Supervisor - Plant Maintenance

Supervisor - Plant Maintenance

Location:

Metallurgical Complex (MET) - Columbus, MT

Schedule:

Day Shift - 7X7

6:00am - 6:00pm

Job Responsibilities and Duties:

The Supervisor - Plant Maintenance leads assigned employees and contractors while supporting planning, scheduling, and coordinating safe, resource ready maintenance work for the Metallurgical Complex. The role supports the translation of plant priorities, equipment condition, and compliance requirements into executable work plans and daily assignments that support reliable performance, quality, cost control, and continuous improvement.

The Supervisor's primary duties are:

• Lead safe work in accordance with applicable OSHA requirements, ASME Codes, AWS Standards, State and National Building Codes, company standards, operating procedures, and environmental requirements, reinforcing stop work authority and fit for duty expectations.
• Conduct field inspections, prejob reviews, risk assessments, and observations to verify safe conditions, qualified and authorized personnel, appropriate tools and equipment, permits, and effective work controls.
• Communicate maintenance priorities, safety expectations, daily assignments, results, and escalation requirements to employees and stakeholders.
• Maintain accurate, auditable execution records for work performed, equipment history, labor, material, failure, cost, safety, technical, test, calibration, and schedule change information in required systems.
• Support tracking and reporting of maintenance performance, including schedule and preventive maintenance compliance, statutory or regulatory work, break in and deferred work, backlog, work quality, reliability, labor, overtime, materials, cost, and corrective actions
• Verify work package readiness, direct crew allocation and task sequencing, and monitor safety, quality, productivity, progress, technical constraints, and changing plant conditions.
• Remove or escalate execution barriers and control break in work based on urgency, risk, available capacity, and effect on schedule commitments.
• Support hiring, onboarding, training, qualification, authorization, cross training, performance management, discipline, and employee development.
• Manage labor, overtime, contractors, materials, tools, consumables, rentals, and vendor support within delegated authority and address significant planned versus actual variances.
• Screen, prioritize, and field scope work requests based on asset condition, risk, production impact, compliance, and planning requirements.
• Support development of job plans by validating field scope, task sequence, labor and skill needs, equipment access, tools, technical information, permits, isolations, controls, contractor support, testing, and acceptance requirements.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Leadership, coaching, delegation, conflict resolution, performance management, and employee development.
• Sound judgment, critical thinking, troubleshooting, and problem solving in changing operating conditions.
• Ability to interpret technical drawings, schematics, piping and instrumentation diagrams, manuals, specifications, and equipment history.
• Proficiency with office, maintenance management, enterprise resource planning, and reporting systems; accuracy, adaptability, and composure under pressure.
• Applicable OSHA requirements, ASME Codes, AWS Standards, building codes, environmental requirements, and industrial maintenance safe work practices.
• Hazard identification and controls, including energy isolation, confined space, hot work, line breaking, fall protection, electrical safety, lifting and rigging, contractor safety, and emergency response.
• Mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, structural, utility, and fixed processing equipment maintenance.
• Maintenance planning, scheduling, work package readiness, backlog prioritization, shutdown coordination, work execution, and work order closeout.

Education & Experience:

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Five years of relevant industrial, process plant, fixed plant, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, or facilities maintenance experience, including experience coordinating work and leading employees or contractors; or an associate or bachelor's degree in a related field and three years of relevant experience.
• Experience leading, training, directing, or supervising employees or contractors.
• Demonstrated experience using work orders, maintenance schedules, technical documentation, computerized maintenance systems, and standard office software.

Preferred:

• Two or more years of frontline supervisory or lead experience in a processing, manufacturing, metallurgical, chemical, utility, or other heavy industrial maintenance environment.
• Experience supervising fixed plant or process equipment maintenance and collaborating with planners and schedulers.
• Experience with shutdowns, turnarounds, major repairs, preventive and predictive maintenance, reliability processes, and contractor coordination.
• Experience using a computerized maintenance management system and/or JD Edwards.

Sibanye-Stillwater is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment decisions at Sibanye-Stillwater are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation or preference, marital or family status, disability, genetic information, age, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.