Plan, prioritize, assign, and monitor inside shop work based on plant needs, equipment criticality, available resources, and required completion dates.
• Oversee equipment teardown, inspection, machining, repair, assembly, testing, preservation, and documentation.
• Ensure repairs comply with company standards, engineering requirements, approved specifications, and equipment manufacturer recommendations.
• Coordinate technical reviews and document required approvals when repairs deviate from established standards or scopes.
• Oversee equipment and components sent to outside shops for machining, welding, nondestructive examination, balancing, heat treatment, and other specialty services.
• Monitor outside-shop performance related to safety, quality, cost, schedule, communication, and documentation.
• Maintain visibility of equipment status, repair scope, material needs, costs, constraints, and expected completion dates. Communicate updates to stakeholders regularly.
• Ensure repair records, inspection reports, dimensional measurements, drawings, approvals, and other required documentation are complete and accurate.
• Provide final quality assurance for shop repairs, including verification of completed work scope and all associated documentation.
• Track rework, quality issues, recurring delays, and repeat failures. Lead or support root cause reviews and implementation of corrective actions.
• Manage shop productivity, labor utilization, repair costs, vendor expenditures, and budget performance.
• Identify and implement improvements to shop workflow, standard work, tooling, documentation, employee capability, and vendor performance.
• Build effective working relationships with employees, technical stakeholders, suppliers, equipment manufacturers, contractors, and repair vendors.

Qualifications:

• Demonstrated leadership experience in a machine shop, rotating-equipment repair shop, industrial maintenance organization, or similar environment.
• Practical knowledge of pumps and other rotating equipment.
• Proven experience in at least one of the following areas:
  • Teardown, inspection, repair, and rebuild of rotating or mechanical equipment.
  • Machining parts using manual lathes, mills, boring equipment, grinders, or similar machine tools.

(Experience in both rotating-equipment repair and manual machining is preferred.)

• Ability to interpret mechanical drawings, fits, clearances, tolerances, dimensional inspection results, and repair documentation.
• Familiarity with the planning of repair-related maintenance activities.
• Strong leadership, communication, coaching, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated commitment to safety, quality, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to coordinate multiple repair…