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Instrument & Electrical Reliability Supervisor

INEOS, Alvin, Texas, United States, 77511

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Instrument & Electrical Reliability Supervisor

Location Chocolate Bayou, Alvin, TX - USA With LAO manufacturing facilities in Canada and Belgium, INEOS Oligomers is one of the large merchant suppliers of Linear Alpha Olefins (LAO). LAO is used in a variety of industries, with main markets being comonomers for polyethylene, feedstock for production of lubricants, surfactants, lubricant additives, and paper sizing chemicals, and base stock for drilling fluids. PAO is a synthetic lubricant. As part of its growth strategy, INEOS Oligomers invested $500 million in a new world scale LAO & PAO production facility located in Chocolate Bayou, Alvin, Texas. As a Responsible Care company we encourage our employees to embrace the principles of Responsible Care by actively practicing them, promoting awareness of Responsible Care and encouraging others to commit to these principles. Responsible Care is the chemistry industry's commitment to sustainability - the betterment of society, the environment and the economy. Its ethic and principles compel us to innovate for safer and more environmentally friendly products and processes, and to work cooperatively to identify and eliminate harm throughout the entire life cycle of their products. This position has accountability, in keeping with the INEOS Responsible Care principles and ethics, for all aspects of the operation of the Plant, including safety/environment, people management, cost control, quality, production planning, project and process follow-up. This position will embrace and promote the INEOS 20 safety principles. Additionally, as a manager, this position has a special responsibility to cascade the understanding of these principles through their team. In support of this new Plant following commissioning and start-up, INEOS Oligomers is establishing the Instrumentation & Electrical Reliability Supervisor role to help establish a long-term focus and the site's reliability programs and ensure the unit operates at a high reliability percentage. In addition, this role will support the construction and commissioning phase of a PAO unit currently in construction at the site. The main goals of the I&E Reliability Supervisor is to safely maximize unit availability and minimize fixed costs associated with repairs to instrumentation and electrical equipment. This is achieved by a combination of problem prevention and resolution techniques. Problem prevention techniques would include development and implementation of reliability plans for the instrumentation and electrical infrastructure components at the site including transformers, MCC's, main substation, PLCs, valves, analyzers etc. Problem resolution techniques would include identification and resolution of repeat failures, development of repair scopes and quality assurance verifications of equipment repairs and installations. This role will report to the Oligomers Maintenance and Reliability Manager and will have one direct report: The I&E Reliability Specialist. The Instrument & Electrical Reliability Supervisor will act to: support LAO/PAO Operations and Maintenance in their day-to-day activities, facilitate implementation of a preventive maintenance culture; create PM procedures and establish in SAP continuously improve maintenance and reliability organization capabilities to achieve best in class reliability, maintain consistency and integrity of the E&I Components and Systems, particularly in supporting plant modifications and minor betterment projects, and support the implementation of a plant wide comprehensive technical and behavioral safety culture. Serve on and lead RCFA investigation teams Help define required spare parts for equipment Provide troubleshooting and assistance for unusual or persistent problems Lead I&E reliability programs and systems. Internal Factors Safety Performance (SHE) , specifically project implementation, and shop and field construction safety performance Plant Reliability & Availability Maintenance/Reliability organizational capabilities, knowledge base and know-how of maintenance E&I supervisors, technicians and planners. External Factors SHE compliance Vendor support and know-how The Instrument & Electrical Reliability Supervisor will have the accountabilities as outlined below for all Instrumentation and Electrical facilities of the Plant, including all analyzers, and the hardware of the Distributed Control System and the Programmable Logic Controllers (collectively "E&I Components and Systems"): Accountability 1 : SHE Stewardship Meet all SHE objectives and comply with all governmental laws and policies for a manufacturing site. Supporting activities: Accountable for understanding and putting into practice the INEOS 20 Principles. Additionally, the I/E Reliability team leader has a responsibility to cascade the understanding of these principles through their team. Ensure process hazards are systematically identified, risk assessed, reviewed and managed. Always place the safe operation or shutdown of the asset ahead of production. When in doubt ensure the asset is always taken to its safest state. Ensure assets operating envelopes and protective systems are in place to deliver safe operation and maintain asset integrity. Identify and establish operating, maintenance, and CAPEX strategies to drive asset integrity and environmental compliance. Promote, ensure and sustain commitment to operate assets with no harm to people and to the environment by visibly demonstrating Safety Leadership. Ensure that a comprehensive SHE management process delivers and improves safety performance through incident reporting, behavioral awareness, compliance to policies, audits, and corrective action tracking/resolution and incident investigation. Ensure safety and environmentally critical PMs are completed accurately and on time. Accountability 2: The Instrument & Electrical Reliability Supervisor will have one direct report

the I&E Reliability Specialist The Instrument & Electrical Reliability Supervisor will specifically be accountable for: Ensure that the I&E Reliability team is trained and has the tools necessary to perform their roles safely and efficiently Mentors, coaches, motivates and evaluates the team to deliver exceptional business performance by providing opportunities for development and enhancement of skills and competencies Conduct periodical performance review, workload prioritization and team meetings to maintain continuous delivery while enhancing team productivity. Seek to consolidate and share best practices across Oligomers sites as well as with INEOS O&P at CBW with their team. This may involve having a Reliability Team member participate in INEOS electrical & instrument network meetings. Ensuring safe and efficient I&E maintenance work execution Technical Roles Accountability 3 : Ensure maintainability and integrity of the design and facilities from an E&I perspective: Most important activities: Review selection of analyzer, process control, instrumentation and signal/data transmission technologies, and review proposed field implementation to ensure E&I Component, loop and System robustness, Verify and approve all applicable detailed engineering deliverables (analyzer, instrument and electrical equipment specifications and data sheets, DCS and PLC specifications and data sheets, instrument list, I/O list, motor list, MCC and I/O room specification and lay out.), Guide discipline engineering on a daily basis, resolve all open and emerging questions, ensure adherence to general industry and project specific E&I standards, and assist in approval of exceptions, Work with the Maintenance and Reliability organizations of the existing LAO units to integrate their E&I inspection, maintenance and reliability know how, Analyze the Plant lay-out and unit sectional drawings, in particular the MCC, I/O room, and analyzer shelter lay outs, and advise on modifications required to allow safe and efficient maintenance, Oversee field construction and verify proper installation of the E&I Components and Systems, and the oversight of final commissioning of instrumentation and electrical equipment associated with maintenance or capital projects. Accountability 4 : Develop knowledge base and environment to facilitate preventive maintenance and best in class reliability performance: Most important activities: Establish a thorough technical understanding of all E&I Components and Systems, Assemble, assimilate and classify all relevant vendor information pertaining to these E&I Components and Systems, Develop E&I Maintenance technician training, Define the spare parts, tools and facilities, and develop the inspection, repair and reconditioning procedures required to allow proper maintenance, Prepare all E&I aspects of the Plant pre-conditioning, commissioning and operating procedures to ensure correct and reliable functioning of all E&I Components and Systems, Advise on the development of all applicable third-party maintenance service contracts, Set up the E&I maintenance part of the plant SAP system.