Operations Work Coordinator

$90,000 - $145,000/Yr

Unclassified - Longview, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Longview, WA

About the position

The Operations Maintenance Coordinator (OMC) plays a crucial role in ensuring the seamless coordination of operations and maintenance activities within the organization. This position serves as the primary point of contact between the operations and maintenance teams, facilitating communication and collaboration to enhance productivity and safety. The OMC is responsible for screening work requests to assess their validity, urgency, and scope, making decisions to approve, revise, or reject requests as necessary. Additionally, the OMC is tasked with writing work requests when required, ensuring that all maintenance activities are documented and tracked appropriately. A significant aspect of the OMC's role involves identifying and escalating urgent work requests that pose threats to safety, the environment, or production. The OMC must maintain an up-to-date understanding of all open maintenance work orders, which aids in developing planning priorities and weekly maintenance schedules. This includes tracking the progress of critical work orders, particularly those related to preventive maintenance (PM) and any issues that could impact safety and production. The OMC is also responsible for determining when equipment can be safely shut down for maintenance and communicating upcoming work scopes to shift supervisors to ensure proper preparation. This role requires the development of equipment preparation plans for large-scale maintenance work orders, such as tank and vessel inspections and repairs. Acting as a liaison, the OMC communicates the current status of work orders between operations and maintenance, ensuring that all parties are informed of any impacts on processes. In addition to these responsibilities, the OMC collaborates with maintenance, engineering, and operations teams to troubleshoot equipment issues and prioritize work orders during planned and unplanned outages. The OMC also plays a key role in preparing for plant turnaround events, conducting weekly work management meetings, and maintaining knowledge of process equipment to aid in decision-making regarding work prioritization and planning. This position requires strong communication skills, both verbal and written, and familiarity with SAP for managing work orders and maintenance metrics.

Responsibilities

• Screen work requests to determine validity, urgency, and general scope and approve/revise/reject as appropriate.
• Write work requests as needed.
• Identify, escalate, and continuously track any urgent work requests to ensure timely completion including threats to safety, environment, and production.
• Keep up to date on all open maintenance work orders to develop planning priorities and weekly maintenance schedule.
• Track the progress of critical work orders including critical PMs and threats to safety and production.
• Determine if and when equipment can be safely shut down and locked out to perform work.
• Communicate upcoming work scope to shift supervisors for proper preparation.
• Develop equipment preparation plans for large-scale maintenance work orders (tank/vessel inspections and repairs).
• Act as liaison to communicate current work order status between operations and maintenance.
• Communicate impact of upcoming work on any impacted process.
• Work with maintenance, engineering, and operations to troubleshoot equipment.
• Determine priority and scope of work orders to be completed during short planned and unplanned outages.
• Prepare for plant turnaround events with operations, engineering, and maintenance.
• Conduct weekly work management meetings with prepared reports from SAP reviewing preventative maintenance backlog, corrective maintenance backlog and metrics.
• Maintain knowledge of process equipment and operation to aid decision making in work prioritization and planning.
• Support cell renewal process and cell replacements to ensure adequate parts and maintenance time is allocated.
• Identify potential cost savings projects with production engineers.
• Act as MOC coordinator for small maintenance-related changes.
• Serve as MDG user for operations group.

Requirements

• B.S. in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering or 10 years of experience in production.
• Minimum 2 years of industry experience desired (with a Bachelor's degree), preferably in a PSM covered, continuous chemical manufacturing process facility.
• Ability to apply and interpret statistical tools and applications for the optimization of large systems and processes.
• Strong computer skills required.
• Process Safety Management experience desired.
• Strong communication skills; both verbal and written are required.
• SAP experience preferred.
• Chlor-alkali experience a plus.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range of $90,000 to $145,000 based on experience and market location.
• Potential for sign-on payments and other forms of compensation as part of total compensation package.